Category: Clarity Breathwork

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Breathfun Retreat 2025

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Last week, I had the honor of co-facilitating a five-day Breath Retreat with Neika Embry Whittemore at Little Yosemite Lodge. This stunning location—the same place I’ve visited many times over the years for quiet meditation—feels like sacred ground.

This retreat was such a precious gift. Dedicated time and space for everyone to receive, process, and truly embody all that unfolded during the four breath sessions.

Everything felt absolutely perfect, even the imperfections—because they were a part of the beautiful, authentic journey. 🙂 Every soul present was exactly where they needed to be, each one of us a vital part of this extraordinary process.

It was a heartwarming reminder that when we come together in trust and openness, magic happens.

Although I will not be facilitating any retreats in the near future, there are other Breathwork (Breathfun) retreats at Little Yosemite Lodge. In October, Kristen Maurice will be leading one with Neika, and I tell you, I would love to be there!

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available Monday through Friday for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork.  

510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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Self-Healing With Breathwork

A small white dog lounging on a colorful bedspread, looking relaxed and cozy.

In April, I missed twelve days of work because I was sick. I had that crazy coughing cold/flu thing that was going around. I was exhausted, but I did not have a fever. From what I was hearing from other people, I knew it could last for two weeks.

Canceling clients is my least favorite thing to do. Disappointing people is irritating, and I have to talk myself through it every time. Knowing I would be down for a while, I decided to fully surrender to the healing process.

It still sucked.

I had a lot of time alone to think and meditate. Unfortunately, I checked the news a bit too often, and I felt the weight of the world.

Breathwork saved me. When I felt overwhelmed, I breathed for a full hour. It released all the sadness and grief that had come up, and my body felt so relaxed, calm, and peaceful.

I felt so much gratitude for my breathwork practice.

As you can see from the photo, my dog Berkeley also helped me heal by lying around being cute.

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available Monday through Friday for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork.  

510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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Clarity Breathwork: A Very Versatile Tool

One private Clarity Breathwork session will give you access to an amazing healing process.

After my first session, I started doing Clarity Breathwork every day on my own, as well as having private sessions. I still have regular private sessions and use it often to ground my energy during the day.

Here are a few ways you can use breathwork to support you in your life:

1. If you find yourself triggered, like when you read the headlines in the news, you can breath immediately. Sit or lie down, then do ten connected breaths. See how you feel. Repeat if necessary.

2. If you do Shamanic journeys, you can use circular breathing to go deeper. THIS IS AMAZING!

3. When you can’t fall asleep at night, focus on the connected breathing. Continue until whatever energies are in your body are released or you fall asleep.

4. Create a personal ceremony with an intention. Focus on an issue that you are presently dealing with financially, medically, or creatively. Pick the perfect music. Set up an altar and a comfy private space. Journal, and breathe for fifty minutes to call in the vision you need at this moment in your life.

5. Use Breathwork to deepen your meditation practice. Do ten deep, connected breaths before sitting.

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available Monday through Friday for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork.  

510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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Breathwork Retreat: Four Breath Sessions in Three Days

Doing a Breathwork session every day for three consecutive days is profoundly healing. I just finished facilitating a three-day Breathwork retreat in North Fork, California. This is the first long retreat I have done, and it reminded me of how transformational daily breathwork sessions can be. Witnessing people release and resolve trauma, heal their physical bodies, and experience greater consciousness is such a joy.

The retreat was at Little Yosemite Lodge on Hoyau Creek, near North Fork, California, 25 miles from Yosemite National Park. The land is sacred. I felt so supported and experienced tangible nurturing from the earth. I felt this energy in my own body and during the group sessions. I named this retreat ACCESSING YOUR HIGHEST WISDOM, and being grounded in a beautiful place like this makes connecting with higher guidance so much easier.

Even if you can’t get away to a beautiful place like Little Yosemite Lodge for a series of Breathwork sessions, you can open the space and time in your schedule for a personal retreat. You can book your home retreat sessions with me or another breathworker, breathe online, or use a CD.

Self-care on this level is a radical political act. Our connection to our inner guidance will navigate us through these challenging times.

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available Monday through Friday for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork. 

510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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Science And The False Reality Of Loneliness

In this thought-provoking video, Lisa Miller, Ph. D., discusses the epidemic levels of loneliness in our world today.

She is a clinical psychologist and Professor of Psychology and Education at Columbia University, Teachers College. She is also the Founder of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute, the first Ivy League graduate program in spirituality and psychology.

Professor Miller believes we are all interconnected. She states that by embracing spirituality and practicing it with intention, we can realize we are not alone. She describes in this video her experience in a Lakota healing ceremony and the transformative power of collective spiritual practices.

As a Clarity Breathworker, I have witnessed many people experience that interconnectedness—the tangible, felt sense of oneness—in their sessions. It is profoundly healing: physically, mentally, and emotionally. Breathwork is my personal path and practice of connecting with this state of consciousness. This is why I am so inspired to hold space for others to breathe.

Thank you, Lisa Miller!

Note: As a healing nerd, I was surprised to learn that Alpha frequencies were the same as Schumann’s Resonance.

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available Monday through Friday for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork. 

510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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Clarity Breathwork Enables Other Healing Modalities

Are you stuck in your healing process or your life? Does talk therapy suddenly feel unproductive? Have your physical therapy sessions stopped increasing your mobility? Is your neck tight again an hour after you see your chiropractor?

A Clarity Breathwork session may reboot everything.

Even one Breathwork session can release previously inaccessible energy blocks in your body, enabling massage, acupuncture, and physical therapy sessions to become effective again. I often have my clients’ massage therapists and PTs’ come for a Breathe after they see the shift it created for our mutual client.

