Holographic Breathing

Sjanie hugo – Hypnotherapy author and founder of The Fertile Body Institute

Hi martin I just wanted to say thank you for all your help with my pregnancy and birth.

 Before the birth the breathing really helped me to come in contact with my self, my body, and my baby in a very deep way.  During the birth Holographic Breathing helped ease and clear the pain of the contractions.  This was such medicine, so effective and pleasurable.  Big hug and sending lots of love.

 

Francoise Freedman – Yoga author and founder of the birthlight trust.

Being introduced to Holographic Breathing by Martin Jones was an immediate revelation. The simplicity of the initial practice reminded me of my first session of Pranayama with Philip Jones, many years ago.  Once Holographic Breathing was established, it felt so easy and natural that I could not imagine not using it through the day and through life.  Holographic Breathing is of value in all the areas of teaching within Birthlight.  It is well worth trying and I found that once I had increased the awareness of my jaw, cranium and pelvis while breathing, there was just no going back!

 

Natalia Brown – secretary of International Breathwork Foundation

Holographic Breathing was like a friend helping me to handle the intensity of the contractions. Iris was Lotus Birthed at home after a natural labour. It was first natural birth in my family for decades.

 

Nicola Scheiring -  Birthlight and yoga teacher from Finland

I am so happy to have learnt and practised Holographic Breathing through my pregnancy.  This was essential for the birth. Now all I can do is express is my gratitude to Martin, not only for what we have done during pregnancy, but also that he was there for me at the birth.  In one desperate moment hearing his voice was all I needed to get where I wanted to be.  I gave birth totally naturally to my wonderful baby girl.

 

I used Holographic Breathing to healing myself after the birth and  now use it for healing my children when they are sick. It feels so natural to breathe holographically and I am curious what comes next…..

 

Thank you Martin!

 

Jane Okondo - Cranial healer and breathworker

I first experienced the Holographic Breathing with martin Jones at The Global Inspiration Conference in the UK last July.  I found this way of breathing so deep, gentle and grounding and have continued to work with him in individual sessions. Martin's pace and style of teaching is as grounded and gentle as the work. As with all things that have a simplicity, when learning them you begin to appreciate just how rich and layered they really are.

 

 

 

 Martin Jones - Founder of Holographic Breathing

This deeply relaxing breathing system is well known for helping mothers through pregnancy and Childbirth.  Most mothers say that Holographic Breathing significantly reduces the pain of labour, and that being able to relax through birth helped them have a more fulfilling and enjoyable experience.

 

Holographic Breathing can also help relax and align the spine and pelvis through pregnancy and birth.  This is very helpful for relieving discomforts that can build at this time.

 

After Giving birth many mothers find Holographic Breathing Wonderful for recuperating. Also there are ways of using this breathing to heal your baby especially if they become ill with different child hood illness.

Free Audio Lectures

Birth and Holographic Breathing part 1

 

 

Birth and Holographic Breathing part two

 

In this talk we look at the effect of the brain in birth and how we can help with this. We also look some of the diaphragms in the body that reflect the cervix and aid it relaxing and opening.

 

Birth and Holographic Breathing part Three

 

 

Fertility and Holographic Breathing

 

 

The winter Solstice, This talk also covers Death Creation and Birth

 

This talk is about the winter solstice and the transformational process of Death, the Void, Creation and Rebirth.  In this talk we also look at how this transformation is mirrored in the transition from the out-breath to the in-breathe. This also relates a lot to the second seminar where we cover this and more.

 

Seminar Two is £6.99

 

For information on seminar two

 

Fertility and conception

When starting on the journey of having a family it's good to find that place with in us; our own home!  In Holographic Breathing there is a feeling of coming home and also of being nurtured.

 

In this breathing system there is a small, gentle motion of the jaw with the breath, which expands through the body.  One of the places this relates to is the pelvis.  There can be the experience that the pelvis is breathing with the rest of the body.  This brings an aliveness and health to this area.

 

In the second seminar we learn how to work with the out-breath, this is very relaxing and also connects us to the experience of the inner female.  This is helpful for participants, as they are able to drop into their natural mother, or femininity.  Also we learn how to drop into the lower body and sexual organs, this brings health to this area, and we become more in contact with our natural rhythms.

 

In this seminar it is also possible to have the experience of going back to the eternal mother the place everything is created from and returns to.  This is a very rejuvenating place and a bit like the place the baby is coming from.

 

Fertility and birth arise from a place of natural wisdom within us and in this breathing we become in contact with that place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Letter from Francoise Freedman – Yoga author and founder of the birthlight trust.

