On a physical level, this breathwork helps with:

• Boosting energy

• Stimulating the lymphatic system, helping to detoxify the body

• Alleviating tension in the muscles

• Reducing headaches, asthma, respiratory conditions and digestive issues

• Improving sleep

• Reducing allergies

On an emotional level, this breathwork helps with:

• Reducing stress, anxiety, depression, panic attacks

• Releasing past hurt and trauma

• Shifting negative thought patterns and self-sabotaging behaviours

• Increasing self esteem, joy and a feelings of inner balance

• Expanding conscious awareness

• Strengthening a spiritual connection

CCB is a self-healing modality, also known as “therapy without talking”. We use your own breath as medicine and it works on a deep, therapeutic level.

Trauma doesn’t just live in our mind. It lives in the body, specifically in our fascia, the web-like connective tissue that wraps around every muscle, bone, and organ. Fascia is like this fluid spiderweb in the body, but when we experience stress, trauma, or grief, that tissue can literally contract and harden.

This breathwork is powerful because it bypasses the thinking brain and goes straight into the body. By breathing this way, we can access what is deeply buried in our subconscious and any event, emotion, situation that hasn’t been processed or hasn’t been dealt with, can now finally be integrated.

The way we breathe is the way we live, so when we bring awareness to the breath, we’re also bringing awareness to how we’re living.

That’s why conscious connected breathwork is so powerful. It gives us a chance to reset old patterns. By opening the breath, we open up the space to feel what we’ve been avoiding and we can re-train the nervous system so that it feels safe to expand and live more fully. In opening our breath, we give our body the chance to release any tension or emotional blockages and gain a state of balance and regulation.

In activating the diaphragm, we have an activated nervous system, so we can start feeling safe to explore our subconscious and release traumas or emotional baggages that we have been carrying for a long time.

The diaphragm is not just a muscle. It is directly connected to the vagus nerve, our primary “regulation switch.” When the diaphragm begins moving again:

• The vagus nerve signals to the brain: “We are safe.”

• The survival system can stand down.

• The body becomes available for softening and healing.

From a neuroscience perspective, around 80% of the information in our nervous system travels from body to brain, and only 20% from brain to body. This is called a bottom-up approach and it explains why simply thinking differently doesn’t always help. You can know something logically (“I shouldn’t be scared”, “I know I’m safe”, ”I shouldn’t overthink this”, etc) and still feel overwhelmed. The thinking mind can’t override a dysregulated nervous system. Healing has to come through the body. And the breath gives us direct access.

CCB gently changes the breath pattern, which changes the body’s signals to the brain, helping dissolve survival responses that may have been running for years.

During CCB the pH in our body changes, because we have more oxygen and less carbon dioxide. This alters brain states and people often experience emotional release, clarity, new insight, deep rest, a greater sense of safety, more space in the body and mind, and triggers losing their power.