By Carmen Ganne
One of the most important and meaningful languages we can learn is the language of our breath. It’s a bridge between our body and our soul. The patterns that show up in a breathwork session tell us a lot about the patterns that show up in our lives.
As we begin translating that language, through our body and soul, we can significantly shift our entire human experience: the experience of being human, of being in our human, of being in our body.
The language of our breath connects the worlds of the seen and unseen. As we listen, as we tune in, as we communicate with this language, this is where the human meet and learn to work together.
We each have a unique vibrational frequency, our own personal cellular landscape, and because of that we each have a unique breath pattern. Our cellular and vibrational structure, as well as our breath pattern, reflect our lived experiences – how those experiences have landed, impacted us, and stored themselves within our system. When denser parts of us arise as disease, tension, injury, or discomfort, we can trust that an excess of energy has been stored there, impacting the vibrational quality and function of the cells.
As we breathe, the breath naturally follows the path of least resistance. It doesn’t always permeate those denser, impacted places. So certain areas go without full nourishment, without freshly oxygenated blood, without flow or life moving through their cells, and over time this can deepen or worsen patterns of injury or disease.
Our breath is a powerful healer. As we work with our breath, we can gradually deepen and change its pathway. We can begin to shift how our body is fed and nourished by our most essential fuel: breath. We can become fluent in conversation and connection between our human and our soul.
As we start to discharge stored energy, we allow ourselves to feel through the experiences and cycles the body has remembered. In completing them, the cells regain space. Space to return, to remember, and to function in their natural vitality. They have more room to move, express, communicate, and connect with the rest of the system. The communication of the whole body begins to shift and so does our experience of being in our body.
The language of our breath becomes even more meaningful when we remember that our outer world mirrors our inner. Our beautiful human microcosm holds the potential of the universe and the patterns and pathways that we experience within our body are reflected in how we experience the world around us. How we breathe reflects how we live.
Within the beauty of our uniqueness and our personal fluency in the language of our body and being, there are also common threads that weave through humanity when we explore how the patterns within our body mirror the ways we show up in life.
Our breath is a remarkable ally in creating sustainable and impactful change within our inner and outer worlds. And as we dive deeper into our own refinement in the spirit of cultivating a meaningful, impactful relationship versus coming into the body to extract or create a particular outcome, the outcomes we desire naturally arise. And they stay. The quality of our intention shapes the sustainability of any shift and, ultimately, the quality of our life. This is true of all relationships: intention matters.
Breathing into the Roots
When we breathe into the roots of the body, we feel grounded, anchored, rooted in life. Our foundation widens. Our capacity to hold ourselves and meet life with resilience and dynamism expands. With rooted breath, we experience healthier patterns with stability, wealth, health, and elimination. Nothing is held unnecessarily, and digestion and release flow naturally.
When breath cannot reach the roots, we often experience challenges around finances, receiving, self-trust, power, sexuality, and our relationship with our own creative life force.
Breathing into the Center of Creation
When the belly is soft, open, and receptive to breath, not forcing the breath but receiving it, we feel connected to creative energy and to what we are birthing into the world. Our digestion strengthens, and our vital organs are more vibrantly nourished.
Without breath in this area, creativity feels blocked, digestion (both physical and emotional) becomes difficult, and we may feel resistance to our own life or our place within it. The sacral center is essential for processing experience, moving emotion, and staying connected to desire.
Breathing into the Core of our Being
Breathing deeply into the core softens the musculature and the mechanics of breathing and the tendencies of working hard. As the fascia ungrips, we feel more connected to who we are, to why we are here, to the truth at the center of our being. We access that unwavering, unapologetic, unfuckwithable essence. Clarity rises. Decisions align with truth rather than conditioning or survival patterning.
Without breath here, we tend to live in prolonged activation. Locked in sympathetic dominance, constricted, contracted, and viewing life through fear. It can feel harder to trust ourself and that deep knowing within.
Breathing into the Heart
When the heart receives breath, it opens to give and receive love. It remembers itself as love. When supported by rootedness and a clear connection to our core, the heart becomes so wildly nourished. As the pulse of the whole body, it sets the rhythm of our life.
When we struggle to breathe fully into the heart, it often reflects protection and experiences of heartbreak, betrayal, grief, loss. The heart closes, not out of failure, but out of memory.
Breathing into the Center of Expression
Breathing opening into the diaphragm of the throat and center of expression unlocks and fuels authentic expression. It gives us courage to use our voice, to let our frequency and medicine be heard regardless of how it may be received. It invites our unique expression to come through over conformity.
Restricted breath here can show up as tension in the throat or jaw, forced exhalation, thyroid challenges, or chronic self-silencing, caught in conscious or unconscious apologizing for our existence, for our love, for our being.
Breathing into the Center of Higher Perspective
A deep, oxygen-rich breath sparks a wave of nourishment which sweeps through the and creates space within the mindscape. It brings clarity and spaciousness to neural pathways and creates room for new patterns to emerge. As awareness deepens, we gain the ability to witness our thoughts, identify which ones are not ours, and choose thoughts that support us. We can tune into a higher perspective and sees things through the lens of our deepest truth.
If we are not energetically and physically supporting flow in this area, we can see deep entrenchment in limiting beliefs and thought patterns that don’t serve us. We can find ourselves stuck in loops and ruminating thoughts, while living and making decisions based on conditioning instead of truth.
Breathing into Our Divinity
When we breathe with full-spectrum intention into the crown and let that ripple into the whole body, we experience the connection between breath, body, and being. This is the bridge between human and spirit, between human and soul.
When we let our breath flow through and nourish our whole being, we get to feed all parts of ourselves and witness our wholeness as well as our holiness.
As we allow ourselves to feel through stored energy, cycles can complete, and our spectrum of felt-sense experience and range of being human widens.
Through breath, we feel our way to freedom and remembrance. We can move beyond being consumed by our experiences and remember that we have been gifted this human to live our mission. We come as soul, and it is through our human that we fulfill what we came here to do.
When we aren’t able to feel the wave of our breath reach our crown or connect the parts of our body we can feel disconnected from our wholeness, our holiness. We can experience that deep longing for more, feel as though we are living in the gap between where we are and where we are meant to be and live in fragmentation and compartmentalization between all parts of ourselves.
Coming Home
As we become fluent in the language of our breath, we come home to the language of ourselves – speaking our true inner tongue.
It’s a language that lives in us. In our cells, our stories, our edges, our longings. It lives in the meeting place between our humanity and our divinity.
When we are present with the flow of life moving through us, we remember we are always changing, evolving and rising to meet each moment. Not bound by our past nor confined by our future.
We remember our story is still being written. And we get to choose the unfolding of our life in every breath.
May we deepen with our breath, our body, our being in honour of who we are, of why we came and the miracle of this one precious life.
Go Deeper with Carmen
Curious to deepen and translate your own inner tongue? Join Carmen as she takes you on a journey into creating the most extraordinary human experience and living luxury for your soul. Find her inside THE DESCENT Breathwork Collective or apply to work with her 1:1.
