Where the body remembers

Natalie Keany speaking with young woman in Breathwork session:

• 00:15 – I want you to just find that part of you that is really strong and in control and can really hold this.

• 00:27 – This part of you is in there too, right? Maybe the part that you live in a lot of the time.

• 00:33 – So just let that show through your body. You can squeeze my hand. Be as strong as you can be.

• 00:41 – Yeah, and then push. Push me. Right. All that strength that's there. Pushing me away. Pushing me away.

• 00:52 – Holding that. Holding there.

• 01:01 – And then you're going to let go. Let everything drop to the ground.

• 01:08 – Let go of the holding in your body.

• 01:13 – And if you can just commit to this breath for a little while longer, you start to enter a different brainwave state that isn't so analytical.

• 01:43 – Noticing anything?

• 01:47 – Hard to describe.

• 01:49 – Okay.

• 01:57 – It feels as if something's coming out.

• 02:03 – And where do you feel that in your body?

• 02:07 – It's like heat leaving my body through my mouth, but also through my skin.

• 02:22 – Just keep focusing on my hand.

• 02:28 – Breathing deep breath into my hand. If you need to slow down, you can.

• 02:38 – I need to find a way to balance it.

• 02:41 – To balance it?

• 02:44 – Balancing the strength and the control with tenderness.

• 02:50 – I think so. So already what you're doing is recognizing that you have all of these parts inside of you, and you don't have to just be one or two of those things.

• 03:05 – Yeah. You're wild and feral and free and connected to nature.

• 03:11 – And then there's a part of you that needs to know, right, to feel safe and to have that control and have that way of holding things together.

• 03:23 – And it's all in there. And none of it is wrong. And that's the beauty of this life, this experience of being in this human body. You get to play.

• 03:38 – That's so nice.

• 03:41 – Yeah. It's exactly what you came here for. Into this body, into this life: to play and experience it all.

• 03:57 – You know this now. You know this tenderness. You know it's available to you. You've got the breath. It's all you need.

• Director: Kimberley Gruesser

• Producer: Scarlett McRoberts

• Director of Photography: Lucas Kua

• Sound: Liuchang Ma

• Editor: Sofia Sigismondi

• Composer: Sam Burgess

• Sound Mix: Markus Moll

With special thanks to:

• Helen Masters

• Ann Witherbridge

• Scott Pohlschmidt