Cheryl Crawford {Lady Inhale}
If breathing is your sovereignty, how will you use it to change the world? I use its magic to uplift and elevate all I come into contact with. The bigger my breath, the bigger my lungs, the bigger the container to store life force, the bigger I can be a force of good.
How has breathing sustained you? Deep breathing grounds me when I’m hyped up on excitement. The key to everything is in the breath. The way I breathe tells me about my emotional state. When I'm feeling stressed, I hold my breath in a subconscious attempt to stop what’s happening around me. I am training myself to do the opposite and breathe deeply, then I flow with events, rather than resisting them.
What breathing experience helps you energize? Anger Management ignites my creativity and the drive to take action.
Tell us about your breathing practice? I practice when I wake up to set and command my day, and I breathe deeply whenever I feel dull. I practice all 4 quests to keep up.
Is there anything else you want to share? On The Same Breath downloaded into my heart driving home from Florida after a deep winter solstice meditation practice.
Stephanie McCartt
If breathing is your sovereignty, how will you use it to change the world?
Through sharing –by harnessing the power of my breath, being a living example of how to do this and sharing that power with others so they can see how to do the same.
How has breathing helped you?
It keeps me present. Rather than drifting to the worries and what-ifs of the past and future, it reminds me that this moment, this breath, is what’s real and there’s power in that.
Tell us about your breathing practice?
There’s always someplace to go. I practice breathing daily. When life feels too busy or overwhelming, it’s always there for me.
What breathing tool helps you energize?
Power Up at an increasing rate fills my body with energy and life force to get me going. Anger Management burns through doubts, ignites action and feels alive!
What breathing tool helps you calm down?
The long, slow deep breathing with Conflict Resolution lowers my heart rate and connect me to my body.
Teona Ducre
If breathing is your sovereignty, how will you use it to change the world?
I would breathe new life into the world, into the dark places of the world, where there is hurt and suffering.
How has breathing helped you?
It's my source for inspiration, vision, creativity, solace, and the place where I can put my frustration, anger, sadness and pain without judgement.
What breathing tool helps you energize?
Conflict Resolution, Anger Management.
Tell us about your breathing practice.
Daily and frequent. I start my day with a brief mediation (with incense, burning one candle at my alter) and use Quest 1 to start my morning. Throughout the day I stop to breathe when I feel anxious, agitated or need clarity. I end my day by laying on my mat near my alter or in my bed with my hands placed on my belly to feel the rise and fall of my breath in my body and focus on that rise and fall.
Is there anything else you want to share?
Breathing is one of the ways I managed chemo, the pain of cancer and bipolar disorder.
Hannah-Rose
If breathing is your sovereignty, how will you use it to change the world?
Breath is the great equalizer. All living beings use breath to sustain life. Breath is also life itself – the breath empowering a booming voice at a teleprompter is also the same breath that steadies the surgeon. Perhaps if we can breathe together, we can be together. I’d like to use breath to cultivate understanding, awareness, and lightheartedness, breathing together in celebration of our humanity.
How has breathing sustained you?
Breathing deeply has given me clarity. Clarity equals sanity.
What breathing tool helps you energize?
My go-to breathing tools are Conflict Resolution for grounding; Anger Management if I would like to make a big shift in my emotional state; Breath of Fire to charge my body while simultaneously elevating my consciousness.
Tell us about your breathing practice:
I like to begin my day with deep and intentional breaths that help me tune in to my mental, physical, and emotional states of being, and I often use breath throughout the day to keep my body energized and my mind open and present.
Is there anything else you want to share?
Through breath understanding is awakened, and in that awareness grows clarity, but in that clarity, we need to foster compassion for ourselves the world around us.
About Hannah-Rose:
Hannah-Rose is also an actor, artist, and E-RYT 200 and Certified Grounded Kids yoga teacher.