Workshop 1: Breath, Life and the change of Awareness - Exploring the possibilities of Breathwork

Breath has been a subject for investigation since the emergence of self-reflection in humans. Breath is always with us and is in constant interaction with the vitalizing life energy in us. This awareness opens the possibilities for enhancing energy and expanding our consciousness. Breathwork is an eternal generator for exploring and experiencing deeper and wider realms.

Workshop 2: Presence, interactive guidance and healthy boundaries (3hours)

Benefits for all in the therapeutic settings.

Human beings are always interacting when they come together.

Whether verbally, emotionally, physically or energetically.

Drawing attention to this fact we can naturally develop our skills in communication. In a therapeutic setting the awareness of our presence and actions should be at its height.

Firstly for ethical reasons but with a quality presence and interactive guidance the benefits for both client and breathworker/sitter are maximized.

Insights and learnings go both ways.

About Bo:

Bo Wahlström is co-creator of the first Breathwork training in Sweden 1986, co-founder of the International Breathwork Foundation and co-organizer of the very first GIC in1994.

With a background as an engineer and corporate consultant he is currently working as a course leader, lecturer and as a Health-tour guide in Himalaya. He has been teaching Breathwork in Sweden since early 80-ies but travels in many different countries, sharing his experience from being a seeker and explorer of human growth.

As breathwork increases in popularity and more styles of breathwork are reaching public knowledge, it becomes vitally important that facilitators and practitioner of breathwork are educated on the physiology and neurobiology of breath as a tool for conscious modulation of our nervous system.

Understanding the physiological mechanisms behind the breath as the bridge between the mind body connection not only enhances safety of the practice, but also enhances the efficacy of how we read the bodies response to the breath and how to facilitate a deeper transformative experience. As a trained CCB and OA facilitator, and as a trained neuroscientist with research experience in trauma physiology and altered states of consciousness, I aim to teach facilitators the building blocks of the brain breath connection to deepen your practice as a facilitator.

I’m Lana Power, I am a neuroscientist, educator, researcher, facilitator, and breathworker, based in Austin, Texas.

My mission is the sacred marriage work of the scientist and the mystic; the building of the bridge between modern neuroscience research and ancient practices for the integration of the physiological impulse towards survival and the conscious impulse towards aliveness.

My passion is research and public education on the human nervous system to facilitate the embodiment and integration of physiology and consciousness. My current research focuses on the physiology of trauma, resiliency, breath, altered states of consciousness and the human stress response. 

I am a lifelong student of systems, historian of the body, and ethnographer of emotion. I have studied History (BA), Neuroscience (MSc), specializing in developmental and evolutionary neurobiology.

I trained as a breathwork facilitator with Alchemy of Breath, and Systemic Constellation facilitator with the Centre for Systemic Constellations in London. I am also in my first years of training with Somatic Experiencing International.

his immersive session invites you to breathe into your own unfolding and path of remembrance.

Through the elemental lens of Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Ether, we enter a circle of presence rather than progress, guided by a somatic teaching on elemental awareness in the body.

Each element is a note in your inner symphony, waiting to be acknowledged with gentleness and grace.

Together we’ll attune to:

– Earth’s anchoring stillness and embodied steadiness

– Water’s emotional fluidity and heart-field softening

– Air’s expansive spaciousness and awakened insight

– Fire’s radiant clarity and catalyzing illumination

– Ether’s unifying hum, integrating the parts into presence

This sacred dance with the elements through breath is a return to self.

The experience unfolds through rhythmic breathwork, elemental visualisation, and shared reflection - offering space to notice, receive, and rest into the coherence already within you.

This is your invitation to let the desire for change dissolve, as you breathe into who you already are - and become a gentle steward of self, in service to the whole.

Tim is a SOMA Breath Transformational Coach, leadership and life coach, and energy worker dedicated to guiding others through deep transformation. With over 20 years of experience, he blends ancient wisdom with modern breathwork, empowering people to break through limitations and step into their full potential.

His expertise is built on a diverse foundation:

• SOMA Breath Transformational Coach (formerly Master Instructor), a CPD-recognised 200-hour certification.

• Certified Natural Wisdom Leader through a 12-month immersion in shamanic practices with the Ayni Foundation.

• Life and Leadership Coach, trained with Barefoot Coaching and credentialed at the Professional Coach level by the International Coach Federation (ICF).

• Diamond Light Temple Teacher, specialising in energy work, self-accountability, and emotional imprint transformation.

• Trauma-Informed Coaching Certified through The Centre for Healing.

With over many years experience weaving ancient wisdom and contemporary coaching, Tim creates transformative events that empower individuals to break through limitations, reconnect with their essence, and embody their fullest expression.

Breathe and Sing is a singing meditation, where we start with breath and sound and move into chanting, ending with a deep meditation.

