Compass of Compassion

09/30/2025

What is Revelation Breathwork?

09/19/2025

Ladies!! Consider This - What If You Paired Your Breath With Your Cycle

Ever wonder why some weeks you feel grounded and others you’re spiraling?

It could be your cycle speaking and breathwork can help you tune in a little more subtly. Your breath is one of the most powerful ways to support your body through every phase of your hormonal cycle. When paired with the natural rhythm of your body, breathwork can:

✨ Help you anticipate emotional shifts
✨ Support you when you feel overwhelmed or reactive
✨ Move stuck emotions without needing to talk about them

Each phase of your cycle holds emotional wisdom and your breath can help guide you towards it.

This post helps show some breathwork practices to best support you in each phase of your cycle.

Don’t menstruate? Follow the moon cycle instead your body still craves rhythm and rest.

Ready to work with your body, not against it?
DM me to explore a private session or a breathwork series at Compass of Compassion.

09/16/2025

🌬️✨ Did You Know Your Breath Can Move Your Brain?!

It’s true, for real! Every time you take a deep breath, your brain literally shifts, your nervous system rebalances, and your mental clarity improves.

Science is catching up to what many ancient traditions already knew: Your breath shapes your behavior, your brain, and even your sense of self.

💡 Want to know the most surprising thing researchers discovered?
🧠 Deep breathing moves more brain-cleansing fluid than your heartbeat.
💪 It can boost your muscle strength by 10%.
🌊 It even helps clear mental fog and regulate your emotions.

I break it all down and include the scientific article in my brand-new blog post:

🔗 https://www.compassofcompassion.com/blog/what-if-i-told-you-your-breath-can-move-your-brain
📖 “What If I Told You Your Breath Can Move Your Brain?”

Come explore the beautiful connection between breath, body, and behavior.

Your Breath Moves Your Brain and Cleans It, Too

08/26/2025

Let's talk about completing the nervous system cycle and how Revelation Breathwork allows you to witness this change in action.

By experiencing a high ventilation breathwork practice we shift our system from a pattern of rumination and being stuck into a completed cycle that is resolved, relieved and released from our body and mind. This shift and momentum forward is beneficial for anyone who may feel stuck as it allows for new solutions or thought patterns to arise providing new perspectives and opportunities for healing.

Reach out so we can discuss how this practice may best benefit you.

Much Love Breathers,
Melyssa

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08/25/2025

Sometimes the simplest breath can be the most powerful.

When you inhale slowly through your nose and exhale longer than the inhale, you're sending a clear message to your body that you are safe.

This kind of breath will gently slow your heart rate, quiet your mind, release muscle tension and activate your parasympathetic nervous system [the part of us designed for rest and ease].

In moments of panic, this slowed breath can help catch you before you start to spiral.

🌬️With anxiety, it can take the edge off of racing thoughts.
🌬️ In overwhelm, it can create space and calm within.
🌬️In pain or discomfort, it can soften what feels unbearable.

This doesn't mean feelings disappear but maybe there is softness welcome now. You can meet them differently, from a grounded, present, and compassionate place within. Creating this pause between a trigger and your response allows you to bring yourself back into your body and moment to a place of control.

Next time the world feels like too much, I say give it a go: one gentle inhale and one long slow exhale, in and out through the nose, and notice the shift. Repeat for several minutes until you feel more centered.

In Compassion,
Melyssa

08/19/2025

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts." Marcus Aurelius

What you dwell on shapes you.
The stories you repeat.
The beliefs you hold.
The quiet self-talk no one else hears.

At Compass of Compassion, I see this truth every day: your inner world paints the colors of your outer life. When we learn to soften the colors of fear, worry, or overwhelm, space opens for something new like peace or acceptance.

Breathwork and energy healing are not about denying harsh thoughts, but about giving your soul a chance to re-dye itself in compassion, resilience, and presence.

Today, ask yourself: What color am I dyeing my soul
with my thoughts?

