Breathwork for Church

OK, ‘breathwork’ is this thing about controlled breathing, right?

Taking deeper / longer / more measured breaths in specific ways is supposed to have all these real, actual health benefits: physical and mental and emotional. Like, it can supposedly calm you, improve your sleep, improve focus, juice your attention span, etc., all depending on how you’re breathing. Maybe it’s a bit woo-woo, sure. But on the other hand: we all understand that taking a deep breath is calming. It seems plausible.

I know the few times I tried an ‘activating’ breathwork thing, it felt AMAZING. As good as a strong cup of coffee.

SO what I’ve always wondered, and think about once per week: does anybody write songs that build in breathwork? Singing is by its nature a kind of structured breathing, but in a loose way. When you sing, you generally decide when to take new breaths in, but the song itself determines when you breathe out. And it seems like with a little more planning, you could map this into a real breathwork exercise. Instead of just ‘in’ and ‘out’ and ‘hold’ in breathwork, we could have words and melody.

And furthermore: I go to church on Sundays, and every week we sing songs together that are meant (in part) to affect our mental and emotional state. That’s not the POINT of worship music per se, but it’s part of it, right? We sing Amazing Grace to remind ourselves that we once were lost but now are found. We sing It Is Well With My Soul to practice equanimity both when peace like a river attendeth my way AND when sorrows like sea billows roll.

SO my question is: who is writing new-age-breathworky songs for Christian worship, and where can I try them out?