Alakh Analda is a practitioner Trainer and the founder and director of Zentium International, Rebirthing Breathwork Mastery. She was initiated as a Yoga Swami in 1976, and since 1987 she is a Breathwork Mastery practitioner.
She has been facilitating Rebirthing Breathwork mostly from a Sydney base. Besides long-term private breathwork practice, she has facilitated many hundreds of Groups, Weekends and Six Day Workshops in all parts of Australia, and also overseas, in Rebirthing Breathwork with Chakras, Meditation and Yoga and Kriya Yoga training.
Many of you might have experienced profound changes due to the breathing technique of the Wim Hof Method, but in this episode, we will dive deep into a technique based on fully conscious connected breathing – Rebirthing.
Leonard Orr is the discoverer and founder of technique which was developed as a result of spontaneous rebirthing experiences, where he discovered the ‘connected breathing’. Here, the inhale and exhale are merged with no pause in between. He claimed that this is the natural breathing rhythm of babies, animals, and most young children.
In this interview, Alakh talks about her insights and stories of the effects of rebirthing, the nine years she had lived in India, and shares her experiences and thoughts about breathing techniques and sexuality.
Epiphany Corner
- How Alakh became a breathworker
- What rebirthing is
- Her own rebirthing experiences
- How the things happening during birth are shaping us
- How her clients had transformed
- About growing up in Australia in the 1950s and 1960s
- Living for nine years in India and being initiated into the holy Yogic order of sannyasa, as a Swami, in the Yogashram of Swami Satyananda Paramahansa
- Why breathing and sexuality are connected
This is by far one of the most powerful breathing practices on the planet today.
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I didn’t listen to the full interview yet, but am already reminded of bioenergetic catharsis ( Wilhelm Reich ) and Elliott Hulse’s videos online.
He also met Wim Hof ( a few videos on youtube show that ).
Osho, dynamic meditation and his exercises come to mind, of the “bow” and so on.
Hi guys,
your podcast is amazing! I am enjoying it so much. I am from a scientific/engineering background as well and therefore I am really sceptical regarding “superhuman” abilities. The WHM got me because of the scientific backing, but it was to hard and time consuming for me to read all the studies and papers, partly because I am from a different field. I have learned so much about the method and physiology/ neurology by listening to you guys. Especially I love that you are not affraid to ask question about downsides or dangers of the method. But…then this episode… this was a real disapointment. I could not get to the end because it had nothing to do with the scientific method, certainly when she is talking about remembering being a floating wale or even incidents from her birth. Seriously?! I havent heard any proof or at least test to proof her claims. Dont get me wrong, I dont mind spirituality. I just wanted to give you some feedback. Your doing an amazing job with alot of work and passion, you can hear that in every single episode. This episode simply has nothing to do with the rest of the podcast and shoudnt be on it. The reason people are attracted to WHM is the science backing it. By releasing an episode like that you endangering excatly that, making me feel beeing fooled or at least like I am being talked bullshit to. I also think this is the opposite of what Wim wants. He wants the scientific and testable knowledge to spread. But Anyway, please go on with your podcast. Especially the interviews with the researchers are amazing! I am learning so much with every episode, you podcast should be linke on the very front of the WHM homepage. You are both doing a great job. Keep asking questions critically. I jus wanted to leave a constructive critique, because this episode did not put up to your standard. Thanks guys. Regards, Andrej
Thanks a lot for your feedback, Andrej.
I can completely understand that you have found this interview challenging because of your engineering background. But we are going to release these kinds of episodes from time to time. Because we think other breathing techniques are worth to be featured here. And just think of this, there was a time when Wim had no scientific backup as well. Probably, you would not have listen to an interview with him in the past.
Additionally, social sciences have noticed quite well that subjective experiences are a crucial field that must not be disregarded. At the end, the Wim Hof Method is mainly a subjective experience. It is nice to have background knowledge of the physiological changes in the body, but most of these information are not sure and might turn out wrong later. I guess the majority of people are doing the Wim Hof Method because of their subjective experiences.
Hi Matthias,
thanks for publishing and answering my comment. I am absolutly enjoying to hear about other breathing techniques like buteyko. I am honestly glad you feature them on your show. Even if they dont have the scientific backing like the WHM. You are right, without the backing I would have had my difficulties with the WHM a couple of years ago. Nonetheless you chose to call your podcast science on the rocks. That is why I think this episode went to far in to esoterics. It just does not fit into your concept and the other episodes. I get there is a fluid border between science and spirituality and what science can proof and what not. And I am interested in these topics, that is one of the reasons I got to WHM. Of course the subjective experience is important and should always be taken into consideration and I like that you always ask about the personal experiences, but still I think it should be explainable or at least tried to be explained. This is what I missed here. But anyway, if these interviews will be on here only from time to time that is ok for me. So, go on with the great work your doing. Regards, Andrej