Clarity Breathwork revitalizes talk therapy sessions. I have witnessed this over and over, and it is so exciting to hear my clients tell me the insights they have gained from their psychotherapists.

Breathwork increases our capacity to heal and transform on all levels of our being.

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork  Monday through Friday.   jerilawson@mac.com 510-601-9632

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Clarity Breathwork: Thoughts about Thoughts

Have you heard this statement from a meditation teacher, or read it in a spiritual book?

“You are not your thoughts; you are the observer of your thoughts.” 

—  Amit Ray

A few weeks ago, during a Clarity Breathwork Session, a client had a very tangible experience of being separate from his thoughts. He became aware of that part of him that was observing the thoughts. He was in awe.

Often, during a Breathwork session, the experience of your thoughts as separate from you can arise. It happens quite a bit in my personal breath sessions, and I too, am still in awe every time it happens.

I LOVE Breathwork.

Yet, sometimes when oxygen energizes the brain during a breathe, there are more thoughts than ever! That initially does not seem to be meditative. I suggest to my Breathwork clients before their first breathe not to attempt to stop the thinking. Instead, just observe the thoughts coming and going. It is as if the thoughts were sticks and you are on the bank of a river watching them float by.

While researching quotes for this post, I found this cute video about thoughts. WordPress has assured me this video will go out to  subscribers when I publish it on my blog. Fingers crossed.

If there is not a video attached to this email, here is the link:

An excellent quote about thoughts from one of my favorite writers, Eckhart Tolle:

“Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.”

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork  Monday through Friday. 510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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A Brief History Of Breathwork

The practice of circular breathing to experience higher states of consciousness was practiced in the ancient cultures of India, China, and Tibet.

In the self-awareness era of the late 1960s and early 1970s, two main styles of Breathwork re-emerged in Western Culture: Rebirthing and Holotropic Breathwork.

Rebirthing was discovered and developed by Leonard Orr. He was sitting in a sauna experimenting with ‘conscious connected breathing’ when he experienced his own birth. Leonard credited Shri Mahavatar Babaji for inspiring him at his Ashram in the Himalayas.

One of Leonard’s first clients was Sondra Ray,  who went on to teach Rebirthing worldwide. Sandra is often referred to as the ‘Mother of Rebirthing.’ 

Leonard wrote on his website about Rebirthing sessions:

“People experienced the peace that surpasses all understanding,” 

Stanislav Grof founded Holotropic Breathwork. Dr. Grof had worked with many people therapeutically using LSD before it became classified as an illegal drug. In these psychedelic sessions, Grof noted the breathing pattern, especially at the end of the session,  prolonged the influence of the drug. Stan and his wife Christina began to research breath and breathing patterns and found that achieving non-ordinary states of mind with the breath was deeply and profoundly healing.

I have also heard that Grof was influenced early on by a Breathwork session with Frederick Lehman.

“In 1974, at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, my late wife Christina and I developed a new breathing method of self-exploration and psychotherapy. Because it was based on the healing effect of the holotropic state of consciousness, we called it holotropic Breathwork. The most frequent question that our workshop participants ask me how we discovered holotropic Breathwork. It is difficult to respond with one sentence; I would respond similarly as Albert Hofmann answered the same question about his discovery of LSD-25: “A serendipity and lucky chance.”

 – From the Grof® Legacy Training Website

There are many styles and schools of Breathwork now, so it is easy to find a practitioner and practice that resonates with you.

Clarity Breathwork was the first Breathwork training I received. Even after experiencing many other schools and breathwork practitioners,  I still feel it is the most powerful format to facilitate for my clients. That said, the woman I breathe with regularly is a Transformational Breathworker and studied with Dr. Judith Kravitz. 

Breathwork is my number one life-centering practice.  There is nothing more exciting and satisfying than sharing this healing with others.

Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork  Monday through Friday.    510-601-9632   jerilawson@mac.com

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Client Comments After Clarity Breathwork

“This is better than Ayahuasca!”

 – Client after her first session.

“It was such a treat to work with you.  It was one of the most profound and healing moments in my life. Thank you.”

– Client after first session

“Jeri! Thanks to you breathwork is a huge part of my life and has helped me feel and accept my feelings and receive guidance and just plain love and validation.”

  • – Client after several sessions

“You reminded me over and over again how there was so much support around me, how held I was, how loved I was.  I could feel it.  My chest, my heart feel open.  It astounds me sometimes how deeply every piece of my being trusts you, but it is also the most beautiful thing.  For the first time in weeks, I am cautiously optimistic looking forward.”

 – Client after many, many breathes.

Jeri Lawson has a full-time Reiki, Healing Touch, and Clarity Breathwork practice in Oakland, California. She is available for in-person and distance healing sessions. 510-601-0632 jerilawson@mac.com

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Report From A Breath Session

“So much of the breathe is a blur.  In some ways, it felt long, it felt the full 50 minutes.  In others, I did not want it to end because it was lovely.  I did manage to focus on my breath.  I did manage to float.  That’s what it felt like—I would float.  Detach completely.  I was conscious of it—the coming and going.  I’d leave my body and come back.  I’d feel the breath as I came back.  I was very conscious of coming back into my body and then slowly feeling myself float off again.  It was gentle, light.  There was a LOT of light too, so much light.  The whole room held all this light almost the whole time.”
– Client after her Breathe
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Every Breathwork session is different and gives you exactly what you need in that moment. I have witnessed so many people release stress and tension, resolve childhood trauma, and connect to their own healing energy.
Clarity Breathwork changed my life and my own sessions continue to give me access to my own deeper guidance.  Sharing Breathwork with other people, especially in these times, is such a joy.

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Jeri Lawson has a full-time healing practice in Oakland, California. She is available for Healing Touch, Reiki, and Clarity Breathwork Monday through Friday.

510-601-9632

jerilawson@mac.com