What Happens After A Breathwork Session?
Insights And What to Expect
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EMOTIONS
After a Deep Dive Breathwork Session:
A transformational breathwork session is a deep emotive experience. It helps release emotions and traumas, helping you process these. It’s possible that certain breathing techniques may bring back into your consciousness emotions, experiences and feelings that have not been properly dealt with or healed.
New emotions
You may notice that new and previously unknown thoughts, feelings and emotions rise to the surface. Just notice what they are practice acceptance. See if they bring new insights, perhaps they may help you gain clarity or new perspectives.
New memories
can surface that have been protected before. Know that your body will never give you anything you can’t handle.
Continued
sensitivity
Often in a breath-work session, we are bringing things to the surface that the body is ready to release. It is possible for a few days after this release process will continue, so you may find yourself a little sensitive or teary. Please know this is completely normal and is just a continued way of the body releasing. It’s part of integrating from your session and it’s really important take care of yourself, be gentle, create time alone, or seek support if needed.
Sensations, Feelings
The sensations you feel after a breathwork session depend on your own mind, body and mental perception. The technique used also has an influence on what comes up afterwards. The sensations you experience after breathing exercises can vary depending on a number of things
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Which breathing techniques are being used (fast vs. slow breathing).
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How long the breathwork session goes on for.
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How consistent and intensely you breath during the practice.
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Your body’s reaction to these techniques.
This is often why many people have different experiences with the same breathwork exercises.
However, there are several COMMON feelings or sensations that can come up after a session:
A Feeling of ‘Lightness’ and Calm
Immediately after a session, you may experience a feeling of calm and tranquillity. Breathwork can help regulate the nervous system, switching off your fight or flight response, and allowing your parasympathetic (rest and digest) nervous system to come back online, resulting in a feeling of calm.
Feeling Tired
Breathwork is a powerful tool that can help release traumas, suppressed emotions and pent-up energy, which can leave you feeling fatigued. This process triggers various changes in the body and mind that require rest and time to fully process.
Tingling Sensations
When certain fast-breathing techniques are used, such as super ventilation, or holotropic breathing, the sympathetic nerve system is activated, and you can experience tingling in the hands and feet. These sensations are completely normal and having that self-awareness of what you are experiencing can help you process these experiences.
Mental Clarity and Happiness
Through the purifying effect of breathwork, you can also feel mental clarity. Physiological changes that occur during a breathwork practice can result in increased alertness, creativity, inspiration, and clearer thinking.
Specific breathing techniques also release endorphins into your system, increasing these ‘feel good’ hormones and helping to boost your happiness.
Feeling Present and In the Moment
Certain fast breathing techniques cause your ‘thinking’ brain to go offline during practice. As a result, you’ll likely finish the breathwork session feeling more present and with a calmer mind.
Lingering Emotions
Lingering emotions are a natural part of the 9D breathwork journey. During a session, you may encounter repressed or hidden emotions that rise to the surface. While many of these emotions are processed during the session, some may persist and require additional attention. Recognizing that these lingering emotions are opportunities for further healing, is the first step in addressing them effectively.
The sensations described above do not occur for everyone, and you will probably have some of your own unique experiences
Post-Breathwork Self-Care
Breathwork can release energy and emotions, leading to various physical sensations and emotional releases, urging you to trust the process and use your breath to navigate through these experiences.
After a breathwork session, be gentle with yourself and listen to what your body, mind and soul needs. Try to drink water to flush out the toxins and nourish yourself with some "soul food".
If you’ve had a group session, it can be good to share your experience and process. A group can also hold space and just be there as emotional support.
If you don’t feel like openly sharing your experience, you can write about it in a journal. Putting the experience into written words can be a step for integration and reflection, making journaling a great post-session activity.
olving a range of strategies and practices designed to support the assimilation of the experience.
Remember
BREATHWORK
is not a one-off practice, it’s a journey best practiced regularly to get all the mental, physical, and emotional benefits on an on-going basis.
