A GUIDE TO BREATHWORK
22 February 2022Learn more about breathwork's benefits with The Breath Space's Jamie Clements.
Jamie Clements is a breathwork facilitator & coach, and the founder of The Breath Space. Jamie works across the full spectrum of breathwork, from athletic performance, through to stress, sleep and anxiety, as well as creating altered states of conscious through the breath. He believes that the breath is the most accessible and powerful tool that we all have access to, to shift our physical, mental and emotional state and living a happy and healthier life.
Exploring the fundamentals of optimal breathing, techniques to create an energising and grounding practice to help kickstart the day with a sense of clarity, focus and balance, breathwork offers a simple but effective way to successfully manage stress or anxiety, achieve an altered state of consciousness and even release suppressed emotions.
An accessible and powerful tool, breathwork offers us the opportunity to live a happier and healthy life. A broad term that encompasses several different practices, breathwork primarily focusses on how we breathe day to day, at rest, during sleep and during exercise. Extending further to simple exercises that can manage anxiety or energy, breathwork can be utilised to benefit your day-to-day experience and help deal with the trials and tribulations of modern life.
The reason we can do so much with something as simple as our breath is down to the role is plays within the nervous system. Our breath is part of something called our Autonomic Nervous System, which governs our stress response (Fight-Flight Mode) and our relaxation response (Rest + Digest Mode). However, the breath is the only part of that system we can consciously control, which means we have a direct line into our psychology and physiology through the breath. The simplest way to think about this is seeing your breath as either the accelerator or brake pedal of your nervous system - you can use it to speed up (energy, focus, motivation) or slow down (reduce anxiety, improve sleep). It really is that powerful.
