[Purist Magazine] The Power of The Breath
“I was disenchanted and turned off by the rat race of my life when breathwork entered my world. It brought me back to a sense of purpose. But more importantly, it introduced me to my creativity.
At first it was a bit awkward. I was lying in a room full of people I didn’t know, doing an unfamiliar breathing technique. My New Yorker mind was a bit cynical, but there was something inside of me yearning for more in life. It pushed me to keep breathing. Eventually I began to tingle and vibrate along with feeling some pressure in my chest. I realized I was connecting to my own energy and the pressure was stuck energy.
This was a pivotal moment for me. Despite having an intellectual understanding that I – along with everything else – am energy, there was a part of me that resisted the idea of ‘working with your energy.’
Having this kinesthetic experience shifted that resistance to fascination. Emotions are simply energy that wants to move. Suppressing emotions creates blocks in our energy. If suppressed for too long, these blocks create disease and lack of well-being.
I wanted to know how something as simple as breathing can bring awareness and healing to my life.
At the end of that first session, it was as though my mind dropped off into an abyss, and the sense of relaxation I achieved was unlike anything I had ever experienced.
With breathwork, the intention is to go beyond the intellect and to bring more focus into the body. Breathwork engages the nervous system to release tension and distress that negative thoughts and traumas cause in the body. Over time, healthier new neural pathways are developed and the nervous system is recalibrated to bring optimal well-being.
Breathwork also heightens our senses to receive the more subtle energies of creativity. Creativity sits beyond the logic of the mind. The abyss I mentioned before is the void of creation. The breathwork takes you there.” The Purist Magazine Spring/Summer 2018 issue
Spring Energy Cleanse Special. NYC and LA coming soon!
Because we all have ‘them’, and clearing them from our body and mind brings clarity and a refreshed life force. The ‘them’ I am referring to are lower vibrational energies also known as entities.
When we are overbooked, overwhelmed and a little tired, when we experience something traumatic, or when we are simply disconnected from our bodies, we are susceptible to lower energies that can take us out of alignment.
Entities are parasitic in nature and therefore can be energy draining. They often function through the mind and work themselves into a person’s way of thinking (most times without the person realizing the energy is not them).
Confusion and energy depletion are their calling cards.
Enter in the Entity RELEASE Special. A process to understand, clear and embrace the lessons learned through encounters with lower vibrational energies and experiences.
Using breathwork we will locate and clear negative thought forms and energies stuck in your unconscious.
With support from the building light of spring, we will shine extra light into the body and mind, cleansing away the murky and the dark and bringing forward clarity and vitality.
In support of this process and the new beginnings and life brought forward by spring, I am offering an April special. Private sessions (remote or in-person) will be $100 for the entire month. ($50 off the standard $150).
This is an opportunity for you to feel refreshed, lighter and more like yourself.
I encourage you to set the time aside and do the work. It really can change your life.
(It has for me!)
LOVE!
Eliza
PS! NYC and LA, I'm coming to you in May and June, and it is going to be oh so fun. As the details land fully, I'll send out more information. I'm also looking for new spaces to teach in both locations, so totally open and appreciate suggestions.
PPS! David Elliott has some powerful entity release mp3 meditations, which is another excellent way to get your spring energy cleanse on. Here is the link!
Always
There is always an end
Holding back your love
Not allowing love in
Will not change this
There is always an end
Love boldly
Receive boldly
There is always an end
And there is always a beginning
~E Rose
Denver I'm coming down the mountain to lead some breathwork!
Breath is life force—it is through the breath that we connect to our energy and are able to work with clearing stress, freeing blocked emotions, and letting go of tension—all factors that hold us back in life.
As an active meditation, breathwork is particularly helpful for the every active minds of today. The breathing meditation allows for deep relaxation, mental and physical rejuvenation, and the opening of the heart center.
When the brain has a chance to slow down, clarity and alertness follow and space opens for the invention of new possibilities.
This group will be limited to 15 people so please sign-up in advance.
Register by emailing me directly or messaging me through the contacts page.
Private sessions and private groups will also be available and can be scheduled the 19th, 20th and 21st of November.
So looking forward to spending time in Denver!
Tapping into Creativity
Put down the device, step away from the news and let yourself dream. Innovation comes from beyond what has already been seen and done. It comes from allowing yourself to open to something inside of you.
In 2010, I did my first fire walk. To say it was transformative is an understatement. The next morning, I wrote my first poem and stepped forward as a writer.
The fire supported me in letting go of the rampant fears running my show. The act of walking on hot coals brought me past the limits of my mind.
