What is Integral Breathwork?
Integral Breathwork is a healing modality where a person learns to establish a conscious, connected breathing practice and integrate well-being across all domains of life. This modality of breathwork (Breathwave, Conscious Connected Breathing) is facilitated with the breather laying down, receiving verbal and hands-on support from a facilitator to promote healing by correcting unhelpful breathing patterns.
Patrick maintains a safe, trauma-sensitive space where dynamic, present-moment awareness can liberate old, unexpressed emotions and resolve limiting beliefs about one’s self. Any thoughts, feelings, memories, or images that arise during a session are integrated with the gentle nurture of connected breathing and present-moment awareness. New baselines of physical, emotional, and spiritual vitality are awakened through the breath and deepened through Patrick’s integrative approach to psychological well-being.
What is Breathwave?
Breathwave is a powerfully gentle approach to conscious connected breathwork.
Learning to bring present moment awareness to a conscious breathing practice activates and deepens sensitivity to our subtle (vibrational, energetic, emotional) bodies. The gentle approach to our innate subtle-sensing capacity via Breathwave safely expands our neural potentiality for wholeness and deepens our connection to consciousness itself. Any habitual resistance to the power of conscious awareness tends to show up as unwholesome patterns in participants' breathing pattern or body posture; a Breathwave facilitator helps identify and correct these imbalances, making easy the removal of barriers that keep us from sustained coherence with Breath/Spirit.
FAQ: How is Breathwave different than Holotropic breathwork?
The genesis and intention of Holotropic Breathwork (as pioneered by Stanislav Grof) was to achieve transpersonal states through sustained breath effort, often ignorant of the adaptive developmental strategies (e.g. over-efforting, obsessive control, diminishing self needs, etc.) that are stored in the breather’s body-mind and reflected as behaviors in their respiratory patterns. For the purpose of trauma-attuned care and optimal nervous system functioning, a more holistic somatic approach is required.
When we practice a more peaceful (but no less powerful) rhythm of connected breathing, we more effectively engage the parasympathetic nervous system and the under-expressed energies and healing potentials of its respiratory rhythm. In Breathwave, we train our facilitators to identify the common breath patterns (and possible corresponding psychopathologies) and more importantly how to correct those breathing patterns with hands-on guidance, direct coaching and affirmations that are attuned to the breather’s intentions. And surprisingly enough, this deeper experience of an open, peaceful breath rhythm is capable of the most profound transpersonal states of bliss, trauma release and ancestral healing.
Retreats
Navigate to the Events page for more details about this Breathwave Level 1 Retreat
Other Offerings
Private Sessions
Receive one-on-one guidance from Patrick into the transformative practice of conscious connected breathing. Full Sessions include ample time to connect and attune, breathe for 45-75 minutes, relax and integrate the revelations of the breathe.
Community Circles
Participate in a community breath circle, uniting the healing power of breath with redemptive social connection. Learn to feel centered and supported within a communal container of safe, self-healing breath practice.
Collaborations & Special Events
Are you a sound healer, yoga teacher, professional coach, event lead, … ? Are you passionate about co-creation and transformative experiences. Collaborate with Patrick to create a unique breathwork experience.
Private Sessions
50-minute Support Session: $150
Support Sessions with Patrick include empathic presence paired with Integral Psychological expertise. Patrick applies his study and practice of Clinical Mental Health Counseling in support of optimal breathwork integration.
100-minute Breathwave Session: $275
Breathwave Sessions are structured as a target-specific experience where the breather chooses one aspect of their life to bring healing and/or blessing upon (e.g. loss of a loved one, thematic struggle, new love, etc). Music, verbal and hands-on facilitation guides the breather into an alpha-state meditation where energetic resistance to healing/growth can be integrated with the higher vibrational resonance of the established intention.
What to bring: warm cozy layers of clothing
Fees for Services
Community Circles
2-3hr Breathwave group session: $40-60 sliding scale per person
Community circles are an opportunity to practice the self-healing art of Breathwave in a safe communal setting. Participants will breathe for 60+ minutes and receive personalized guidance in correcting unwholesome breathing patterns. Brief sharing will be welcomed before and after the Breathwave to honor and attune the collective energy of the group.
What to bring: yoga mat, blanket, water, and a pillow.
Sponsored Breathwave Experience
3+hr Breathwave Experiences: $TBD based on scope of offering
Sponsored and Corporate Breathwave Experiences are unique to each sponsor/group. Patrick will work with the Sponsor, University or Corporate entity to curate the Experience in alignment with the desires for the group. Participants will breathe for 60+ minutes and receive personalized guidance from Patrick and additional Breathwave-trained facilitators (if applicable).
What to bring: yoga mat, blanket, water, pillow
Connect with Patrick
Patrick can be reached via email at patrickmsellin@gmail.com
Inquire about private breathwork sessions, community circle offerings, and creative collaborations.
There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there’s another way; a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.
— Jalaluddin Rumi