Season 1 Ep.12 Befriending Your Breath with Aminah Sheikh

This episode is a unique one. I am not interviewing any guests today. I am attempting to share the story of my most recent breathwork session. It's challenging to explain, but here's my attempt. Drop me a note via DM on the Gram @opicoaching - I would love to know your thoughts on this episode and my experience. Have you ever had an experience like this?  My facilitator of this session was Lacy Lloyd. Lacey can be reached on: Facebook and Instagram @Renewed Living Yoga As always, I can be reached on my Facebook page or my Facebook Community Celebrate and Reinvent Yourself, Instagram (@opicoaching) and finally my website (www.opicoaching.com). I would love to connect and help you explore if Breathwork is for you. With gratitude, Suz

It is my pleasure to introduce you to Aminah Sheikh, a Breathwork practitioner from India.  ⁠In this episode, Aminah talks about what can emerge when you befriend your breath. She talks about the moment she stopped living life for others and starting living in her truth. She shares how she found her truth and her strength in her breath. You do not want to miss this episode. Aminah is a beautiful soul and I'm so honored to know her.  Aminah can be reached on: Instagram @butterflytale and email @ [email protected]  As always, I can be reached on my Facebook page or my Facebook Community Celebrate and Reinvent Yourself, Instagram (@opicoaching) and finally my website (www.opicoaching.com). I would love to connect and help you explore if Breathwork is for you. With gratitude, Suz A little more about Aminah: Aminah Sheikh is a storyteller with a gypsy heart, who believes ‘We are all Stardust’.  As a healing facilitator, Aminah uses modalities such as Breathwork, Mindfulness, Emotional Freedom Technique and Flower Remedies.   Her endeavor is to share the gift of healing through the Breath. She is the Founder of Breathing Stardust. The essence of her work is in supporting a breather to befriend the wounded inner child, and weave a fresh story thereon. She uses a gentle approach to remind breathers of their power of choice.

Welcome to a special surprise FOURTH episode highlighting recent Pause Breathwork Facilitator graduates. ⁠Congratulations to all the recent graduates!⁠ Joëlle is a full-time flight attendant, Self-love Coach, Breathwork Facilitator, and proud woman in recovery from drugs, alcohol and food. She is also a loving Cat Mom! ⁠In this episode, Joëlle talks about.... Joëlle can be found on IG @simplepleasures_01 and on Facebook @Joëlle Page As always, I can be reached on my Facebook page or my Facebook Community Celebrate and Reinvent Yourself, Instagram @opicoaching and finally my website (www.opicoaching.com). I would love to connect and help you explore if Breathwork is for you. With gratitude, Suz

Welcome to the third of three episodes highlighting recent Pause Breathwork Facilitator graduates. ⁠Congratulations to all the recent graduates!⁠ This episode is rich with stories around how Breathwork can change your life. Sarah Sather is a Holistic Health Coach and a Pause Breathwork Facilitator. She is a free spirited energetic single mother of two. Her mission is to support others to embrace their inner knowing and to feel comfortable in the beautiful body they were born with. ⁠In this episode, Sarah talks about relearning how to breathe and in that process letting go of comparison and perfectionism; learning how to be in the moment. Sarah shares how it helps her kids. This episode is packed full of stories and really demonstrates the change that comes from a Breathwork practice.  Sarah can be found at: IG @universalvitality, Facebook - Sarah Sather  (www.facebook.com/sarah.zimms), and her website www.universalvitality.ca As always, I can be reached on my Facebook page or my Facebook Community Celebrate and Reinvent Yourself, Instagram @opicoaching and finally my website (www.opicoaching.com). I would love to connect and help you explore if Breathwork is for you. With gratitude, Suz

