'Sunrise' - Illustration by Noriko
Shakuhachi Breathe is the name for an ongoing series of workshops with Suzanna Viney which combine the breath techniques of Rebirthing and Elemental Healing with the meditational sound of the shakuhachi.
Space to Breathe
In the words of Suzanna:
Integration Breath
Is a simple joyful breathing technique
It is our natural breath…before we stopped it
It has intelligence
It is in harmony with our body rhythms
It frees our breathing mechanism
It is our natural tool to clear the energy body
To clear our deep and subtle past
To consciously feel we are present, human, in our centre
Connected to Source.
Add to this the Shakuhachi flute
The flute of blissful awakening of Japanese Zen Buddhist monks
On the edge of Silence….
Suzanna was trained by Leonard Orr and is a member of the British Rebirth Society. She has a background in deep transformational shamanic work. She has worked with medicine teachers from Mexico and Africa and has also trained in Family Constellations with Bert Hellinger. http://www.thebreathknows.com/
Suzanna
Leonard Orr is the father and founder of the worldwide Rebirthing Breathwork movement. He discovered the technique in the mid-1960s. Through him it has spread to over 27 countries and an estimated ten million people. Rebirthing (also known as Conscious Connected Breathing) has been nicknamed the pranayama (yogic breathing) of the West.
Leonard Orr
Workshop participants breathe lying down on sheepskins, with blankets and cushions. Suzanna guides the breathing with other experienced breathworkers.
Space to Breathe 26 June 2011
Conscious Connected Breathing (or Rebirthing) is a simple deep meditative breathing technique which together with the shakuhachi flute takes us to the edge of silence and beyond. Once we surrender to its rhythm, its infinite intelligence finds our blockages, conscious or unconscious and clears them, leaving an amazing feeling of freedom, being re-energised and re-connected with our deepest truth.
Breath is Life. It is so simple that to create relationship with it is to know oneself in the most profound way.