Contraindications For Breathwork

Contraindications…

Please review all contraindications thoroughly before committing to this journey.

Your safety and well-being are our top priority. Breathwork is a powerful practice that can stir deep emotional, physical, and energetic processes. By taking time to read through the contraindications with care, you’re honoring your body’s wisdom and ensuring that this experience is aligned, supportive, and safe for you.

  • » History (personal or family) of aneurysms
    » Epilepsy or history of seizures
    » Cardiovascular disease (angina, previous heart attacks, or strokes)
    » Retinal detachment
    » Recent injury or surgery
    » Kidney disease
    » Severe Asthma
    » Glaucoma
    » Uncontrolled/Unmedicated High or abnormal blood pressure
    » Severe psychiatric symptoms, particularly psychosis, bi-polar disorder or paranoia
    » Any person with mental health condition who isn’t in treatment or lacks adequate support
    » An active substance addiction

  • » Pregnancy: safe if using a slow, gentle nose inhalation breath*
    » Mild Asthma: Bring your inhaler
    » Controlled Blood Pressure
    » Controlled Thyroid Condition
    » Diabetes: Bring your glucose
    » Recent Surgery: Depends on the severity of the surgery and healing process
    *More on Pregnancy: Gentle Breathwork (slow pace and parasympathetic nose inhale) for women who are pregnant are completely safe and recommended. Intense mouth-inhale and fast pace Breathwork should be avoided. It’s physically “safe” for the body during this time, but the emotional transition to the baby, and the overall emotional response may be overwhelming.

“Emotions are not problems to be solved, but energy to be felt. In somatic work, we learn that the body is not just a container for emotion, but a living process through which emotion seeks movement, voice, and completion. When we suppress or bypass our feelings, they don’t disappear—they store themselves in the tissues, waiting for permission to be witnessed. Making space in the body—through breath, movement, and awareness—is what allows these energies to flow, shift, and ultimately release. This is how we begin to feel whole again—not by thinking our way through, but by letting our bodies speak.”