Trust Your Gut: How Breathwork Awakens Self-Connection
- Melanie Briony
- Oct 15
- 2 min read
The Complexity of Being Human in a Stressful World
If you’ve joined one of my breathwork and nervous system regulation workshops, you’ll know just how complex we are as human beings living in an ever increasingly stressful world.
Why Breathwork Goes Beyond Techniques
This is why I don’t just teach breathwork techniques. You can go onto YouTube and find millions of videos with breathwork sequences, but not so many explaining why you need breathwork in the first place.
My Personal Journey With Stress and Self-Discovery
Getting to know myself more deeply over the last six years came about as a result of my own internal struggles with stress, anxiety, and overwhelm. I’m not the kind of person who gives up when it appears there are no answers — I insist on looking deeper until I find a reason that resonates deep in my body.
Nervous system regulation work has been just that for me. As soon as I learned how my nervous system was designed to keep me safe, but how easily it can misinterpret inner sensations and emotions as danger, sending my brain running away from fictitious tigers, I knew this was the work I was meant to share. It was my gut instinct leading me in a positive direction after years of being petrified of my own shadow.
Stress, Anxiety, and Overwhelm Are Not Flaws
Stress, anxiety, overwhelm, shutdown, and depression are not human design flaws. They are often a sign that our survival response is doing overtime and needs attention, education, and a different perspective. Breathwork offers a gentle way to reconnect with ourselves, our inner signals, and our intuitive sense of safety.
How Breathwork Awakens Self-Connection and Intuition
This is why breathwork is so powerful. It gives us an opportunity to stop, slow down, and connect with the intuitive, feeling, and sensing part of ourselves — the part designed for survival, but also designed to guide us toward what is truly meant for us.
Breathwork is the great connector
It connects us back to ourselves, to our purpose, to those who are safe for us, and to nature. It is not about following sequences — it’s about self-awareness, self-responsibility, and self-love.
If you'd like support understanding your nervous system and building a supportive breathwork practice that is sustainable and life changing, send me a message to learn about working with me 1:1
