Holotropic or Somatic? Best Breathwork for YOU

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With many individuals devoted to their brand of breathwork, we always encourage research to determine with breathing exercise will be best for your intended goals. Some of the more popular current methods of breathwork include WIM HOF, Oxygen Advantage, Taiko Breathing, and even DMT breathing for individuals seeking a more psychedelic experience through breathwork.
Holotropic breathwork has become quite popular in recent years, with notable practitioners like Stan Grof holding sessions around the world. Steven Jaggers once participated in a holotropic breathwork session held by Grof, with Jaggers recounting his experience to be profoundly full of physical release.
Finding his experience with holotropic breathwork to be much more profound than any other modality he had ever encountered at the time, Steven Jaggers quickly began to research other types of breathing exercises to create the best possible modality for release and restructuring the way our nervous system interacts with our minds after traumatic experiences.
With breathing being one of the few bodily functions that are both automatic and something we can alter freely with our minds, very few individuals understand the true life power behind our respirations or how breathing exercises can help to process stagnant traumatic energies out of our nervous system for good. Basically, our breathing utilizes both our psyche and Soma, which means the conscious and unconscious parts of our body.
As conscious breathing can offer control over our state, breathing in general acts as one of the most effective diagnostic tools to understand where we are and if we're in a contracted state. Because breathing remains accessible to nearly all human beings, modalities like breathwork are one of the easiest ways people can reclaim control over their entire state.
In order to understand the differences between somatic release breathwork and holotropic breathwork, we must first define the characteristics of each modality.
Through Somatic breathwork, people first experience heightened stress on their nervous system within a safe container, which breathwork practitioners believe helps us achieve a physiological level that utilizes our stressful state at the somatic level to digest repressed emotions, often traumatic, in a way that we may not have been able to previously at an instinctual level.
Much of the traumatic energies that manifest while experiencing stress in the first half of somatic release breathwork are cleared out during the second portion of the breathing exercise.
Breathwork practitioners like Steven Jaggers believe that during times of clarity at the Somatic level, people begin to clear out the negative emotions or traumas that may hold them back. As the first portion of somatic release breathwork spikes the nervous system, the second half of the exercise slows down breathing and allows individuals to access a relaxed state where clarity can be achieved.
Traditional holotropic breathwork exercises, popularized by practitioners like Stan Grof, are typically performed over the span of 3 hours, with heavy breathing making up the entirety of this modality. Unlike somatic breathwork, holotropic breathwork typically features zero breath holds and can be very intense.
When formulating Somatic breathwork, Jaggers believed that breathing exercises did not need to be as intense as modalities like holotropic breathwork, as he favors to devise his breathwork exercises into two halves. One half of somatic breathwork features intense breathing exercises, like people may experience in holotropic breathwork, with a second half dedicated to clearing out all of the traumatic energies that were manifested through the intense breathing that happens during the opening portion of the breathwork.
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