“I had the sensation (or image) that my breath had the same power as a wildwater that winds through my body. My ribs, my bones are like rocks and my breath flows between them. Until now I’d thought my breath was weak and fragile.”
“It was very relaxing the combination of breathing and writing. The breathing part brought words to the writing without thinking about them, they came out reflecting my deeper feelings, mirroring them in a very clear way, and put some order in them. The whole experience was really working well for me. And afterwards I felt calm for days; more calm than I normally feel which was really amazing.”
“Be fluid like the sand. Something I really appreciated about the breathing exercise is Nicola’s focus on the inherent, natural rhythm of breathing. I love to run and do yoga and both of these activities are focused on breathing in a very intensive way, whereas the breathing workshop was focused on ‘doing nothing’ and this in itself was very powerful.”
„Since I do breath work I no longer let myself be influenced by how I‘m supposed to breathe, like in Pilates, for example and the physical excercise is just as effective and doesn‘t stress me as much.”
“In the Creative Breathing session my current personal themes like letting go, grounding… materialise in words and images. Problems like shallow breathing, panic attacks and fear of touch become art and the everyday living with them becomes acceptable.“
„In the breath work one explores parts of the body, states of being… This brings up images, emotions, associations that sometimes seem almost „crazy“. To write about what happens helps with understanding what happens. By understanding I mean the possibilty to give something completely abstract a shape. Through the writing different associations emerge. Creative Breathing is a deep, exciting experience of one‘s own body, breath and creativity.“
“The end of the exhale has something sad like an ending or death, but also the power of life, an upward momentum. Natural breathing goes down to the belly or comes from the belly. It‘s more rounded, like an eight, the symbol for infinity, whereas intentional breathing comes from the upper body, the throat, the head and is effortful and then the end of the exhale feels uncomfortable and forced.”