Ali is a close friend of mine and recently created an app that supports you on your breathwork journey. I have had the opportunity to use it for a few months now and I absolutely felt empowered using it. So I asked her to answer some questions for me for my blog so that I could spread the word about her new app. Grab a kombucha and scroll down!
BYOK: Okay, let’s get basic. What is breathwork?
ALI: Breathwork is deeply and consciously breathing by using certain breathwork exercises to improve self awareness. It allows you to deepen and tap in physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
BYOK: As a Christian, what criticism/how do you address criticism of breathwork?
This is an important question. I find so many calling out breathwork. That it can be “new age”or not legit. From my own experience it was the literal opposite. Breathwork brought me home to myself. To God. To myself as a divine and sovereign being. Child of the most high.
This is how I explain it to clients and those that reach out to me, God gave us the breath right? It’s literally how we begin in this physical vessel and it’s the last thing we do before we exit this physical world. Is take a breath.
There’s a reason for that. It’s within us, and our breath was created I truly believe not for us to survive but to thrive. God tells us we are meant to live abundantly, in joy and peace not in stress, anxiety, or depression. None of that is from God.
So if Breathwork helps you move through your emotions and recognize you are not your emotions, and you connect back to who you truly are as a soul, then you are coming home to the authenticity of you & how God created you.
Anything can be used in a wrong/ twisted way in my opinion.
I tell everyone to find someone who aligns for them. That either has or holds their values so they are comfortable. As a facilitator it’s my job to hold a safe space for every client and help them regulate their nervous system.
BYOK: What are some benefits of breathwork?
ALI: There are so many incredible benefits of Breathwork. Simply deep breathing will calm your body. Take away stress, anxiety. Find more joy and calm. Better sleep, an overall better immune system. On a deeper level, you find self awareness.
You move into a regulated nervous system (parasympathetic) and out of a sympathetic system that is reactionary and triggered, also known as fight, flight or freeze.
Breathwork allows you to move out of fear and into faith. You can also release quite a bit of trauma and density stored in the body.
BYOK: So what inspired you to create an app?
ALI: I want everyone to have the ability to transform and change their life. Breathwork did that for me.
God showed me the breath as a tool and now I want everyone to know about it. My app was created so everyone has guidance and essentially Ali in their pocket to use different exercises and intentions to help them move through in their daily life. I’m on a big mission to help 2 million people breathe consciously by 2025 and even bigger mission for mothers to embody this work and teach it and do it with their children. When parents regulate, the children regulate with them.
BYOK: Tell us more about how the app works? cost?
ALI: My app Breathe and B is free to download on App Store and google play. Then I highly recommend you subscribe once you click Breathe and see the Breathe & B Membership which is $11.11
It gives you a free trial of 7 days. Go through the different affirmations, Breathing exercises ( there’s many) meditations, community and more.
I pop in weekly as well as post new events in the app and personal shares. I add new content every month as well. As long as you’re a subscriber, you get access to all of that as well as any of my current offerings.
I’ll end with this. Breathwork isn’t my savior, it’s a tool. I am grateful to have this tool and move me from my monkey mind breakdowns to actual beautiful breakthroughs.
For me, God saved me. Meditation healed me and Breathwork changed me.
I hope everyone starts their breathing journey today and allows themselves to go deep through their breath and expand their lungs so they may expand their life like they are meant too.
You can find the app here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/breathe-and-b/id6446133046 and google play
