If you can become master of your breathing you can become master of your emotions!

What is a Breath-work?

Breath-work is a  body oriented healing modality, designed to help people open up the full potential of their breathing system in order to achieve optimum physical and emotional well-being. It is a pattern of natural, safe and healthy conscious breathing. Its benefits include increased energy, better immune response and increased ability to deal with distress.

How it Works?

Our circulation, our life energy itself depends on the expansion and release of our breathing mechanism. Constant movement of inhalation and exhalation promotes constant exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide. If our breathing becomes restricted, we may limit the effectiveness of this process and this may show up in physical illness, general lack of energy, or feeling emotionally drained or upset. An average person uses only 1/6 of their lung capacity with short, shallow, irregular, dysfunctional breathing habits. We hold our breath to prevent ourselves being overwhelmed by our feelings and when this becomes habitual we lose the ability to breathe deeply and connect to our spiritual well-being, our relationship to love and joy. That is scientifically proven to lead to fatigue, confusion, distress and a general sense of disharmony and sickness.

Breathwork encourages a full diaphragmatic breath. This, in turn, massages all the organs that are affected by the movements of the diaphragm.

What makes Shama’s approach unique in breath-work is, her depth of knowledge and her extensive training in various Body-Psychotherapy methods; Bodynamics and Reichian Therapy. This particular training makes it possible for Shama to identify the developmental stage disruptions and traumas in her clients. And the possible outcome of these conditions in the client’s muscular structure related to their particular history.

With this training, all the information that Shama needs to help you what is what you’ve registered in your body, and in your muscle structure, no need to talk things through. Shama can fine tune her approach with you and combine other healing modalities during breath-work sessions while helping you experience a gentle release and regulation of your nervous system without it being overwhelming. In this way, past emotional traumas that are blocked in the body can surface and finally be integrated.

Benefits of  Breathwork

• Release stress, negativity and anxiety
• Exchange feelings of depression and hopelessness for inner peace and freedom
• Gain direction in life by deepening your connection with your authentic self
• Enhance your sense of well being
• Bring your body into a state of inner peace, harmony and balance
• Opens up your senses in all dimensions
• Enhance your ability to express your feelings, release blocks to intimacy
• Heal the underlying unresolved issues that give rise to addictions
• Rediscover your innocence, playfulness, and spontaneity
• Develop self-confidence a deeper, stronger belief in yourself
• Take control of personal health, experience relief from stress induced illness’.

Breathwork sessions Shama offers:

Each session is customized for your particular needs. This customization is based on a brief consultation that you will have upon arrival with Shama. For your initial session Shama will provide an overview of a breathwork. And she does an assessment to understand the specific needs of  your nervous system; to choose the best breathwork modality.

Once she decides the  most suitable breathwork for your system, she will first observe your breathing in its natural state and see physically where the breath is being held and where any blockages are. She will then use simple techniques such as adjusting the position of the body, gentle hands-on pressure, sound techniques and positive affirmations to help the breath to open up and flow more freely.

Following the breathwork you will proceed to the final element of your session, time of stillness. This part of the session is very important because it gives your body and mind the opportunity to adjust to the biological and energetic changes that have occurred as a result of the breath-work. As your breath practice matures this state evolves into a formal meditation state.

DIAMOND BREATHWORK

This modality pulls influence from Reichian methods and Bioenergetics. This type of breath-work aims to break your body’s armour by targeting specific belts of muscular tension. This helps to open your body by releasing old tension and survival energy that’s stuck in the system.

Reich Theory is based on the belief that emotional repression blocks human vitality, not only on mentally and emotionally, but physically too. During childhood, your muscles contract as a response to fearful or overwhelming situations, which is healthy and normal. However, if the muscles remain in that contracted state, it becomes unhealthy. When these muscle contractions lock, the body loses some of its natural core wisdom and develops disturbed breathing patterns which inhibit health, life energy, and that feeling of aliveness.

By working with segmental armouring, you let go of inhibitions that block energy flow and tension being held in your system. This work is for people who want to dive deep into the wisdom of their body and let go of the heavy baggage from past—and current—life events. Each session will be dedicated to a separate segment of your body to unlock the blockages that prevent your life energy from flowing freely. The seven belts of muscular tension work targets: Ocular, Oral, Cervical, Thoracic, Diaphragm, Abdominal and Pelvic Segment.

Who is Diamond Breath-work good for?

Everyone, but please note that trauma clients might need previous introduction sessions and regulation work before this process.
How this modality is offered:
-A single appointment, where you’ll experience emotional freedom and a deeper connection with your authentic self.
-A series of sessions, where you explore deep-release with all seven segments of muscular armouring.

To experience optimum results , a package of 8-10  sessions is recommended. 

SOMATIC  PULSATION  

Trauma resolution breath-work sessions are Shama’s specially curated combination of Somatic work and Reichian Methods. These breath-work sessions are designed to help people who are suffering from severe traumatic events. Somatic pulsation is a gentle trauma-resolution technique that targets the completion of self-protection responses in a unique way. When your natural survival impulses—fight, flight, and freeze—get disrupted, your nervous system loses its ability to self-regulate and you start to live with the shadow of trauma.
Every nervous system is unique and needs to be treated as such. You are encouraged and supported in high-power releases of emotions and muscular tension and know that some nervous systems need a gentler approach, so your action plan varies depending on your unique needs.With this gentle work, your nervous system is supported in completing the activation-and-deactivation cycle, resulting in a deeper coherence and self-regulation within it. This leads to feeling more harmony, ease, and peace.

What do these sessions help solve?

-PTSD
-TRAUMA-oriented nervous system dysregulations disorder
-Chronic pain
-Sleeping disorders
-People who simply want to experience a different sort of breath-work that focuses on releasing the negative effects trauma has on their muscular system and joints.

Note : You can plan on your breath session lasting approximately 60 to 90 minutes.

BREATHWORK: Package of 10 session: 1.300 cad  / 60 minutes :140 cad / 90 minutes: 210 cad

Breath-work Workshops for Groups

Breathwork workshops are designed for those who want to experience deep emotional and physical relaxation, joy and rejuvenation.
One of the biggest problems of our century is stress. Most of us walk around carrying intense amounts of tension in any given moment. Fast pace of our modern society forces us to repress our feelings. And we do that by blocking our breath. As a consequence we cannot recharge our batteries of ‘life energy’.
Most of the time our breathing is constricted and we are trying to compensate our leaking of energy by running on willpower. We are stuck in cycle of hyperactivity, restlessness and anxiety.
In this journey, we will be using a various breath-wok  session, movements , bioenergetics, sound and active meditations as a tool to release all the tension and blocked energy from our system so that we can feel rejuvenated, replenished and relaxed again.