PREPARE TO HOLOBREATHE  
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Pelvic Pain

Holonomic breathing may hurt your genitals or pelvis if it's hard for you get enough sex, or you can't come, if you're impotent, sadomasochistic or if you suffer severe menstrual cramps.

Pelvic problems resolve when you work through sexual upsets this life, circumcision sensations, struggles in the birth canal, past lives. Or maybe mythic images. 

Belly Blockage

You might, breathing deeply, feel tightening around your ribs. When you intensify then release this block, you remember times of blocked emotional give-and-take with other people.

Discharge feelings.

Then, perhaps, have your sitter cuddle, rock, caress and hold you.

This lets you open your heart. Exchange love and energy with people, animals, nature and creation.

Neck & Jaw Blocks

     If your mouth or throat tighten, you could relive times you almost choked to death: someone strangling you, near-drowning, pneumonia, things caught in your throat.

     A locked jaw might hide words; might start you stammering. 

Maybe you'll remember mouth surgery or tonsillectomy. Maybe nursing frustrations. Suffocation sensations stimulate birth and pre-birth feelings. Or past-life strangulation scenes.

      Tighten more, fully feel images that follow. Bite, scream, gag, shake cough, spit. Make sounds, say words. Release tension and stop stifling your expression.

Head and Eye Pain    

Tics and tension around the eyes yield visions of embarrassing scenes from childhood or memories of eye injuries in this or other lives.  Intensify headaches you feel as you breathe. You may image head injuries you had in this or earlier lives. You relive your skull being compressed by uterine contractions.

    After you holobreathe a few hours, the facilitators ask if you've residual body tension you'd like relaxed.  Say if you still feel emotions you'd like us to help you resolve enough so you can move on to drawing.

    If you ask, we'll use focused bodywork and guided imagery to help you relax your muscles and complete your emotional working-through.  Alternately, keep tensions unresolved and situations incomplete. You'll relax in the next 24 hours.

    Your sitter, right after the breathing session, gives you paper to draw your experience.  After a break, show and discuss your drawing in group. We'll invite you to role-play and dance your drawing's parts.

 OUTCOME

    After the weekend, you'll likely feel relaxed, nourished, healed, loving, peaceful, flowing, spiritual, inspired, sexually-responsive, emotionally-released, appreciative, expanded in outlook and more integrated than before.

*Material in these Prep Notes, unless otherwise indicated, is based on Grof, S., Beyond The Brain: Birth, Death and Transcendence in Psychotherapy, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985 and The Adventure of Self-Discovery:  Dimensions of Consciousness and New Perspectives in Psychotherapy and Inner  Exploration; Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988. Get-Ready Exercise 1: Remember This Life*