The Way of Breath is the Way of Intimacy.
It is a Sacred Homecoming into Our Embodied Totality.
Real change does not take solely place through internal realizations or the temporary peace found on a meditation pillow, but also born through how we show up in real-time within each manifestation of our lives— for ourselves; in our intimate relationships and partnerships; for our families, friends, and loved ones; in our sacred service, work, communities and beyond. It is especially evident in how we respond to challenge, trigger and conflict, both inner and outer. The most important personal growth does not happen when all is tranquil or still. It happens through the depth of relating, when you have the opportunity to consciously choose your response instead of unconsciously or habitually react. It happens when you are angry or afraid and you can pause to bring in radical self-care and higher awareness. When you can fully tend to and honor your deepest needs before all else. When you can speak and honor your essential truth, allowing others to be responsible for their own reactions and emotional state. When you can take ownership of your total being, and meet each aspect of your experience in intimate acceptance and understanding. When you can fully allow each texture of life (in both joy and pain, comfort and discomfort) to flow through you, as you, without resistance to what is. When you definitively move from unconscious victimhood to sovereign empowerment. And when you can stand resiliently in your fully-actualized purpose, offering your higher gifts in service to the evolution of humanity.
This is the real work, and the breathwork mat is only the beginning of one’s empowered metamorphosis.
What is the clearing
The clearing is a 12-week transformational breakthrough journey through the combination of two of the most potent holistic medicines:
Sacred Breathwork and Ayurvedic Holistic Counseling
This self-healing breakthrough design is carefully curated to support you through the deep uncovering of core wounds and/or embedded trauma with gentle heart-felt guidance and proper holistic healing tools to retain and/or restore any physical and emotional imbalances. Using Ayurveda —the science of life— you will be fully guided through personalized nurturing nutrition, applied self-care regimens, as well as holistic lifestyle guidance around activities and integrative somatic movement practices that help you address your physical and emotional imbalances —or disconnections— creating space for what is stored within the subconscious in order to support your process of self-integration and restoration into sovereignty.
WHO IS THE CLEARING FOR
THOSE LOOKING FOR A HOLISTIC AND SOMATIC APPROACH TO HEALING
THOSE LOOKING TO RECLAIM SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE BODY-MIND
THOSE READY TO RESOLVE DEEP EMBEDDED CORE WOUNDS
THOSE READY TO RECLAIM THEIR SENSE OF SAFETY WITHIN THE BODY-MIND
THOSE SEEKING A TRUSTWORTHY RELATIONSHIP WITH THEIR INTUITION
THOSE CRAVING A DEEPER CONNECTION TO THEIR SOUL AND THEIR PURPOSE
THOSE READY TO UNLEASH THEIR TRUE SELVES
ANYONE READY TO UNLOCK FREEDOM THROUGH TRANSFORMING PAIN INTO POWER
THE CLEARING
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WHY SACRED BREATHWORK
Sacred Breathwork is powerful, transformational, and life-changing work. Breath (or Prana), as Spirit and Divine Intelligence, serves a Master Teacher for those ready and willing to look within, and venture deep into the most intimate spaces of themselves— especially into one’s emotional body and subconscious— to gracefully connect to repressed or fragmented textures of their being yearning for awareness, healing and integration.
The journey of breath is a journey of true self-intimacy, unconditional love, radical compassion, multifaceted awareness and untethered freedom. By breathing into the unknown, we bring life and energy to that which is buried or stagnant. Through breath, we enliven the lost parts of us and return them back into wholeness. For breath invites deeper union with every part of our being.
Sacred Breathwork is an experiential practice and self-healing modality that uses conscious, connected breathing to access expanded states of consciousness while simultaneously unlocking repressed emotions and clearing stagnant energy from the mind, body and spirit.
Through an intentional, safe and artful increase of oxygen levels, we activate different areas of the brain to create new neural pathways for deeper insights and heightened clarity, while meeting the sacred root of unresolved emotional imprints.
