Remnants of empire still live in our bones. Are you ready to disentangle yourself from colonial values that were never yours to carry?
Breathing Beyond Empire is a 6-week breathwork course that gently explores how these inherited patterns shape how we move through the world.
This journey is open to all who are ready to explore decolonial healing with curiosity, humility, and care. You do not need to have any breathwork experience - only a willingness to listen deeply and stay with what arises.
We will meet supremacy culture gently but honestly.
Often our pain is in our inability to accept what is truly here, what is truly present. This work together is an active attendance to the wounds we carry and an accurate medicine can look like.
Tuesday 16th September - 27th October
2 hour Weekly Sessions
Live on Zoom
On-Demand
Daily Audio Breathwork
2 Time Zones available:
🌎 18.00 PDT [-1 day]
🌍 9.00 UK
Course Structure:
Week 1: Safety & Inner Strength
We begin by exploring safety. In a world where "safety" is often shaped by the dominant culture through control and competition, we ask: what does true safety feel like in your body?
This week is about addressing our sense of safety and crafting your own sacred container; a space where your truth, boundaries, and needs are honoured.
Week 2: Decolonial Directions
This week, we turn to the wisdom of our inner directions, as ancestral maps for grounding, guidance, and balance live within you.
You are not meant to follow the maps of others. This session will bring you into your own direction, one that aligns with your unique rhythm, vision, and purpose.
Week 3: Exploring Individualism
Supremacy culture teaches us to go it alone. It glorifies self-reliance while disconnecting us from community, reciprocity, and collective care. This week, we unpack the internalised patterns of individualism and begin to reweave ourselves into the web of relationship. Through breath, we soften the isolation and make space for interdependence.
Week 4: Exploring Urgency
Urgency is one of supremacy’s favourite tools - keeping us busy, burned out, and disconnected from our own rhythms. This week invites you to slow all the way down. We breathe into the discomfort of pausing, and we remember the wisdom that arises when we honour time as cyclical, spacious, and sacred.
Week 5: Exploring Fear of Conflict
This week, we explore how supremacy culture teaches us to fear or avoid conflict, and how this fear blocks truth, intimacy, and transformation.
We invite the possibility that conflict, when held with care, can be generative, honest, and deeply healing. Breathwork becomes a space to feel what's unsaid and reclaim our voice.
Week 6: Circle: Who’s knocking?
What needs to be remembered for you?
We return to the circle. After all we’ve met and unlearned, we ask: what is asking to be remembered? What parts of you are knocking, waiting to be welcomed back home? This is a week of integration, honouring, and listening. You are invited to step into the wisdom you’ve uncovered and carry it forward in your own way.
6 Week Group Breathwork Program.
Empire may seem like long-gone fairytales of knights and princesses, of lands of maps and ships. But empire is still very much alive today.
Some of us are still in the harrowing wake of it, some of us are still in the throes of empire and some of us are descendants of it.
In this 6-week course, we explore a few characteristics of supremacy culture and explore how they show up in our bodies, relationships, our decisions, our sense of safety, and self-worth.
This 6-week journey invites you into a spacious, embodied exploration of decolonial healing through the lens of breath, awareness, and remembrance.
My name is Hannah Kendaru (she/her), I am an Indonesian British Breathwork therapist and teacher. My work is rooted in breath as both a personal and ancestral practice—one that connects us to ourselves, to our histories, and to the ever-moving present.
But introductions are more than names and titles, let me introduce myself in the fullest of ways.
I am the daughter of volcanoes and rivers, of palm trees and potatoes, of roses and lilies. I come from a lineage of healers, seers, voyagers, of farmers and fishermen.
I am also the daughter of militants and military men, of divorce and deep love, of exploitation and capitalism, of empire and resistance. I carry the stories of both those who have taken and those who have lost.
But I am also the daughter of butterflies and hummingbirds, of woodpeckers, of the rain and the sun.
I carry these histories, as do you. And in breath, we meet them, honour them, and find our way forward.
About me.
Who is this course for?
