Body and breath practices that bypassed ordinary mental defenses
Yoga, pranayama, and holotropic breathwork appear as triggers in roughly one in twenty accounts. These practices work directly with the body and breath in ways that can produce spontaneous shifts in consciousness — sometimes without the practitioner intending or expecting anything.
Holotropic breathwork appears disproportionately in this category, with several accounts describing full ego dissolution during a session. Intensive yoga retreat also appears frequently, particularly among practitioners of Kundalini Yoga.
Um and this is a great example in your experience of how these themes out of yoga, mantras, and even asanas, even pranayama, the spontaneous breathing, some people think that some wise Indian men made these up.
I had been doing some intense Hatha Yoga taught by Swami Satchitananda, so every morning I would get up at 5 and do about an hour and a half of breathing, pranayama, asanas, postures.
I would have never done anything like this, it was through breathwork, it's called holotropic breathing.
Um especially when you're working with the ujjayi breath and, you know, the primary series when you're moving through the asana, it's you know, it's rigorous.
Experience types that appear most often in accounts with this trigger.
Other triggers that co-occur most frequently in the same accounts.