Floating Pages - The Art of Transformation

Full, free breathing is one of the most powerful keys to enhancing physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Conscious Breathwork is a powerful healing modality using conscious breath to let go of old thought patterns and create a shift in consciousness. Conscious Breath Therapy is a technique that breaks up unconscious, restricted breathing patterns and triggers a natural process of cleansing and relaxation that dissolves blocks in our energy to improve emotional balance and awareness. 

We talk to Pam,from Inner Light Counseling, about her journey with Breathwork and her professional perspectives on spirituality and breathwork. We also discuss how breathwork can complement the more traditional forms of psychotherapy together with breathwork's effectiveness in processing trauma. 

Lindy catches up with Jacques and Andrew from The Book of Floating Pages to discuss their personal journeys, techniques and benefits of conscious breathwork. 

This podcast interview takes a deeper dive into the 6-Step Breathwork course, offered by The Book of Floating Pages, exploring the different techniques presented in the course and what makes gathering in online community instrumental in facilitating transformation. 

When we surrender, what are we surrendering and what are we surrendering to.

This session is not about rejecting the ego, but rather about retraining the ego - so that it can become a vehicle of the Divine, rather than something that resists the Divine. 

The session includes a discussion on the theme, a visualisation/ practice breathwork, concluded by a lying-down breathwork session for integration.

In these times of transition and uncertainty, it appears that humanity has the choice on the one hand of economic collapse (and all the upheaval that entails), or to cultivate the vision of a better world.

Through this process, we will enter the reality of the New Paradigm - based in love, light and truth - and from that place, breathe the energies of this chosen reality in order to anchor it as a future memory.

This technique goes beyond theory; it involves a visceral experience of the New Paradigm. 

In this podcast, we discuss the theory surrounding this method, then practice a 35-minute lying-down breathwork session.

Now - more than ever - we as humanity need to align with love, light and truth as we contemplate our choices for the New Paradigm.

In this session, we work on the four levels of our spiritual being:

The Life-Force, Love, Light & Truth.

Breathing these energies consciously purifies and strengthens our physical and etheric bodies, bringing us into alignment with personal potential and the Divine.

This technique not only activates these four levels but brings balance into all areas of our inner being, which in turn reflects in our outer lives.

As we put the finishing touches on The Book of Floating Pages' Conscious Breathwork Process, Jacques Theron and I connect to explore conscious breathwork.

In this episode, we discuss Jacques' early introduction to breathwork and how it revolutionised his spiritual journey, taking him from a cognitive understanding of spirituality to a lived, felt experience of the divine. 

We discuss what it takes to create shifts and bring about transformation in our lives by accessing the healer within us through trance, and how breathwork is a potent tool for activating this inner-healer. Through this conscious experience, we can use the breath to breakdown inhibiting belief structures and embed new affirmations.

As the breath is directly linked to our brainwaves, conscious breathwork takes us from our typical, shallow beta-state to a more relaxed alpha-state where inspiration and creativity reside. Beyond that, we can use breathwork to enter the deeper meditative states of delta and then theta where the body restores itself and autonomic functions can be affected. Breathwork is a way we can change our brainwaves and subsequently how we experience the world. 

We also look at the evolution of breathwork and the new techniques that have emerged over the last few decades, discussing meditative practices that have led to the more recent therapeutic practices of holotropic breathwork, rebirthing and ecstatic breathwork. 

Building blocks – like letters of the alphabet or bricks in a house – are combined to create a new entity. The whole is greater than the mere combination of the individual parts. The combination and synthesis of the building blocks provides the signification of the card. Understanding how the meaning is derived allows a true comprehension of the cards and precludes learning the cards by rote. In this episode, we explore the logic, or system, of the Tarot. 

In this episode, we discuss how the Hermit card is germane to these times of global lockdown and what the position of the Hermit in the Major Arcana may signify - are we at the mercy of the next step as told by the Tarot? 

The Hermit card is the point at which we have to find answers for ourselves, where we have to connect to Truth in order to find the way ahead.

In this opening episode of The Book of Floating Pages Podcast Jacques Theron and I discuss how the Tarot entered his life and how it is a 'map of life,' why Tarot is a book of floating pages and how it links to alchemy.  

The Tarot is more than alchemy, it is occult science and it is poetic. We explore this link between science and poetry and how alchemy and Tarot fit into western mystery traditions.