You are the Medicine

Elif Clarke, trauma focused psychologist and Transformational Breath® Senior trainer and facilitator offers self-empowering holistic tools to help you to access your own medicine to promote physical vitality, to bring emotional freedom in you, and assist you to connect to your innate resilience.

Elif Clarke -The Breath Psychologist

Connected Breath (Transformational Breath®)

Transformational Breath® (Connected Breathwork)

Transformational Breath® is self-empowering tool connecting to our deepest self to achieve physical, emotional and psychological well-being by breathing throughout whole respiratory system in a connected conscious way. It is also called connected breath.

According to Dr. Henry Rohrberg, “One Transformational Breath session is equivalent to about two years of psychotherapy.” It is a powerful tool to release, integrate repressed emotions without needing to talk about them, if you choose to do so.

Connected Breathwork as a Tool for Better Health

Breathwork has been growing in popularity of late as a way of providing a lifelong tool for better health and future self-healing by changing the way you breathe consciously and efficiently. But changing your breathing patterns isn’t something that just happens involuntarily.

On a physical level, the most efficient way to breathe is using your diaphragm, taking a long deep inhale before exhaling. This expands your respiratory system providing more oxygen to the body, which in turn massages your internal organs and activates the body’s lymphatic system. This flow of oxygen also removes toxins, nourishing cells with oxygen-rich blood which promotes a healthy immune system.

Breathing Through Emotions

The way you breathe can change dramatically depending on emotion and your state of mind.

People who have experienced trauma or suffer from other anxiety disorders often tend to hold their breath often or breathe in a shallow and erratic way, which is actually the body’s way of avoiding emotional distress and traumatic memories.

However, this does not promote good health and these unprocessed emotions become stored in our body and also in our respiratory system as fear, tension or pain, which in turn exacerbates mental and emotional difficulties.

 

Naturally, carrying around such unprocessed emotions prevents you from living as freely as possible, causing mental health issues and negative, or self-sabotaging behaviours. Correct deep breathing techniques, will provide a way for you to release those suppressed or repressed traumatic memories, freeing you from such behaviours and the painful emotions associated with them. This also allows us to connect to our authentic self, promoting self-compassion.

In addition, there is a long history of altering the breath as a means to enter expanded and ‘non-ordinary’ states of consciousness, similar to techniques like chanting and prayer recitation, shamanic journeying, ingesting plant medicines or psychedelics, or even ‘flow state’ experiences catalysed by meditation, running, surfing, or other activities in which the constant barrage of mental rumination suspends and there’s greater sense of clarity, absorption, oneness, and peace.

Of course, there is another aspect at play in altered state experiences that we have yet to understand through neuropsychology – consciousness. Breathwork clients have reported experiences of seeing loved ones or pets who have crossed over, visions that illuminate aspects of creation and reality, visitations from spirit helpers and guides, and deeper understanding of past and present relationships, path and purpose in life, etc. These types of experiences can have life changing impacts, and as many have described, these states can feel like years worth of therapy in one, 60-minute journey.

Connected Breathwork and the Emotional Release

With regular practice you will be capable of healing yourself naturally, enabling you to live a better life free of your repressed emotions and the negative anchors which are held in each part of your body. Incredibly, your breathing pattern is actually as unique as your fingerprint and the way you breathe is one of the strongest indications of what lies beneath in your unconscious.

Identifying how your breath and body communicates can quickly get to the root of any underlying problems, and this means breathwork is especially good for people who find it difficult to express their emotions on a mental level.

 

Once your breathing patterns have been analysed, you’ll be shown methods that promote fully connected, diaphragmatic breath through conscious breathing, utilising the senses of touch and sound, in addition to movement and positive affirmations. These techniques allow the whole respiratory system to be opened up, encouraging a greater sense of well-being and a more balanced and harmonious state of mind, and through regular practice you will be better equipped to accept and deal with negative emotional states, whilst also accessing your compassionate, authentic self.

Self Healing Services

Below you’ll find a few of my more popular services. Please get in touch for further information and let me explain what I can do for you.

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121 SESSIONS

I offer individual and couple sessions in South London, SW9, SE24, and SW2. I am available at weekdays, weekends and evenings.

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SEMINARS

The goal of these levels is to use the Breath to create powerful and permanent personal transformation in a relatively short period.

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BREATHING CIRCLE

We are gathering to breathe and meditate during the full moon. It is a free event and we welcome everybody who have never done breathwork.

Upcoming Events & Workshops

Below you’ll find any upcoming events and workshops you may wish to attend. Please note that at the moment these are being held online due to current lockdown restrictions. Please get in touch for further information or to let me explain what I can do for you.

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Transformational Breath Personal Level 1, 11, 111 Seminar week with Senior Trainer Elif Clarke

From £1650 

From Friday, October 6, 2023 at 09:30 am
to Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 04:30 pm 

TRANSFORMATIONAL BREATH PERSONAL LEVEL Training Programs (Step 1 toward Certification & Professional Training)

These are 6-day non-residential programmes identical in content to the Seminar week and comprises of Levels I, II and III.
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Reclaim Your Breath ™ December 2023

Price: £250

Saturday, December 16, 2023 to Sunday, December 17, 2023 – all day 

With Trainer Sarah Jons & Senior Trainer Elif Clarke

Discover a life-transforming opportunity to enhance your well-being and tap into the power of your breath. Join us for the Reclaim Your Breath weekend, a remarkable journey open to everyone, where you’ll learn the art of efficient breathing and unlock its profound impact on your physical, emotional, and spiritual health.

Contact Elif

Whatever your requirements, I’d love to hear from you. Please click the button below to get in touch, or call me on 07944 532456.

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