The Healing Heroes: Holistic Wellness for Women
Welcome to The Healing Heroes: Holistic Wellness for Women where high-achieving women finally learn how to heal for real. Each week, host Chandler Stroud sits down with world-class healers—her very own “Heroes” who helped transform her life—to reveal the unexpected, science-backed, and soul-centered practices that calm anxiety, unwind stress, heal stored trauma in the body, and rebuild self-worth from the inside out.
If you’ve ever felt like you should be happier, healthier, or more at peace… you’re not alone. This show is your invitation to come home to yourself.
The Healing Heroes: Holistic Wellness for Women
Inhale, Exhale: The Transformative Effects of Breathwork
What if the way back to yourself wasn’t through the mind, but through your breath? Hero, Somatic Therapist, and Certified Rolfer Moylan Ryan explains how breath can ground you in the present and become a direct pathway to regulation. Moylan traces the roots of neurodynamic (holotropic) breathwork, explaining why it evokes deep, nonverbal reactions and how the practice supports nervous-system regulation and reconnection to the body.
He describes typical responses people have in his breathwork sessions, the importance of safety and containment, and how breathwork can produce an expanded state of consciousness that shifts your thinking and behavior.
What You Will Learn
- [00:06:55] How Neurodynamic breathwork evolved from holotropic work and the role of evocative music in guiding the breath.
- [00:08:56] Why facilitators ask people to trust the process and surrender so their inner guided intelligence can lead the journey.
- [00:11:24] That breathwork can allow sensations, tremoring, and vocal expression to surface safely during a session.
- [00:16:36] How consistent breath practice can move a person from somatic retraction into expansion and an “upflow” of energy.
- [00:18:00] Why breathwork often lets people complete what was never expressed — releasing embodied remnants of trauma.
- [00:19:59] The parasympathetic state breathwork can produce, and how it enables a calmer, more present nervous system afterward.
- [00:24:40] How the gap between stimulus and response (the space Viktor Frankl described) becomes accessible through regulated breath.
- [00:31:14] What kinds of people tend to benefit — those who feel fragmented, stuck, or ready to create new behaviors and outcomes.
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