Therapeutic Breathwork: Unleash Your Power to Heal Yourself with Kate Horsman
Apr 1, 2024
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Breathwork expert Kate Horsman and Dr. Mindy delve into trauma-focused breathwork, emotional detox, and cellular trauma release. They discuss the transformative impact of breathwork on healing, relational healthcare, and the role of breathwork in processing trauma for holistic healing. Kate shares her healing journey and the importance of creating safe spaces during breathwork sessions. The conversation emphasizes the power of breathwork in releasing stored emotions and promoting well-being, highlighting its role in emotional exploration and healing.
Traumatic breathwork aids in releasing stored traumas for menopausal women.
Breathwork addresses somatic traumas to restore self-regulating capacity and overall well-being.
Breathwork empowers individuals by tapping into their internal healing power for transformation.
Deep dives
The Healing Power of Breathwork in Trauma Recovery
Breathwork, particularly a style focused on therapeutic breathwork, offers a unique approach to trauma recovery by delving into the body's somatic experiences and emotional memory. Through deep breathing exercises, individuals can access and release stored traumas held in the body, allowing for a profound healing process. This method activates a state of surrender, emotional connection, exploration, and subsequent reintegration, leading to a transformative journey towards healing.
Trauma manifests in diverse forms beyond traditional psychological symptoms, such as weight loss resistance, chronic pain, autoimmune conditions, anxiety, insomnia, and more. The body's language of symptoms reflects trauma's profound influence on overall health and well-being. Breathwork serves as a powerful tool to address these underlying somatic traumas, providing a pathway to release emotional imprints and restore the body's self-regulating capacity.
Empowering Inner Healing and Self-Discovery through Breathwork
By embracing breathwork, individuals tap into their internal healing power and innate capacity for transformation. Breathwork facilitates a journey of self-discovery and healing from within, enabling individuals to access and complete unresolved impulses related to trauma. This self-guided healing process empowers individuals to trust their body's wisdom, reconnect with their emotions, and find closure through breathwork-induced expressions and movements.
The Practice of Breathwork for Emotional Detox
Breathwork sessions focus on emotional detox, allowing buried emotions to surface and be released. Through rapid breathing, participants experience an emotional purging process, leading to a sense of acknowledgment and readiness to move forward. Sessions start with heart-centered conversations to build trust and set intentions, creating a safe container for emotional exploration. The active breathing phase involves deep belly and chest breathing, guiding individuals into an emotional detox journey.
Individual vs. Group Breathwork Sessions
Individual breathwork sessions offer depth and personalized attention, allowing for deeper emotional exploration and support. Group sessions can provide unique healing experiences as shared emotions create a collective healing environment. Both formats offer benefits, with individual sessions allowing for more personal depth exploration and group sessions fostering a shared emotional journey. The choice between individual and group sessions depends on personal preference and the depth of healing desired.
Kate Horsman is a breathwork expert who has been integral to Dr. Mindy’s healing journey. Kate's trauma-focused breathwork approach aids in releasing stored traumas, which is particularly beneficial for women navigating perimenopause and menopause. In this episode, Kate and Dr. Mindy discuss the transformative impact of breathwork on healing, emphasizing cellular-level trauma release in contrast to other techniques. Kate shares her healing journey and the importance of relational healthcare in fostering deep healing spaces. The conversation delves into various breathwork practices, highlighting the role of breathwork in emotional detox and trauma processing for holistic healing experiences.
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Kate Horsman is a Nature-based Holistic Therapist and Breathwork Therapist. This field merges her education and work as a Professional Counsellor, Therapeutic Breathwork Facilitator and Mindfulness leader in Vancouver, BC Canada, the sacred and ancestral lands of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam Nations. Her education is dimensional, including multiple modalities to approach healing work. Her schooling has brought her to Professional Counselling (VCCT), Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Nutrition (CSNN), and Plant-based science (eCornell), melding the bridge betw