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Three minutes. That's how long it took Brandi to go from completely dysregulated to completely herself this morning. Three minutes of intentional breathwork, and the tears came, and the only words that followed were: "That's not who I am. What was I thinking?" We walked into this recording session with Dr. Laura Foster shaken, and we're walking out of it with something we had to share with you immediately.
Dr. Laura Foster is a chiropractor with over 25 years of experience working with the nervous system. She is also a certified breathwork facilitator, retreat leader, and founder of the Breathe Into Being membership. She discovered breathwork during the pandemic, trained as a facilitator in Costa Rica, and now runs women's retreats in Canada, Costa Rica, Italy, and Portugal. She has spent the better part of a decade watching people come home to themselves through the breath, and she joined us to explain why this particular tool is the one she keeps coming back to: it's free, it's always available, and it lives inside of you.
This episode covers the science of what breathwork does to the nervous system, why healing doesn't require reliving what you're carrying, and how Brandi proved the whole thing works through a screen in under three minutes before we hit record.
What You'll Learn:
Why your body's natural default is healing, and what actually gets in the way of that
How breathwork produces altered states of consciousness similar to what Stanislav Grof researched when he pioneered holotropic breathwork after psychedelics were banned from clinical use
What the body does with stored experience that the mind can't process, and why the breath bypasses the need to think your way through it
Why talk therapy can sometimes keep us wired to the same nervous system loops, and what breathwork does instead
How Dr. Laura went from a reluctant first-timer (her words: "my soul wanted to take a decade nap") to certified facilitator to retreat leader
Why Brandi was fully skeptical of online breathwork and had a profound release anyway
What the cumulative shift looks like over time vs. the single big release most people expect
The story behind Dr. Laura's Heart Spark retreats and why she believes women heal more completely in circle with other women
How to find community and continued practice through the Breathe Into Being membership
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