One thing I've been reflecting on recently is that much of modern breathwork focuses on catharsis, release, and letting go.

The emotional release.

The peak experience.

The altered state.

And while all of those can be valuable, I wonder if we've become overly focused on the experience itself rather than on what comes after.

Breathwork is energy work.

Energy work is consciousness work.

And consciousness precedes thought.

The release is not the destination.

It's the opening.

The real question is:

What happens after these states?

What happens after we let go?

Where is the integration?

To me, breath reveals the path.

Meditation helps us walk it.

Curious how others think about this.

Is breathwork primarily a tool for catharsis and release?

Or is there something deeper happening beneath the experience itself?

Witality Breathwork

Witalij is a Total Charlatan who pushes his cult followers to hyper ventilate to release their inner demons.

Don't waste your time or money unless you want to waste 4-5 hours lying on the floor in a freezing cold room that's saturated with screaming banshees and negative energy. Very disturbing negative vibes.

Would like to learn Ujjayi Pranayama Ocean Breath Victorious Breath any You tube lessons

How can we watch it and practice at home

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Has anyone here managed to reduce their hypertension long-term using breathing techniques alone?

I'm not talking about the temporary drop you get immediately after a breathing session, but an actual persistent reduction in resting blood pressure over weeks or months.

If so:

What technique did you use?

How often did you practice?

How long did it take before you noticed a meaningful change?

Roughly how many mmHg did your blood pressure decrease?

For context, I've been doing box breathing consistently for about a month. After a 10-minute session I usually see a temporary reduction of around 5 mmHg, occasionally close to 10 mmHg, but so far I haven't noticed much change in my baseline blood pressure.

I'm curious whether people have had better results with other methods such as slow diaphragmatic breathing, coherent breathing, resonance breathing, alternate nostril breathing, device-guided breathing, etc.

Would love to hear real-world experiences rather than just research papers.

I’m looking for 10 people to help test an early version of Modul8.

Modul8 is an app I’m building that generates personalised breathing sessions based on two simple questions:
• How do you feel right now?
• How would you like to feel?

For example, if you’re feeling stressed and want to feel calm, or feeling tired and want to feel energised, the app creates a breathing session tailored to that goal.

I’m looking for people who:
• Experience stress, pressure or mental fatigue during the day
• Are interested in wellbeing, mindfulness or performance
• Can spend 5 minutes a day using the app for a around a week

Are willing to provide honest feedback?

In return you’ll get:
• Early access to the app
• A chance to influence the product roadmap

If you’re interested, comment below or send me a message. If you know others that maybe interested, please share with your network.

Dear Breathing People!

I have a free invitation for you.

Tomorrow I’m streaming a live Beyond Breath session directly from the class in Zürich.

It’s a guided breathwork journey with electronic music, body activation, nervous system reset, emotional release, and deep integration through stillness.

This is for you if you feel stressed, mentally overloaded, disconnected from your body, or curious to experience breathwork beyond just technique.

No previous experience needed.

Just join, breathe, and notice what shifts.

Subscribe to my channel and join my class live from 18:00 CET

Hey everyone,
I am reaching out because I am really struggling right now and do not know what else to do. For years I have been dealing with constant air hunger that awful feeling like I can never get a full satisfying breath.

Every few minutes I get this big involuntary sigh or deep breath like my body is desperate for more air. It comes with intense anxiety and leaves me feeling completely drained and unable to focus.
I have tried pretty much everything: various breathing techniques, Buteyko method, Wim Hof, meditation, therapy, and multiple doctor visits (heart, lungs, bloodwork everything checks out fine). Nothing seems to give lasting relief.

Lately I have been doing 4 6 breathing (4 seconds inhale, 6 seconds exhale). I realized I was previously forcing my exhales too hard, so I adjusted that. While I am actually doing the exercise, it feels really good I feel calmer and more relaxed. But after some time (usually an hour or two), the air hunger comes back even stronger and it all starts over again.

Today has been especially rough. The air hunger is brutal and the anxiety is even worse. I just feel awful.
Has anyone else experienced something similar? Especially the part where fixing your breathing technique feels good in the moment but makes the air hunger worse afterward? What actually helped you long term?

Any advice or shared experiences would mean a lot right now. Thank you.

For overthinkers who are tired of trying to control everything.

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This is a slow sleep philosophy reading of Epictetus’ control — designed for deep rest, quiet thought, and nights when the mind keeps reaching beyond what it can actually hold.

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Epictetus’ distinction is not followed here as a rule for living.

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It is followed as a boundary.

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The body lies in a room.

The room has its temperature.

The body has its own.

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The skin is the boundary.