And I will also offer a workshop teaching simple songs which increase in complexity and harmony according to experience and number of participants.

A singer and actor from a very young age, and with a BA in Theatre, Language and Literature, and a Masters degree in Dramaturgy, I have studied and practised alternative and Western health and spiritual disciplines, formally and informally for most of my life. This path to healing - or to the full self-realisation that we are already healed, is a most fascinating and rewarding - and necessary - path.

I trained in Rebirthing in the 1990s, but I was not ready to practise then. I continued my own eventful life journey, including performing, raising children, teaching and property renovation and management.

In 2016 I found my way back to powerful Healer, Shaman and Medicine Woman Diane Jeffries, and to Breathwork, the highly evolved version of rebirthing. I trained intensively with Diane for more than three years and I continue to expand and update my qualifications regularly.

I am honoured to offer this powerful transformational healing tool to the world.

This workshop is a pilot for a public-facing, immersive experience designed to bridge the gap between wellness and art—bringing wellness into art spaces and art into wellness spaces whilst immersing participants in the cultural experiences of Black people through imagery, music, and shared food, creating a sensory-rich environment for healing and connection.

I am currently completing my first year of breathwork training with Hannah Kendaru of Inspire Breathwork, deepening my understanding of breath as a tool for healing, liberation, and cultural reclamation. With a decolonised approach at its core, my practice explores how breathwork can create space for ancestral wisdom, collective empowerment, and radical belonging.

My background is rooted in creativity, education, and community building. Trained in fashion and textiles, I have worked extensively in schools, curating and delivering arts-based workshops for all ages.

Beyond breathwork, I am passionate about food sovereignty and growing my own food, recognising nourishment as an integral part of healing and empowerment. My practice is informed by slow living—honouring the rhythms of nature, rest, and intentionality as pathways to deeper connection.

Bringing together breathwork, art, and community, I am committed to creating immersive, culturally resonant spaces that centre BIPOC communities—where breath, nourishment, and slowness become tools for empowerment, cultural remembrance, and embodied liberation. Through this work, I seek to expand what breathwork can be, ensuring it is not just a healing modality but a radical act of reclamation, a bridge between past, present, and future.

1. Awakening Aliveness through Breath, Body & Touch 

Is about engaging with breath and body through touch for deeper connection to ourselves and a sense of belonging.

In a world that often pulls us away from our bodies, this workshop offers a space to return—to land fully in ourselves with a sense of presence, connection, and belonging. Awakening Aliveness through Breath, Body & Touch is a guided experiential journey designed to awaken the innate intelligence of your nervous system through the power of breath, embodied awareness, and the healing potential of touch.

Through gentle, intentional practices, we will explore:

• How breath acts as a bridge between states of survival and deep aliveness

• The role of touch in restoring a felt sense of safety, connection, and regulation

• Subtle yet profound ways to engage with the body’s innate capacity for healing

• The interplay between sensation, self-directed touch, and inner relational attunement

This workshop invites you into a compassionate relationship with your body—one that honours its pace, its wisdom, and its need for gentle, reparative experiences. You will be guided through practices that deepen self-awareness, soften patterns of tension, and restore a sense of being deeply held—both within yourself and in the world.

This is for those longing to experience a more resourced, vibrant, and easeful way of being in their bodies. Whether you are seeking greater self-trust, emotional clarity, or simply a deeper sense of home within yourself, this space is designed to meet you where you are and invite you into what is possible.

Join me in this transformative exploration—where breath, body, and touch become pathways back to your aliveness.

2. Resourced & Regulated is an exploration of safety and connection through somatic tools for rest and calm

In a world that often prioritises DOING over BEING, many of us find ourselves running on empty—longing for rest, ease, and a sense of true safety in our bodies. 

Resourced & Regulated is an experiential workshop designed to gently guide you back to your body’s innate capacity for calm, connection, and resilience.

Through a blend of body-based practices, we will explore:

• What safety truly feels like—not just as a concept, but as a lived, embodied experience

• How to cultivate connection with yourself and others in a way that feels nourishing and sustainable

• Somatic tools for nervous system regulation, bringing more ease, rest, and flow into your daily life

• The body's natural rhythms of activation and settling—and how to work with them instead of against them

This workshop is rooted in an approach that honors both the biological and relational aspects of safety and connection. Through attuned somatic practices, you will learn to recognise the cues of your nervous system, develop a deeper sense of inner trust, and build the capacity to meet life with more steadiness and ease.

Whether you are navigating stress, overwhelm, or simply longing for more presence and peace, this space invites you into a soft landing—where your body can rest, restore, and remember what it means to be truly resourced and regulated.

