Transformational Breath ® A Conscious Connected Breathing Experience

Join us for a transformative experience at our Conscious Connected Breathing event! Learn how to harness the power of your breath to enhance your well-being and connect with your inner self. This in-person event will take place at The Secret Garden Room, Shoreham-By-Sea, where you'll be guided through various breathing techniques to promote relaxation, clarity, and mindfulness. Whether you're new to breathwork or looking to deepen your practice, this event is suitable for all levels. Come breathe, relax, and rejuvenate with us!

Emma Jackson (BSc, MSc)

Speech and Language Therapist, Transformational Breath Facilitator

Instagram: space_for_breath

For bookings and queries, email: emma@spaceforbreath.net

Steven Bannister (BSc, MSc)

Physiotherapist and Transformational Breath Group Leader

For bookings and queries, email: movebreathe@icloud.com

Breathing—easy, right?

It sounds like it hardly needs an explanation. We do it around 24,000 times a day, often without a second thought. The interesting thing about breathing is that it is one of the few functions that is both conscious and unconscious.

Feel into your breathing now. Is it fast? Is it shallow? Is there a pause somewhere?

In fact, our breathing is as unique as our fingerprint, and it can reveal much about how we live our lives. This is because we change our breathing patterns to help us navigate daily stresses, life challenges, and traumatic events throughout our lives. For instance, we may hold our breath when stressed or anxious, or perhaps we notice those repetitive sighs we take—they’re all signs of unhelpful breathing patterns.

Place a hand on your belly and your chest. Where is your breath right now?

When we breathe into our chest, we tend to stimulate our sympathetic nervous system, or ‘fight or flight’ response. Over time, this can become our default breathing pattern.

Chronic stimulation of ‘fight or flight’ stress hormones can affect our mood, sleep, digestion, hormone regulation, immune system, blood pressure, and circulation, leaving us feeling tired, sluggish, and fatigued.

So, imagine what it would be like for each breath to be your fullest, healthiest, and most nourishing breath, moment to moment! It would feel great, right? When we breathe better, we feel better.

As registered Transformational Breath® facilitators and professionals in physiotherapy and speech and language therapy, we understand the value of optimal breathing. Breathwork helps expand and utilize your full respiratory system, improving energy levels through better oxygenation and balancing the flow of energy to positively impact emotional well-being, physical healing, and repair.

Our passion for Breathwork began with our own personal journeys of transformation, and this is why we are so committed to sharing the powerful benefits of breath with you. As it helped us, we know it can transform your life too. Through our own experiences, we hope to support your growth and healing as we step into the latter half of 2024.

“Your mind, emotions, and body are instruments, and the way you align and tune them determines how well you play life.”

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

What is Transformational Breath®?

Transformational Breath® is a unique self-healing process that uses a conscious connected breathing system to optimize our physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Our breathing patterns change over time in response to the emotional challenges we all face in life. Since our breath changes in response to these challenges, correcting unhelpful breathing patterns allows us to change the way we live our lives, letting go of old beliefs and behaviors. Changing your breath will literally change your life!

The Benefits:

More energy and vitality

Improved circulation and reduced blood pressure

Enhanced detoxification (we eliminate 70% of toxins through the breath)

Boosted immune system

Greater emotional regulation

Improved mood, a calm mind, and greater mental clarity

Deepened yoga and meditation practice

Elevated intuition and a conscious connection with the higher self

More Details for Participants:

Transformational Breath® works on three levels:

Physical Level: This involves improvements in the mechanics of our breathing patterns. With a full, open, free-flowing breath, we can bring more life force or ‘prana’ into the body, creating more energy and vitality, moment to moment. Optimal movement of the lungs and diaphragm massages the internal organs, aids the lymphatic system in eliminating toxins, and improves the immune system. There is also a release of muscular tension as muscles that have been used to manage emotions are released and relaxed.

Emotional Level: Our experience of fundamental consciousness operates on both a physical and mental level; it's impossible to separate the two. They work together to process and integrate the emotions related to our lived experiences. When we encounter stress, life challenges, and trauma, we may suppress or repress emotions and feelings, causing them to become contracted and stored in the tissues of the body. This safe, simple, and effective technique allows past trauma, energetic blockages, and unhelpful subconscious emotional patterns to be cleared and integrated permanently. Once cleared, we can open ourselves up to more love, peace, and joy in our lives as we connect with our authentic selves.

Spiritual Level: Each person relates to this level in their unique way, whether it’s through a deity outside, a higher self within, or a deeper connection with nature and the world around us. There is a wide spectrum of beliefs we can tune into to find meaning in our existence. By uncovering and integrating old emotional patterns and societal expectations, we can experience more clarity, peace of mind, and a deeper sense of connection with others, the world around us, and the less tangible aspects of our existence.

The better we breathe, the better we feel.

Are there any risks or contraindications?

Conscious connected breathing is a safe and effective breathing technique accessible to everyone. However, if you have any specific medical issues, it may be necessary to work on a one-on-one basis before participating in a group session. If you have medical concerns, we encourage you to discuss these via email prior to the session or upon arrival. If you have asthma, please bring your inhaler to the session. If you have a diagnosis of epilepsy, heart conditions, uncontrolled blood pressure, glaucoma, or detached retina, please consult your GP before participating. If you have or have had psychological emergencies, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or untreated high levels of anxiety, please contact Steven or Emma before signing up for the workshop. Written consent will be required prior to the session.

Please feel free to reach out in advance if there is anything else you would like to discuss.

Do I need to bring anything?

Please wear comfortable, loose clothing for the session and bring a yoga mat, blanket, and your own water bottle. Refrain from consuming alcohol or coffee 24 hours before the session, and avoid a heavy meal 2 hours prior to the session.