Catherine Dowling

Rebirthing and Breathwork: a Powerful Technique for Personal Transformation Catherine Dowling

Publisher Marketing: Use the power of your own breath to bring joy to your life. Rebirthing Breathwork is a simple breathing technique that takes you deep into yourself. The power of breathing for spiritual and emotional health has been known for centuries. Breathing is an essential element of meditation and other spiritual practices. But breathing is also therapeutic. It cuts through layers of past experiences and old hurts to reconnect you to the free, joyful core of your true self. This book, based on over 20 years of clinical practice by one of the leading authors in the field, tells you all you need to know about the technique. It's also packed with information and exercises that guide you surely and gently through your own inner journey to awareness and freedom. Learn about how your birth, your childhood relationships and life experiences shape your belief systems and govern the way you respond to life right now. Then learn how to change that. Use breathwork to: Resolve old emotions, memories and belief systems safely and gently Bring about deep, full-body relaxation Manage stress Improve the quality of your relationships Free your creativity Access mystical states of expanded consciousness But most of all, use breathwork to develop a deep, satisfying and liberating connection with yourself. If you want to heal your past and move forward in freedom, this book is for you." Contributor Bio:  Dowling, Catherine Catherine Dowling is one of the leading writers in the field of breathwork psychotherapy. Her book, Rebirthing and Breathwork: A Powerful Technique for Personal Transformation, is essential reading for students of breathwork therapy and has attracted thousands of readers to breathwork as their path of spiritual and psychological development. Catherine is a former president of the International Breathwork Foundation in addition to being a founder and former chairperson of the Irish Rebirthing Psychotherapy Association and co-founder of the Federation of Irish Complementary Therapy Associations. As the author of influential articles on the training of therapists, she was one of the developers of the International Breathwork Training Alliance, a standard setting body for breathworkers based in Wisconsin. She developed the nationally accredited Rebirther Training Program for the training of therapists in Ireland and was a member of the Irish Department of Health's national working group on the regulation of complementary and alternative therapists. She was also a consultant to the Irish Health Services Executive on the issues of suicide prevention and residential child care.