Inhale, Exhale: The Transformative Effects of Breathwork

What if the way back to yourself wasn’t through the mind, but through your breath? Hero, Somatic Therapist, and Certified Rolfer Moylan Ryan explains how breath can ground you in the present and become a direct pathway to regulation. Moylan traces the roots of neurodynamic (holotropic) breathwork, explaining why it evokes deep, nonverbal reactions and how the practice supports nervous-system regulation and reconnection to the body. 

He describes typical responses people have in his breathwork sessions, the importance of safety and containment, and how breathwork can produce an expanded state of consciousness that shifts your thinking and behavior. 

What You Will Learn

• [00:06:55] How Neurodynamic breathwork evolved from holotropic work and the role of evocative music in guiding the breath.
• [00:08:56] Why facilitators ask people to trust the process and surrender so their inner guided intelligence can lead the journey.
• [00:11:24] That breathwork can allow sensations, tremoring, and vocal expression to surface safely during a session.
• [00:16:36] How consistent breath practice can move a person from somatic retraction into expansion and an “upflow” of energy.
• [00:18:00] Why breathwork often lets people complete what was never expressed — releasing embodied remnants of trauma.
• [00:19:59] The parasympathetic state breathwork can produce, and how it enables a calmer, more present nervous system afterward.
• [00:24:40] How the gap between stimulus and response (the space Viktor Frankl described) becomes accessible through regulated breath.
• [00:31:14] What kinds of people tend to benefit — those who feel fragmented, stuck, or ready to create new behaviors and outcomes.

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