The Power of Breath Workshop | 呼吸的力量工作坊 — Balance between Focus & Relaxation

Have you considered that breath is not only a basic need for staying alive, but also a way to practise sensory clarity, focus and relaxation?

Breath is a simple, powerful tool you already have. When you learn to work with it on purpose, many people notice a few shifts — expected in class, not guaranteed:

1. Sensory clarity. Conscious breathing can help you notice small changes in the body and stay with the present moment.
2. Focus and relaxation together. Focus does not have to mean tension. In slower, deeper breathing, attention can arrive while the body settles.
3. Fear and tightness as sensation. Breath practice is used here to feel fear as a body state, then stay with it — not to erase anxiety as a medical treatment.
4. Emotion as something you can sense. Breath can make feeling easier to notice and, when a wave is strong, give you a way to return toward balance.

Learning Pathway: 90-mins Basic -> 3-hr Intermdiate -> 5-hr Advanced

Breath practice is simple and direct. Actors, working people, and anyone meeting pressure in ordinary life can use it as a steadiness drill. Open to beginners.

What we practise:
1. Breath practice in conversation with body sensation — noticing partner, room and self.
2. Questioning tight beliefs about inner feeling and movement, so a response can come from the body rather than from a forced idea.
3. A first look at how thought, discomfort and pressure show up in the body and the breath.

⚠ Disclaimer -Educational wellness class only. Not a medicine, medical device, psychotherapy session or medical treatment, and not a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis or care. Not offered as treatment or prevention of anxiety, panic, trauma, chronic pain or any disease. If you have uncontrolled high blood pressure, a heart or eye condition you have been told to be careful with during breath work, are in early pregnancy, had recent abdominal surgery, or you are under mental-health or respiratory care, ask a registered clinician before booking. Stop and tell the instructor if you feel dizzy, numb, tight in the chest or short of breath.

The Power of Breath Workshop | 呼吸的力量工作坊

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HK$1,000.00

The Power of Breath class — focus and relaxation through guided breathing by hanks li, awrtc, aha

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Details Basic Brain & Breath Experience Workshop

Format In-Person

Duration 90 min

Lang Cantonese

Cap 10

Location

AWRTC - Awareness Wellness Resources and Training Centre

6/F, Chung Fung Commercial Building, 12 Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong

• The Power of Breath is a guided class: you use ordinary breathing as a tool for noticing the body.
• Balance between Focus & Relaxation / 專注與放鬆的平衡之道 is the poster line — focus does not have to equal tension.
• Sensory clarity here means noticing small body changes while you breathe.
• Fear and pressure are met as sensation in the body and the breath. That is a practice, not treatment of an anxiety disorder.

• Expected in class: many people notice the in-breath and out-breath more clearly after a short guided set.
• A felt mix of attention and ease — not a clinical relaxation score.
• Take-home cue: when fear or pressure shows up, name it as a body sensation and return to one longer out-breath.
• Actors and working people may reuse the same drill before a scene or a meeting. That is a habit, not rebuilt character and not a cure.

• Teaching frame only. Slowing the out-breath is often described in class as a way the nervous system can shift from a “go” state toward a “settle” state. Metaphor plus common breath education.
• Sensory clarity is attention on interoception: noticing chest, belly, temperature, tightness. Not a diagnostic test.
• Words like fear, pain and pressure in this class name body states you can feel while breathing. They are not a treatment plan for panic or chronic pain.

• Beginners. Actors, professionals, and anyone who meets pressure in ordinary days.
• People who want focus and ease in the same practice, not a high-output workout and not a singing class.
• People curious about how thought, discomfort and pressure show up in breath.
• Not for uncontrolled blood pressure, cautioned heart or eye conditions, early pregnancy, recent abdominal surgery, or current mental-health / respiratory care without clinician clearance. Stop if dizzy or short of breath.

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Hanks Li 李頊珩

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Artwithin

Actor-Director & Body-Experience Educator • Founder of actwithin; designs body, voice and breath as a method that can be practised step by step • First certified Demidov Acting Technique actor in the Chinese-speaking region • Actor, director and voice artist; instructor, TVB Artiste Training Class (2021, 2022, 2024) • Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) in Acting, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts • Further study with teachers including David Glass, Philippe Gaulier, and the Grotowski line through Stephen Wangh and Thomas Richards • GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® Certified Pre-Trainer • Working actor, director and maker across stage and screen; recent work includes The Gutter (《異空感應》) • Invited to Belgium in 2015 for a Jan Fabre Teaching Group production; studied Clown through Mask in London in 2019

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FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions

A guided class with Hanks on using ordinary breath for sensory clarity, focus and relaxation. The poster line is Balance between Focus & Relaxation.

No. Educational only. It does not diagnose, treat, prevent or cure anxiety, panic, trauma, chronic pain or any disease. Poster language about meeting fear with breath is a practice cue, not a medical claim.

No. The source copy names actors, professionals and anyone meeting pressure in ordinary life. Beginners are welcome.

Uncontrolled high blood pressure; heart or eye conditions you have been told to treat carefully in breath work; early pregnancy; recent abdominal surgery; current mental-health or respiratory care.

Stop and tell the instructor. Clothes you can breathe in. No recording (class IP).

No force. Follow the instructor; stay with a breath you can keep. If you feel dizzy, stop and tell the instructor.

Same series — Inner & Outer— Inner & Outer | 內與外 — as Move / Listen / Breathe (動／聽／息), same instructor. This class is breath as the hinge between inner state and outer action. Not the same syllabus as PR01 pranayama or Joanne’s breath workshop.

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Core — Guided breath as a body-state cue

| BrainCoTrix · Mind Leadership

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Support — Attention and focus without forcing tension.

| SupreConTrix · Higher Connection

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Support — Noticing self, partner and room through breath.

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