 

Being introduced to Holographic Breathing by Martin Jones was an immediate revelation. The simplicity of the initial practice reminded me of my first session of Pranayama with Philip Jones, many years ago. Once Holographic Breathing was established, it felt so easy and natural that I could not imagine not using it through the day and through life.

 

As a yoga teacher and therapist, I am extremely suspicious of methods and approaches that are not sanctioned by the Yoga Tradition, particularly in relation to breathing. For this reason, at Birthlight we do not endorse the breathing methods used in re-birthing and in some hypno-birthing approaches. Not wanting to discard or recommend something I had not experienced, I first read the documents on Holographic Breathing on Martin Jones’s website. Detailed explanations based on anatomy gave me an incentive to experiment with this mode of breathing. My main preoccupation was to find out whether the Holographic Breathing would be compatible with Yoga teachings or not. After a number of phone-taught sessions with Martin, I am convinced that there is no contradiction between any aspect of the Holographic Breathing and Yoga. On the contrary, using Holographic Breathing can enhance the practice of full yogic breath and produces an instant feeling of relaxation, of the kind that one can experience in the hands of a skilled cranio-sacral osteopath.

 

For Birthlight teachers, facilitating the interaction between the lower jaw and the pelvis during labour is of importance. While it has become common knowledge (long shared among midwives) that women do better if they do not tighten their lower jaw and clench their teeth in childbirth, fear and forceful pushing with breath retention create tight locks. The Holographic Breathing is based primarily on undoing this jaw lock and then on exploring connections between relaxed maxillary bones and the pelvis. Further connections follow. Discovering them has been one of the most interesting explorations I have recently experienced in relation to promoting the greater enjoyment of pregnancy and childbirth.

 

Holographic Breathing is of value in all the areas of teaching within Birthlight. It is well worth trying and you will probably find that once you increase the awareness of your jaws, cranium and pelvis while breathing, there is just no going back!

 

Natalia Brown – secretary of International Breathwork Foundation

Martin guided me through Holographic breathing sessions in the run up to the birth of my first child, Iris. We were interested to see how Holographic Breathing supported the pre-natal and birthing process. The most powerful experience was the recollection of my skull being stuck while my own birth took place, which resulted in my mother having an emergency C-section. When we released the anxiety about being stuck my own pelvis started to move with fluidity in preparation for the birth. When labour started, Holographic Breathing was like a friend helping me to handle the intensity of the contractions. Iris was Lotus Birthed at home after a natural labour. It was first natural birth in my family for decade.

 

 

This is the first part of Nicola Sheiring's birth story  from Finland,

 

MY JOURNEY INTO HOLOGRAPHIC BREATHING

I came across Holographic Breathing through my teacher Francoise Freedman founder of Birthlight. I trained to be a Pre-and Postnatal yoga teacher with her.

 

Like for her it was also important for me to discover a way of breathing which complements the yogic way of pranayama.

 

The birth of my first child was very long and intense, but luckily I decided for a home birth. The process of dilating went very slow, I progressed still I got very tired. I knew yoga would have had a lot to offer and help but I just didn’t know about it. By then I had done a teacher training in Hatha yoga and I could not find a way to help myself through the first stage of labour only by some deep breathing and moving around.

 

At last the breathing practice helped for the second stage of labour and my lovely baby was born naturally after almost two days.

 

When I was ready I started studying yoga for pregnancy and am now teaching woman to help them through this amazing journey.

 

When I got pregnant the second time I knew I have a lot more experience and tools to help for the birth, anyhow I was excited to come across Holographic Breathing and I really wanted to try it out, also to do everything to help this second birth.

 

I took the first free seminar from Martins page and got very fast into the up and downward movement of the jaw. At first it felt different of what I knew from yoga relaxation as I just let the jaw hang down to relax it, but soon I got into the motion of the opening on the inhalation and closing on the exhalation and it felt very natural.

 

I have been starting to use this breath at all times just to make it part of me.

 

I did my first phone session with Martin and learned a great deal about the polarities of the breath in this second seminar. What I have used in yoga relaxation is the focus on the out breath to sink deeper into relax. Now being aware of how the energetic “in” breath and the relaxing “out” breath relate to each other with its different qualities was just the next step, finally finding the little place between exhale and inhale where “nothingness” resides or darkness even death. It’s a major find to hang out in that space and deeply relaxing.

