#138 Jen Broyles – Sacred Breath Community

Meet Jen Broyles

Jen Broyles​ is a Holistic Health Coach, SOMA Breathwork Instructor, Essential Oils Coach, and founder of the Sacred Breath Community who helps individuals restore and optimize their health by calming the nervous system and addressing the root cause of their symptoms. Jen focuses on the impact of chronic stress, gut health, and emotional imprints that may keep someone stuck in their current condition.

She recognizes that an over-stimulated nervous system, compromised digestion, and suppressed emotions lead to imbalances throughout the mind, body, and spirit. She combines breathwork, essential oils, nutrition, and other holistic modalities to help clients create a lifestyle of health, vitality, and freedom.

Her personal story is what inspired her to educate and guide others. She dealt with digestive issues, anxiety, and hormone imbalances for years and was unable to find relief from conventional medicine. She left her career in pharmaceutical sales and returned to school to study integrative nutrition followed by training in essential oils and breathwork.

She believes that nourishing the mind, body, and soul with healing foods, proper breathing, self-love, and healthy emotional processing leads to a transformative healing experience.

You can visit her website for wellness​ resources, breathing techniques, and essential oil guidance at www.jenbroyles.com.

ABOUT JEN

• I am a certified Holistic Health Coach
• I have been practicing as a health coach since 2012 and over the years, I have helped people with gut-health, adrenal fatigue and regain their vitality, healing their gut and getting in a good nutrition protocol
• Over the years, I ventured into other modalities of healing as well as essential oils and breathwork
• I got into the world of holistic health through trying to solve my own health issues that I was dealing at that time
• I was working in pharmaceutical sales and I was experiencing a lot of gut issues that I have been just managing for about 10 years and started seeing a bunch of different doctors because things just kind of started to become systemic
• It started with digestive issues, then hormones, then anxiety and skin issues – a bunch of different things
• So, I was seeing these different doctors and trying all these medications and trying to figure out what was going on and nothing seem to help
• And so, this model of medicine that I knew and believed to be the solution provider was not working for me
• That’s when I started diving into my own reading and research starting in nutrition
• Breathwork has been a transformative piece for me in my journey that I love sharing with others
• I heard of breathwork over the years kind of being in the holistic field
• I really did not know what actual breathwork was
• I happened to be out in Southern California at that time and I was talking to a practitioner and she told me that breathwork would be very helpful for me
• I remember him telling me that if I could change my great, I could heal the many things the I am complaining about, but I was like “whatever”
  
  
  
• Fast forward, this practitioner kind of dive me into directions and gave me some resources to check out and I was able to find several breathwork classes and there are a lot of breathwork techniques
• I tried different forms of breathwork like holotropic, transformational, and SOMA breath
• When I experienced SOMA breath work, it was such an incredible experience for me
• I felt lighter, calmer, more blissful – it was an incredible feeling
• This deep meditative experience that I did not I could, I wanted more of it
• So, I dove into my own personal breathwork practice and it was through that where I just keep on getting and feeling this deep calling to become an instructor
• What I found with breathwork is that the combination of this rhythmic breathing…first of all, when we start to consciously breathe in a specific way, it shuts of stress and it starts to calm the mind – it effortlessly gets us into a more meditative space
• Our brain waves start to get out of that high beta, stressed-out state into a more meditation space
• We also incorporate some breath-holding, breath retention phases which helps you drop even deeper into this stated meditation where you can top in into your subconscious mind and it starts to release things that aren’t serving you any longer
• Then it will start to reprogram your mind with empowering beliefs
• This is a practice where you’re going to get some insights and clarity because you’re getting out of that rapid-fire thinking where it is hard to focus and it’s hard to be clear in what you need to do
• The breath can be really powerful to help you and I think it is the most effortless forms of meditation that there is
• Because we live in a high pace busy environment, we just need a break, we need a reset and time to refuel and recharge
• There are times in the breathwork where emotions will come up because it gives us the opportunity to a lot of things
• It gives us the opportunity to gain clarity, improve our focus and our brainpower, but it also gives us the opportunity to release those negative imprints, traumas, suppresses emotions that may have been there since childhood and they are affecting how we live our lives today
• This is a great way to start to move some of that energy and to welcome things we want to bring in
• I have been teaching for almost a year and practicing a little bit more than that
• The minute I discovered it, I dove in, no question
• The timing was pretty perfect in terms of when I found SOMA and then got certified in the process and the event of 2020 that we have been experiencing
• I feel like this is a tool to help people in dealing with everything going on because no matter who you are, every single person in this world is affected
• We need something like breath work to bring us back to center or help us refocus, shift our perspective and raise our level of vibrational energy and have a more positive outlook on things
• The more you are living in survival mode, where you are living in chronic stress, fear and anxiety, the more you are suppressing your immune system and weakening your defenses
• So that is one angle where breathwork can help
• With SOMA breath, we are slowing down the breath, we are breathing in a very rhythmic diaphragmatic way and so all of these are also helping the nervous system and shutting off the fight or flight response
• These will bring balance and harmony with all the rhythms in your body which will boost immunity as well
• You’re doing a lot in terms of a breathwork practice to support overall health and it doesn’t require an hour a day. You can get the benefits it 15-20 minutes a day which is beautiful
• These are things that you can do throughout your day
• Setting a time for an actual breathwork practice is great but also tuning in into your breath throughout the day is good

