Principles of Middendorf Breathwork Basic Principles of Middendorf Breathwork Ilse Middendorf's work, The Experience of Breath, is an artistic form of somatic education, based on connecting with the natural breath, free from control of the human will. This approach supports the essence of the Self to unfold and develop to its true definition. The conscious experience of breath not only supports and creates individual balance, it also has the potential to bring about family, community, and global balance.
Breathing affects our entire being.
By focusing and sensing breath movement, we experience our breath, without interfering with its natural rhythm. Breath not only reaches our inner world and moves us, it also connects us to the world outside. Breath that comes and goes on its own creates movements both inward and outward, in an ever-continuing act of filling and emptying, receiving and giving, the masculine and the feminine in a dialogue, searching for balance and growth. Breath Movement becomes meaningful. A whole path has been developed by Prof. Ilse Middendorf.