Susie Smith | Breathwork

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Susie’s Intuitive Breathwork blends conscious, body‑led breathing with somatic awareness, trauma‑informed safety, and energetic integration. The method helps unwind stored tension, quiet the mind, and build resilience through breath, sensation, and ritual. Her work offers tools you can use daily to regulate your nervous system, deepen embodiment, and reclaim clarity from within. This foundation explores breath practice, somatic sensing, and integration as core pillars of Susie’s approach.

Breath as Medicine

Breath holds infinite intelligence. When we breathe with awareness, we speak directly to the nervous system. Breathwork resets autonomic loops, helps release stored tension, and expands capacity for presence. Susie’s method uses varied rhythms, pauses, and cycles of breath to guide you through emotional unbinding, clarity, and alignment.

Core Breath Patterns

🌿 Connected & Conscious Breath
This foundational pattern emphasizes continuous, fluid breathing without pause between inhale and exhale. When done gently and with attention, it helps release stagnation, expand capacity, and invite safe unraveling of emotional tension.

🌸 Micro Pauses and Micro Holds
Pausing intentionally between the inhale and exhale, brief but mindful, gives the nervous system a moment to sense itself. These micro holds slow reactive loops, allow space for integration, and deepen self‑regulation.

💎 Rhythmic Variations
Altering the length and depth of inhales and exhales guides shifts in state. Longer exhales can stimulate parasympathetic tone. Slight breath holds can encourage clarity. Susie uses subtle variatio,n not force to guide transitions into openness and coherence.

Breath Support Tools

🌞 Grounded Posture & Alignment
Before deep work begins, attention is given to posture. A stable foundation such as rooted feet, aligned spine, relaxed shoulders ensures the breath is supported and flow is uninterrupted.

🌱 Hand Placement & Body Connection
Placing hands on the belly, chest, or low back serves as a somatic anchor. These subtle touch points draw attention inward, deepen the relationship with the breath, and help sense the internal shifts as breath moves through the system.

Guided Sound, Imagery, & Intention
At times, Susie weaves in sound, simple imagery, or intention to support deeper release or shift. These are not rigid scripts they respond to what the body is doing. The breath remains the central vehicle; sound and imagery act as companions when helpful.

Somatic Awareness and Embodiment

The body is not just a vessel for the mind it is the living ground of insight, presence, and healing. When we attend to sensation, tracking, and internal state with kindness and curiosity, we restore trust between body and consciousness. This is how trauma is gently unwound and our deeper aliveness is reclaimed.

Cultivating Sensory Intelligence

🌿 Tracking & Noticing
Participants are guided to quietly notice tension, softness, expansion, or sensation in subtle parts of the body. Without needing to change anything, this witnessing invites the system to respond, shift, or release.

🌸 Micro Movements & Adjustments
Small, almost imperceptible movements such as shifts in jaw, neck, rib, or pelvis can free energy. These micro adjustments, when done with awareness, unblock flow without triggering overwhelm or resistance.

💎 Embodied Breath & Sensation Feedback
As breath moves, it interacts with tissues, organs, fluids, and bioelectric fields. Observing how breath is felt in bones, fascia, heart, and viscera deepens the dialogue between the internal and external. This feedback loop helps guide each session uniquely.

Trauma-Informed Safety

🌼 Consent & Autonomy
Every moment invites the participant’s choice. You can pause, soften, or step out of the practice at will. Safety is primary. Susie holds space that respects boundaries, pace, and where the body wants to move.

🌊 Anchor Points & Resourcing
Before, during, and after breathwork, you are offered resources like images, sensations, touches, memories that feel stabilizing. These anchors help manage intensity and maintain coherence even when emotion arises.

💫 Gradual Unwinding over Force
The work is not about pushing or going deep at all costs. Instead, the body is invited to release in its own rhythm. Gentle, incremental unbinding is favored over sudden collapse. This method builds longevity, trust, and alignment.

Integration, Ritual, and Everyday Resilience

The most powerful shifts are those you carry into daily life. Integration practices plant the seeds of session states into routine. Rituals, micro‑practices, and somatic tools help maintain the nervous system’s coherence and bridge breathwork into life’s flow. This is how your breath becomes your companion rather than a special event.

Integration Tools

🌼 Journaling & Reflection
After a session, writing what is alive, shifting, or emerging allows the nervous system to land. Reflection strengthens meaning, clarifies intention, and helps the subconscious integrate what was touched during practice.

🌊 Micro Breath Rituals
Short practices from 30 seconds to 2 minutes throughout the day re‑anchor the breath. These could be one full cycle, a micro pause, or a few conscious inhales and exhales before transitions, meals, or rest.

💫 Movement & Somatic Closure
Gentle stretches, shaking, walking, or conscious movement help ground shifts. They support the body in completing cycles, releasing residual tension, and embodying new spaciousness.

Living from Breath

🌿 Breath as Baseline
Rather than using breathwork only in crisis, Susie encourages breathing from presence as baseline. When breath becomes restful, responsive, and integrated, it shapes your baseline nervous tone. This supports emotional clarity, better sleep, and resilience.

🌱 Rituals of Return
Simple rituals like lighting a candle, pausing to breathe before stepping into a room, setting intention at sunrise land you back into yourself. These small acts act as energetic bookmarks in your day.

Breathing in Relationship
In interactions, pausing to sense your breath and your partner’s breath builds deeper attunement. When speaking, breathing from connection rather than reaction allows clarity, empathy, and grounded communication.