BREATHWORK key to good connections The body holds the


In this entertaining personal story Irena explains how breathwork and body psychotherapy allowed her to experience successful relationships in her life.


by Irena Lo Bue I


’ve heard many a guru say over the years, ‘You are not your body’, with finger pointed toward the heavens


and head bobbing convincingly. I so wanted to believe it. I really tried – gazing, chanting (I still like to chant), trying to ignore the burn in my knees, sitting cross-legged for hours with random thoughts running through my mind. And still, with great personal gains in meditation and therapy, there was persistent doubt. “Why then do I feel intense pleasure and also deep suffering in this body and why do I even


have a body that can do so much if my consciousness is all that I am – or at least the most important part of me?” I was raised a good Catholic girl with


my fair share of enculturated guilt, but surely this flesh was not the work of the devil? It felt like a pan-religious conspiracy – they were all saying the same thing! I was a child athlete, fast on the track,


and deep inside myself I believed that God must have loved my speed and, for that matter, my feelings – and the way I sang and drew and danced, and later in


life experienced my grown-up pleasures too. Right? I mean, how can orgasms be so nice if I am just a point of light? But like most people, all was not well in


the home I grew up in, and I took on the belief that this ‘badness’ I felt inside had everything to do with me. In particular I felt disconnection and alienation from my mother. As my personality developed with all its compensations and protections against this pain, I grew up fast. I flew off to live in another city at the tender age of 18, feeling somewhat less than ready for the world.


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