Witalij Martynow Repackages Rebirthing Therapy as "Breathwork Therapy", Which Involves Partial Suffocation

      A maniacal quack named Witalij Martynow is currently touring America, promoting "breathwork therapy", a therapeutic practice that involves what he describes as "intermittent hypoxia" (a/k/a choking people half to death).

     He claims that temporary oxygen deprivation is good for the blood, in the same way that hunger is good for digestive health.

 

     What his followers fail to realize is that Martynow's therapeutic technique is basically the same thing as rebirthing therapy, which was invented and pioneered by Dr. Leonard Orr in the 1970s. Orr is now widely considered a "crazy hippie".

     Rebirthing therapy is basically breathwork therapy plus surrounding people in pillows and blankets. And people are, indeed, (partially, but not completely) surrounded by pillows and blankets, as a part of Martynow's breathwork therapy today.

     The similarities don't end there. Martynow's patients are in denial of the fact that patients are being actively restrained; by having their chests pushed down. People are held down; yet patients claim they are "free to leave at any time".
     Moreover, in 2022, a Reddit user named “warpedhands” claimed to have been a patient of Witalij’s, and said that Witalij “helps prevent you from giving up or stopping out of fear.”

 

     There are also stills, in these promotional videos, of a woman holding a trash bucket next to her face, as if she's about to vomit.
     According to Martynow's website, vomiting is a common side effect of consumption of ayahuasca.

     Similarly, the original rebirthing therapy involved induced vomiting.

 

 

     Rebirthing therapy is designed to simulate being born, as a way to make a child feel as if their new parents are giving birth to them again. The stated purpose was to help the child form attachment with the new caregivers.

      Rebirthing, breathwork, and similar techniques employed by Dr. Neil Feinberg, are intended to treat a variety of ailments; most importantly; Reactive Attachment Disorder (R.A.D.). This is a (probably made-up) disorder in which a child who is adopted, fails to form a proper attachment with his new parents.

     Dr. Neil Feinberg even traumatized a child who had previous sexual abuse trauma, by screaming at him, poking him in the chest, and forcing the child to admit that he hated Dr. Feinberg. Feinberg thus attempted to treat revulsion towards forced sexual touching, with more forced touching. Feinberg's therapy was called Coercive Restraint Therapy (C.R.T.).

     Even worse, a 10-year-old girl named Candace Newmaker DIED in a rebirthing therapy session in Colorado in the year 2000. She was surrounded by blankets, and gave repeated warnings that she was vomiting inside the mess of blankets, and that she had to defecate. She died from a combination of asphyxiation and inhaling the smell of her own vomit and shit.

     Republican Bill Owens, then Governor of Colorado, signed a statewide ban against rebirthing therapy shortly thereafter.
     http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1174742/

 

     Curiously, Martynow's American tour does not include any dates in Colorado.

     Maybe he has done his research, and knows that his techniques are probably too similar to rebirthing therapy to be considered legal in that state.

 

     Martynow claims, in his promotional internet posts, that "no substances are consumed during these sessions". However, his critics have pointed out that some patients in these sessions have been seen consuming the hallucinogenic herb ayahuasca (an allegation which Martynow freely admits is true on his website). It's not clear what percentage of patients are expected to consume ayahuasca as part of these sessions, nor whether the consumption of ayahuasca is optional.

     Additionally, Martynow's patients include African-Americans, whom are disproportionately predisposed to being afflicted with sickle-cell anemia, a disease characterized by a deficiency of oxygen in the blood cells. Martynow has, apparently, made no attempts to warn his patients that they should not do breathwork therapy if they have sickle-cell.

 

  

     Tragically, it seems that the therapeutic community has learned nothing over the last fifty years. This repackaging of rebirthing therapy is an attempt to heal people through re-traumatizing them; it is trauma bonding.

     I have even spoken to a patient of Martynow's, named Soleil, who believes that, if someone dies in these sessions, then there is not necessarily any causal relationship between the suffocation and the death, and it is simply that person's time to go.

     Evidently, some of these "patients" (read: followers) are already okay with being killed in these sessions, even before their deaths occur.

     Thus, breathwork and rebirthing therapy bear all the hallmark signs of being a cult.

 

  

     Scam artists like Martynow will get away with killing people if this is not stopped.

 

     You can learn more about “Dr.” Martynow’s “therapeutic” techniques at his website, which can be found at the following address:

     http://www.witalijmartynow.com/

 

 

      Update:

 

     Just a few hours after posting this article, I discovered the Facebook page of yet another therapeutic workshop which is similar to the aforementioned forms of therapy; and this one explicitly uses the phrase "rebirth".

     It is called "Intuitive Rebirth".
     http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100067309680986


     It seems that this form of "therapy" is spreading like wildfire. We must stop this before it is too late.

 

     I have previously written about this topic; in my March 2021 article “Delinquent and Abused Minors Subjected to Physical and Psychological Abuse Disguised as Therapy: W.W.A.S.P.S. and C.R.T.”.

     You can read that article at the following address:

     http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2021/03/delinquent-and-abused-minors-subjected.html

 

Written and published on October 6^th, 2023.

Expanded on October 7th, 2023.