Rebirthing — Conscious Connected Breathing Map
Rebirthing — Conscious Connected Breathing Map is a Modern / Rebirthing — conscious connected breathing body system as transmitted through the lineage Leonard Orr's Rebirthing frames a relaxed, connected inhale-exhale cycle as a practice for observing breath, emotion, and autobiographical material. Its birth-memory interpretation is a modern spiritual-therapeutic claim, not an anatomical finding.. This page lists every point in the system with sourced placements and links to cross-tradition correspondences curated for The Body Spiritual.
Open in interactive explorerPrimary sources
- Leonard Orr, Rebirthing in the New Age (Ten Speed Press, 1983) — Early Rebirthing account of conscious connected breathing and its spiritual interpretation.
- Peter Levine, In an Unspoken Voice (North Atlantic Books, 2010) — Adjacent somatic account of tracking bodily sensation; used for cross-reference, not as Rebirthing doctrine.
Known lineage variants
- Orr's birth-memory and emotional-release claims vary across Rebirthing schools and are not established clinical anatomy or efficacy findings.
- The displayed crown, chest, diaphragm, and belly are editorial attention anchors for breath phenomenology; coordinates are not textual body correspondences.
- This map cross-references the shipped Somatic Experiencing felt-sense map at the level of present-moment sensation, while retaining distinct Rebirthing terminology.
Related systems
No other systems share this tradition label.
Points
- Birth-memory crown — symbolic emergence
- Connected-breath heart — affect and opening
- Diaphragm charge — breath transition
- Belly grounding — settling and integration
Frequently asked
What is Birth-memory crown?
Rebirthing literature often narrates birth and emergence imagery during breath sessions. This crown point is an editorial symbol for that narrative, not a claim that memory is stored at the vertex.
What is Connected-breath heart?
Sessions commonly direct attention to emotional experience while connected breathing continues. The heart region is a visual anchor for affective attention, not a fixed Rebirthing organ map.
What is Diaphragm charge?
The diaphragm is a practical location for noticing the continuity between inhalation and exhalation. Its charge label describes reported sensation and effort, not a metaphysical reservoir.
What is Belly grounding?
The lower belly is used here as an attention anchor for settling after intense breath and imagery. Rebirthing sources do not establish a universal belly-storage mechanism, so the projection remains broad.