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Loved this herbal medicine making workshop with Nathaniel Whitmore, such an incredible wealth of knowledge and expertise. We explored a variety of herbal preparations, including tea infusions and decoctions, tinctures, and salve. Potion making at its best, children especially love it!

The plant kingdom supports our health from providing the clean air we breathe, filtering the water we drink and providing the food to eat, not to mention the beauty and balm that it brings to the mind, body and soul.

The forests are home to thousands of species of medicinal plants that heal wounds, cure disease, treat ailments and support our wellbeing.
Educating ourselves allows us to take more responsibility for our health rather than automatically handing over to pharmaceuticals who often favour profit over people.

Taking the time to learn about plants and the herbal medicines that surround us, is such a magical way of cultivating a relationship with the natural world, allowing us to connect even more with the incredible lands that support us.

In doing so we come into an even greater appreciation for the bounty this earth provides us; she truly provides all and our forests are a living pharmacy. May we take the time to consciously connect and take care of the land that supports all life.

Join us for our upcoming retreat in October 21st-25th, where delicious plant-based food will be served to fortify and nourish our bodies and support the work we will be doing together.

https://breathe.grounded.life/Retreat

🚀 Exploring Hyperventilation: Symptoms & Support 🚀

Let’s look a little closer at the respiratory condition known as hyperventilation. 🌬️

Here, we aim to break down the symptoms and share some support. ✨

Incorporating breathwork into your daily life can help regulate your breathing and support your nervous system.
Feel free to reach out for more personalised advice, and stay tuned for our next post where we’ll compare conscious connected breathwork with hyperventilation. 🔍✨

During our last Facilitator Training Input weekend, we explored various types of dis-regulated breathing, noting the most common patterns you're likely to encounter. These patterns are so common that both you and I have likely experienced them ourselves.

It was decided by the group that "dysfunctional" felt quite sharp, so we chose the term "dis-regulated" instead. This felt more approachable, encouraging us to meet ourselves where we are and work from that place, supporting breathers to shift from dis-regulated breathing to a more balanced breathing state.

We will also be covering these topics at our upcoming Breathwork Retreat, in October, East Sussex. Find out more at - www.breathe.grounded.life/Retreat

AND watch out for more posts this month!

🌬️ Blog Post Arrival!🌬️

In my latest blog post, "How to Create a Daily Breathwork Practice".

I share practical tips in support of you establishing and committing to, a daily breathwork practice.

Learn about the benefits of conscious breathing—from reducing stress and anxiety to boosting your immune system and enhancing creativity.

Ready to explore the power of breath and improve your day? Click the link to read more and 🌸

✨ Read the full post here: https://grounded.life/how-to-create-a-daily-breathwork-practice/

May the breath be with you 🖖🏼

With gratitude,
Hannah G. 🌱

How to Create a Daily Breathwork Practice. – Grounded Life Creating a Daily Breathwork Practice for a Calmer Day Finding time for yourself in our overstimulated, nonstop culture can be tough. Prioritizing practices that regulate our nervous system, heart rate, blood pressure, and mental health often means sitting quietly and consciously with ourselves. This...

Combining breathwork, embodiment, self-enquiry, and integration creates a powerful blend for exploration, expression, grounding, and growth!

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Hosted by Hannah G and in collaboration with 💕 we invite you to join us in co-creating this experience.

☀️This workshop offers a transformative practice, interwoven with regulation, invitation, and choice.
☀️Reconnect, explore the illusion of separation, cultivate connection within yourself and with others.

🔗 Link in BIO for more info and booking ⏫⏫
🏷️ Goldilocks; sliding scale price structure offered
❔ Reach out with any questions

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🌟 Touch is a significant aspect of breathwork, one we're passionate about talking about.

🌬️ In this post, we look at the key stages of touch to consider when working with your breathers.

Before we dive in...

✨ Consent, consent, consent!
It all begins with consent. Obtaining consent for touch is essential for respecting autonomy, being trauma-informed, setting boundaries, preventing harm, building trust, and ensuring safety. 

What else comes to heart when thinking about why consent is crucial? 🤔

Stay tuned for more posts relating to touch with breathwork coming soon!🫁

If you're interested in delving deeper into touch within breathwork, don't miss our upcoming October retreat.
⏫⏫⏫⏫ Link in Bio.⏫⏫⏫

Learn foot massage at our breathwork retreat this October #breathworkretreat #bodywork #footwork Support your breathers to ground themselves, like the roots of a tree anchoring into the earth, providing stability and strength. ​​​​​​​​​This gentle, non-i...

