A Personal Experience with SOMA Breath

How Breathwork Can Change Your Life

The First Encounter

Unlike other breath work techniques, SOMA has specifically designed brainwave music that’s designed to drop you into a deep meditative state. I didn’t know that at the time. All I heard was this deep basey frequency beating to a rhythm of a heartbeat that both excited me and captivated me into a nervous anticipation.

I was in a home that I knew well, perched on the edge of a volcanic crater around the beautiful Lake Atitlan, Guatemala so the stage was all set after I felt safe and explorative.

I had done lots of breath work events and trainings before and loved them, and even during my training to become a Kundalini Yoga Instructor the breath work elements were what excited me most and what I felt most called towards.

I had a sense that I would share breath work with others one day but of all the different techniques that I had been shown, none of them quite withstood the distance of time.

There was always something missing, even though I didn’t know what the missing part(s) were.

As soon as I heard the beating basey frequencies that day though, and the journey thereafter, I knew I’d found the technique I was hoping for.

I could literally feel the music re-wiring my brain that morning and as I let go and surrendered deeper and deeper into the experience. I could feel my whole body and entire existence dissolve, leaving me in state of total bliss and at one with all.

Unlike my expeirneces with other breath work techniques, I still felt grounded in the dissolution. I felt embodied in the unbodied experience, which is something that I had never felt before.

Before I ever found breath work as a modality I had been a SCUBA diving instructor where I saw and felt first hand how the quality of my breath directly linked to the quality of my experience, and this alone fascinated me.

Then, along the spiritual path, I was introduced to psychedelics where I have explored the limits of myself, experienced the complete dissolution of my being and came back with a sense of wander and awe.

However, the dissolution was often completely ungrounded.

That’s why that morning was so profound for me as it allowed me to experience all the same experiences that psychedelics bring but it allowed me to feel it as a completely embodied way which felt more wholesome and more integrated.

“the breath is always breathing us whether we are aware of it not”

… so that day was a huge breakthrough for me as it allowed me to become more aware of the profoundness that each and every breath holds.

What Happened After

After the session had finished and I opened my eyes, a new world was awaiting me. I knew intuitvely that I had found a technique that I wanted to explore more of and to possibly share with others, just like I had been shown that day. So, that’s exactly what I did.

I went on a personal journey of discovery where I took the Free Webinar Master Class online first which I also loved. I then quickly signed up for the 21 day Awakening Programto dive head first into the technique, learning all the different breathing patterns and the science behind how the breath can transform our physical body, our mental state and our future selves by learning how to manifest properly. And the more I learnt, the more I fell in love.

It was around the time that I also first discovered Dr. Joe Dispenza so I was completely fascinated by all of this new information. It became very sciencey and I loved every minute of it!

If only my bored 15 year old self sitting in the science class wishing to be anywhere else could have imagined that he would be writing this over a decade later, he would have been equally as amazed.

After the 21 Day Awakening Journey I was still so eager to learn and ready to learn how to guide sessions myself. I have always a strong desire to share everything I have learnt with others but this was the strongest, even though the sharing of it scared me a little as it called for a stronger self than I currently was.

But the desire to share was stronger than my desire to hide so it lead me onto taking the instructor program right after. Before the 2 month journey began, I rented a beautiful cottage in the valleys of Central Portugal with my life partner and who was also diving into the training alongside me, to fully immerse ourselves into the experience. It was the perfect setting for our own retreat: a huge garden, a yoga/breathwork studio, a beautiful fire place, our very own kiwi and grape vines framing our cute cottage and figs galore that scattered the streets, waiting to be enjoyed after each breathwork session.

It’s Not Always Romantic, But It’s Real

Now, I must admit, before it gets all too romantic. It’s not always been that blissful journey into oneness that I first experienced, actually it’s been quite the opposite, but I soon realised that diving into breath work reveals all kinds of things once we allow ourselves to journey with it.

So, I’ve felt anger, pain, fear, shame, resentment and frustration, with the most challenging days revealing to me the creativity I hold to find almost every conceivable excuse imaginable to convince myself that I can wait until tomorrow to do another session. But whenever that voice wins and I take a day off, I somehow always end up missing it. This is when I deeply feel that the struggles (just as the triumphs) are a vital part of the experience too.

So, it’s a journey, like all the best things. One that I found to be so incredibly rich and rewarding, growthful and revealing. And each journey still provides me the opportunity to really see where I’m at mentally and then invites me to change that into a higher vibration, if I want to.

If I don’t want to, that’s when I feel anger, resentment, frustration and even fear. So I’ve quickly learnt that whatever I bring to a session is whatever I will gain from it. And the same can be said of life.

“The breath is always breathing, whether we are aware it or not. Our task is to see how often we can be with it as that shows us how often we are with life itself. And not just with life itself, but what kind of life too. The quality of our life depends on the quality of our breath.”

So, I ask you — what is the quality of your breath?

If you’ve liked this post and feel called to experience SOMA for yourself, here are few different options for you to try it out.

Join the free 7 Day Intro Course

Join the Free Online Webinar Master Class

Join the full 21 day Awakening Journey

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Become a SOMA Breath Facilitator

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May your breath guide your way. And may your way be guided.

Happy breathing!