Clarity breathwork

Domain X · Body, movement, breath & physical · Ashanna Solaris, Dana Dharma Devi · 1999 · California, United States

What it is

Clarity Breathwork describes itself as a process of "healing, transformation, and awakening" through conscious, connected breathing, and as a "complementary wellness and personal-growth practice". It calls itself "a gentle nurturing feminine approach to healing, transformation and embodiment". The…

Format

• A. Private sessions (as published).
• First session: a conversation about current life and relevant history (birth, childhood, family, relationships, past experiences) and setting intentions for the session and, where appropriate, for a series.

Who practises it, and how they are trained or regulated

• Clarity Breathwork is a named school of practice with a private-session format, group and retreat formats, and a multi-level training. It is not a manualised psychotherapy.
• C. Training and certification (as published).
• Level 5, Group Facilitator Training: creating safe space, boundaries and ethics, leading processes, co-leading a group ceremony. Requires all prior levels.

Evidence status, as the guide reports it

• Status and intensity. Clarity Breathwork belongs to the conscious connected breathwork family. Connected breathing of this kind can produce hyperventilation effects (tingling, numbness, cramping of hands, feet and around the mouth), intense emotion and altered states. For Holotropic Breathwork and…

Questions to explore with your client

• What drew you to it, and what are you hoping it will change?
• Is there physical contact? Was it explained beforehand, and do you feel free to say no or stop at any point?
• Does it involve any substance, plant preparation, remedy or supplement? Has your doctor or prescriber been told, especially about any medication you take?
• Does it involve intense or unusual breathing? Have you been told about the medical conditions for which that is not advised?
• Is it a group, retreat or community? How do they respond if someone wants to leave or raises a concern?
• Who runs it, and what training or registration do they hold?
• What actually happens in a session or meeting, and how often?
• What does it cost, and is there pressure to commit to more?
• How do you feel afterwards, in the hours and days that follow?
• Does it fit with, or clash with, the work we do here?

What practitioners of it watch for

• the client minimising harm out of loyalty to the group or teacher; ongoing contact with the practitioner.
• freezing or fawning, i.e. agreeing to please; disclosures afterwards of touch that wasn't agreed. Respond as in B6.
• a client who wants to "push through" no matter what; magical expectations; a client who feels unable to refuse a teacher.
• the client leaving while still dizzy, disoriented or dissociated (see B4); big life decisions made in the glow of a session.
• rising certainty about uncorroborated events; family estrangement driven by session imagery; dependence on sessions for relief.

When to involve someone else

• New or worsening physical symptoms, or advice to stop or change prescribed medication: involve the client's doctor or prescriber.
• Signs of coercion, isolation from family and friends, escalating costs or secrecy: discuss openly and consider safeguarding.
• A crisis or thoughts of suicide: follow your crisis protocol. In the US, call or text 988; in the UK and Ireland, Samaritans on 116 123.

Drawn automatically from the guide's own sections. Stay curious: neither endorse nor dismiss what the client values, and check anything that matters against the full guide and its sources. Not medical advice.