▶️ Touch is a primal form of communication. From birth, it's through touch that we first experience love, comfort, and security.

▶️ Physical contact strengthens our relationships and deepens our sense of belonging.

🫁 In breathwork, touch can support an individual in coming into physical contact with areas within the body that have been holding emotion or trapped energy, giving it presence, acknowledgment, and passage to move. 

🙌🏻 Throughout this month, we will be looking more closely at touch within breathwork sessions. Stay tuned!

🌄 If you want to learn more about how to support your breathers with touch, here are some recommendations:



And don't forget about our upcoming October retreat https://breathe.grounded.life/Retreat

⏫⏫Link in Bio⏫⏫

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We are so grateful to have the honour of working in collaboration with such extraordinary facilitators, practitioners, and teachers! 🌟

Together, we create something special.

Remember, it takes an orchestra to play a symphony, just as it takes a team to embody the whole.

Appreciating diverse perspectives, teachings, and inquiry, always 🎶

Connect with the Grounded Life Teachers:
Hannah G and Hannah N-
Benedict Beaumont -
Sujeewa Jaya -
Sasja Nieuwdorp -
Angel Deer - .angelldeer

Coherence breathing is one of our favourite conscious breathing techniques! So simple and effective for bringing yourself into balance and can be done anytime, anywhere. 😌

Coherence breathing lets us engage the diaphragm in a rhythmic way, boosting circulation and enhancing brain function, helping nourish every cell in our body 🌬️

As we breathe in, the diaphragm moves downward, pulling blood from the extremities to the chest. When we exhale, it moves upward, sending blood to the brain and extremities. This dynamic circulation happens when we breathe deeply and rhythmically.

During coherence breathing, our nervous system shifts between sympathetic (active) and parasympathetic (calm) states. This seesaw effect creates a balance and harmony in our body and mind.

Actively bringing to mind positive emotions such as joy, gratitude, happiness, or fond memories has been shown to create cardiac coherence - the heart-body-mind connection is powerful.

What thoughts, feelings, or memories bring you a feeling of warmth in your heart?
Add this to a coherent breathing pattern, and you have a beautiful resource that supports your nervous system and sense of well-being ❤️

Breathwork & sound reaches us on all levels of our being 🌬️🎶

When we give ourselves space to breathe consciously we are able to gain fresh perspective, deepened awareness, enabling more empowered choice in our lives 🌟

Breathwork facilitated by Grounded Life
Breathing to live music & sound from Elian Kidd, George Heartsong & Hannah Nedas to open up our hearts, body & mind 🎵❤️

Date:
This Saturday, 4th May
2-4.30pm

Investment:
£35
Limited concessions:
£25

Venue:
Lewes Subud Centre
Talbot Terrace
Lewes
East Sussex
BN7 2DS

DM to reserve your space 📩

We are so proud of our founder Aimee .well💫 to have a double page spread in

Spreading the word and promoting breathwork for children and education.

🌟 The School Breathe platform offers online breathwork programmes tailored specifically for schools, as well as breath coach training for staff and professionals working with children. Here are just a few benefits of integrating breathwork into educational settings:

🧘‍♂️ Stress reduction: Learn techniques to help students and educators manage stress and anxiety effectively.

🧠 Improved focus and attention: Breathwork practices can enhance concentration and cognitive function, leading to better academic performance.

😌 Emotional regulation: Equip children with tools to navigate their emotions and cultivate resilience.

💤 Better sleep: Encourage relaxation and better sleep patterns, promoting overall wellbeing.

🌱 Mindfulness: Build a culture of mindfulness and self-awareness within schools, promoting a positive learning environment.

Check out and their bio for the full Times article in PDF format and links to the online breathwork and breath coach training brochures.

