Stompcast Pt 3: Three Powerful Breathwork Techniques to Eliminate Worry | Stuart Sandeman
Sep 3, 2025
In this engaging conversation, Stuart Sandeman, a breathwork practitioner and founder of Breathpod, reveals the transformative power of breath. He discusses how breathwork can reach emotional depths that talk therapy often misses, enabling deeper trauma processing. Stuart shares quick and effective techniques like 4-4-8 breathing and the Infinity Breath, enhancing emotional regulation and stress relief. He emphasizes breathing as a vital map of human experience, inviting listeners to embrace their emotions fully.
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How Rapid Breathing Changes Body Chemistry
- Rapid over-breathing lowers CO2 and reduces oxygen offloading at the cellular level.
- That creates a temporary cellular oxygen shortage which may trigger altered brain states and releases.
Breathwork Reorganizes Brain States
- Breathwork can push the brain into dreamlike and high-frequency gamma states, not just relaxed alpha/theta states.
- This overstimulation can shut down the default mode network and allow release of locked emotions or memories.
Breath Hiding Masks Emotions
- People habitually hold their breath to block emotion, shaping chronic breathing patterns.
- Restoring natural diaphragmatic breathing often follows completing the emotional cycle in breathwork.
