Module 2: Psychosomatics

In this module, you will deeply wake up (or continue waking up) your proprioception of the body, and work to firmly establish the continuity between your mental and emotional states and the state of your body.

Firstly, we need to establish where you’re at and where you’re trying to go.

The training intent that your current physical, mental, and life patterns largely dissolve and give way for the new ones.

[Copied forward from the disclaimer] Whole Body Breathing cannot be fundamentally separated from Yoga. In the Patanjali Sutras, the first line is “atha yoga anushasanam” [Now, the teaching of Yoga Begins] - this implies a theshold over which the reader is passing. It also implies a base of qualification that the reader has somehow accumilated prior to now. If this is your first encounter with such teachings, understand that this information is not simply another addition to your knowledge set or life, this information and practice becomes the fundamentals of your life and must be regarded with appropriate reverence and respect. This is self-respect and self-care warning - this information will eventually establish a stability and peacefulness within your life, but it is also best to intially approach these practices during times/situations of stability. Bringing yourself to stability in body and mind, with good habits and healthy patterns, before diving into this information will speed your growth and make the ride less bumpy. You should also handle your outside circumstances to a reasonable point, ensuring that you have the peace and stability needed to go on a deep and encompassing journey inwards. This journey itself will eventually stabalize you in the highest possible way, but you must understand that this process necessarily shakes you to the depth of your being and that you should make sure that you continously afford yourself the best possible circumstances internally and externally to deal with this disruption and shaking. Please see the resources for stability both as a good starting point before beginning and as a continual resource for centering yourself.

There’s some terminology in the course that will become more and more clear as you progress, but Module 1 will introduce all of the main takeaways to get your practice fully up and running. In fact, once you’ve established yourself in Module 1 it’s likely you could figure out everything yourself with enough dedicated time and effort! This isn’t an introductory module to speed through - this section of the training alone is life changing and your mastery of what is going on here will inform your mastery of the next two modules.

In the following video you will be equipped with everything you need, not only to get started but so that you can join into the community discussions knowing the terminology and concepts:

The next chapter of your training will establish the deep psychosomatic understanding of Whole Body Breathing. Changing your physical and mental patterns is essentially changing who you are – we need to dive in deeply enough for you to unlearn your mental and physical patterns, returning to the state of flexibility and moldability of a child so that your bodymind can re-initiate the proper growth processes and re-align your body to its correct form with every inhale.

There is a powerful yogic practice known as “Yoga Nidra”, and this WBB variation of it is designed specifically to re-ignite higher and higher levels of feeling and proprioception in your body. It is appropriate for all levels of understanding and awareness. It is highly recommended that you specifically set aside a time and calm place for your first attempt. If anything, this practice is the core ongoing practice of Whole Body Breathing: Deep awareness, deep listening. Take what you learn in this video to your daily life - perhaps initially practicing it before bed and after waking up. Then try to take it into your day to day life: Sitting, standing, laying, and walking in deep awareness.

For a shorter version which has only the meditation (so that you can repeat it or do it before / into sleep) CLICK HERE. Make sure you turn off autoplay on YouTube so it doesn’t start the next video, the setting should be in the bottom bar.

The philosophy of Whole Body Breathing is to practice breath awareness, not breath control. However, in order to more quickly open up awareness and incite / catalyse the blockages in the body, the following guided session can be used. This is also an exercise in intermittent hypoxia, making your body breath with greater effect and efficiency. Do not practice this guided session if you are in any way sick (especially with cardiac/respiratory issues) or pregnant. Always perform the meditation laying down or in a position that you can easily lay down safely if needed. If you become dizzy or very uneasy, stop.

Many different methods over the years have gotten temporary adjustments in peoples structure, but these micro adjustments take years to build up into serious structural change and often hit an upper limit from which they keep relapsing. Why is this? In WBB theory, we’re holding patterns are various levels, some of them deeper than others. Some traumas or reactions may be new while others go far back into our evolutionary chain and are going haywire in modern situations.

Evolutionary Support (Highly Recommend)