ECSTATIC BREATHWORK returns to NYC! April 13-17

I’m so excited to be coming back to the East Coast, back to New York City after nearly eight months growing deeper roots in Los Angeles!  The work, like so many things continues to evolve and deepen.  I can’t wait to share it with you!  In addition to longer private sessions, there will be two workshops with the breath, one in Manhattan, and one in Brooklyn!



Private Sessions of Ecstatic Breathwork by appointment:

These sessions last an hour and fifteen minutes and are $175.  48hrs cancellation by phone for changes to your appointment time.

All Private Sessions Are Happening At:

Living Meditation, Soho
580 Broadway Suite 717
New York, NY 10012

To schedule your session, please call (310) 922-4890, or email scott@trustthebreath.com


Manhattan Ecstatic Breathworkshop - Thursday, April 15th, 7:30-9:30pm

Elixir of the Heart

When:   Thursday, April 15th
Time:    7:30-9:30pm  (arrive early to avoid being late)

Where:  324 Lafayette Street, 7th Floor
            New York City 10012
            (212) 625-1511

Exchange:  $40

Bring:  A folded blanked or yoga mat.  We'll be sitting on the floor at first then move to laying down for the breath meditation.  If you tend to get chilly, bring a warmer layer to put on.


BROOKLYN Ecstatic Breathworkshop - Saturday, April 17th, 4-6pm

Breath of Release, Breath of Rejuvenation, Breath of Ecstasy...

When:  Saturday, April 17th
Time:   4-6pm  (arrive early to avoid being late)

Where:  97 Green Street Apt G3
            Greenpoint, Brooklyn 11222
            (718) 757-2758

Exchange:  $40

Bring: A folded blanked or yoga mat.  We'll be sitting on the floor at first then move to laying down for the breath meditation.  If you tend to get chilly, bring a warmer layer to put on.

Directions:  You can take the G train to the Greenpoint avenue stop and exit the train station towards India street.  You will be on Manhattan avenue.  From there cross India street and continue walking north on Manhattan for two blocks. Turn left onto Green street. We are the cream colored warehouse at the end of the block. There are many doors on this building.  Ours says 97 Green Street Apt G3.


Love,
Scott
(310) 922-4890
http://trustthebreath.com
http://scottschwenk.blogspot.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-schwenk

RESURRECTION, Unleashing The Heart ~ Ecstatic Breathwork @ The Hub ~ SUNDAY night 4/4/10 5:30-7pm

SUNDAY, April 4th, 5:30-7PM  ~ RESURRECTION: Unleashing The Heart,
ECSTATIC BREATHWORK at The Hub

“The caterpillar cannot understand the Butterfly”

It’s a day in many traditions.  It’s a day celebrating the emergence of new life from the cave.  Are you ready to birth more, maybe All, of your Heart into fuller expression?  Fuller freedom to dance with all of life?  Fuller freedom to BE THE YOU YOU’VE SENSED WITHIN?  We’ll go deep into the Cave of the Heart this night with the power of ECSTATIC BREATHWORK for renewal, release, rejuvenation, and RESURRECTION!

When:       SUNDAY night 4/4/10  5:30-7pm   
                    ((Arrive early to avoid being late))

Exchange:       $35

Where:      The Hub (http://thehub-la.com)
                    2001 S Barrington Ave, Suite 150, Los Angeles, CA 90025-5363 US
                    { S Barrington Ave between LaGrange and Mississippi }
                    Entrance for the Hub is located on street level at the ground floor of the
                    parking structure located on South Barrington Avenue.
Bring:          Yoga mat and/or blanket-we'll be sitting on the floor at first then lying down
                     for the breathwork.

RSVP:        You can reserve your spot through The Hub  310-575-4200

Love,
Scott
http://trustthebreath.com
http://scottschwenk.blogspot.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-schwenk

SUNDAY, March 28th 4:30-6pm ~ Feeling The Net Of Support, ECSTATIC BREATHWORK at Liberation Yoga

Feeling The Net Of Support, ECSTATIC BREATHWORK at Liberation Yoga

How much personal energy do you expend trying to make your life flow?   It can be easier and more fun!  There is a vast and unfailing net of support ready to not only catch you, but LIFT you into your highest personal expression, into flow, ease, and JOY.  This net is GRACE.  It has been called by many different names throughout histories and cultures.  We will use the power of this ECSTATIC BREATHWORK to guide you into a deeper and more direct experience of this net, this GRACE.  Through direct experience comes TRUST, and through trust, you become more available, more open to receiving and being guided by this GRACE and unlimited stores of energy.  