Welcome to the second of three episodes highlighting recent Pause Breathwork Facilitator graduates. ⁠Congratulations to all the recent graduates!⁠ ⁠Erin Reiland is Certified Disordered Eating/Anxiety/& Trauma Coach who found Breathwork as part of her own healing journey. ⁠ ⁠In this episode, Erin talks about how she was in full recovery from her eating disorder and then found Breathwork and took her recovery to the next level. She discovered parts of herself she wasn't aware existed and through Breathwork integrated those parts for an even deeper level of understanding about herself. ⁠ ⁠It's an inspiring story that highlights when you have courage and dare to dream big you can overcome challenges and design a life of your dreams. ⁠ ⁠I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.  Erin can be found at IG: instagram.com/erin_reiland_love   Twitter: twitter.com/food_body_coach  and her  Website: www.inbodylovecoaching.com As always, I can be reached on my Facebook page or my Facebook Community Celebrate and Reinvent Yourself, Instagram @opicoaching and finally my website (www.opicoaching.com). I would love to connect and help you explore if Breathwork is for you. With gratitude, Suz A little more about Erin Erin Reiland is a writer, blog contributor, Certified Disordered Eating/Anxiety/& Trauma Coach; Certified PAUSE Breathwork Practitioner & Certified NLP Practitioner. Erin suffered from her eating disorder for 20 years before recovering, and then pursued her calling through her coaching business, InBody_Love Coaching.  It is her mission to spread awareness and give support to women, and guide them to a place of love and acceptance of themselves.

In this episode, Lacey Lloyd talks about the transformation she has gone through, almost as a coming home to herself.  She shares how Breathwork has brought her Resilience, Stability and Contentment as three pillars for her life.  Lacey manages to offer the most practical and understandable description of Breathwork I have heard to date. I appreciate this on so many levels. It is my goal to hold space and help as many people as possible. The challenge is, not a lot of people know what Breathwork is and when they hear about it, they are just not sure it's for them. I think it scares some people off, especially when it gets super woo woo, the way Meditation used to 10 years ago.  One way to ensure people get help they need is to make Breathwork understandable and relatable. To make it something people are curious about and interested in trying for themselves.  Lacey does this in today's conversation.  Lacey can be reached on: Facebook and Instagram @Renewed Living Yoga As always, I can be reached on my Facebook page or my Facebook Community Celebrate and Reinvent Yourself, Instagram @opicoaching and finally my website (www.opicoaching.com). I would love to connect and help you explore if Breathwork is for you. With gratitude, Suz A little about Lacey: Lacey is a full time yoga teacher, breathwork facilitator and student of yoga philosophy. Her mission is to educate people on the benefits of a daily personal practice of self development and how you can use yoga and breathwork to create a more fully enriched life.

It is my pleasure to introduce you to Kerry Veitch, a Breathwork practitioner from the UK.  ⁠In this episode, Kerry talks about learning to take her armour off, stop running from life, let go of what you cannot change and change how you show up each and every day. ⁠She shares her powerful first Breathwork experience. It's quite moving to hear her insights and wisdom about life that, I believe, can help everyone! ⁠ Kerry can be reached on: Instagram @scared.breath and her website https://www.thesacredbreath.co.uk/ As always, I can be reached on my Facebook page or my Facebook Community Celebrate and Reinvent Yourself (were I periodically provide free Breathwork sessions), Instagram (@opicoaching) and finally my website (www.opicoaching.com). I would love to connect and help you explore if Breathwork is for you. With gratitude, Suz A little more about Kerry: Kerry Veitch has been connected with rebirthing breathwork since she was 19. In 1994 her first rebirthing session in the US,  along with some well-chosen books ‘Living in the Light’ & ‘Creative Visualization’, (selling 7 million copies) Shakti Gawain, really shaped Kerry’s life. With some more breathwork sessions over the years with Kerry’s auntie, Lynn Veitch who has been a breathwork practitioner for 37 years, the connection became more of a ‘calling’. Kerry now works closely with Lynn and recently produced an event - Breath of Our Ancestors.  Kerry is certified with an AIR Diploma in Rebirthing Breathwork, is an Alchemy of Breath Breathwork Practitioner and Teacher, and is also lucky enough to also have studied with Dan Brule amongst others. Kerry has a BSc Hons in Psychology and Sociology, and has also graduated as an energy healer. She is on the committee of the British Rebirth Society, which supports Rebirthing Breathwork practitioners in the UK over the last 40 years. She is also a practitioner member of the International Breathwork Foundation. Kerry founded The Sacred Breath her own breathwork practice and Breathe A Festival of Life , an annual weekend retreat that celebrates all modalities of breathwork in 2018, with the intention and capacity to spread the incredible, transformational work that can be done simply by using the breath.

