What’s the science behind breath work?

Breathing effectively impacts all aspects of life positively, from good sleeping patterns to muscle and organ health to mental stability and clarity.

How can something we do automatically, unconsciously, have such an impact on our lives, a life- saving and enhancing impact if we’re doing it effectively, or a debilitating effect if we have developed bad breathing habits?

I like to think of it in the same way that most of us have limbs that can perform basic tasks, and can also be trained to perform feats of strength and mastery. The key word is training – we can believe that to breathe automatically and unconsciously is enough, or we can take that process into a mindful, conscious state in order to use it for specific purposes.

What can participants expect?

In my practice in the Blue Mountains, I take workshop participants (a maximum of two) through a breath workshop and then into the pottery studio where they use their breathing techniques to centre clay on the wheel and make a pot. It’s telling to watch first-time potters calm the clay into centre by using their breathing techniques as opposed to the battle many of us new to the wheel experience. It supports what I have come to learn about the breath: that conscious breath and movement, when paired, can change our state of emotions, change our bodies, assist us in the process of self regulation, and change our lives for the better.

Book an individual corporate workshop with Anne to master your breathing and apply your techniques to the age old mastery required of the potter’s wheel.