HOW SOMA WORK?

• Right now, I am doing it through zoom
• But you can do this remotely which is nice
• I also do private sessions as well and you can also get great experience through a zoom session
• One thing I love about SOMA breath is that we are combining ancient pranayama techniques  in the form of conscious breathing and we combine it with some incredible beat-driven music
• This helps us keep a rhythm and learn how to breathe in an arrhythmic pattern
• So the music is truly powerful and transformative
• Through the entire session, I am guiding you and I incorporate positive affirmations and visualization
• At the endow that rhythmic breathing phase, we go into what’s called, breath retention phase and is also known, intermittent hypoxia
• We have been building up all these oxygen in the body through this rhythmic breathing and now we are creating a low oxygen environment
• This is putting a positive stress response on the body to ultimately make you more resilient to handling stress and it is also making you more efficient at producing and using energy
• This is also the time where you can tap in into your subconscious mind
• This is a great opportunity to go into a deep meditative state
• The breath is the best way to recharge our battery and bring in that life force energy that we need to live the best version of ourselves
• Essential oils have been used for such a long time and I am a big fan of ancient medicine and ancient practices because we know that they are time tested
• These ancient traditions are just things that we don’t necessarily have to be explained through Science, they just intuitively knew
• They areas much more connected to nature and to themselves so they knew what’s essential for healing
• What I love about essential oil is that they serve the body in so many ways – physically, mentally, emotionally, and even spiritually
• I use essential oils throughout the day and I have been for years
• I start my morning with a glass of water that has a drop of lemon in it because it is very cleansing and detoxifying
• I use frankincense, lavender, and rose in my skincare because they are great nourishing oil for the skin
• Frankincense is my favorite oil for meditation because it really helps you tap into the spirituality peace
• Everything is energy and everything carries a frequency so essential oils raise the vibrations of the physical body because they have a very high frequency
• As the body starts to live in higher vibrations, this lower energies can’t exist in that environment and you start to release those things
• Essential oils help with this and breathwork would be the tools so essential oils help amplify the breathwork
• That’s why combining the two is so powerful
• Essential oils that are very calming is going to enhance the effects
• If you want to boost your energy, enhance mood and boost positivity, citrus oils would be a very nice choice because they are mood enhancement

WHERE CAN PEOPLE FIND YOU

• Website: jenbroyles.com
• Sacred Breath Community
• Breathing Quiz
• Essential Oils
• Instagram @jenbroyleshealthcoach
• Facebook: Jen Broyles
• Facebook Group: Abundant Health Essentials

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