This course is for you if:
You’re interested in breathwork as a tool for personal reflection and growth
You’re exploring your lost histories and ancestry, tapping into forgotten parts of yourself
You want to learn about decolonial healing and social justice
You’re ready to take responsibility for your path and move forward with intention.
You appreciate the power of community where learning happens together.
Why Breathwork?
The term ‘Breathwork’ encompasses a wide variety of techniques that involve the conscious control of breathing patterns. This has been found to promote physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Through simple changes in pattern, form, intention and attention significant shifts in mood, emotional release, stability and deep healing.
The breath is one of the only processes in the body that is both conscious and unconscious, which means its something that happens by itself, and its something we can control. This phenomenon is believed to be the root of the power of breathwork.
The ability to touch our subconscious body, means that the breath can attend to things that are not in our control. It is believed to be the bridge to help us understand the way we are. So, because it is both conscious and unconscious, it means it is also voluntary and involuntary, which means it can attend to the autonomic nervous system, and the somatic nervous system.
This is gives us a powerful key. If we can change our breath, we can change our experience. Learning to breathe better and more consciously allows us to tap into the sunconscious and help us understand ourselves better.
The autonomic nervous system (ANS) regulates involuntary bodily functions. This is the system that effects our most primal fear and trauma responses of fight, flight, freeze and fawn - also known as the sypathetic nervous system and our primar social responses of rest, digest and social engagement- also know parasympathetic nervous system.
Daily hygiene breathwork techniques can shift the balance between the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the Autonomic Nervous System. There is ongoing evidence to suggest that learning to breathe functionally and more consciously can help us move from one state to the other more ably. This means giving us skills and access ot be able to choose whether we would like to activate or deactivate our systems more readily.
Research demonstrates that controlled breathing can activate the parasympathetic system, leading to reduced heart rate and lower levels of stress hormones.
In a society that is fear-driven and stress-ridden, the ability to choose to deactivate or down-regulate with the breath is a powerful skill. In a society that forces people into depression, lethargy and exhaustion, the ability to choose to activate or ‘up-regulate’ is a powerful tool.
Breathwork is no longer just a tool for calming, soothing or relaxing, it becomes a self-help, self-administered therapeutic tool for everyday life.
The functional objectives of the breathwork practice we do will be daily hygiene and deeper explorations using the conscious connected breath.
With these specific objectives, we find that:
Breathwork an An Embodied Practice – breathwork invokes a physiological response with immediate effects, unlike meditation.
Body-Centred Awareness – Our lived experiences are stored in the body. We are taught to diassociate and to intellectualise our emotions. Breathwork invites us to get curious about what is happening in our bodies right now.
Breathwork bypasses overthinking, honouring the wisdom of the body and helping release patterns held deep within.
New Perspectives – Through guided breathwork, you can enter altered states of consciousness. The practice encourages a shift in awareness, allowing for new perspectives to emerge.
6 Week Group Breathwork Program.
Why Breathing Beyond Empire?
Empire shapes how we live, relate to other and how we move through the world.
There’s a movement that is shifting from individual healing to collective healing, and this course shines a light into how things could be.
The wellness industry reflects the same extractive patterns of empire. When healing practices are stolen from other cultures and stripped of their context, they become exclusive and shut out the very people who need them most.
This is a place that attends to your longing to connect with the earth and with your histories through the Decolonial Directions Practice.
You may be the first one in your lineage to look beyond the generations who had to assimilate to survive.
We interrogate the values we have inherited under colonisation and move our bodies into choice in how we want to move forward.
✅ A Six-Week Journey – A guided process that allows time for exploration, reflection, and integration.
✅ Group Breathwork – A structured space to engage in breathwork and shared experience.
✅ Fully Online – Accessible from anywhere, with live sessions and recorded materials for flexibility.
Breathing Beyond Empire is a 6-week journey of embodied unlearning. Through weekly live breathwork sessions and a daily practice, you’ll explore how the remnants of empire live in your bones and make conscious choices about what you want with you, and what you can release.
It is a gentle introduction to decolonial healing, where you will learn tools to reconnect with the earth and reclaim your own lineage.
Testimonials - from my last 6-Week Breathwork Course
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