Reconnect to your breath. Reconnect to your body. Reconnect to yourself.

​

Breathwork and trauma-informed movement help you rebuild a safe, compassionate relationship with your body and nervous system. Trauma often disrupts natural breathing patterns and creates tension, freeze responses, shutdown, or emotional overwhelm.

​

This work teaches you how to regulate your internal world from the inside out.
You learn to soften, release, ground, and expand through breath, gentle movement, and increased somatic awareness.

There is no forcing.
 

No pressure.
No activation.
Just safety, regulation, reconnection, and embodied empowerment.

 

Benefits of Breathwork and Trauma-Informed Movement

​

• Reconnects you to your body in safe, gradual ways
• Supports nervous system regulation
• Softens anxiety and overwhelm
• Helps shift panic and freeze responses
• Releases held tension and stored trauma
• Increases breath capacity and presence
• Helps thaw numbness and shutdown
• Builds emotional resilience
• Encourages grounding, clarity, and intuition
• Expands your window of tolerance
• Supports deeper healing in other modalities (EMDR, SE, IFS, expressive arts)

​

Trauma-Informed Breathwork Styles We Use in The Lotus

​

These are the safe, gentle, regulation-focused breath styles included in your program:

Safe, grounding practices:

• Coherent breathing
• Diaphragmatic belly breathing
• Box breathing
• 4-7-8 breathing
• Cyclical sighing
• Extended exhale breathing
• Somatic tracking with breath
• Resourcing breath
• Bilateral breathing

​

Gentle, optional practices:

• Light conscious connected breathing
• Gentle pranayama variations
• Humming breath
• Alternate nostril breathing

 

Not used in trauma healing:

Shamanic breathwork, Holotropic breathwork, Wim Hof, rebirthing, rapid connected breathing, euphoria-inducing breathwork, or any style that pushes the system into activation or catharsis. These can overwhelm the nervous system and are not part of trauma-informed care.

​

What Trauma-Informed Breathwork Looks Like in a Session

​

A session is slow, grounded, and always guided by your comfort.
You remain in full control.
Your body sets the pace.

​

A session may include:

• Starting with a gentle body check-in
• Choosing a breath pattern that feels safe
• Slow, steady breathing that stays within your window of tolerance
• Grounding cues such as hand placement, pressure, imagery, or sound
• Small optional movements to support release
• Short pauses for integration
• Co-regulation through voice tone and pacing
• Permission to stop, pause, or adjust at any time

 

This work is about regulation and reconnection, not forcing breakthroughs or emotional intensity.