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This is a 40-minute guided breathwork around connecting and listening with the heart. Happy Breathing 🫁🧠

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPgyFo9icEo&feature=youtu.be

* To join our live sessions, register here: https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/405555/95245764268132284/share
** Before doing conscious connected breathwork - watch our Frame video here which tells you everything you need to know: https://youtu.be/gUrLSy5VFqQ?si=8PEasUg2ONcuFIlp
Practice starts at 1min 12 secs

- You can lie down or sit up for this practice
- Make sure you are somewhere you can focus safely on your breathing and you are unlikely to be disturbed.
- Use headphones for an optimal audio experience

Conscious Breathwork - 40 mins guided practice This is a 40-minute guided breathwork around connecting and listening with the heart. * To join live, register here: https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/4...

Grounded Life invites breathworkers, space holders and well-being students and facilitators to join us, for an immersive in-person facilitation retreat, in Sussex in October 2024.

This dedicated retreat offers a transformative experience to discover and embrace your authentic voice as a facilitator.

Set amidst beautiful natural surroundings, you'll have ample opportunities for exploration, experience and integration.

Want to know more!?
Download our Retreat syllabus through the linktree in our BIO
Book in a free connection call with us and let's talk

We wanted to highlight the relationship between breathing and blood pH levels.

We often hear about the amazing work the kidneys' do to regulate pH levels and diet gets given credit here too, but rarely does the breath get a mention as a key part of blood pH regulation.

How we breathe can impact the blood pH within minutes! It's something we go into much more detail about in our training courses. (links in bio!) 🌿

Okay, it’s a bit of a trick question! They are all important and have much value to you.

Breathwork is a dance, a dance between you, your breath, body, mind, physiology, physicality, reality, spitrit and much more. We like to look at these various breathwork pathways as branches from a very vast interconnected, wisely rooted tree 🌿

Want to find out more about CCB style? Check out our carousel below ⬇️

🌬️ Have you tried Conscious Connected Breathwork before? Are you a newbie or perhaps a seasoned breather? ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​In this post we wanted to share more about the actual technique and equally as important, the modifications available.
We invite you to be curious and play with your breath! Modify the breath to meet yourself where you are, finding a place, depth and rhythm that feels good and is right for you, a place where you feel embodied and you will then be able to build from there 🧱

Perhaps start with a few Conscious Connected Breaths 💫
Take 10 breaths and see what stirs, coming back to a gentle nose breath to notice how you feel ✨

Contraindications are important to consider when changing our breathing pattern but they do not mean you cannot participate in a breathwork session, again, you will just need to modify how you breathe so your breath can work with you in the way you need.

Breathe with us on the final Thursday (8:30pm), or every Friday of each month (1pm) where we will hold you in an extended CCB session, and where you will learn all you need on modifications to suit you, before inviting your extended CCB practice 🌀

What is your relationship to affirmations? Have you ever heard an affirmation that didn't do what it was supposed to? That didn't feel empowering, or resonate, or you just didn’t believe it? Do you think affirmations need to feel personal to be effective?

In this video, we explore the fascinating world of affirmation work and the impact that words and phrasing have on our emotional and energetic state. Affirmations can be a powerful catalyst for self-reflection and personal growth, they can also stimulate discomfort and resistance, which can signal an opportunity to examine our core beliefs, emotions and conditioning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5-jh6ioGos

Would love to hear how you get on!

Conscious Connected Breathwork - Affirmations 30 min practice Have you ever heard an affirmation that just didn’t feel right? Maybe it didn’t resonate or you didn’t believe it. Do you think affirmations need to feel per...

Are you interested in joining our Breathwork Facilitator Training in March but have some questions you would like answered?

We’re hosting an Open Information Session with Breathing Space, so we can answer anything you may want to chat further about.

Join us 7pm on Thursday 14th March for this free Q&A - and bring as many questions as you like.

We’ve covered some of the brilliant questions already discussed, which can be found in the FAQ highlight above.

Find the zoom link for Thursdays Q&A our bio.

Excited to see you there!
Hannah & Hannah x

🚪 The time is here again when we open our doors for a another group of wonderful breathwork students to step into their journey towards holding breathwork spaces for people to breathe, feel, move, meet themselves, connect, express, reflect, integrate and embody.

📋 Registration for March 26th is now open!

