Frequently Asked Questions
What is Rebirthing?
Rebirthing is a breathing process that increases our ability to feel and resolve the effects of our past.
The result is an increase in the level of physical and spiritual energy in our body, thus cleansing the many tensions held there. The result of the physical cleansing is that the mental and emotional origins of tension come back into consciousness and can then be healed. By learning to breathe consciously and fully, we discover and release the core issues now held in our mind and emotions.
The root meaning of the words “spirit,” “prana,” “ki,” “chi,” and “geist”, in each of the languages in which these words are found is either “breath” or “wind.” Breath both spiritually and mythologically is a very significant component to the force that enlivens the body.
Using a deep connected breath for approximately one hour, the Rebirthing process releases stress and tension from the body and accesses and releases stored emotion. The rebirthing breath opens the body’s energy channels and accelerates the flow of creativity and intuition.
Rebirthing is learning a relationship with your breath and the power of the breath as a function of the body. Circular or conscious connected breathing is normal for the body but is often suppressed by the emotions and events of the past. The rebirther aims to support the rebirthee in using the breath to ground themselves safely in their body during emotional, and physical releases and spiritual insights.
Since 70% of body toxins and waste are eliminated through breathing, it supports us to breathe fully and freely.
Rebirthing also raises the blood’s alkaline level, a result sought by many health disciplines. Breathing rejuvenates the cells and skin. Another health benefit is that breathing in oxygen increases the flow in your body. Oxygen is a natural pain reliever.
An added benefit of conscious connected breathing is that the increased oxygenation contributes to the release of tension and to an experience of more health and vitality.
The main challenge to health and happiness facing humanity today seems to be unmanaged stress caused by
unacknowledged and unprocessed feelings.
The Rebirthing breathing technique greatly increases the ability to experience joy and aliveness.
Why is it called Rebirthing?
It was named Rebirthing because through the use of the breath early rebirthers discovered the tremendous impact birth had on their lives. Rebirthing has since undergone many changes to become a more holistic process, addressing our entire life experience. The word Rebirthing means change. While rebirthing, (conscious connected breathing) you may remember things about your birth. from your experiences, you learn how decisions made at birth and in early childhood have affected your life and relationships. You receive tremendous value from discovering how current issues originated from these early decisions. Resolving issues from the past is a major value of rebirthing since we make some of our biggest pre-verbal decisions about life during this early period. However, the process is much more than that, it is a tool to discover and resolve limiting conditions. Rebirthers also like the name because it implies transformation or rejuvenation..
What is a session like?
Every session with a Rebirther involves a consultation and breathing. Initially, you discuss what you know about
your birth, childhood, family patterns and how they may be affecting your life. Your Rebirther will discuss with you your current issues from the perspective of resolving them by supporting you in changing unconscious belief and decisions made in the past
Next is approximately an hour of “connected breathing” -the Rebirthing Breath - which dissolves tensions stored in your body thus making it possible to experience more joy and aliveness. At the end of the session, you share any thoughts brought up during the breathing. Your rebirther will offer suggestions or affirmations to focus on until your next appointment.
Why do I want a Rebirther?
A Rebirther is a professionally trained facilitator who will guide your breath in a way that enables you to process what occurs during the session. They will guide and support you through emotional releases, thoughts and memories that may surface and physical sensations that you may experience during a session. Your professional
Rebirther is highly skilled at helping you trace complex issues in your life to the origins of your subconscious mind. By becoming aware of this pertinent information, your Rebirther will support you in finding solutions and resolutions.
How do I begin?
In the first level of rebirthing it is recommended that you do a series of ten private sessions with a trained Rebirther. The purpose of this is to build a trusting relationship with a Rebirther and to maintain that relationship long enough to realize and integrate the cumulative results. For the second level, it is recommended that you complete another series of ten sessions with a different rebirther, usually of the opposite sex to your first.
In most people’s experience, a relatively short-term commitment to the Rebirthing process brings long-term and
life-transforming results. Often, after only fifteen to twenty sessions, you will be able to start rebirthing yourself.
You will always see value however, in periodic sessions with a professional Rebirther. You can also attend Rebirthing Schools and become a Rebirther yourself.
