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How to choose a breathwork practitioner
Breathwork has entered the mainstream. What was once a niche practice known only to a small community of dedicated explorers is now widely discussed — in newspapers, on podcasts, in gyms and wellness studios across the country. That is genuinely wonderful. The more people who discover the power of the Breath, the better. But the growth of breathwork has also brought a proliferation of practitioners — and not all of them are equal.
What to expect on a breathwork retreat in Lanzarote
There is a moment that happens on almost every retreat I run — usually around day two or three — when something visibly shifts in a guest. The tension they arrived with, the tightness around the eyes, the slightly braced quality that so many of us carry without realising it — it begins to dissolve. They breathe differently. They hold themselves differently. They look, quite simply, more like themselves.
Breathwork for anxiety: does it really work?
Anxiety is one of the most common and debilitating experiences in modern life. According to the World Health Organisation, anxiety disorders affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide. In the UK alone, anxiety is the most frequently reported mental health condition. And yet, for many people, the treatments on offer — medication, CBT, talk therapy — only go so far. Over the past few years, breathwork has emerged as one of the most promising complementary approaches to anxiety. But does it actually work? And if so, how?
What is Conscious Connected Breathing — and what does it do?
We breathe around 20,000 times a day. For most of us, almost every single one of those breaths happens without a second thought. Yet the breath is one of the most powerful tools we have for changing how we feel — physically, emotionally, and mentally. The question is: are you using it?
Breathe Here Now – a Huffington Post guest blog by Alan Dolan
Summer is definitely here and I sometimes just feel like lying down in the middle of the day and taking a breather. My favourite time of day is mid afternoon when the sun has past by in the highest point of the sky and the wind comes in off the sea to lighten the air. […]
The Path of Love comes to the UK
A message from Alan… “You know that my passion is how to create permanent positive change in as short a time as possible… and if I find great people or programmes then I’m happy to pay it forward. Well, I’m amazed and delighted to tell you that I’ve just had the most transformative week of […]
Alan at the MindBodySpirit London Wellbeing Festival
Alan will be appearing at the MindBodySpirit London Wellbeing Festival on 26th May with an introductory workshop to conscious breathing…