Empowering women to transform the impact of trauma into strength and resilience, Teodora Pile is a somatic trauma coach and mind-body specialist dedicated to guiding individuals towards a path of healing and self-discovery. Through an unique approach of integrating trauma resolution tools, nervous system regulation, and embodied consciousness, she supports clients unlocking from the negative patterns of anxiety, pain, and fatigue, and fostering a sense of authenticity and connection to self.

I have seen and learned from their own experience that the experiences of the past do not remain in the past (until we see them and integrate them in a healthy way) and that it is possible to remain connected to our body when the emotions become too overwhelming.

I believe this is possible for you too: to create a safer relationship with yourself, and you can learn to process and integrate emotions. Because, the more you express what you really want, the more you become aligned to your values and your authentic Self that is there, underneath the layers of stress and trauma and waiting to emerge.

And I want to be here and for you to facilitate your journey back to your authenticity.

In this workshop we will be integrating a profound approach combining Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Transformational Breathwork for healing and self. 

IFS sees the psyche as made up of different “parts” or subpersonalities, each with its own perspectives, emotions, and roles. These parts often arise as a response to life experiences, especially trauma or stress.

To understand, heal, and integrate these parts in a compassionate way, guided by the “Self”—the calm, centered essence of your being .

Once parts have been identified and acknowledged, breathwork creates a safe space for emotional release. 

Deep breathing facilitates connection to the “Self,” helping you experience profound clarity and integration.

This dual approach blends psychological insight (mapping parts and meditations) with somatic healing, creating a transformative path toward emotional resilience and self-empowerment.

About Anna

Anna is a passionate Transformational Breath® facilitator and group leader, who has had life changing experiences through the power of breath, from being freed from generational trauma that created a crushing suit of armour she didn’t even realise she was carrying, to allowing her younger, mute, child self to fully integrate, freeing Anna from an unknown fear when talking to people. Because of these life changing experiences, Anna has felt compelled to share this work with as many people as possible, helping empower others on their journey through life.

Anna’s practice is deeply spiritual and is guided by the knowledge that each inhale holds the power of limitless possibilities, and each exhale is an opportunity to let go and surrender. By breathing with attention and intention, we can all connect to our authentic, higher selves and live the life of our dreams.

In addition to working with Transformational Breath®, Anna is also a BAST sound therapist and professional musician, bringing over 30 years of experience as a percussionist to create beautiful and transformative sound journeys. She often combines the power of Transformational Breath® with her sound baths to bring integration, inner clarity and growth.  

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About Cathy

Cathy – Nurse Psychotherapist, Trauma Specialist, IFS Advocate (she/her)

Cathy brings nearly 30 years of experience as a psychotherapist in the NHS, where she has worked with dedication and compassion to support people living with complex trauma. A member of the LGBTQIA+ community and neurodivergent, Cathy brings deep empathy and insight to her work.

Her journey began in Therapeutic Communities, where she witnessed the power of collective healing and the strength found in shared experience. Trained in Psychodrama and Action Methods, Cathy has long been drawn to approaches that honour the deep healing of the whole person. This path led her to becoming trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS), a model she’s now pioneering within the NHS for its non-pathologising, empowering approach to mental health.

Cathy continues to advocate for systemic change and inclusive care, blending professional expertise with lived experience. Her work is rooted in authenticity, connection, and the belief that healing is possible.

1. The Art of Slow Ecstasy: Cultivating Energy, Deepening Connection & Expanding Pleasure

A Journey from Release to Ripening, from Spending to Harnessing, from Quick Highs to Endless Valleys

In a world that glorifies quick fixes, instant gratification, and peak experiences that fade within minutes, we invite you into a radically different approach—one that honors slowness, depth, and the vast landscapes of prolonged pleasure and connection.

Just as the sun ripens fruit in its own time, just as flavors deepen when left to slowly weave and merge, our energy—when held, cultivated, and savored—becomes an infinite wellspring of connection, power, and ecstasy. This is the journey from quick-release to limitless expansion, from depletion to rejuvenation, from rushing to ripening.

Through Tantric embodiment practices, energy weaving, and connection rituals, we will explore:

• How to shift from "releasing energy" to harnessing and circulating it—moving away from quick discharges into deep, sustainable pleasure and vitality.

• The art of dropping defenses and receiving fully—how to cultivate deep safety in the body so that we can open, trust, and surrender into pleasure without fear.

• Slow sensuality as a path to empowerment—learning to expand into the endless valleys of pleasure instead of chasing short-lived peaks.

• Energetic cultivation & movement practices—guiding the life force upward and all over rather than dissipating it outward.

• The power of presence, connection & attunement—how to truly meet ourselves and others in a space of profound receptivity and trust.

This is not just a workshop—it is an invitation into a new paradigm of embodiment, connection, and power. A slow ripening of our inner radiance, a deepening into the sacred intelligence of our bodies, and an elevation of pleasure into something truly transformative.

