Breathwork Aftercare & Integration

Honoring your journey after the session ends

The experience of Breathwork doesn’t stop the moment the session is over.

Conscious Connected Breathing is a powerful and sacred practice that opens the door to your inner world. It’s common to leave a session feeling lighter, clearer, or even deeply emotional. But the true magic often unfolds after the session — in what we call the integration phase.

What is Integration?

Integration is the process of allowing what was revealed, released, or realised in your session to land in your body, mind, and life.

Because Breathwork is a form of energy healing, not everything will make sense right away. You may feel shifts emotionally, physically, or energetically — even days after your session. This is completely natural. Your system is still processing, recalibrating, and reorganising at a deep level.

Healing isn’t just about release — it’s also about re-patterning. As you bring unconscious material into your awareness, you begin to see yourself differently. And from that awareness, new choices, behaviours and ways of being can take root.

Emotional Waves After a Shamanic Breathwork Session

Shamanic Breathwork often stirs deep waters. Repressed or forgotten emotions can rise to the surface, giving you the chance to truly feel them — sometimes for the first time in a long time.

Most of the time, the emotional energy that surfaces is processed and released during the session. But occasionally, a feeling or memory might still linger afterward. This doesn’t mean the Breathwork “didn’t work.” In fact, it’s quite the opposite. It means something important has come into your awareness — and is asking for your gentle attention and loving presence.

Breathwork isn’t about making things disappear — it’s about meeting them. Feeling them. And choosing how you want to move with them now that they are no longer hidden.

Breathwork Aftercare: Practical Support for Integration

To truly honour what you’ve just experienced, I invite you to treat the hours — and even days — after your session as sacred space. Here’s how:

✨ Be gentle with yourself

Avoid rushing off into your to-do list or back-to-back appointments. Give yourself some spaciousness to land.

✨ Nourish your body

Eat grounding foods like root vegetables, hearty soups, or warm herbal teas. Drink lots of water to support energetic flow and detox.

✨ Create stillness and softness

Go for a slow walk, take a warm bath, lie under a tree, or curl up with a journal and a candle. Let the integration happen in the stillness.

✨ Feel what arises — without judgement

If emotions surface later, let them. Don’t label them or try to push them away. Emotions are simply energy in motion, passing through. The more you allow, the more they can move and heal.

✨ Journal, move, or dance

Let your body express what it’s feeling. Put on music and move intuitively, or journal about what surfaced in your session. Even a few words can anchor a deep insight.

✨ Surround yourself with care

Spend time with people who feel safe and nurturing. Or, if you need solitude, honour that too.

Shamanic Breathwork sessions can be deeply emotional experiences as repressed emotions are brought to the surface to be felt and released. Generally the processing of the emotion and any unprocessed emotional material is released. Sometimes, in your session something may be brought to your awareness but not completely processed.

Breathwork is not about making something go away - it’s about bringing that repressed material up, so you can move through it consciously. When emotions are still present after a session. it doesn’t mean it didn’t “work", it means that you now have an opportunity to integrate what is calling your attention to it. And now you can work with what was brought up from the unconscious to your awareness.

"Self-love is not about perfection — it's about meeting yourself with gentleness, even in your messiest moments."

You don’t have to do it alone

If something’s still stirring after your session, or you’re unsure how to move forward with what came up, please reach out. Integration is just as important as the session itself — and I’m here to walk alongside you, gently and compassionately.

You’ve already taken a beautiful and brave step on your healing journey.
Now it’s time to honour it.

Blessings,
Shanie 💜