DATE:            Sunday, March 28th, 2010
Time:             4:30pm - 6pm (come early to avoid being late)

Cost:              $44

Bring:            Yoga mat and/or blanket-we'll be sitting on the floor at first then lying down
                       for the breathwork.
Location:       Liberation Yoga
                      124 S. La Brea (btw 1st and 2nd)
                      Los Angeles, CA 90036

RSVP:           You can reserve your spot through Liberation Yoga  (323) 964-5222.


LOVE,
SCOTT
http://trustthebreath.com
http://scottschwenk.blogspot.com
http://huffingtonpost.com/scott-schwenk  

Friday, March 26th ~ Accelerated Level 1 Healer Training Class

Friday, March 26th ~ Accelerated LEVEL 1 Healer Training Class   On FRIDAY, March 26th from 9am-4pm, I’ll be teaching David Elliott’s LEVEL 1 HEALER TRAINING class in West Hollywood.  You’ll get profound healing for yourself, heighten your Intuition, deepen your gifts, and have a lot of FUN while learning in this fast-paced hands-on class.  You’ll learn about all of the tools we use in doing one-on-one sessions of this healing work and how to get and stay clear and grounded.  If you ever find yourself with people, this class is for YOU!

The intention for this class is: "To bring out your gifts as a healer so you can heal yourself and others, and to give you tools and practical experience doing healing work that will solidify confidence in your own gifts, thus increasing your ability to see, hear, feel and intuit the truth."

"After watching Scott teach the class I realize there are parts of the class he teaches better than me. If you have any desire to be a healer take this class, you will learn a lot about yourself, your intuition, and healing!" David Elliott

Fee:  $225 

Where:  1226 Havenhurst Dr. #9
                (Havenhurst is 1 block West of Crescent Heights between Santa Monica Blvd and Fountain Ave)

Parking:    The streets around my neighborhood allow free parking during the day until 7pm.
RSVP:      Call (310) 922-4890 to hold your place and arrange payment. 

BRING:      A folded blanket and/or yoga mat to lay on for the breathing meditation, NOTEBOOK AND PEN, water, and an appetite for healing!

LOVE,
SCOTT
http://trustthebreath.com
http://scottschwenk.blogspot.com
http://huffingtonpost.com/scott-schwenk

(HuffPost) Learning To Let Life Lead

Today I write about suffering.  Not because I want to, but because I must.  I am compelled. It’s not because suffering has some form gritty promise of being somehow more interesting.

Most days, the zone between the stored, unprocessed grief, anger, fear, and sadness the largest percentage of the world relates to as somehow normal and me, that space is vast enough to keep me sane.  However, there unmistakable days when that gap is no longer cozy, when the air seems to get vacuumed out of my lungs all in a moment, my eyes are burning and wet, and I’m nauseous. 

Sitting in an air-conditioned state-of-the-art movie theatre with all-reserved seating, I have just been punched in the stomach.  I am unexpectedly brought face-to-face with the emotions of September 11, 2001 in the middle of what seemed like another sculpted and coiffed romantic drama that I am very willing to dance with.  With one simple reference, my body is doing everything it can to hold back a torrent of sound and tears.  I am reminded in every viscera of my body and mind that suffering is. 

As I write just now, I am not looking to be a popular voice.  I am willing to say what will not leave me alone.  You see this hurricane of sensation I’m feeling isn’t personal.  I did not lose anyone personally close in the events of 9/11.  I taste it’s flavors because I am human and I feel.  I feel deeply. 

There are times like this night when I’m faced with some flash, usually through music, art, or storytelling of any sort, in which I feel my nerves and my heart on the outside, and am overwhelmed with emotion.  Secretly I sometimes want to run far away from these moments out of some misplaced fear that what I know myself to be will be totally annihilated by what I’m feeling.

And yet, when I reach through the outer layers of these sensations into a deeper core, I realize it is love I am feeling.  It’s love that overwhelms me, not the grief, anger, fear, or sadness.  It’s the intensity of love moving through my heart in response to the suffering I’m witnessing. 

