You want to explore your full masculine potential? Breathwork is a major tool to tap into your subconscious and into the divine. Tantra is being fully present. The combination of tantra and breath-work is totally new. This combination has been developed by the breath therapist and the medical doctor from the Netherlands the author of this website (Shunyam Adhibhu), together with his meditation and yoga friends.

We hereby present you the essence of tantric breath-work4men. And its relation to tantric work.

What is Breathwork?

The breath has been used as a medicine in various spiritual traditions for decades. Even now breathwork, or breathwork, is extremely popular. And not only among people with a passion for spirituality. Breathwork is used to relieve countless physical, mental and emotional complaints.

Breathwork, or breath work, is a broad concept. Breathwork is about consciously influencing your breathing to achieve a certain goal. That can be emotional processing, but also sleeping better, experiencing less stress, or expanding consciousness. From a simple breathing exercise to an intense breathwork session: it all falls under the heading of breathwork. Breathwork is therefore a collective name for various breathing techniques. The essence of our approach is that we combine breathwork with tantra and trauma release. This makes the approach much more intensive and profound compared to normal breathwork.

What is Tantra

Tantra is mainly experiencing, feeling, experiencing and being conscious about it. Basically all words really fall short. However, let’s start by saying that tantra does not equate to sex, it is much more. The depth of the tantra path is so great, it touches all aspects of our life. And so also your sex life. Tantra is a path of consciousness for us, and especially the path of love and consciousness.
It’s a great journey of discovery, discovering yourself. However, Tantra does not have a goal so much, no, the journey itself is extremely important. Enjoy on the go! Tantra is a path full of wonder and learning processes, and on that path you come more and more in touch with yourself and your inner joy. On the tantra path it is above all experienced, experienced!!! It is the joy of coming home to yourself. And just let go of all concepts.

Consciousness: awareness is the key to growth. The “ultimate” on the tantra path is the jump to enlightenment. But along the way on our path we are already satisfied with growing awareness. Ultimately, there is no right or wrong, but until we are totally aware, growing awareness will allow us to become more centered in ourselves and present in each moment. So that we are no slaves anymore of old habits and reflex patterns.

Current State of Stress

Everyone is almost exhausted. or worn out. Stimulated. Tired. Depressed. Anxious. Irritated. These are physical reactions and emotional consequences of an overstimulated nervous system, also referred to as excessive sympathetic activity. After all, the sympathetic system is that part of our nervous system that gets us into action. But action should always be alternated with rest, and with grounding and consiousness. That all is lacking. We developed a new system based on the ancient know-how of the breath and our consciousness.

Modern medicine does not pay attention to strengthening and harmonizing the parasympathetic nervous system, a key part of our vegetative nervous system. Neither is consciousness much on the agenda. Only as mindfulness,  but that is a very fragmatic extract from old forms of meditation.

We want to change that! With attention and support of the vegetative nervous system.

Breath4Balance: tantric breath-work4men in the Algarve!

Breath4Balance! So what this site and our organization is about seems clear. About how you can achieve a good physical and mental balance through the breath and all kinds of breath-related (meditative and shamanic) exercises.

To this end, a whole series of workshops and individual healing sessions are offered, all of which address our body-soul-mind unity in different ways, and the breathing within those exercises and meditations also receives the necessary attention. They are all exercises and meditations from the bodymind tradition.

Body Mind Workshops based on breathwork and tantra

This kind of bodymind exercises helps to balance your whole life. If you’ve never done ‘breathwork’, you can’t imagine how deep a breathwork session can have an effect.
In our breath4balance workshops, a doctor (sometimes together with a coach who specializes in bodywork and breathingwork, as it is also called) gives a number of sessions with exercises that are essentially ancient. These kinds of exercises have been developed as parts of, for example, the Chinese movement and breathing theory (the Qigong), the Tibetan meditation science, the Ayurvedic health science, the Yoga of sound, but also in the shamanic cultures of East and West.
Breathing is living. To live is to breathe. That is why it is extremely important to support our lives through proper breathing. In these workshops, for example, we provide a number of techniques, including those inspired by the Groffse holotropic breathing method, the Qigong and many related directions. Transformations in your life are therefore possible and supported.
The workshop leaders have been active in healthcare for many years, and specialize in coaching, acupuncture, naturopathy and (emotional) bodywork.

Bodymind workshops

In our breath4balance workshops, a doctor (Jan) or a coach who specializes in bodywork and breathingwork, gives a number of sessions with exercises that are essentially ancient. These kinds of exercises have been developed as parts of, for example, the Chinese movement and breathing theory (the Qigong), the Tibetan meditation science, the Ayurvedic health science, the Yoga of sound, but also in the shamanic cultures of East and West.

Breathing is living. To live is to breathe. That is why it is extremely important to support our lives through proper breathing. In these workshops, for example, we provide a number of techniques, including those inspired by the Groffse holotropic breathing method, the Qigong and many related directions. Transformations in your life are therefore possible and supported.

The workshop leaders have been active in healthcare for many years, and specialize in coaching, acupuncture, naturopathy and (emotional) bodywork.

Founder of breathwork: holotropic breathwork according to Grof

The first psychiatrist to develop breathwork, Dr. Stanislav Groff, developed this work from about 50 years ago, and it became known as “holotropic breathing.” Below is a small explanation of it:

Groff was the first to look for a natural way to expand the mind, not with psychedelics, but through our bodymind system, in order to gain more insight and break down emotional barriers. Techniques similar to this form of holotropic breathing have been introduced step by step in this century by a number of scientists and physicians, and also by us.

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Shunyam Adhibhu