This is part 4 of an account I wrote about the Level 1 Clarity Breathwork Retreat. To catch up, check out part 1.
I went to Stewart for a Clarity Breathwork Retreat. Clarity Breathwork is a gentle type of breathing which releases stress from the body. It is a form of circular breathing, including a deep inhalation followed immediately by a relaxing exhale, again followed directly by a deep inhale. The pace is sustained as opposed to leisurely and it takes place through the mouth (as opposed to the nose). You are usually lying down.
Dana and Ashanna were the event facilitators. Dana holds the energy of Sarasvati, and is a master of wind instruments. Her hypnotic flute playing was spectacular and viscerally moving. She travels the world to places like Bali to facilitate breathwork, sacred dance and divine feminine events. Ashanna was her student 20 years ago and is now a co-facilitator. Ashanna does breathwork, Watsu, and Lightbody Activation seminars. Together they hold a beautiful dance of collaborative partnership.
I didn’t really read the retreat description in too much detail before arriving. I had already had a set of 10 sessions with another practitioner, Maggie Ostara, who first introduced me to the breathwork as a “bonus” experience added to Awakening Your Light Body Course. At that time I had a massive breakthrough, on par with the type of experience induced by Ecstacy, where I felt like I was truly LOVE, in every cell. I cried and cried, felt my angels around me transmitting information into my DNA and had a complete heart-opening which inspired massive life changes. My later set of 10 sessions with her provided tremendous realizations around my true essence, letting go of major fears and self doubts, clearing traumatic past life experiences, connecting with my guides and much more. I left every session feeling hyper-alert, full of tenderness and connection to the divine, heart blasted open and cellularly changed.
I assumed that this retreat would more of the same… so I didn’t anticipate the whole birth trauma processing and clearing which was a large part of the event. I had cruised the website, felt an instant connection with the title, “Breatheinlovecom”, looked at the facilitator images which I strongly resonated with and (I thought) skimmed the event description. If I had read the material with a bit more focus, I would have seen that this was the first in 4 professional trainings to become a Clarity Breathwork Practitioner. This first event focused on clearing birth trauma. The thing is, when breathwork began to be practiced vigorously in the 1970’s, a startlingly large number of those involved experienced full-blown regressions back to their birth experience, along with tremendous emotional releases. Participants were able to “connect the dots” between limiting beliefs and emotional patterns in their current lives with experiences in the womb, birthing and afterwards. This is why this first professional training delves deep into this realm.
When I realized where the event focus was heading the first night, I had a voice in my back of my head which said, “okay… these people have issues! I don’t really have anything major to clear because my birth pretty mellow, but I’ll just give myself to this breathing experience and see what happens.” I felt cautious, knowing that by the Law of Attraction we can sometimes create experiences by our mere focus on them. I decided to immediately transmute any negative thoughts into positive by doing Theta on myself while the event progressed. (Theta Healing is an amazing way to turns “lemons” into “lemonade” by upleveling any challenging beliefs to the frequency of Source.)
From the first very night
of introductions, I had tremendous insights that made the whole trip
worthwhile. I realized that any fears or doubts I have around “rising up” to
become a women’s empowerment coach, inspirational speaker and retreat
facilitator were misplaced. Just from hearing Ashanna’s introduction, I got that by shifting my focus onto “heeding the call of
service” and tby aking the focus off of me-me-me, the next steps can be easy, fun
and thrilling! Who was I to not be an inspirational speaker, writer and retreat facilitator? Wasn't it just as egocentric to get caught in a tailspin of questioning myself as opposed to honoring my intuitive urgings? I knew I was exactly where I was supposed to be. Before going to
sleep, I wrote “Theta Healing for Surrendering to New Life Path”, and felt a
huge integration and excitement for what was to follow. This was shaping up to be an amazing experience...
Read on in Part 3!
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