 

The next seminar I did with Martin was just blowing me away, as I already could feel a profound change in doing the last one, I didn’t imagine to get even further. I have to say after I did the first seminar, this is when I was at 16 weeks pregnant I had slight complains in my sacroiliac joints but somehow my body aligned through practicing the movement of the jaw and I was pain free shortly.

 

So what to expect from going further, I had no idea and when Martin introduced me to the sideways breath I just instantly could feel how all the different parts of my body started breathing. I could cancel the osteopath appointment for my somehow stiff neck as I was just breathing sideways into it and could feel the relieve right away.

 

In that seminar he also showed me the way to the back of my body. This was a revelation as I could actually feel being behind my baby. This is done by activating the temporomandibular joint which in turn activates the temporal, sphenoid and occipital bones and the movement of cerebrospinal fluid through the spine is felt like a flush down to the sacrum. I could actually feel a tingeling feeling as the nerves were activated. We were literally hanging out by the kidneys and creating a cradle for the baby. Like Martin mentions as our society is living very much in the front of the body in the intellectual, this was a wonderful experience and especially important to be during birth. It’s a great place to be.

 

I have been practicing this every day and it really helps a tired body to get back to daily routines.

 

We have been mixing seminars a bit as Martin chose what I needed for my birth so this was my fourth phone call with him and this is what I learned. As we were focusing on the bones through the movement of jaw, we now went to involve all the muscles by working with the tongue.  By breathing through the tongue we also went into the circulatory system and got to know the different qualities of the arterial blood and venus blood. By then I felt the blood coming to the tongue from the back. Next we moved into the lymphatic system, which is very healing. Breathing into the lymph and contracting the lymph to the heart. That is when I felt weightless and totally free.

 

Martin directed me into the back of my body again and this time through using the tongue I could already see my jaw from behind, from here we moved down again along the muscles to the kidneys and all the organs, including feeling a wonderful connection with my baby.

 

Throughout all my breathing sessions my baby was very active and somehow enjoying the movement of the breath just to relax afterwards.

 

Relaxed mother, relaxed baby!!

 

To be continued…

 

Holographic Breathing part II

Now 39 weeks pregnant I have been practicing the Holographic Breathing on a daily basis and this is what I learned in the last seminars with Martin.

 

 

The Middle Wife' by an Anonymous 2nd grade teacher

 I've been teaching now for about fifteen years. I have two kids myself, but the best birth story I know is the one I saw in my own second grade classroom a few years back.

 

When I was a kid, I loved show-and-tell.. So I always have a few sessions with my students. It helps them get over shyness and usually, show-and-tell is pretty tame. Kids bring in pet turtles, model airplanes, pictures of fish they catch, stuff like that. And I never, ever place any boundaries or limitations on them. If they want to lug it in to school and talk about it, they're welcome.

 

Well, one day this little girl, Erica, a very bright, very outgoing kid, takes her turn and waddles up to the front of the class with a pillow stuffed under her sweater.

 

She holds up a snapshot of an infant. 'This is Luke, my baby brother, and I'm going to tell you about his birthday.'
'First, Mom and Dad made him as a symbol of their love, and then Dad put a seed in my Mom's stomach, and Luke grew in there. He ate for nine months through an umbrella cord.'

 

She's standing there with her hands on the pillow, and I'm trying not to laugh and wishing I had my camcorder with me. The kids are watching her in amazement.

 

'Then, about two Saturdays ago, my Mom starts saying and going, 'Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh!' Erica puts a hand behind her back and groans. 'She walked around the house for, like an hour, 'Oh, oh, oh!' (Now this kid is doing a hysterical duck walk and groaning.)

 

'My Dad called the middle wife. She delivers babies, but she doesn't have a sign on the car like the Domino's man. They got my Mom to lie down in bed like this.' (Then Erica lies down with her back against the wall.)

 

'And then, pop! My Mom had this bag of water she kept in there in case he got thirsty, and it just blew up and spilled all over the bed, like psshhheew!' (This kid has her legs spread with her little hands miming water flowing away. It was too much!)

 

'Then the middle wife starts saying 'push, push,' and 'breathe, breathe.
They started counting, but never even got past ten. Then, all of a sudden, out comes my brother. He was covered in yucky stuff that they all said it was from Mom's play-center, (placenta) so there must be a lot of toys inside there. When he got out, the middle wife spanked him for crawling up in there.'

 

Then Erica stood up, took a big theatrical bow and returned to her seat.
I'm sure I applauded the loudest. Ever since then, when it's show-and-tell day, I bring my camcorder, just in case another ' Middle Wife' comes along.

 

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