Sunni Hart

When I left birth work after six years of it being my whole entire world, it felt final. Lately, however, we’ve come full circle and I’ve been lucky enough to start supporting several people who are pregnant, only this time with the breath as the guide, the teacher, the medicine, the thread that runs through it all.

These sessions bring together everything I know to be true about birth with everything breathwork has taught me. It’s thrilling to return with new awareness deeply embodied in my being, to be in my integrity and to fully trust in each persons process no matter how it unfolds. The sessions we have together are co-created, intuitive, alive. The breath shows us what’s ready to be met.

Landing here brings me back to Fox’s birth. With barely any other signs of labour, my waters broke and I was suddenly thrust into full, fast labour. No slow build or time to prepare. I thought I was transcending but after having a truly transcendent second birth, I now know I was just disassociating 😅. My friend Nell, my doula, noticed I was exhaling beautifully, moaning, swaying but barely inhaling. I was releasing but never meeting. That small observation changed everything.

The inhale is the yes, it is the rise to meet the moment. It’s how we gather ourselves to be with the intensity. The exhale is the softening, the letting go. Breathwork helped me understand that both are needed, in birth and in life.

Coming back to birth work now, through breath, feels like the most natural return. Breathwork gives us the opportunity to BE WITH, to be in process, in pain, in discomfort, in awe, in joy, in surrender, in rest. Breathwork moves us from suppression to full expression. This conversation between body, baby and being.