My rampant voices had blocked me from hearing the voice of my heart, the seat of my inspiration. And by moving beyond the limits of my mind, it didn’t seem odd to decide at 26 that I was going to be a writer, even with my background being math and science.
Coincidently, or not, I was asked to be part of a writer’s group, and with my yes began my relationship with creativity. A relationship I have learned, that operates just like all other relationships, thriving with attention and care.
The more I paid attention to and honored my creativity, the more easily it came. The more I allowed space for my heart to speak up and shared my voice, the more interesting my creative world became.
The mind is used to running the show and needs lots of encouragement to take a break and open to innovation.
Breathwork meditation is a tool to support the slowing of the mind, allowing space for creativity to enter. Breathwork meditation is designed for the ever-busy minds of today. Using the breath to drop us out of the mind and into the heart, breathwork brings forward the ideas and possibility that take one past the ordinary.
“A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.” ― Steven Pressfield
It’s great to choose moments to become informed and inspired by what is out there. And it is special to choose even more moments to let yourself dream. The world is craving your innovation and creativity, so take time and let yourself create.
“We can not solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” –Albert Einstein
My Hike With Creativity
My Hike With Creativity
My relationship with creativity often mimics my relationship to hiking a mountain.
Sometimes I charge full on and exhaust myself before I make it to the top.
Sometimes a slow and steady pace is just what I need.
Sometimes I start with dread, need to rest along the way, or don’t even finish at all.
And other times I am so charged with energy and enthusiasm that I wish there were a second or third peak I could climb. If it were Everest before me, I would laugh with excitement.
As with the mountain, so it is with creativity.
Always there.
Providing a platform for me to decide how I want to engage that day.
Offering me a variety of terrain.
Calling out to me to come play.
Reserving judgment for the way I show up that day.
Inspiring my life experience to be more.
Every hike is different.
Every day with creativity is different.
No matter what kind of hike I end up taking, I never regret showing up and putting one foot in front of the other.
LA I'm coming back....for a visit
I have arrived in Aspen; a bit delinquent in my updates and sharings as I have been enjoying the beauty that is beyond words and setting up my life here. I look forward to those not in the area coming to visit and having this experience of nature. I’ve already been scoping out locations for future retreats so stay on the lookout.
I’ll be back in LA this week to celebrate a wedding of some dear friends and am excited to be leading two circles while I am in town. Both have limited space so please make sure to pre-register and a simple email to me will suffice :) Details are below.
I’ll also be seeing a handful of clients for private sessions on Monday the 6th and Tuesday the 7th, so please reserve before they fill up!
Sunday October 5th will be at my former home The Giving Garden and if you are working on grounding in your dreams, definitely come by.
Breathing with the Giving Garden
Sunday October 5th 3:30-5 pm
Exchange $20
Explore your exchange with the Earth by breathing in the garden under the trees.
In this intimate group we will play with opening to the love and support of the Earth and how we can return our love and care to the Earth.
Please make sure to bring mat and blanket and anything else you would need to feel comfortable breathing outside.
Address will be given upon registration. Register through email or through Paypal to eliza.r.kane@gmail.com.
Wednesday night October 8th will be a special night of breathwork at
The Quest
7:30 pm
2122 Lincoln Blvd. Venice, CA 90291
The theme with be ACTIVATION and we will be working with the energy of the Full Moon AND a Lunar Eclipse. Going to be a very powerful and fun night. This will sell out so please reserve your space beforehand.
Exchange $25 pre-registration and $30 same day. Register through email or through Paypal to eliza.r.kane@gmail.com.
Through the heart we activate a higher operating level. Love is not only the emotion we most desire, love is also the means for accessing our power and claiming our destiny. Love enlivens our souls and leads us to our dreams. The breath guides us to this love. So come breathe!
LA breathwork opportunities
I’m desiring to prolong my enjoyment of leading the Wednesday night class, so the final class will now be September 3rd. Regular time and price. You are however invited to bring a snack and hang out afterwards for a goodbye if you would like.
In addition to my Wednesday night class this week I will be leading breathwork at The Hub Sunday the 31st at 6:15 http://thehub-la.com
Other fun opportunities in LA are the upcoming Healer Trainings. I am super excited to be co-leading with Nathaniel Shipp HT 1, a one-day version on Friday September 5th. We will be exploring deepening our relationship to our intuition and how that serves us in all areas of life as well as gaining clarity around our energy, what is ours and what is not. Life gets a whole lot easier when we aren’t processing other people’s shit.