If it feels heavy or dim, know that colors change.

One breath. One choice. One moment of compassion
at a time.

08/13/2025

What do elite snipers, VR games, and your Monday morning have in common? 🕵🏼‍♀️🎯

In a fascinating study, researcher Roelofs designed a virtual reality game for elite snipers where players had to make quick, high-stakes decisions while keeping their heart rate in a precise, calm range.

Here’s the cool part…
The snipers who could hold that calm, frozen state weren’t slower they were sharper.
Their decisions came faster.
Their aim was truer.
Their focus was unshakable.

Roelofs says: “We found that the stronger the magnitude of the freezing [based on measurements of players’ heart rates], the better they were at the game and the faster they were in their decisions.”

“The maintenance of this state is something we can train via breathing,” she says. “Do the opposite of hyperventilating. Have a strong focus on a very slow exhalation.

"If we can stay in the same rhythm, we keep the heart rate low, increase parasympathetic activity and have less noise in the brain.”

The trick?
🫁 Focus on a long, slow exhale. Then make it even SLOWER.
💓 Keep your heart rate low.
🧠 Reduce the mental “noise” in your brain.
⚡ Respond with clarity instead of reactivity.

It’s a total nervous system hack one that takes you from “frazzled and fuzzy” to “calm and clear” in seconds.

The freeze response may seem counterproductive, but it can quieten the mind and help us make better decisions.

08/05/2025

Your body shouldn’t be a storage unit for unprocessed pain.

For most of us this is exactly what our body’s become. Those moments you held it all in and pushed the emotions down to deal with them another day.

All the tears swallowed, numbing instead of feeling, frustrations you ignored, the grief you didn’t have space to feel. Every time we bite our tongue we aren’t letting go, we are pushing down and over time our emotional buildup turns into overwhelm, frustration, or a short fuse.

Emotions don’t just disappear. They settle. They store within in the body, in your breath, your fascia, your nervous system, your heart space, certain organs or chakra points.

Safety doesn’t come from storing everything deep inside. It comes from having tools to release what you were never meant to carry.

You don’t have to carry it all anymore.

At Compass of Compassion, we use tools like:
🌬️Revelation Breathwork to safely express and release stored emotions
🧬Theta Healing to rewire the beliefs that told you it wasn’t safe to feel
🌀Energy Medicine to clear stagnant energy and bring the body back into balance

These are not quick fixes they are invitations to come return to yourself, your inner essence.

I know what it’s like to look fine on the outside, but feel grief stirring beneath the surface. I know what’s possible when we finally stop pushing things down and instead, gently let them rise and move.

If you’re holding things you can’t quite name.
If you’re tired of being the strong one all the time.
If you’re ready to stop storing your pain like it’s yours to carry forever.

Your body isn’t meant to be an emotional graveyard!

If you feel like there’s more inside than you’ve had space to process I’d be honored to hold space as you finally let it go.

📩 DM me to begin gently, safely, and on your terms.

Melyssa Corcoran Theis

07/30/2025

Sitali Pranayama
The Cooling Breath You Need

When life feels hot physically, emotionally, hormonally, or energetically your breath can be a great place to find relief.

Sitali Pranayama is a simple yogic breath practice used to cool the body, calm the mind, and soothe emotional heat.
It’s like air conditioning for your nervous system.

If you’re navigating:
🌞 Overheating in the summer
🔥 Fevers, Hot flashes or perimenopausal shifts
😤 Frustration or reactivity
😰 Restlessness or anxious spinning thoughts

This breath is for you.

How to Practice:
1. Sit up straight, comfortably.
2. Curl your tongue into a “U” shape (or gently press it to the roof of your mouth with parted lips if you can’t curl it).
3. Inhale slowly through your “U” shaped tongue or teeth like sipping through a straw.
4. Exhale gently through the nose.
5. Repeat for 3-5 minutes.

You’ll feel a cooling sensation in your mouth and a softening in your chest and belly, signaling to your nervous system that it’s safe to slow down.

