SOMA Breathwork
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SOMA Breathwork
I am a certified SOMA Breathwork Instructor. This powerful tool helped me overcome my anxiety. Breathwork can promote healing on many physical and psychological levels. Evidence-based research shows how breathing in rhythm can promote and improve well-being. The SOMA process combines ancient breathwork techniques with music and positive psychology to create powerful experiences of consciousness that lead to Peace of Mind.
What happens in SOMA Breathwork?
- You breathe rhythmically in time with music
- You are guided by an instructor who helps you focus and relax
- You focus your intention on positive thoughts
- You practice Kumbhaka (breath hold both on the out and in breath)
- You find deeper states of calm and relaxation
TRY the 21 Day SOMA Breath Awakening Online Course. This began my journey.
How I Found SOMA Breathwork:
As a long-time sufferer of anxiety, fear, shyness, insecurity, and addiction, I searched for ways to better manage my internal programming to gain greater control over my dysfunction. My journey into breathwork started with simple meditation looking for ways to calm my anxious mind. Meditation helped my suffering and pointed at the source. This made me hungry for something more potent to target the discomfort inside of me. I found the Wim Hof Method (WHM), which utilized pranayama breathwork with exercises and cold exposure. This method carried support and validation with evidence-based research in science demonstrating health, well-being and superhuman benefits. I continue to use the aspects of WHM to this day. Cold exposure through the method is a practical way to help create greater regulation the nervous system. Through the WHM, I found the SOMA Breathwork founder, Niraj Naik. Niraj and Wim are friends and their methods share a core foundation in ayurveda, yoga, meditation, and pranayama (breathwork).
I found a great resonance with the story of Niraj Naik and his healing journey. Ultimately, I found his love of music combined with pranayama to be the key that drew me to this practice. SOMA breathwork has been an evolutionary step in my own process toward healing. My anxiety has lessened to such a degree that I credit my SOMA practice as essential to my transformation and maintenance of my wellbeing and Peace of Mind.
You can be and Instructor and help others Heal, Evolve, and Reprogram:
How SOMA Breathwork can influence the nervous system:
On many levels the process of SOMA works to heighten brain functioning and affect the overall nervous system throughout the body. There is a synergistic process that is happening with the increase of blood flow to the brain with enriched oxygen, the lowering of stress hormones and the increased production of neurotransmitters. This is happening on many levels induced from the SOMA process that is both physiological and psychological. From a psychological process, the mindful act of intention as to inject positive thoughts into the mind and body. The evolutionary process of humanity has changed so rapidly that certain aspects of the brain like the sympathetic nervous system which kept our ancestors aware and safe from predation is no longer required to operate in the same way. The brain wants to keep us safe and the vigilant sourcing of danger for protection can lend a person to lean negative and put them into a state of negative sentiment override. Through the injection of positive sentiment in the SOMA Breathwork process, we change the nervous system to counteract the negative sentiment and push the polarity of positive and negative sentiment to a neutral place. Here, we can operate with more stability as to be rational and balanced in our thinking approach with control. We can be of action and not merely reaction.
Finally, there is this higher state of consciousness stimulated from SOMA Breathwork. The stimulation of neurotransmitters and tryptamines to awaken the brain to what feels to be a higher state of consciousness. As a psychotherapist who works to tune into my clients through a process of empathy and cognitive connection to the individual, I have seen my work transform because I am able to better connect to my clients. At times this feels like a mind meld of two individual. Because the full SOMA Awakening experience can help the body in the production of DMT, dopamine, serotonin and other tryptamines, as well Gamma brainwaves which is the peak brain state of meditation, perhaps my mind is operating in a higher state of consciousness and awareness. I definitely feel something profound is happening. This is an occurrence that is helping me and those I treat to improve their nervous systems.
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Awakening dormant parts of your brain:
Because SOMA stimulates the production of EPO and the production of red blood cells with increased vascularity, the process helps to supply greater oxygen and stimulation of activity in the brain. This comes from the simple process of nostril breathing on our inhale through the nose to restrict the flow of air allowing for greater oxygen absorption and the production of nitric oxide (NO) which assists in greater oxygen in the blood. With the exhalation breath holds we create intermittent Hypoxia. There is some research to suggest neurogenesis in the brain by the proliferation of neural stem cells that can also help memory, cognitive function and even act as an anti-depressant. Intermittent hypoxia causes vasodilation and also increases blood flow to the brain. Neural stems cells have been shown in studies to proliferate in the brain under hypoxia leading to neurogenesis and the growth of new brain cells. Other studies have shown its ability to heal brain lesions that would be caused during degenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, Dementia and Parkinson’s.
If DMT is actually being released in the brain through the stimulation of the pineal gland, then we are opening a major area of dormancy. In the field of psychology, we are seeing increased attention to research around hallucinogenic medicines with various tryptamine links similar to DMT. These compounds are showing affective treatment for individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress and depression/anxiety symptoms. As a clinician, I think the safest route would be for people to be able to tap into their own internal pharmacy and be able to regulate their neural chemistry in a way to activate dormant parts or heal disabled parts through the release of their natural chemistry. This could be a key to opening a greater consciousness as to increase and unlock the full potential of the brain, so that it is working at capacity. As new pathways open in the brain, we can find new solutions to health, wellness and evolution.
The Renegade Pharmacist, Niraj Naik
Niraj Naik is an actual pharmacist who healed himself through his own journey of exploration into finding treatments that worked for him. I first heard Niraj on the Ben Greenfield podcast: The Renegade Pharmacist: How To Increase The Effects Of Psilocybin, The Secrets Of Colostrum, Fixing Constipation With Breathwork & More. I was immediately intrigued because of my work with the Wim Hof method. Here is a link to that podcast that started it all off for me.
If you listen to the podcast, you will learn more about Niraj’s story and other amazing health benefits. One of his biggest discoveries for improving health issues related to the gut was Colostrum. Click the link below to learn about fixing leaky gut and other tools on the Renegade Pharmacist website.
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