Jan 10, 2026
What if the fastest way to calm anxiety, shift your nervous system, and reconnect with others was already happening—right under your nose?
In this powerful conversation, I'm joined by Jessica Dibb, Founder, Spiritual Director, and Principal Teacher of Inspiration Consciousness School and author of Breathwork and Psychotherapy. Together, we explore how breath is not just a tool for relaxation—but a direct bridge between physiology, psychology, and healing.
Jessica shares why breath is the fastest way to create a state change, how every breath is psychophysiological, and why emerging science shows specific breathing patterns can significantly reduce anxiety—sometimes more effectively than meditation or yoga alone.
You’ll also hear about:
✦ Stanford research
comparing box breathing, cyclical hyperventilation, and
cyclical sighing
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Why some
people struggle to inhale or hold their breath—and what that
reveals
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How
becoming a friend to your breath creates grounding and emotional
safety
✦
The idea
of “The Big Breath”—bridging ancient wisdom and
modern neuroscience
✦
Resonance
research from the HeartMath
Institute
✦
How breath
affects not just you—but those around you
✦
A moving
client story where breathwork helped shift asthma into
remission
✦
Breathwork
as a universal human language of
healing
✦
The
Universal Breathing Declaration, co-created with
Jack Kornfield
This episode offers both science-grounded insight and lived, embodied wisdom, showing how breathwork supports emotional regulation, physical health, flow states, and deep human connection.
Whether you’re navigating anxiety, chronic stress, illness, or simply longing for more steadiness in a fearful world—this conversation reminds you that healing begins with the breath you’re already taking.
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About Jessica Dibb: Through life-long exploring of pathways for physical and psychological health and development, awakened consciousness, and living from love, Jessica Dibb’s work centers conscious breathing—synthesizing depth psychology, consciousness studies, science, individualized spirituality, and somatic, emotional, and cognitive energy and wholeness. Extensively trained in ballet and yoga, during pre-med studies at UC Irvine, she had an epiphany: Breathing is a universal and unifying medicine in every situation, for everyone.
Jessica is the author of Breathwork and Psychotherapy: Clinical Interventions for Healing and Transformation. She advocates rigorous training and ethical standards that support powerful, safe, multi-dimensional, nuanced Breathwork to access our deepest potential. She founded a 1200+ hour Breathwork and Psychospiritual Facilitation Program at Inspiration Consciousness School; and is the Global Professional Breathwork Alliance founding co-director and ethics chair; and she created Breath Immersion—From Science to Samadhi conferences.
Jessica develops innovative processes for embodying psycho-spiritual wholeness using Breathwork with established and emergent wisdom teachings to cultivate presence, wisdom, and love throughout our lifespan—in relationship with all life and this breathing planet.
🌐 Connect with Jessica Dibb
✦ Jessica’s Website: inspirationcommunity.org
✦ Book - Breathwork and Psychotherapy: Clinical Interventions for Healing and Transformation
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