
SHAMANIC BREATHWORK
Access your inner healer

WHAT IS SHAMANIC BREATHWORK?
Shamanic Breathwork is an experiential tool using a specific breathing technique and a chakra attuned music sequence which helps people to access their inner healer and instigate their unique inner transformational process. This breathing practice can assist one to reach states of consciousness that enable experiences otherwise inaccessible in our usual waking state. This can allow integration of traumatic events, release of emotional wounds at the energetic core and can offer realisations that effect lasting change.
​
The Shamanic Breathwork process was created by Linda Star Wolf who weaves teachings and transmissions of a variety of lineages including Wolf Clan wisdom (directly from her adopted Grandmother, Seneca elder Yeh-Weh-Node aka Grandmother Twylah Nitsch), Integrative Breathwork (Jacquelyn Small), Holotropic Breathwork (Stanislav Grof) and Rebirthing Breathwork (Leonard Orr).
Shamanism is a broad term that encompasses the ancient healing and spiritual practices of indigenous cultures worldwide. Some indigenous leaders say that we each contain an inner shaman that is able to facilitate our personal healing process through the innate wisdom of the body, mind and soul; and by harmonising with the universal spiritual wisdom available to us all through nature. They understand that our individual healing and health exists in unison with the community and all living things and so to realise our own optimal health is to simultaneously serve the whole. However, whether or not you resonate with the perspective of the shamanic path, you can receive the benefits of breathwork just the same.
 You don't need to see yourself as a shaman or as shamanic in any way. Shamanic Breathwork is open to all.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?*
Increased energy, vitality and mental clarity
Release of old wounds, anger, dysfunctional patterns & rigid thinking
​
Reduced stress, depression, anxiety & inflammation
Accelerated healing & detoxification
Heightened awareness, intuition, mood, self-esteem & creativity
Feeling more connected to self, others and the world
Sense of resolution of past issues & emotional regulation
Greater sense of purpose
​
Activation and expansion of love, heart-centred existence & deep relaxation
Greater sense of peace with who you are and life around you
Transformations or realisations that may be unexpected and never imagined
WHAT HAPPENS DURING A SESSION?
​
​
-
Preliminary chat to connect, explore intentions and attend to personal requirements and safety
-
Chakra attuned shamanic breathwork journey
-
Art processing (not with intro session)
-
Verbal processing
-
After care recommendations
-
Private sessions are tailored to the individual which may require starting with more gentle breath techniques before moving onto the full experience of a Shamanic Breathwork session.
Private sessions consist of:
Online private sessions are available one-on-one or in a pair. For pair sessions, you may both tune in from the same or separate locations/zoom accounts.


In person sessions (South Western Australia) may be available by special request - email be@unboundbreath.com for availability, location and prices.

For group classes, see the class timetable.
*Sources:
The Effect of Holotropic Breathwork on Personality (English version) by Denisa Binarova, Ceska a Slovenska Psychiatrie, (Czech and Slovak Psychiatry), 2003, VOL 99; PART 8, pages 410-414.
Holotropic Breathwork: An Experiential Approach to Psychotherapy by Sara W. Holmes, Ph.D., Robin Morris, Pauline Rose Clance & R. Thompson Putney. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, Vol. 33(1), Spring 1996. pp. 114-120. 1996
Brewerton, Timothy & Eyerman, James & Cappetta, Pamela & Mithoefer, Michael & Ment, Int & Addiction, Health. (2011). Long-Term Abstinence Following Holotropic Breathwork as Adjunctive Treatment of Substance Use Disorders and Related Psychiatric Comorbidity. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. 10. 10.1007/s11469-011-9352-3.
Miller T, Nielsen L. Measure of Significance of Holotropic Breathwork in the Development of Self-Awareness. J Altern Complement Med. 2015;21(12):796-803. doi:10.1089/acm.2014.0297
P. de Wit, R.M. Cruz, Treating PTSD with connected breathing: a clinical case study and theoretical implications Eur. J. Trauma Dissociation, 5 (3) (2021), Article 100152, 10.1016/j.ejtd.2020.100152
​Heyda, Alicja. (2003). An Impact of Conscious Connected Breathing Training on Emotional States, The Healing Breath Journal – a Journal of Breathwork Practice, Spirituality and Psychotherapy, vol.5, no 2 p. 9-18. 5. 9-18.
Holotropic Breathwork and Its Role in Healing, https://transpersonal-psychology.iresearchnet.com/transpersonal-therapy-and-healing/holotropic-breathwork-and-its-role-in-healing/


