The awareness of the sensation of the movement of breath throughout the body is the basis of breathexperience process. The interactive experience of these elements: being carried or supported, allowing the breath to come and go on its own and the awareness of the sensation of the movement of breath, develop personal skills such as :
     • connecting to vitality
     • the capacity to resolve stress
     • flow rather than reaction in response to life’s challenges
     • clarity and effectiveness in communication
     • self responsibility

Basic Principles of Breathexperience

Breathexperience™ is an artistic form of somatic education, based on connecting with the natural breath, free from control of the human will. This approach supports the essence of the Self to unfold and develop to its true definition. The conscious experience of breath not only supports and creates individual balance, it also has the potential to bring about family, community, and global balance.

Breathing affects our entire being. By focusing and sensing breath movement, we experience our breath, without interfering with its natural rhythm. Through this breath we gain direct access to a knowledge and power that is greater than a simple intellectual understanding: We call it a Somatic Intelligence encompassing the physical realm of posture, movement, and overall health and fitness, as well as the spiritual and mental spheres of thought, feeling, sensing, and intuition. Breath not only reaches our inner world and moves us, it also connects us to the world outside. Breath that comes and goes on its own creates movements both inward and outward, in an ever-continuing act of filling and emptying, receiving and giving, the masculine and the feminine in a dialogue, searching for balance and growth.

Breath Movement becomes meaningful. A whole path has been developed by Prof. Ilse Middendorf. Through simple exercises we become aware of breath laws and principles, and use them as a tool to experience and understand breath movements as the source of our creative forces as well as an outlet for their expression. The Self becomes embodied through the movements and gestures that are initiated by breath. We enter a self-analytical process of growth and development. Body, soul, and spirit can be experienced as one.

Every single breath cycle actualizes past, present and perspective of our being. By learning to listen to our breath we connect with a source that can help to direct and lead us through an appropriate process of integration. Breath becomes our teacher and healer.

Workshops, classes, and hands-on sessions are structured to provide each individual with the support needed to carry away their own personal learning of breath's meaning.



Breath and Psyche

In the Experience of Breath, the sensation of Breath movement is a door into an all-encompassing process of balancing, healing, and learning about ourselves. Do you have questions about how Breathwork and psychological work differ? Breath and Psyche offers some thoughts on the subject.

Middendorf Breathwork: Questions and Answers

Over the years students have asked many important questions concerning the Experience of Breath. Here is the first in a series of dialogs that addresses these questions. I hope you find the responses I have distilled a help in the path to your own natural Breath.


Juerg Roffler and Kai Ehrhardt: Television Interview

If you are interested in approaching The Experience of Breath, you may find a helpful overview in this transcript of a televised interview on the nature of our breathwork.

 
Interview: Juerg Roffler and Benjamin Glover M.D.

A conversation with a distinguished surgeon with extensive background in the anatomy and physiology of respiration on the many aspects of the breath.