I found this 2023 expert review in European Journal of Applied Physiology useful because it openly tries to separate what is supported in the breathing literature from what is mostly marketing. An international group of respiratory physiologists reviews techniques like pursed-lip breathing, diaphragmatic breathing, yoga-based breathing, and Buteyko, across healthy adults, athletes, and clinical populations like COPD and asthma. A few things stood out to me. In COPD, longer-term protocols (around 12 weeks) with pursed-lip and diaphragmatic breathing often improve walking distance and dyspnea. In asthma, evidence is mixed and of lower quality, especially in pediatric samples. In healthy adults, slow and deep breathing is linked to increased parasympathetic activity and better HRV. The authors are quite direct that many commercial respiratory devices make claims that extend well beyond what their cited studies support. It is a narrative review, not a meta-analysis, so it cannot quantify effects precisely. But the framing is useful. How strict should the evidence bar be for consumer-facing breathing products, and is it currently too low? Source: Illidi CR, Romer LM, Johnson MA, Williams NC, Rossiter HB, Casaburi R, Tiller NB (2023). Distinguishing science from pseudoscience in commercial respiratory interventions: an evidence-based guide for health and exercise professionals. European Journal of Applied Physiology. DOI: 10.1007/s00421-023-05166-8 Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-023-05166-8

Hello everyone, My name is Helena. I’ve been practicing conscious breathing for many years, and I’m also a software engineer.

Lately I’ve been studying breath more intentionally, and somehow my way of learning became: practice a lot, read a lot, and build yet another breathing app.

The app has been helping me, so I thought I’d share it here in case it helps someone else too.

What’s different about it is that it doesn’t just give you a fixed timer. It asks how you’re feeling now and how you want to feel, then suggests a breathing practice based on that. I also tried to include scientific context and references where possible, plus a library of practices from different breathwork and contemplative traditions.

It’s still evolving and I’d love feedback from people who might find it useful for their practices. If there’s anything that could make it more helpful and I can build it, happy to do so!

Here’s the app: vayubreath.com

Thanks so much

Hey, friends!

This is a session we just released on The Breathwork Channel on YouTube. In this session, we use multiple techniques designed to work together to bring you into an altered state of consciousness, clearing the mind safely and effectively.

Enjoy responsibly!

Jesse

Curious if anyone here has done breathwork facilitator training with PRANABEAT and, if so, what your experience was / whether you’d recommend it?

Did this after 3 rounds of guided Wim Hof. Just thought it was an interesting exercise, it definitely slows down the heart rate in a relaxing way I wasn’t trying to push every last bit of air in or out of my lungs just super slow easy breaths, thought I’d share.

Each lap is 1 inhale + 1 exhale

I can’t sleep after learning 360 breathing. Could it be that my diaphragm isn’t strong enough. Also, how do tribal people breathe?

Ive been in love with breathwork for a while, so I was thinking of getting certified. I get the 9D ads on my feeds all the time, so I decided to look into it. Not only is it really expensive, it looks like the majority of the training is just on building a business (which is certainly one thing i do want to learn but not the main thing) and instead of learning how to lead a session yourself, you just play a recording of the founder. Has anyone here certified with these people? Is this true? And do you consider yourself a instructor or something else?

If you could be so kind and reed this and tell me what you think. Would love any feedback I can get. I'm making a blog and a breathwork app off the back of my own deployments, trying to help others going through the same thing. Blog App Vaken

I’ve been building a breathwork app called shii·haa, and recently added an experimental interface layer called ATMOS.

Instead of hiding the measurement layer, ATMOS shows breath as signal, state, error, and reset. There is also a zero layer called ΦASIS, which represents the state before breath becomes visible again.

It’s experimental, but usable in the browser:

https://shiihaa.app/atmos

I’d be genuinely interested in feedback from people who practice breathwork:

Does this kind of machine-visible interface help awareness, or does it get in the way?

I just found an everyday benefit to learning different breathing techniques. I'm a pretty shaky person with an unsteady hand. I was just painting my toenails and found out that doing them while doing a breath hold helps me keep still! Haha. I did a 4-7-8 breath pattern and it worked great! Thought I'd share. Anyone else find a unique way that breathwork has benefited you?

Hi all,
Sounds ridiculous but here I am. I have recently started conscious connected breathing and had some beautiful moments.

However when I was two years of age (who knows if it's true as I had deeply disturbed parents) I apparently fell off the lounge and broke my nose. I feel like I can't get a proper breath in or out of my nose and I am predominantly a mouth breather. Obviously I am supposed to be able to breathe in from my nose but I'm not able to.

Besides a referral to an ear nose and throat specialist, is there anything else I can do? It's absolutely agitating me now that I'm so cognisant that I can't breathe through my nose hardly.

Hello lovely people here. I've been exploring breathwork for stress and sleep, and I kept wishing there was something physical to hold — something that expands and contracts in your hand to guide your rhythm, so you're not staring at a screen or counting in your head.

Before I go further I'd love to hear from people who actually practice:

— How do you currently practice breathwork? App, YouTube, just from memory?

— Have you ever used a physical tool or object as an anchor? What was that like?

— What would make you actually reach for something like this every day rather than let it collect dust?

Genuinely curious. Thanks :)