In this episode, Robert talks about his journey to Breathwork after hitting rock bottom. He shares that he wanted to be an inspiration and someone his daughters could look up to, so he had to move past his anger and pain and tackle his own growth and development. He found Breathwork and it changed his life. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did.  Robert can be reached on: Facebook, Instagram and website. As always, I can be reached on my Facebook page or my Facebook Community Celebrate and Reinvent Yourself, Instagram @opicoaching and finally my website. I would love to connect and help you explore if Breathwork is for you. With gratitude, Suz A little about Robert:  I am honored to introduce you to Robert Bahedry from Los Angeles, CA. has been his home since 1995. He's a self described mutt from Iraqi & British heritage with some Turkish spice thrown in for good measure. He's a father of two amazing women who are the light of his life. Robert is a certified Breathwork Meditation practitioner in the 3-part breathing technique, that is taught by David Elliott. He stumbled upon the practice in 2009 at a time in his life when he was in search of a healing modality that would complement his burgeoning yoga practice. He had just completed his yoga teacher training only to discover that, alas, it was not his calling.  Then came Breathwork, and it changed his life in an instant.  Robert has been teaching and practicing since 2010 and has discovered that creating a sacred, safe, yet lighthearted environment in his sessions is a very powerful 'ice-breaker.'  He grew up on a healthy diet of Monty Python so irreverence, general silliness, and self-deprecating humor are often top of the bill.  An abundance of levity is very much present at all of his sessions. It's a great way to put everyone at ease, as he holds space for people to breathe, heal, and transform.

Erin K. Bishop talks about how Breathwork has transformed and supported her healing journey.   Erin can be reached on: Facebook, Instagram and youtube. As always, I can be reached on my Facebook page or my Facebook Community Celebrate and Reinvent Yourself (where we do free Breathwork sessions periodically), Instagram @opicoaching and finally my website. I would love to connect and explore if Breathwork is for you. With gratitude, Suz A little more about Erin: Erin K. Bishop, M.A., is an Internationally Certified Breathwork Practitioner, Breath Therapist and Integration Coach. For the last 10 years she has helped many people break unhealthy patterns and build stress resiliency. She uses proven techniques in mindfulness, Breathwork, yoga and mindset conditioning in her signature program to help her clients gain clarity for self-regulation. She creates an individualized roadmap for each client to experience emotional recovery. Erin earned a Master’s degree from Maryland University of Integrative Health in Health & Wellness Coaching. She is GPBA certified Psycho-Spiritual Facilitator & Breathwork Practitioner through the Inspiration Consciousness School, and IBF Certified Breath Therapist & Rebirthing Practitioner through Breath Mastery, One Sky International. She served as the VP of Guest Services for the Global Inspiration Conference in 2019, is an active member of the International Breathwork Foundation and the Global Professional Breathwork Alliance. Her private practice is now offered globally online. She serves both coasts in Washington and Maryland.

Taylor Tosczak talks about how Breathwork changed her life and why she became a facilitator. She talks about how her breath has helped her to feel, experience and process her emotions and truly connect to herself, her body, her mission and purpose. Her story is inspiring and motivational. I know you will love meeting Taylor and learning about the power of Breathwork from her story. Taylor can be reached at: Instagram and website. As always, I can be reached on my Facebook page or my Facebook Group Celebrate and Rediscover Yourself, Instagram @opicoaching and finally my website. I would love to connect and explore if Breathwork is for you. With gratitude, Suz