The Fireside

The Fireside is a POC only breathwork space. The wellness industry is dripping in whiteness, and its hard for black and brown bodies to fully relax, heal and reap the benefits. I created this space, because when I breathe, I need it.

I didn’t realise how tense and tight my body was, even in the ‘healing’ spaces when white-bodied folks were in the room.

I kept my body tight, I kept smiling, keeping myself calm, palatable, tolerable and in doing so suppressed what I was actually feeling.

This space is created with the deep acknowledgement that we have other things we’re dealing with, and we need to be able to talk about it.

This purchase gives you access to 4 sessions, which you can attend at any time. If you’re a first timer with me, the first one is for free.

we need to breathe too

The biggest challenge I have had in my therapeutic breathwork journey is finding folks of colour and learning from people that would understand my experience and be surrounded by people who inherently root for me.

As someone who has been in the wellness industry for 10 years now, there are very few POC only breathwork spaces and this needs to change.

After the murder of George Floyd and then the lockdowns, I decided to offer breathwork sessions exclusively for POC and mixed race people and it was such a relief and respite to the community.

We didn’t know how much we needed it. So, I decided to share this space with you too

Zoom, Online

Sundays at 11am UK time

Share stories and experiences

In each session, theres an opportunity to share, but there is no obligation. There is an opportunity to reflect and to listen and some explorations include:
✔ What does it feel like to be in your body this week?
✔ What micro-aggressions or racism happened this week that needs to be processed?
✔ What needs to be released?
✔ What part of our inner-selves do we need to be gentle with?
40 Minute Live Breathwork Session

We will doing a practice together, sometimes with music and sometimes without. But each session includes:
✔ 10 minute guided meditation
✔ Breath Demonstration and Instruction
✔ 40 minute guided breathwork
✔ 10 minute grounding and Integration

Meet your instructor

My name is Hannah Kendaru and I use she/her pronouns. I am an Indonesian British Breathwork therapist and teacher.

Now let me introduce myself in another way, to a community that has welcomed me, let me introduce myself in the fullest of ways.

I am the Daughter of volcanoes, I am the daughter of rivers. I am the daughter of palm trees and potatoes, of roses and lilies. I am the daughter of a long lineage of healers, seers, voyagers. I am the daughter of farmers and fishermen.

I am also the daughter of militants and military men. I am the daughter of divorce, I am the daughter of deep love. I am the daughter of rapists, I am the daughter of rape.

I am the daughter of exploitation and capitalism, I am the daughter of extraction and of theft. I am the daughter of war and of empire. But I am also the daughter of butterflies and hummingbirds. I am the daughter of woodpeckers.

I am the daughter of the rain and the sun. I am the daughter of people who lost so much, and so are you…

Testimonials

Hannah is soft and powerful at the same time.

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.
This is the warrior spirit

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.
I find Hannah very inspiring.

I find Hannah very inspiring. She does this work in a very graceful, yet powerful way, combining all of it with laughter too.
Hannah is straight like an arrow in coming to the point

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.
Hannah has a very unique way of guiding a breathwork

Hannah has a very unique way of guiding a breathwork: graceful, soft, powerful.
Such gratitude and love

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’’