S14 / E4: Breathe

In this week’s episode of Wildheart we chat about the expansive qualities of breath, exploring how the act of breathing connects to many themes of spring: expansion, air, space, freedom and more. We also consider how it can feel when these are restricted or constricted, and what that means in relation to the process of rewilding the self.

We’d love to know after you’ve listened, what does breath / breathing symbolise for you this season?

Why have we chosen to talk about the word ‘breathe’?

• The element of spring is air, obviously very connected to the breath!

• The tree of March on our Rewilding Wheel is the alder, which traditionally connects with the breath, music, voice etc.

• Last week we talked about resistance and how emerging/re-emerging into the world after winter (or any kind of inward phase) can feel hard - or even how just being in the world right now can feel hard - so we thought that coming to the idea of breath next might be helpful in navigating this

What do we chat about?

• How breathing connects to themes of aliveness, spirit, energy, movement, space, expansion, freedom - but also themes of peace, stillness, rest, ease and groundedness

• Being in the present, coming back to self - breath allowing us to hear the wild within (and feel it, quite literally - an element moving through us)

• Breathing as a reminder that we’re living beings and need certain things to survive (just like plants!)

• The history of why humans have been ‘holding our breath’ for centuries