Why is the breath so powerful, and why do I want to facilitate?
Why is the breath so powerful, and why do I want to facilitate
Student Spotlight: Lottie Evans
As my facilitator training comes to an end, and graduation is (both sadly and yet excitingly!) just around the corner, I sit with two questions, asked in one of the final seminars, led by one of the wonderful teachers.
Why is the breath so powerful and why do I want to facilitate?
With the breath, we create and cultivate, we find our way back to ourselves, our bodies - our homes.
These questions were handed to us during a session on Sharing Our Voice - of course the timing for this was perfect, giving me insight, strength, knowledge and inspiration to take forward into both my personal practice and in my facilitation.
Why is the breath (and breathwork) so powerful?
There is not only so much rich science around breathwork, but so much sacred spirituality too. The two have crossed paths and met in the middle, which for me – needing some sort of ‘proof’ but also allowing for that beautiful magic and internal belief, is perfect.
Breathwork is ancient, the breath is our vital life force, our main source of energy, the one part of our autonomic nervous system we can change just by thinking about it - which in turn, changes almost everything else. The breath and breathwork has limitless possibilities. There is a breathwork technique for every aim, every ailment, every intention. It is, as author and breather James Nestor says ‘The New Science of a Lost Art’ - methods and scriptures dating back hundreds of years BC, now being tested, tried, and found to have incredible benefits on the human body, mind, emotions.
I was once told by a therapist that ‘the longest journey we will ever take is from our heads to our hearts’ - I’m pleased to say I’ve found the fast route. Breathwork enables us to create, experience and strengthen the connection between our minds and our bodies. Using the breath creates that natural environment in which this connection takes place - in which healing takes place. It supports a natural healing process, essential in an age of suppression, medication, of outsourcing, externalising and relying on anything other than our innate internal abilities to heal.
With the breath, we create and cultivate, we find our way back to ourselves, our bodies - our homes. It is the connection - or reconnection - to the natural way of expressing, feeling and being.
It is the gift of life. For which we have a responsibility. A choice. An invitation. Every conscious breath is a co-creative act. We are at one, we are one. All connected. By this force all around us. It’s something we all use, all day, every day. It is ours for the taking, so why not learn about it, use it, embrace all that it can be?
So - Why Do I Want To Facilitate?
Of course, for all the above reasons. And because I’ve not just seen, read, heard of the power of the breath - I’ve felt it too. I’m living proof, a testament to its power. To feeling its flow, its healing abilities, its abilities to take control of what we cannot and turn the energy we’ve been stuck with, suffering with, into air, to breathe out and release back into the atmosphere as simple energy, which leaves us clear, open, free, expended, grown, healed - transformed.
I want to facilitate because I believe everyone deserves an opportunity to understand and heal, to use what is available to us - especially the breath; this free substance, available to all in endless abundance.
It is not by chance that the breath holds such power, that we can use it to tap in to our inner healers, and create the best versions of ourselves. It is the way nature intended it.
If I can dedicate just a small part of my life to opening up just a few of the breath’s possibilities to others, I will be happy… happy to enable people to take back control, to flow through what it is they are going through rather than becoming trapped in trauma, illness, dis-ease. If I can be a vessel to hand someone the power to alleviate anxiety, pain, to dissolve not only current, but generational trauma, karmic knots, and to enable play, joy, expansion, reconnection to one’s divine inner power, unconditional love and acceptance - and a deep understanding of oneself, then yeah, I’m pretty keen to facilitate.
About Lottie Evans
Lottie is a Bournemouth Based Breathwork Facilitator and Coach, working both in person and online. Lottie incorporated Breathwork into her healing journey and is so excited to share the breath, her learnings, teachings, and insights with others, having had such profound and life changing results.
Find Lottie on Facebook & Instagram: @NaturallyLottie or connect via email info@naturallylottie.com or on her website www.naturallylottie.com