This one-day segues into HT 2 that weekend, the 6th and 7th, which will be lead by our teacher David Elliott. HT 2 rocks most people’s world and I highly recommend it. Doing both as a three-day combo is an awesome dive in and would be my choice.
Payment plans are totally available just reach out and ask. And of course feel free to ask me any questions about it all.
First link here is a more detailed description of Healer Training 1 and second link is the description of Healer Training 2.
http://www.davidelliott.com/2013/02/healer-training-level-1-one-day/
http://www.davidelliott.com/2012/09/healer-training-level-2-2/
I have a few private session spots open next Tuesday and Thursday.
Damn I’m going to miss you all and can’t wait for you to visit Aspen!
LOVE,
Eliza Rose
Taking the breathwork further!
Breathwork goes way beyond the simple pranayama breathing technique that is used as a tool to connect us to the essence that is our soul. Those having experienced the breathwork understand that it is a portal into so much more.
My teacher David Elliott has created a series of trainings to help us dive into the more while learning how to share the breathwork with others and connect to the healing abilities we have. We are all healers, it is simply a matter of awareness.
These trainings are rich in information and experience as well as being a powerful community experience. It is truly a gift to connect with these souls choosing to live with open hearts.
Hearler Training 1 starts up this August 8th-9th and will be lead by Nathaniel Shipp and Marlize Joubert, two truly extraordinary teachers and beings whom David has worked with closely to share this work.
HT 1 provides a vital foundation of understanding our energy, our intuition and how Spirit will always show up for us. The classes don’t need to be taken in order, however it is a POWERFUL experience to move through the series of trainings in order and with the group. Detailed information is HERE and please reach out with any questions. (Payment plans can easily be worked out with the teachers.)
David will be back to lead HT 2 September 6th-7th. This will no doubt be a special one and if your relationships (love, money, creativity, your body, etc) are crying out for awareness and deepening HT 2 holds lots of understandings and support in these areas. Details HERE.
There is also an option to take a one-day Healer Training 1 Sept. 5th with Nathanial Shipp and ME! A very fun segue into the HT 2 weekend.
Wednesday night breathwork at 730 pm will continue throughout August! And lots of exciting changes are happening at The Quest to allow for more breathwork classes, updates to continue.
Much much love!
Eliza
And Costa Rica is right around the corner for any fly by the seat of your pants people that want to still come! Details
The Winds of Change
The mountains call and I have learned to listen to this call. It is the same call that pulled me across the country to Los Angeles where anything is possible and the city is filled with angels.
The community here for me is a community of angels. A community that continually inspires me and keeps me focused on how much the power of love is building.
So of course I will be back often! And there will be many opportunities to come play with me in the mountains and other enticing places I'm being called to explore.
LA has provided tools and resources that have helped me understand deeply who I am and what I am here to do. With this solid foundation, I set off to share this in a mixture of sadness and excitement. The sadness reminds me of how deeply I have connected to the people here and the ocean, the mountains, nature. The excitement shows me it is time to spread my wings and let the winds of Spirit guide me into the unknown.
I look forward to the ever interweaving play of our lives and hearing about where the winds take you. Stay connected and come visit!
My home base will be Aspen, CO and I will regularly be traveling down to Denver and Boulder. I would love to connect with people you know in that area so please share. And make sure to sign-up for this specific blog as I will be discontinuing my other and all updates will be shared here. Below are the details for my remaining time in LA and the Costa Rica retreat I am a part of mid-August.
Much love,
Eliza Rose
COSTA RICA! Feeling the desire to add some more adventure to the summer, well here is a pretty awesome opportunity. Check it out, sign up and come play! August 16th-23rd.
Wednesday Evening Breathwork will continue through July. August will hold two evening classes, August 13th and 27th
Monday Morning Breathwork and Creativity will continue through July, the last class being July 28th.
David Elliott's Healer Trainings begin up this August 9th-10th with HT 1!
Intuition. Healing. Opening your heart. This class is designed to connect your more deeply to your intuition and your energy. Intuition sprinkles even more magic into your life. Knowing your energy brings clarity into your life. This awareness definitely becomes a game changer. The classes don't need to be taken in order, however I love going through the progression.
Info here: http://www.davidelliott.com/2012/09/healer-training-level-1/
And for some pretty awesome reading, check out David's new book The Baptism. He is regularly posting the story on his blog. It will for sure keep you entertained and might even open up some new perspectives and awareness!
Updates on CO opportunities coming soon!
Happy Summer!