Breathing New Life: Exploring Transformational Breathwork with Teresa Trieb

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In this episode, Nikki interviews Teresa Trieb about transformational breathwork, also known as conscious connective breathing or DMT breathwork.

Teresa Trieb is a somatic breath therapist from Munich, Germany. She helps others gain access to their subconscious mind, release trapped emotions and help rewire their brain through the power of transformational breathwork. Teresa is a student of life exploring the connection between breathwork, emotion, somatics and psychosomatics. Her personal success is that she overcame her own panic attacks, anxiety and depression through breathwork.
In this episode, Nikki and Teresa go over

• Teresa's favourite oil - California White Sage, and why
• How she used breathwork to help her in her own journey with stress
• 3 types of breathwork
  • Performance enhancement breathwork
  • Meditative/mindful breathwork
  • Transformational breathwork. Also known as DMT breathwork or conscious connecting breathing
• How transformational breathwork works
• The benefits of upregulating the nervous system
• Going over how a session works
• Who could benefit from transformational breathwork
  • Stress, depression, anxiety, chronic pain, feat, autoimmune disorders and more
• The importance of preparing yourself before a session as to what you could expect physically, emotionally
  • T-Rex arms, tingling, numbness in extremities or entire body, movements etc.
• Nikki’s experience during and after her breathwork session
  • A lot of movement, happy to have been on the floor, full body numbness and tingles, T-Rex arms, euphoria when done, very calm. As the day went on felt very hot, similar to a high-intensity workout for feeling hot.
• Some recommendations:
  • Put on lipgloss before.
  • Your tongue will be very dry when you start the conscious connecting breathing, but it goes away in a few minutes. Just lean into it and it will pass.
• How the breath works - a 2-step active breath. Part one in your belly, part two chest, then exhale normally.
• How often someone should do it, 1 to 2 times a month only
• Who shouldn’t be using this breathwork due to safety concerns - Contraindications:
  • Anyone who is pregnant as it could trigger labour​​
  • Cardiovascular conditions (e.g. abnormal blood pressure, aneurysm, epilepsy or seizures, recent heart attack, ...)
  • Chronic respiratory conditions (e.g. severe asthma, COPD, cystic fibrosis…)
  • Mental health conditions (e.g. schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, ...) DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY ARE NOT A CONTRAINDICATION!!!
  • Severe medications (e.g. opioids, strong painkillers, antipsychotics, ...)
  • Some modifications can be done if contraindications apply - must be discussed on a 1:1 basis with the practitioner
• Some essential oils that could be incorporated into a session
  • Peppermint, white sage, lemon, bitter orange, lavender, cedarwood, vetiver

Teresa was generous and offered a 25% discount for any of her services with the coupon code essentria.

You can book a breathwork session with her at

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Show music: Happy Dreams - By David Fesliyan