MY APPROACH TO BREATHING & STRESS RESILIENCE

 

 
 

Developing free and responsive breathing, and learning to guide your attention in specific contexts, can help you relax, focus, and improve the experience of whatever you do.

Basic Approach
Rather than pursuing a predetermined path, we’ll work together to clarify your needs and discover what’s really useful.

Focus Areas
Depending on your needs, we can focus on these and other areas:

  • Learning what helps relieve your stress, reduce overwhelm in stressful situations, and use aspects of stress in helpful ways.

  • Developing greater freedom in your breathing.

  • Learning mindfulness and other practices to be more fluidly present and able to focus on what matters.

  • Developing greater presence.

  • Learning how breathing can help you speak or sing from your core.

My Influences
I am a certified teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®--which offers a wealth of perspective and exercises on breathing. I have also completed three years of training in Somatic Experiencing® (a training program for stress relief and trauma resolution). In addition, I have completed the three-year Foundation Training Program that focuses on reframing early life experiences. Depending on your needs, I may also draw from a variety of other approaches

Approaches to Learning
The work is conceptual, experiential and practical, and the emphasis changes as needed. 

  • Why Conceptual? Because how you understand something affects how you do it. Many people, even after study, have narrow, inaccurate, and unhelpful ideas about breathing.

  • Why Experiential? Because it’s not enough just to understand something. In order to learn something deeply, you also need to be able to experience it directly.

  • Why Practical? Because it’s important for our work to be useful outside of the studio.

Why Breathing?
Breathing is fundamental—to life, to experience, to voice, to communication… Breathing is the nexus between the voluntary and involuntary parts of our experience. Working with our breathing skillfully and with care can bring about surprisingly powerful transformation. Depending on your needs, the focus can vary wildly, but one thing is for sure: there is no one correct way to breathe all the time. Our breathing is both responsive to our experience in the moment and influences our experience of the moment. Exploring breathing is fascinating, nuanced, and entirely practical.

As a Los Angeles based teacher of breathing, I work with all kinds of individuals looking for help with their breathing. If it feels like we might be a good fit, I hope you’ll reach out.

Why Stress Resilience?
First, this is what I mean by stress resilience: the ability to manage stress well, and also the ability to make sense of stress in useful ways. How we make sense of our experience — not only conceptually but also physically, visually, and emotionally — influences our experience. There’s no silver bullet. But it is possible to discover what specifically helps you relate with your stress response in much more helpful and enjoyable ways.

As a teacher of stress resilience located in Los Angeles, I offer a deep curiosity and commitment to discovering with you what can help you.

Los Angeles Studio for Breathing and Stress Resilience
At my Los Angeles studio, you have the opportunity to work in person on breathing and developing stress resilience. If you live outside of Los Angeles, it’s still possible to work remotely, and I can travel to you. If you want to develop your breathing, or if you’d like to develop greater stress resilience, I hope you’ll contact me.

 
 

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