If you’ve tried Holotropic or 3 part breathwork (aka intense breathwork)…What have you experienced AFTER the session, the day after or even several days after? Folks, I wish I could say it’s all bliss, but when we dive deep into our subconscious beliefs, we often have to clean up the mess afterward.

We all know that every breathwork session will bring up different emotions and so every experience is varied. What have you felt after a session? Bliss? Raw emotions? Depression? Clarity? A feeling of being grounded and present in your body? Light and floaty? Energized?

I, for one, have experienced most of the emotions named above…and more. I had a client reach out to me this week. She was brand new to Breathwork and was shocked at how amazing her experience was. In the coming days, she started to feel more depressed and low energy. This surprised her. She figured it was up from here!

I reminded her that healing isn’t linear and that integrating our new findings means there are often days or weeks of feeling our $h!t in order to move it and finally release it. She felt she was slipping back instead of moving forward.

Ahhhh, I’ve been there many times! Feeling like things get worse before they get better!

I compared it to deep cleaning your closet. You have to take everything out of the closet and it literally makes a mess of your room first… it looks WAY worse before it gets better.

I told her it’s like she took a bottle opener and popped the lid on something that hasn’t been exposed for some time, or ever. It may bubble over for a moment, there’s going to be movement to those negative emotions that have been stored deep down inside.

I gave her some gentle breathing techniques to help her move energy, re-energize (as she feels low energy currently) and suggested grounding in her body by going outside, feet on grass, movement, asking her body what it needs, and most definitely talk therapy (with a friend or therapist).

What emotions have you experienced after Breathwork and how have you worked your way through those? What has surprised you after a session?

Once we touch our subconscious beliefs, a ripple effect starts. It creates movement, the negative emotions don’t just simply vanish, they need to moved somewhere and sometimes the only way out…is through.