A Moment in Time
It is funny how some moments of time stick in your mind. You remember where you were and who you were with during certain dates and times in your life. Well, May 2nd 2015 is one of those days for me. I was living a pretty normal life up until this day. I was a cheerleading and soccer mom who was looking to head back to work after 15 years of staying home raising my two beautiful daughters. This day started like any other for me. I took my children to school and then went for a run. When I came back I took my shower, got dressed and ate my breakfast. As I was eating, my usual breakfast which was always the same, oatmeal and a banana with a cup of coffee, I started to have pain which I thought resembled a UTI. I really didn’t know what to make of it so I just ignored it for a day or two before it got so uncomfortable that I went to a doctor. I thought for sure I had a UTI and the doctor would give me an antibiotic and send me on my way. Well, I came to find out that there was no infection.
After that day I went on a quest to figure out what was actually wrong with me. I traveled to doctors all over the country but no one could give me an accurate diagnosis. When I was given a diagnosis I would follow the regimen of treatment but nothing seemed to work. What I did know is that I was suffering with horrible pelvic pain that lasted for 4 full years. During this time I lost my relationship with my family and my friends and my two daughters. I was desperate to find a cure.
One day I was looking on the internet and I found a book. The book was called the Presence Process. In this book it describes a breathing process which I have later come to find out is conscious connected breathing. I felt like I had nothing to lose. I gave it a try. For 3 months I did my breathwork religiously twice a day for 20 minutes. I had no idea that this book and this breathing process was going to turn into something that changed my life.
To my surprise after the 3 months were over I saw something remarkable happen. My pain was changing. It was not as intense. It did not last all day. It changed during the day. The sensations themselves changed. So I made a decision to continue breathing. I enjoyed the breathwork. It became a part of who I was. I made the breathwork a priority. I liked it. As more and more time went on my pain was diminishing even further. I can say because of breathwork I live a much fuller life and I am out of chronic pain. This pain that I felt changed the trajectory of my life forever. I felt like I found the secret to becoming pain free. I decided I did not want to keep this secret to myself so I started teaching breathwork to anyone that was interested. I had no formal training but felt such a calling to teach this method. So that is what brings me here today. My goal is to become a certified breathworker so I can share this modality to the entire world or whoever will listen and try. With this training I hope to learn as much as I can about this technique so I am more qualified to spread the wealth of the breath.
