Rebirthing is a powerful natural healing process. Relaxation and full awareness of breathing quickens vital healing energy, making palpable our connection with the creative wisdom of our unfolding nature. The open-minded, intuitive orientation of Rebirthing facilitates both an inner and outer harmony without asserting a dogmatic path and goal. A growing self-understanding is encouraged that leads to the rediscovery of our Life Source, beyond and within our transitory existence, which is the Mystical Rebirth at the heart of every spiritual path. Rebirthing, as a process, affirms this fundamental realization and seeks directly to dissolve the inhibiting structures that bind Life expression. The name Rebirthing also refers to the possibility of re-experiencing and healing the primal trauma associated with birth. The essential technique of the Rebirthing process is a connected breathing rhythm that merges the inhalation with the exhalation in a continuous cycle. Conscious rhythmic breathing awakens vital healing energies that cleanse and recharge our whole psycho-physical being.
A Rebirthing session, although always individual and unique, may have many of the following elements. You lie down and make yourself comfortable in a loving, supportive atmosphere. The Rebirther assists your relaxation and coaches your breathing. Conscious breathing opens a flow of subtle energy. Physical sensations of tingling, rushes, or cramping may be felt as energy increases in your body. Anxious fears and painful experiences which may occur are usually the result of inner resistance to the vital energy moving in the body. Physical symptoms, emotions and memories long buried, may begin to surface. You get insights into your inhibiting behavior patterns and self-limiting beliefs. Breathing intensifies when you are fearful or stressed because the most conscious avenue of release is to breathe through the experience. Suddenly, the "you" you always thought was in control of your breathing takes a back seat. Instead of you breathing, your breath breathes you! You merge with your breath --surging, flowing, soaring -- your mind melting into your spirit -- awakening to your inner being. Your breathing changes from cathartic intensity to meditative quiet. This is a deeply integrative state. Now with each breath, there is a sense of renewal -- purifying, refining, freeing. Naturally, peacefully, you come out of the experience. When you open your eyes, you realize you have been in touch with something, someone -- beautiful, moving, real.
Rebirthing can be done privately on a one to one basis, or in a group seminar situation, where participants alternate the roles of support person and breather. To understand the scope of possibilities and commitment necessary to fully benefit from Rebirthing, the breathing sessions are preceded by an introductory seminar or consultation. A breathing session lasts from two to three hours. Although each session has, in itself, a cathartic wholeness, the Rebirthing process usually goes on over several sessions; and private sessions are spaced two to ten days apart. The number of sessions necessary to complete the Rebirth process varies from person to person. Completion of the process can take place on many levels. It may be a fearless mastery of the connected breathing rhythm with resultant cleansing and vitality. On a deeper level, it may be the profound trust that develops in the inner being which is touched in the meditative stillness that concludes the catharsis of each breathing session. In summary, some of the transformational possibilities of Rebirthing are the healing of breath, reduction of stress, increased vitality, purification of mind-body, deeper self-knowledge, trust in the life source, and freeing of spirit. The means and end of this energetic meditation are experienced as opening, integrating, and healing.
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