I discovered breathwork at a time when I felt exiled from myself, lost in the noise of external expectations and disconnected from my authentic core. For a long time, I unconsciously held my breath—an attempt to suppress my vulnerability and suffocate my truth. Breathwork offered me a compassionate invitation to come home to myself, to sink beneath the surface of a false existence and into the depths of my grief. It allowed me to mourn my long separation from authenticity and celebrate a reunion with who I truly am.

Breathwork is a journey inward. It’s about granting yourself permission to release what no longer serves you. That act alone can be profoundly transformative. Neurodynamic Breathwork, in particular, is a practice that connects the breath with the nervous system and mental states, creating a pathway for healing and self-discovery. By consciously engaging with the breath, paired with evocative music and mindful bodywork, this practice has the power to shift neurological patterns and brainwave activity, helping you move from stress and tension into states of deep relaxation, presence, and clarity.

At its core, Neurodynamic Breathwork helps repattern your nervous system, transitioning from a state of constant arousal to one of calm and focus. By reducing stress hormones and stimulating the parasympathetic system, this practice cultivates a calm yet alert mindset that is ideal for those seeking to access their full potential. Through intentional breathing, you can bring unconscious patterns into the light—emotional blocks, limiting beliefs, and habitual thought cycles—and transform them, creating space for new insights and ways of being.

The benefits of Neurodynamic Breathwork ripple across every level of your being:

• Physically, it improves lung capacity, stimulates detoxification, releases muscular tension, and balances your nervous system.

• Mentally and cognitively, it enhances focus, reduces anxiety, and strengthens the mind-body connection.

• Emotionally, it provides a safe space to release suppressed emotions, resolve grief, sadness, or anger, and cultivate emotional intelligence and resilience.

• Spiritually, it deepens your sense of self-awareness and interconnection, allowing you to access inner wisdom and explore transpersonal states of consciousness.

Breathwork is more than a technique—it’s an invitation to connect with your inner guiding intelligence, the deep knowing within that holds answers and solutions beyond conscious thought. Most of what keeps us stuck in patterns of fear and limitation is stored in the unconscious mind. Neurodynamic Breathwork gives you direct access to this space, allowing for profound internal shifts and insights.

As you breathe intentionally, you create an opportunity to let go of old stories, clear emotional residue, and reconnect with your authentic self. You may find yourself more relaxed, open, and responsive—replacing reactivity with presence, and resistance with freedom. The practice awakens a deeper sense of autonomy and cultivates the capacity to stretch into life’s possibilities rather than shrink in fear.

“Your breath holds the key to unlocking who you truly are. When you release the tension in your body and allow yourself to breathe deeply, you come alive—at ease with yourself and in harmony with the world around you.”

— Moylan Ryan

This life-changing practice has the power to transform how you feel, think, and experience life. Through each breath, you create a bridge back to your authentic self, embracing the fullness of your being with compassion and clarity.

The Transformative Power of Combining Rolfing Structural Integration and Holotropic Breathwork

In the world of somatic healing, there are few combinations as powerful and complementary as Rolfing Structural Integration and Holotropic Breathwork. When experienced together in a thoughtfully sequenced session, these two modalities create a profound bridge between the physical and emotional realms—unlocking stored tension, catalyzing insight, and restoring alignment in both body and psyche.

What Happens When We Combine Them?

At their core, both Rolfing and Holotropic Breathwork are about liberation—but they approach it from different entry points.

● Rolfing Structural Integration works directly with the fascial system to realign the body
in gravity, release chronic tension, and restore balance and ease in movement. It is a
hands-on process that invites the body to let go of patterns held over time—physically,
emotionally, and energetically.

● Holotropic Breathwork, developed by Stanislav and Christina Grof, uses deep,
rhythmic breathing paired with evocative music and inner-directed processing to facilitate
expanded states of awareness. It bypasses the cognitive mind, allowing access to deep
emotional material, symbolic imagery, and spontaneous healing.

When paired together in a single session or sequentially, the impact is amplified.

5 Benefits of Combining Rolfing and Holotropic Breathwork

1. Deeper Access to Somatic Memory
Rolfing softens and opens the fascial matrix, often releasing areas where the body stores unresolved trauma. Breathwork then takes the process further, giving the psyche and the breath a clear pathway to bring repressed or unconscious material to the surface—emotionally, symbolically, or physically.

2. Greater Emotional Fluidity
Fascial restrictions often go hand-in-hand with emotional holding. Once the physical bracing begins to dissolve through Rolfing, the breath can flow more freely, allowing emotion to move rather than remain locked in the tissues. Many people report more vivid and cathartic breathwork journeys after bodywork.

3. Grounded Integration
One of the challenges with deep inner work is integration. Breathwork can open vast inner landscapes—but without grounding in the body, those experiences can remain abstract or overwhelming. Rolfing anchors the nervous system and creates a structural foundation so that emotional insights land in a real, embodied way.

4. Enhanced Breath Capacity
Rolfing directly affects the rib cage, diaphragm, and spine—structures essential to full, conscious breathing. By releasing adhesions in the thoracic fascia and balancing the core, clients often report greater breath capacity and freedom, which enhances the effectiveness of the breathwork session.

5. Awakening a Felt Sense of Wholeness
Together, these practices reconnect parts of the self that have become
fragmented—emotionally, physically, energetically. This combination invites a deeply embodied
presence and often a renewed sense of personal power, clarity, and trust in one’s inner wisdom.

A Journey of Reconnection

Whether you're working through trauma, seeking deeper self-awareness, or simply wanting to feel more alive in your body, the synergy of Rolfing and Holotropic Breathwork offers a unique and accelerated path toward wholeness. You don’t just release tension—you transform it. You don’t just revisit your story—you rewrite it, from the inside out. For those who are ready to go deep, this integrative approach doesn’t just invite change—it facilitates a total reorganization of how you inhabit your body, your breath, and your life. In person sessions of Rolfing Structural Integration / Breathwork are available by special appointment only.

Please contact Moylan at ...

Phone: 602 308 9394

Email: moylanryan@gmail.com