If I only engage with the outer layers, I’m liable to get triggered into acting out the emotions myself; drawing in a struggle with someone convenient to give permission to a projected outburst of energy and emotion. 

When I’m willing to lean back into the quiet presence of love that cares for people, that wants for their happiness, that aches to spread a touch that would be a final relief to all forms of pain.  When I’m willing to lean into this love, I am free. 

If only I would remember this more often. 

You and I are the same really.  It’s just a matter of how big a comfort zone you’ve built around your heart.  That’s the only difference between you and I.  The love I’m pointing at, and doing my best to hand the steering wheel over to fully, that love is what binds us.  Regardless of our aplomb at living it, tasting it, and knowing it, it’s the substance that runs between us.  Some people call it God.  Some scientists call it dark space between the cells.  I call it life.

Apparently, today I’m writing about life, because I must.

Freefalling

It strikes me at this hour
that there are no easy answers,
and the ones that seem so
aren't worth the paper they're written on.

It's not until the great humblings
come along
that the simplest words spoken
can be heard.

The innocence we lived by,
a projection of our pain.

The muses looked up to
so many times
just bandaids.

We are the ones we're looking for
And time is running out.
We are the ones we're waiting for
Let's get it all clear now.
We are the ones we're gunning for
There's no one out there anywhere.

This war
Our own confusion
Tearing our own skin.

It's all just you and I
Reflected back in a thousand
Shattered shards of glass.

Hand in hand
No longer knitting the pieces of our lives
Into something warmer,
Something lasting...something better.

Peeling off the masks
Through the looking glass
No present tense
No future angst
No living in the past.

Freefalling
No more grasping
Grasplessness.

Scott Patrick Schwenk     3/11/10


*****NOTE  this one came through like a song...so it likely is...maybe the music is on it's way...i hear bits of it...

Sunday, March 21 ~ Accelerated Level 1 Healer Training Class

Sunday, March 21st ~ Accelerated LEVEL 1 Healer Training Class
   On Sunday, March 21st from 9am-5pm, I’ll be teaching David Elliott’s LEVEL 1 HEALER TRAINING class in West Hollywood.  You’ll get profound healing for yourself, heighten your Intuition, deepen your gifts, and have a lot of FUN while learning in this fast-paced hands-on class.  You’ll learn about all of the tools we use in doing one-on-one sessions of this healing work and how to get and stay clear and grounded.  If you ever find yourself with people, this class is for YOU!


The intention for this class is: "To bring out your gifts as a healer so you can heal yourself and others, and to give you tools and practical experience doing healing work that will solidify confidence in your own gifts, thus increasing your ability to see, hear, feel and intuit the truth."


"After watching Scott teach the class I realize there are parts of the class he teaches better than me. If you have any desire to be a healer take this class, you will learn a lot about yourself, your intuition, and healing!" David Elliott


Fee:  $225 


Where:  1226 Havenhurst Dr. #9
                (Havenhurst is 1 block West of Crescent Heights between Santa Monica Blvd and Fountain Ave)

Parking:    The streets around my neighborhood allow free parking during the day until 7pm.

RSVP:      Call (310) 922-4890 to hold your place and arrange payment. 

BRING:      A folded blanket and/or yoga mat to lay on for the breathing meditation, NOTEBOOK AND PEN, water, and an appetite for healing!

LOVE,
SCOTT
http://trustthebreath.com
http://scottschwenk.blogspot.com
http://huffingtonpost.com/scott-schwenk

Friday, 3/19/10 8-9:30 ~ ECSTATIC BREATHWORK w/ Scott @ The Hub

Friday, March 19 ~ ECSTATIC BREATHWORK @ The Hub

   

From 8-9:30pm on Friday, March 19th, join me for another deep round of ECSTATIC BREATHWORK at The Hub in West LA.  The theme for this night is FREEDOM.

When:       FRIDAY night 3/19/10  8-9:30pm
                    ((Arrive early to avoid being late))

Exchange:       $35

Where:      The Hub (http://thehub-la.com)
                    2001 S Barrington Ave, Suite 150, Los Angeles, CA 90025-5363 US
                    { S Barrington Ave between LaGrange and Mississippi }
                    Entrance for the Hub is located on street level at the ground floor of the
                    parking structure located on South Barrington Avenue.
Bring:          Yoga mat and/or blanket-we'll be sitting on the floor at first then lying down
                     for the breathwork.

