Breathwork is an active meditation modality that can be a powerful tool for clearing and transmuting energy. This class opens with a brief grounding visualization meditation that transitions into the breath practice. You’ll lie flat on your back and Mina will prompt the breath pattern that is done through an open mouth. The first inhale, you inflate the belly, the second inhale you inflate the chest, and release out the mouth. You'll find a comfortable cadence with the breath set to emotionally stimulating music. The breath pattern creates a lot of potential for energetic movement, inviting everything up to the surface and allowing you the opportunity to safely work through it. The oxygen concentrated to your brain may also create a euphoric high, as well as the possibility for more clarity in your mind. You welcome challenging thoughts, emotions, beliefs, fears, anxieties, and physical sensations to come up, and the process of riding them out and softening their charge may begin, until eventually they may lose their power and relevance. Though it may feel good or necessary to temporarily compartmentalize these things and avoid doing the inner-work, whether it be through numbing, distracting, or pretending, sometimes a more productive way to overcome and move forward more lightly and freely is to feel, acknowledge, and release the energy. 

Throughout the practice, Mina will also channel Reiki onto the class, which is a healing art that comes from Japan. Reiki can be perceived as gentle, warm, and tingly sensations, hopefully adding another layer of you feeling supported, balanced, and held. At the end, there will be a few minutes of stillness to integrate the experience and continue receiving Reiki. Crying is possible, as is the entire spectrum of emotions. There is an opportunity for growth, self-empowerment, self-awareness, understanding, and healing. Though it’s not necessarily easy, it can be very rewarding work. This class is for all levels. Come as you are, explore your psyche, and be a potential alchemist of your own energy!

About Mina: Mina Bahadori is an Iranian-American writer, creative, Breathwork Facilitator and Reiki Master from Los Angeles, now living in the Bushwick. She is also the meme admin and digital creator of the instagram page @sweetiepieangelclub. Mina values authenticity, embracing the messiness of being a human, giving ourselves grace, and getting a little better every day. Students and clients would describe her as soft, genuine, warm, and able to hold big space.