BREATHWORK: 💥Pressure💥

DATE: Wednesday, January 21st

TIME: 7:00-9:00 PM

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”

~Sigmund Freud

Pressure can build inside the body in ways that feel impossible to control. It’s not just stress or tension, it’s an internal swelling, an emotional compression that accumulates over time. The body becomes a container for every unsaid truth, every moment you pushed down anger, every time you kept the peace at the cost of yourself. This is the kind of pressure that sits beneath your ribs like heat, makes your breath shallow, and creates the urge to scream, cry, or break something just to release the intensity. It’s the energy of “too much for too long,” the feeling that if even one more demand is placed on you, you might snap.

This pressure often shows up physically in a tight chest, a clenched jaw, a throat that feels blocked, shoulders that almost burn from carrying what you haven’t expressed. You may feel irritable for no obvious reason or overwhelmed by things that normally wouldn’t bother you. You’re not overreacting, you’re holding more emotional weight than your system can process. The pressure builds because you’ve had to hold yourself together for so long, often without support, space, or permission to fall apart.

This Breathwork practice is not about calming down or becoming peaceful. It’s about giving your body a safe outlet to release the built-up energy before it erupts in ways that feel out of your control. As you breathe, the goal is to let the internal pressure come to the surface, to acknowledge how full your system is, and to allow the breath to act like a valve releasing steam. Inhale to feel where the tension is stored; exhale to let a bit of it go. You don’t have to fix the pressure all at once, you just need to let it move.

During this breathwork, notice your instinct to hold in your feelings, to control your reactions, or to tighten your body as the emotions rise. Try to soften into those spaces. Let the breath help you release the frustration, resentment, fear, and exhaustion you’ve been containing. You are not broken or dramatic, you’re human, and you’ve been holding too much. This breathwork is here to help you release the pressure before it becomes an explosion.

With each breath, you’re giving your body permission to stop carrying everything alone. You’re letting the pressure inside you move, shift, and unwind so you can feel grounded again. Keep breathing. Let the intensity rise and fall. Let the pressure leave your body safely, one breath at a time.