Breathwork is a powerful tool that may bring us into direct contact with parts of our being that are not being fully acknowledged or seen. It allows us to call in and call home our hidden ego aspects; bring awareness to our emotional and energetic blockages; confront our limiting and self-sabotaging beliefs; and to hold deeply, with gentleness and care, our embedded traumas and/or core wounds. Connected breath shows us where we are unknowingly armoring against the endless stream of life-force, creativity, pleasure, abundance and vitality available to us now.
It is also important to understand that these repressed parts of self simply want a voice too; they yearn to be met and integrated, not unconsciously pushed down or bypassed (have compassion, we all engage this in some capacity). These can even be parts of ourselves we criticize, reject, abandon or disassociate from. Yet through the breath, we are able to deeply reclaim and integrate them— because our wholeness includes all things that exists within us. Through breath, we transmute our wounds into wisdom. We illuminate our shadow with the healing balm of love.
Breathwork can also help us to dismantle and dissolve self-sabotaging narratives (faulty ways of seeing) that are not in alignment with our core truth or authentic self. Through breath, we may begin to return to our essential knowing- who we always were, beneath the layers of conditioning, story and programmed response. This is the realm of our higher self and deeper knowing. Once we enter into this space, our capacities are unlimited. We can... Reawaken and re-enliven our soul’s truth and unique personal medicine. Reclaim and reinvigorate what lies dormant in our heart. Awaken the guidance of our wise one within. Stand resiliently in our power, voice and sovereignty. Deeply honor the sacred intelligence of our body temples. And most importantly, the breath is a pathway to integrate our divine essence into human form, and rise into the fullness of who we are and why we came here. For we are all coded for something exquisitely beautiful, and each have soul-infused gifts to bestow upon the world.
You are invited to experience transformation on the deepest of levels through the simple means of your Breath
and the sacred remembrance that you are life in motion, thus evolution —healing— is possible.
ABOUT IRAIMER RUIZ
Founder of the Sacred Movement school and director at Stanton Street Yoga NYC, Iraimer (Ira) is a 500 E-RYT dance-movement artist, certified trauma-informed holistic coach, and a certified facilitator of integrative somatic trauma therapy using the modalities of Yoga, Ayurveda and Transformational Sacred Breathwork.
As a woman of color raised in marginalized and oppressed communities, her greatest mission is to create safe and inclusive wellness spaces that offer equitable holistic self-integrative tools for all bodies to approach their healing process in a supportive, loving and welcoming environment.
WHAT IS INCLUDED
Eight (8) Breathwork Breakthrough 90-Minute Sessions (LIVE: Online or In-person)
Two (2) Guided Breathwork Pre-recorded Sessions (60-Mins)
One Ayurveda Health Consultation (60-mins) + Follow Up Call (30-Mins)
Two (2) One on One Coaching Calls with Iraimer (40-minute sessions)
Lifetime Access to Dosha Balancing Yoga & Meditation Practices
Guided Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Practices
Personalized Ayurvedic Nutrition Plan & Self-Care Regimen
2 Months of Unlimited Online Membership with Stanton Street Yoga
Plant Medicine & Essential Oil Care Package
“The best coaches and guides help us in multitudes, on many levels, some of which we may not even be aware of. Iraimer is one of those such people.She is not only a non-judgmental teacher, she is a well of empathy and compassion-- creating the safest spaces for those brave enough to embark on the journey of self that is a YTT or breathwork program with her. She doesn’t position herself on a pedestal like some teachers do, she is “with” her students on their complex and diverse experiences of learning, and has equal time, space, and love for everyone in her orbit. Her knowledge is vast and plentiful, but her application is accessible. She is able to take the most complex or esoteric concepts and somehow find the language that each of us most needs to be able to best understand it. She made me realize that she is simply giving the tools to remember this wisdom, because it existed within me all along, and that is one of the many reasons she is an exception teacher.”