✨ Benefits of Sitali Breath:
• Lowers body temperature + reduces internal “heat”
• Quiets anger, anxiety, and overwhelm
• Supports hormonal balance and emotional regulation
• Activates the parasympathetic nervous system
• Offers a moment of peace you can take anytime, anywhere

🧭 Want help reconnecting with your breath + nervous system?
Join me for a guided breathwork session or message me for support.

Melyssa Corcoran Theis

07/29/2025

Work Apnea. What Is It?

Work apnea, does this affect you? Do you notice after you get an email from Susan you begin shallow breathing or your breath disappears? Do you hold your breath after a meeting or evaluation?

If so, you are one of the 80% of breathers who breathe shallow at work with irregular breathing patterns. These unconscious breathing patterns in turn affect your performance both mentally and physically. Try this, next time Susan reaches out or you feel overwhelmed, pay attention to your internal reactions, are you holding your breath? Did you shift into a more shallow upper chest breath? Is your breath stuck in your chest? If so, consciously take control of your breathing patterns and start a low and slow breath cycle for your nervous system to latch on to and calm yourself from the inside out.

Inhale gently through your nose
Let your belly rise
Exhale longer than your inhale
Repeat for 1–2 minutes

Work Apnea is just as important as Sleep Apnea so please bring your awareness to your breath and lungs several times a day at work while you begin to repattern your breathing style. These unconscious breath patterns don’t just affect your body, they impact your mental clarity, emotional resilience, and nervous system balance.

📊 Do you have Work Apnea?
Share your experience in the comments.

Melyssa Corcoran Theis

07/25/2025

You know that frustration you keep pushing down? The sadness that keeps circling back? The anger or grief that shows up?

We all have moments when our usual coping tools stop working. When talk therapy feels like a repeat. Where our emotional reactions feel bigger than our ability to control them. When we’re doing “all the right things” and still don’t feel better.

That’s where active breathwork comes in for me.

You don’t have to explain or even understand what you’re feeling. Your breath will lead the way.

Through a guided, high-ventilation breath pattern, you’ll access the emotional layers stored deep within your body, the ones that talking can’t always reach and move through them while you control your experience.

💨 Breathwork moves energy.
💨 Breathwork clears stuck emotional cycles.
💨 Breathwork creates space — for peace, joy, and actual relief.

Your body was never meant to be an emotional graveyard.

If you’re ready to release what’s been buried and reconnect to the truth beneath it all, I invite you to join me in a revelation breathwork session or series.

✨ No pressure. Just a safe space to finally exhale.

DM me if you’re curious or ready to begin.

07/23/2025

Personal Testimonial:
I didn’t realize how much my breathwork practice was helping me until I stopped. I’ve been practicing revelation breathwork several times a week for the past 6 months. It’s become like a lifeline for me, a place where I can reset, release, and regulate. I’ve felt my nervous system down shift, my emotional reactions soften and my capacity expand.

Last week, I was on a vacation with my best friends, it was so fun I naturally stopped my regular breathwork practice and I truly didn’t think much of it.

I’ve been home for a few days and then yesterday I noticed something. Small things started to feel personal and a bit annoying. My reactions were sharper than necessary and I kept thinking WTF why does this feel so big all of a sudden? What’s my problem? Get it together girl.

While trying to calm myself down with belly breaths I realized I hadn’t done active breathwork in 10 days. No intentional breathing. No clearing the muck. No space to release what naturally builds.

It surprised me and reminded me just how powerful and essential this practice has become for me. Not just as a tool, but as a way of being with myself. Breathwork doesn’t erase life’s BS, but it completely transforms how I move through it.

So here’s your gentle nudge: If you’re noticing yourself more reactive, tense, anxious, or shut down… it might be that you may just need to actively breathe.

I offer 1:1 and group sessions for this exact kind of support. Reach out if you’re ready to release what’s withholding your capacity and bandwidth.

Compass of Compassion