Heal Your Pain Through Breathwork—with Lauren Chelec Cafritz - EP60

Emotions that we don’t work through have a way of taking up residence in the body and causing physical pain. So, what can we do to process those repressed emotions? How might breathwork help us move that energy through the body, healing both our physical and emotional pain? Lauren Chelec Cafritz is the internationally known breathwork teacher, speaker and author behind Experience Breath, a platform designed to help people achieve emotional mastery through the power of breath. Trained and certified in Integrative Breathwork, Transformational Breath and many other breathing modalities, Lauren facilitates breathwork for executive teams, nonprofits, government agencies, corporations, hospitals and schools. She is also the national representative for the International Breathwork Foundation and the author of Breath Love. On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Lauren joins Emerald to share the personal experience with severe neck pain that led her to breathwork. She explains how our physical pain can be tied to repressed emotions, discussing how techniques like conscious connected breathing work to move energy through the body. Listen in for Lauren’s insight on leveraging side breath to initiate the creative process and learn the four strategies in her toolkit for navigating feelings of fear, anxiety or stuck-ness. What You Will Learn How Lauren’s personal experience with neck pain led her to breathwork How our physical pain is often tied to repressed emotions What inspired Lauren to take on a leadership role in the breathwork space The science behind breathwork and how it works to move energy through the body How Lauren defines conscious connected breathing How conscious connected breathing engages the prefrontal cortex Why Lauren believes that breath mastery = emotional mastery How Lauren leverages side breath to initiate the creative process How Lauren thinks about money as an energy exchange and offers classes on a sliding scale Lauren’s four tools for navigating fear, anxiety or stuck-ness Connect with Lauren Chelec Cafritz Breath Love Resources Breath Love by Lauren Chelec Cafritz International Breathwork Foundation Global Professional Breathwork Alliance Global Inspiration Conference The Mindfulness Center Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand JaM Strategies Connect with Emerald GreenForest Emerald’s Website Emerald on LinkedIn Emerald on Twitter Emerald on Instagram Email [email protected] Apply to Wealthy Life by Design Leave Us A Message On Our listener line:   540-402-0043 x4343