Gwen Payne | The Breath of Inspiration: How Ancient Breathwork Turns Your Body Into A Conduit For Healing Generational Pain
Wellness + Wisdom Podcast
Josh Trent
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2022
⏱️ 104 minutes
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The breath found me. My philosophy around breathwork is that it is opening us up to be conduits for life, love, and spirit to flow through us. - Gwen Payne
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Wellness + Wisdom Episode 471
Founder of, “Breath is Prayer” and “Inspired Sedona”, Gwen Payne, shares what skills every breathwork facilitator needs, her own breathwork training experience + why she's a student for life, why death can be our greatest advisor and how to listen to your own authentic guidance system.
What actually blocks people from letting go of their stress, anxiety, and negative emotions?
By the end of this episode, you will have a full understanding of how ancient breathwork turns your body into a conduit for healing depression and generational pain.
Listen To Episode 471 As Gwen Payne Uncovers:
[1:30] What's Blocking Our Ability to Move Past Anxiety?
- Gwen Payne
- Inspired Sedona
- Gwen's Gift to You!
- How Josh and Gwen met for the first time in Sedona, Arizona when he went there to do a training with Carrie.
- What it's been like for Gwen to be back in Austin, Texas after about 40 years since she last visited it.
- The fact that Gwen was actually conceived in Austin and that's why it felt like home for her when she visited it in 1983.
- Unpacking how we can allow ourselves to be and feel more free in our skin.
- How growing up in a Mediterranean culture where differences are celebrated allows Gwen to see how homogenous American culture and identity are all over the country.
- What Gwen's 'Breath is Prayer' medicine is and how it helped Josh let go of held-back emotions. Why experience is vital if you're going to facilitate and hold space as you lead a bre
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| 0:00.0 | Do you know how little people are breathing? |
| 0:04.0 | 30% is what the average American adult is set to breathe of their functional capacity. |
| 0:09.0 | Essentially, that's starvation mode for the cells of your body, for your brain. |
| 0:15.0 | My philosophy around breath work is that it's opening us up once again to be |
| 0:20.2 | conduits for life, love, and spirit to flow through us. |
| 0:23.0 | That's Gwen Payne, and this is episode 471 of the Wellness and Wisdom Podcast. |
| 0:29.0 | Wellness Wisdom, we discover the physical and emotional intelligence to live life well. |
| 0:35.0 | How can we bring awareness and reverence to all the little mundane elements of our life? |
| 0:42.0 | Wellness I think is a combination of understanding |
| 0:45.8 | your own internal wants, needs, and desires. |
| 0:49.0 | If you really want to take guidance from your soul, |
| 0:51.6 | you have to be ready to realize that many of the things that you're |
| 0:54.3 | asking for guidance on, your ego has some kind of an addiction to or an investment in. |
| 0:59.4 | Understanding that we are a piece of nature, you know, is where we belong I think is a very comforting thing to |
| 1:06.4 | understand that would certainly feed into wellness well. |
| 1:09.7 | Gwen Payne is the founder of Breath is Prayer and inspired Sedona. |
| 1:15.0 | She intuitively employs a combination of breath work, the passion test, family constellations, |
| 1:20.1 | hypnotherapy, yoga, coaching, and dance to guide and support people across the world to come |
| 1:25.6 | home to their true nature and remain consciously connected to their essential truth. |
| 1:30.9 | Gwen was born in Italy, she grew up in Tunisia and attended boarding schools in Europe |
| 1:35.1 | before coming to the US to attend Stanford University. And she credits her diversity and |
| 1:40.5 | cultural experiences as the most formative education of her life, one that provided |
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