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"To empower individuals through the transformative power of breath, guiding them to rise against systems of oppression within the individual body and the social body, fostering personal and societal well-being, equality, and resilience."

What is Breathwork?

Breathwork is the use of breath awareness and conscious breathing for healing, growth, personal awakening and transformation. Breathwork becomes a self-help, self-healing method in alternative medicine.

The main messages in breathwork are - Accept, Feel, Let go and Reclaim.

Our Mission

How can it help me?

Breathwork techniques emphasize the connection between the body and mind. By engaging in intentional breathing patterns, individuals can access and release stored emotions, memories, and traumas that are often held in the body.

It is non-verbal and body-centred, meaning we don’t focus on our story, but our experience of it.

Why is it popular?

Breathwork can be practiced almost anywhere and at any time, making it a versatile tool for coping with trauma-related triggers or emotional distress. As breathwork gains popularity, more research is being conducted to validate its therapeutic benefits. Studies have shown promising results regarding its effectiveness in reducing stress, anxiety, and symptoms of trauma.

Breathwork that unites embodied social justice and breathwork with a decolonial lens. This is a community for those who want to dive with me on what loving justice can look like within our own bodies. Acknowledging our bodies as sites of activism, loving parts of our exiled selves into deep remembering. Your body remembers, let us love them back into memory.

Become a Breathwork Facilitator in 2024

A comprehensive program that fully equips individuals to become accredited breathwork therapists allowing you to work professionally around the world. This training goes beyond traditional approaches by integrating embodied social justice principles and embracing an aspirationally decolonial framework. The first of its kind. With a keen focus on addressing the wounds of our modern context, this training empowers participants to facilitate healing and transformation in a way that is sensitive to systemic oppressions and fosters inclusive, equitable spaces.

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Join me on a Breathwork Retreat in Northern Thailand

November 2024

Embark on an unforgettable retreat experience in the enchanting forests of Northern Thailand, where ancient traditions, breathtaking landscapes, and transformative experiences await. This unique journey combines the exploration of indigenous cultures, close encounters with majestic elephants in their natural habitat, and the practice of mindfulness and breathwork.

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A Decolonial Approach to Breathwork

There have been so many times when the concept of safety has come up in healing spaces, whether it's in ceremony, in a drop-in yoga session or any other embodied modality experience. The word is used and I often get stumped when I hear it - like, what do you mean? What does it mean that this place is 'safe'? Safe for who and 'safe' for what?

Try the The Coping Breath

When you are in a moment of stress of social anxiety and you cannot take a step back, this is a breath pattern that you can use to ground and come back to yourself. (I use this in MOST social situations).

Try the Coherence Breath

Part of a healthy and well-functioning breathing system is the ability and adaptability that the system has. Much of our health has been been measured on heart rate and blood pressure.

What Does a Breathwork Session Look Like?

The third pillar of breathwork, the one I have utilised the most in my deeper healing processes is breathwork journeys. Breathwork journeying is the practice and the use of one breathwork pattern called the conscious connected breath. In these journeys, we breathe this pattern consistently and continuously for 30 - 60 minutes. Through the activation of the breath, we are inviting the body into a different state of consciousness…

Breathwork for Beginners

Breathwork, at its core, is the conscious and intentional practice of connecting with our breath. It is a simple yet profound act of directing our attention to the flow of air in and out of our bodies. This ancient practice, rooted in various spiritual traditions, serves as a gateway to self-awareness, inner harmony, and personal transformation.

The breath, often underestimated, holds a remarkable power to influence our physical, mental, and emotional states. When we engage in conscious breathing exercises, we tap into this power, creating a bridge between the conscious and subconscious parts of our being. By regulating our breath, we activate the parasympathetic nervous system, triggering a relaxation response that counters the effects of stress and anxiety.

Nasal Breathing and Sleep

Did you know that mouth breathing and over breathing also contributes to many sleep-disordered breathing symptoms.

What is Conscious Connected Breathwork?

Conscious Connected Breathing is a breathing technique in which the breather intentionally connects the inhale with the exhale without any pauses. Many techniques have evolved from Rebirthing –

The Importance of Breath Functionality

Our lifestyle has a significant effect on the way we breathe. While modern living has many benefits, it is also responsible for the negative influences of processed foods, over-eating, poor exercise habits, stress, and higher temperatures in the home.

The commitment to personal healing is a commitment to collective healing.

There are three main messages in breathwork and each breath reminds us of it, the first is the message of acceptance - learning how to accept the inhale, learning to breathe fully. The second is the message of letting go, learning to fully let go of the exhale, and the third is agency, learning that we are in control of our breath, and when we choose to breathe deeply, we choose to feel deeply, and when we choose to change our breath, we change our lives. We have the choice in every breath.

‘‘Every experience you've ever had has a corresponding breath pattern, when we tap into the breath, we tap into those parts of us that lie just underneath the surface’’

We have been the collateral damage of supremacy culture, of social injustices, of the denial of human rights, of capitalism and the loss of individual power and connection to our lineage and land.

Welcome to our age, welcome to our era, welcome to our times. These wounds are ours to attend to.

What do Clients Say:

‘‘This is the warrior spirit, the medicine and the soothing of truth in a time where confusion, fear and anxiety seem to be our closest companions. Hannah is straight like an arrow in coming to the point, bringing us to where we need to meet and give brave voice to those parts of ourselves and our ancestry that need healing so we can go out into the world as our most authentic, untamed and compassionate selves. There was and still is a significant tension in me as I address the truth of my colonising heritage but I can't pray for a new world for my children, my friends and humanity without doing the damn work myself. Thank you for creating such a space to come and show up. With such gratitude and love’’

Hannah is soft and powerful at the same time. She is an inspiration of courage, as she does not shy away of bringing in difficult societal topics to the space of wellness which is often, possibly due to its values of unconditional love, light & acceptance a space where complex and confrontational topics such as racism, inequality are easily not addressed. I find this HUGE and very inspiring. Also, Hannah does this in a very graceful, yet powerful way, combining all of it with laughter too. Also, Hannah has a unique way of guiding a breathwork: graceful, soft, powerful.