RSVP:        You can reserve your spot through The Hub  310-575-4200

Love,
Scott
http://trustthebreath.com
http://scottschwenk.blogspot.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-schwenk

The Gap Between Knowing and Being

There are days like this one where I'm at a complete loss for how to rationalize the gluttonously nasty things human beings do to one another and our habitat on this planet.  It seems like destruction is a publicly traded commodity.  Kindness has become woo-woo.  Therapy, a way to band-aid the horrendous guilt, and narcotics, a way to sleep at night, only to wake to triple lattes as a replacement for crap sleep from the narcotics. 

It's a hamster wheel. 

I don't see an end in sight on days like this. 

We may very well create the end of the sustainability of the human race on this planet in my lifetime.

There's an ever-expanding fault-line gaping between what we truly know as right action and what we actually do with our time, money, and energy.  The race to get more of anything and everything faster than the competition to fill a bottomless hole is accelerating.  The snake is eating its own tail and we're so distracted as a race into hurrying towards something more, better, and different.

Three 46-minute sittings of meditation, an hour and a half of chanting, three hours of exercise, and a day filled with self-inquiry have not gotten the disgust and anxiety to abate.  I feel responsible for this mess.  I feel called to do something about it, and struggle with the notion of an ego driven to be lofted into heroism, rather than trust in a rooted altruism arising from my heart.  

It's amazing how the hue of nasty casts its shadow over every thought and feeling.

This too will lift.  It has come to pass.  

I'll hear some piece of music tomorrow, or the sound of the hummingbirds outside my window in the early hours, or read some status update on Facebook that restores my faith in humanity.  Or is it just more anesthesia?

What's the difference between burying my head in the sand and immersing myself in self-upliftment, self-realization?  Can I trust the mechanisms I have for seeing clearly the gap between knowing and being?  

Even as I write this, I know this is a visitation; the blossoming of stored old emotional energy enlivened the news on Uganda's proposed bill to make homosexuality a crime punishable by death.  

I know that the power of my days, months, and years of focused practice will burn up this distorted point of view in the ever-burning fires of Truth.  It will happen as surely as the Sun will rise in the morning.  

I will be infused with a new point of view:  one that has more space and compassion rooting through the crevices.  It comes because I have asked.  I have asked, and am never let down in sincere prayers like these.  I have not asked for the world to be rearranged overnight.  I have asked to see differently; to see in a way that is productive.  To see in a way that empowers actions based in Truth, motivated by trust, and marinated in knowing.

In the meantime, I sit.  I sit and attentively watch.  I move closer to the sensation of my breath, the simplicity of my body sensations, and the remembrance of all the ways I love myself.  Already I feel the shifting of the sands within.  

Writing brings its own release.  It's a way of participating without forcing change.  Reporting on the inner landscape without nailing myself to the cross for having these feelings reveals space.  In that space my breath deepens, and the healing expands.

The gap between knowing and being is my teacher.

Scott Schwenk

http://trustthebreath.com

http://scottschwenk.blogspot.com

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-schwenk

TONIGHT! Sun 3/7: Ecstatic Breathwork @ The Hub ~ Recognizing the Star You Are 5:30-7pm

Recognizing the Star You Are

Bring your focus back home, back within, to the depth and Truth of Who and What you Are...This Sunday at The Hub, we’ll work with the practice of ECSTATIC BREATHWORK to reveal more of the STAR that you are, and anchor the experience deeper into your Awareness and your life.  There is no thing, no person outside of you that can bring you anything as profound, fulfilling, and ECSTATIC as your True Nature.  Come bathe in the nectar of your own Heart.     

When:       SUNDAY night 3/7/10  5:30-7pm  
                    ((Arrive early to avoid being late))

Exchange:       $35

Where:      The Hub (http://thehub-la.com)
                    2001 S Barrington Ave, Suite 150, Los Angeles, CA 90025-5363 US
                    { S Barrington Ave between LaGrange and Mississippi }
                    Entrance for the Hub is located on street level at the ground floor of the
                    parking structure located on South Barrington Avenue.
Bring:          Yoga mat and/or blanket-we'll be sitting on the floor at first then lying down
                     for the breathwork.

RSVP:        You can reserve your spot through The Hub  310-575-4200

Love,
Scott http://trustthebreath.com
http://scottschwenk.blogspot.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-schwenk