How to Release Stored Emotions with Breathwork without Revisiting the Past

Can emotions get trapped in the body?

Rita De Michele speaks with Mark Moon, Breathwork expert, about body armouring, breathwork, and why stored emotional patterns can manifest as physical tension, stress, tightness, and emotional overwhelm.

This conversation explores why insight alone may not always change the cycle, and how breathwork may help create more safety, capacity, and emotional freedom in the body.

                                         

Key takeaways

1. Body armouring is chronic tension.

Your body may hold stress, trauma, or emotion as jaw clenching,

tight shoulders, shallow breathing, or pain.

These protective patterns can shape how you move, breathe,

and respond to life.

2. Your breath reveals your nervous system.

Short, shallow, or restricted breathing can show where your

body is still in protection mode. Breath awareness is often

the first step before deeper breathwork or emotional release.

3. Emotional release is not the whole healing.

A big release can feel powerful, but the real shift happens

when you understand what the emotion is connected to.

Healing comes from processing the pattern, not just releasing

the feeling.

4. Awareness and capacity come before transformation.

Your body needs enough nervous system capacity to stay

present with what comes up. Without that, deeper breathwork

can feel overwhelming instead of supportive.

5. Trust is what creates safety.

Breathwork works best when your body feels safe enough to

soften, stay present, and release. Trust in the practitioner, the

space, and your own body is what allows deeper mind-body healing.