Events exploring new ways of being to feel alive in every act.
Reading about BREATHING
EVENT DETAILS:
When: Wednesday 24th November, 19:00 - 20:30
Where: TBC in Manchester (Northern Quarter)
Price: Free
How: Details will be published on facebook group, please join
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Through ‘breathwork’ we can be alive in this moment, but it is most often done for a purpose, a desire beyond. This is can be wonderful, such as when it allows us to exude more energy and love throughout our day. However, breathwork has become wrapped up with our culture of optimisation. We manipulate our breath to be more effective and efficient, to perform (to perform) at our peak.
These rituals of recharge are ultimately matters of self-concern. The breathworker dives deep into the self, away from other and environment. They emerge, serene. We are perpetually calmed, allowing us to continue accepting our place within inhumane societal structures.
Rather than retreating into self, can we breathe together to restructure our relations and norms?
In this month’s Book Club, we will be reading and discussing excerpts from James Nestor’s ‘Breath’, in preparation for creating New ways of BREATHING which make us feel alive; connected to self, other and environment in this moment.
Breathers walk up and down phosphorescent lanes, inhaling up and exhaling down, making a mark to count the breath. On the 5000th breath, they leave.
BREATH STROKE 5000
Breathers walk up and down phosphorescent lanes, inhaling up and exhaling down, making a mark to count the breath. On the 5000th breath, they leave.
Bref o'clock
On waking, we enter the clock of breath in fives. Together we become the hand of time, spinning around the face, breathing slow in the centre and fast at the edge; for every step we take a breath. The edge must breathe faster and faster to curve the hand of time, and catch the centre. Then the centre becomes the edge, and the hand of time resets. This process repeats 5 times, and then it is Bref-o’clock.
Brush Breath Sand GONG
In darkness, breathers enter a sonic sea of breath and brush. Brush in hand, and bare feet on sand, inhaling, they brush backward, exhaling, forward, revealing phosphorescent patterns on the floor below. Lost in patterns; in repetitious fluctuations of concrete and sand, in echoes of breath and brush, they lose themselves. Until one hits a pendulum gong, when all must stop and hold their breath until the ringing ends.
BREF Stroke. Follow the video. Breathe to the count of 7.