Our Somatic Breathwork Coach

Meet Marin,

Marin began her facilitator journey as a yoga teacher. Yoga was her medicine. After years (most of her life) of grappling with severe mental health struggles, desperation brought her to the one place she had avoided and struggled with the most, her own mind and body. After 15 years of exploration and healing, she has over 2000 teacher training hours of various yoga, meditation, breathwork, sound healing and somatic therapeutic modalities under her belt. She skillfully integrates tools and resources in her one on one practice and group facilitation. With a passion for content creation and a deep joy to improvise in presence, it has become her mission to normalize mental health struggles. She does this with an emphasis to teach others how to map out and befriend their nervous system, regulate themselves more efficiently, and lead experiences of embodied movement, breath and mindfulness to utilize the power of growing and healing together. You can find more information about Marin and her story on her website, https://www.dopeame.com/about-me

The Collective Exhale - Group Breathwork

Information on our new breathwork series:

What is breathwork:

It is a deliberate practice of taking conscious control of your breath in various ways to regulate or activate. This can be practiced for both acute and chronic improvements to one's mood, perspective, mental health, emotional and stress resiliency, physical fitness and recovery.

How you breathe (i.e. pace, depth, rhythm, volume of air) is communicating to your body whether you are safe or not and what nervous system state you are in. When you are conscious of your breathing patterns and adept at consciously controlling your breath to navigate into the nervous system state you desire, you get access to strengthening your stress resiliency and increasing your overall health and wellness.

Just as we need to go to the gym to improve our physical strength, we need to learn the art of breathing to improve our mental health (which subsequently improves our physical health).

A healthy nervous system is a flexible nervous system. Your breath is the gateway to unlocking the power and potential inside of you.

Dates:

Lesson 1 Tuesday September 5th @ 6-7:30pm

Lesson 2 Tuesday September 12th @ 6-7:30pm

Lesson 3 Tuesday September 19th@ 6-7:30pm

Lesson 4 Tuesday September 26th@ 6-8:00pm

Location:

The Practice Calgary

5010 Richard Rd SW Unit 120, Calgary

Requirements:

The age requirement of this group is 12+ (those aged 12-17 must also have a parent registered and present). Please note, if you are a parent attending with your child you will need to fill out the registration once for yourself, and once for your child.

Space is limited for this group with a maximum of 10 participants. Please know that the registration form will be taken down when the space is full. We will replace it with another form for those who want to register to join the waitlist for future breathwork sessions.

Cost:

$185

Payment must be via etransfer to billing@thepracticecalgary.com in order to finalize registration.

How to register:

Click on the above 'Register here' link
Select whether or not you have been to The Practice Calgary
Select ‘Group visit’ and then select The Collective Exhale. This will have to be done individually. Please book all four visits as this group is better experienced as a whole. Price will not change regardless of attendance.
Click ‘Submit request’ and wait for an email confirmation, which will be sent in 3-4 business days.
Send your $185 registration fee to billing@thepracticecalgary.com to complete registration.

*If you do not receive a confirmation, please ensure payment has been sent.*

From a past participant:

"The Collective Exhale is a perfect introduction to anyone interested in the power of Breathwork. The course is a wonderful combination of information and experiential learning that seamlessly ties together science and spirituality. Marin's natural warmth, curiosity and gentle guidance fosters a safe environment to explore the power that resides in our lungs."

- Ossie L

Additional Information

Layout of lessons (and what to bring):

In session one of this four part series, you will receive a breath booklet full of information, inspiration, and detailed practices to support your ongoing learning and building of new habits. As well, after each session you will receive 1-3 audio recordings for guided practice as you build your breath literacy library.

Each session will have a special focus:

→ Lesson 1: The foundations of a functional and optimal breath

Benefits: Understand the relatable and common modern occurrences that have led to suboptimal breathing, how to begin reversing these unhealthy habits, and why and how to get the most utility and vitality in each breath.

**For this session, please bring water bottle, pen, and wear comfy clothing

→ Lesson 2: Why and how to practice breathing less (mild air hunger)

Benefits: Reduce systemic inflammation, increase sport endurance, improve cognition, reduce recovery time after stressor, and retrain unconscious breathing rate to be slower and healthier.

**For this session, please bring water bottle, pen, and wear comfy clothing

→ Lesson 3: Breath protocols to upregulate and downregulate as desired

Benefits: Conscious control in emotional regulation, increased compassion, patience and sense of awe as you befriend your nervous system, shifting energy based on the task at hand, and exercising the nervous system to increase stress resilience.

**For this session, please bring water bottle, pen, and wear comfy clothing

→ Lesson 4: Why and how to practice breathing more (conscious connected breathing)

Benefits: Boost your energy and mood, increase stress resiliency, improve cognition, release stored stress in the body, explore your psyche, induce a psychedelic experience to release stuck energy, reframe limiting beliefs or stories of the past, and experience a deep and restorative state of calm afterwards.

**For this session, please bring a yoga mat, eye mask or toque (for the option to cover your eyes), comfy clothes in layers (as body temperature will fluctuate), bolster and/or pillow, blanket, water bottle

Somatic Breathwork - Individual

Why Somatic Breathwork:

Somatic Breathwork is an experiential opportunity to meet, repair and release what is "stuck" below the level of conscious cognition. The body is a storehouse of every experience, thought, belief and action we have had in this lifetime and it is also the home of an innate intelligence that is beyond our "thinking mind". For many of us, as we move through life and instinctively adapt to cope, survive and protect ourselves from our environment, we separate from what hurts and this leads to losing touch with our innate wisdom within. It gets buried beneath chronic dysregulation, limiting beliefs, stories of protection and "never again", coping strategies, busy-ness, and poor breathing habits.

While you can't change what happened in the past, you can change what you made it all mean and how you feel when you recall and relate to past versions and experiences. With Somatic Breathwork you can increase your resiliency, enhance your ability to pause, feel your reactions, and choose a mindful response, and reconsolidate memories with more compassion, wisdom and understanding.

What this looks like:

The practice of Somatic Breathwork is a process of getting in touch with a mindful and open state of being, either seated or lying down on your back. This may begin with some gentle movement, teaching more about how your breath and nervous system work, and guidance into various ways the body can express and release stress and stored charges. You will also learn some important foundational practices of how to breathe optimally and how to self-regulate so that you can access deeper pre-cognitive memories while feeling safe, secure and confident in your ability to come back to a calm and grounded state.

You will be guided to breathe in a conscious, connected and relaxed rhythm, through your nose or mouth, or a combination of the two. When circular breathing is sustained alongside a felt sense of safety, curiosity and support, we are finally resourced, present and ready to feel what has been suppressed or repressed, and move it through the body to completion. By slowly and safely recalling and/or feeling what hasn't yet been resolved or released from our system, we are able to witness ourselves in a new way. From this new perspective, we address these moments that have been frozen in time with corrective experiences and garner insights and wisdom that support integration.

Pricing Bundles:

First session - Discounted rate of $125

Single Session (after first session) - $175

Purchase a bundle of a commitment to 4 sessions - $600 - ($150 each)

- must be used within a 4 month period