👫 In partnership with and accredited by the GDPA (Global Professional Breathwork Alliance)

💫 A 400-hour, 10-month online and in-person program

⏫⏫ Click the link in Bio - Download Syllabus ⏫⏫

You will gain the experience and skills to:

🧘🏻 Hold one-on-one Breathwork sessions

🫂 Facilitate Group Breath workshops

🫁 Run sessions both online and/or in-person

🗣️ Connect to your voice, wisdom, and experience as a facilitator

😌 Offer self-regulation and co-regulation techniques, as well as functional breathing techniques and conscious connected breathwork

✨ Learn what being a trauma-informed facilitator looks like

🌐 Understand and practice holding an ethical and supportive space

🌱 Embark on a journey of personal discovery, grounding, and growth

🧑🏻‍🏫 Regular and ongoing opportunities to practice facilitation skills in a supported environment

📖 Access a wide range of relevant educational content that interconnects within breathwork and has a multi-disciplinary approach

This course is for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of human connection, the power of breathwork, embodiment, and somatic inquiry.

⏫⏫ Click the link in Bio - Download Syllabus ⏫⏫

Calling to Savy Social Media Spirits ⚡️

We are looking for a freelancer who possesses the skills to manage our online platforms and shares our passion for all things Breathwork. 🫁

If you have social media and content creation skills, and resonate with what we offer (www.grounded.life) we would love to talk more. Please get in touch - [email protected]

Calling to Savy Social Media Spirits ⚡️
We are looking for a freelancer who possesses the skills to manage our online platforms and shares our passion for all things Breathwork. 🫁
If you have social media and content creation skills, and resonate with what we offer (www.grounded.life) we would love to talk more. Please get in touch - [email protected] 💜

*Today!

Breathing To Be with Grounded Life

When we give ourselves the space to breathe, we gain fresh perspective and the capacity for more empowered and conscious choice through reconnecting to our body-mind, learning the language of sensation and embracing our life's force.  

We believe in the seeds of potential that each individual carries within themselves, seeing each person as the author of meaning and connection in their life. We aim to support you in building an in-depth and comprehensive understanding and relationship with your breath and aligning yourself towards your sense of purpose, presence and health. We acknowledge our impact and responsibility towards ourselves, our families, communities, society and the earth. We recognise humanity as part of a vast and intricate ecosystem and that each individual is a caretaker of their internal and outer environments. 

Join Hannah and Hannah for a Grounded.Life breathwork & somatic enquiry, welcoming greater presence and awareness in our lives.

 

Online Breathing Space

Thursday 30 August 2023 8.30pm UK time, 3.30 EST, 12.30 PST

Registration Link in Bio

     

              

          

Breathwork is an evolving science, which always keeps us learning about ourselves, our health and our potential.

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References:
(blog.arenaswim.com)
(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
*(oxygenadvantage.com)

THIS WEEKS BREATHING INVITATIONS ARE WITH:

⏫⏫ Links in the Bio ⏫⏫

🪻 on Wednesday 18:00-18:30 BST
A meditation for our younger selves, the inner children that reside, play, protect, express and communicate with us from within. As adults, or older people, can we start to give ourselves love and acknowledge the needs that perhaps were not met as younger children.
This mediation is all about how we can commit to showing up more for ourselves, and honour all it took to get us here, to this moment. How can we start to shift into a place of offering ourselves and our self-limiting mindsets, more reassurance, encouragement, love and compassion

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On Friday 13:00-14:00 BST

When we give ourselves the space to breathe, we gain fresh perspective and the capacity for more empowered and conscious choice through reconnecting to our body-mind, learning the language of sensation and embracing our life's force. We at believe in the seeds of potential that each individual carries within themselves, seeing each person as the author of meaning and connection in their life.

Wishing this magical bean a wonderful birthday 🦋

Co-creator, wonderous weaver, Sista, co-pilot, yummy mummy, diva, dancer, sensational singer! Just a few things that come to heart.

Celebrating You today and every other xx 💕💜☀️✨️🌬

We are just under a week away from our Orientation Seminar and about to embark on our 10-month journey of self-enquiry and Breathwork Facilitation together.

Interested to talk more?

Join us tomorrow Friday at 12 uk time on where we will be talking about the training, breathwork and answering any questions that arise. 💜

Join us today as we step into a breath infused, somatic based dialogue with our diaphragms.

Exploring ways of working with and connecting to the diaphragm to support our breathing journey and stimulate our feeling sensitivities.

Moving towards flow like the jellyfish that glides on the tides!

To join go to: https://join.makesomebreathingspace.com/freebreathwork

or click link in bio⏫️⏫️💜