Shamanic Breathwork (Inner Traditions Bear and Company)

Incorporating psychospiritual tools with her shamanic breathwork practice, Linda Star Wolf shows how to spiritually journey in the same way shamans entrain to the rhythms of drums or rattles using the breath, either alone or together with music. Much like travelling to sacred places or ingesting entheogens, this practice can be used to enter altered states of consciousness, connect to cosmic consciousness, increase paranormal abilities and awaken the shaman within. Breathwork can, also, be used to resolve old traumas and shapeshift unproductive modes of thinking in order to move beyond them. Utilising the healing power of breath along with chakra-attuned music, Linda Star Wolf explores the Five Cycles of Change - the Alchemical Map of Shamanic Consciousness - and how these cycles affect you as you move through major shifts in your life. Filled with personal stories and case histories, the book, also, includes a 60-minute free CD of shamanic trance rhythms and a guided meditation to awaken the chakras during practice.*Explains how to enter altered states of consciousness, increase paranormal abilities and resolve old traumas using breathwork *Introduces the Five Cycles of Change that bring about major life shifts and how to work with them *Includes a 60-minute free CD of chakra-attuned rhythms to play during the journey