Come ready to drop in, be held, and awaken the art of slow ecstasy.

2. The Yin-Yang Game: The Art of Empowered Asking & Embodied Receiving

Empowerment begins with knowing what we truly want—and daring to ask for it.

Many of us struggle to express our desires, set boundaries, or fully receive what we long for. We hesitate, we second-guess, or we shape ourselves to fit what we think is acceptable. Yet, true empowerment comes from tuning into our deepest truth, owning our needs, and trusting ourselves enough to ask—clearly, boldly, and unapologetically.

This workshop is an experiential journey into the Yin-Yang Game—a Tantric energy and consent practice that explores:

• The power of asking & receiving—learning to name and voice what we truly want without shame or hesitation.

• Boundaries as empowerment—understanding the difference between giving, receiving, taking, and allowing and how to navigate them with clarity and integrity.

• The dance of Yin & Yang—how to step into deep receptivity (Yin) and powerful direction (Yang) in a way that feels safe, fluid, and nourishing.

• Consent as connection—learning to listen deeply to both our own desires and the needs of others, creating interactions rooted in trust and mutual respect.

• Taking risks in self-expression—letting go of the fear of rejection, speaking our truth, and stepping into authentic embodiment.

We cannot grow, connect, or create the life we desire if we don’t first claim what we wish to receive.

In this practice, you will experience the liberating power of asking, the vulnerability of receiving, and the strength in setting clear boundaries—all while playing with energy, presence, and attunement in a safe, supportive space.

Come ready to explore, take up space, and step into your full, empowered expression.

3. The Pleasure Sanctuary: A Sensory Wind-Down for Body, Breath & Bliss

A Gentle, Playful, and Deliciously Soft Landing at the End of Your Festival

After a week of deep breath, expansion, and transformation, the body craves a moment to land, soften, and integrate. In a world of constant doing, feeling, and processing, true pleasure comes when we allow ourselves to simply be.

Welcome to The Pleasure Sanctuary—a delightful, slow, and sensually rich space designed to soothe, regulate, and replenish your nervous system after a day of breathwork, connection, and intensity.

In this playful yet deeply nourishing session, we will explore:

• The Art of Softening—melting tension, letting go of overstimulation, and allowing the body to sink into pleasure.

• Sensory Delights—gentle movement, self-touch, and embodied pleasure practices to soothe and awaken the senses.

• Breath, Sound & Surrender—using pleasure as a tool to regulate, reset, and restore your energy.

• A Playful Exploration of Self & Connection—a space of delicious generosity, where nothing needs to be done, only received.

This is not another activation—this is an invitation to luxuriate in slowness, tenderness, and deep rest.

Come as you are, drop the festival, dissolve into softness, and bathe in the sweetness of embodied pleasure. 💫✨

I’m on a mission to help others break negative cycles and release trauma, so they can finally live life to the fullest. I consider myself an alchemist, using every tool I’ve mastered—from tantra to yoga, NLP, and coaching—to transform pain, insecurity, and disconnection into joy, confidence, and empowerment.

Throughout my life, I carried trauma in my body and soul, experienced addiction, and was afraid of connection. I felt so much pain and fear that I hid behind invisible walls, leading to depression, disconnection, and sexual anorexia. I couldn't find joy, experience pleasure, or feel empowered and confident. I went through life numb, lost, and walking around in a constant fog.

I tried trauma therapy, recovery programs, and even became a yoga teacher, but nothing seemed to fully help me find clarity and feel alive. Then, in 2015, on a sunny day in London, I attended a Tantra festival. Suddenly, the fog began to lift. I could see my own walls clearly and feel the pain leaving my mind, body, and soul. I had found the alchemist of my own life transformation.

It was a long, hard journey: I cried, fell, got up again, and kept facing my demons. Eventually, I broke free from negative patterns and found contentment, balance, and pleasure. Following my own experience, I made it my life goal to help others on their transformative journey.

Using my expertise, I aim to shortcut this process for you, showing how tantra, combined with coaching, NLP, and other transformational tools, can help you heal and find a renewed sense of freedom in every aspect of your life. Let’s embrace a life where every day feels like a new opportunity for fulfillment.

Humans have developed dysfunctional breathing patterns due to both evolutionary adaptations and the cultures we have built. Without understanding the root causes, breathwork can unintentionally amplify these issues, potentially leading to metabolic harm. However, by uncovering why we breathe poorly, we gain the tools to correct it—transforming breathwork from a risk into a powerful force for healing and optimisation.

Christopher Gladwell is a seasoned breathwork, yoga and meditation practitioner with over 45 years of wisdom and experience. He combines breathwork, yoga, meditation, embodied movement, mind mastery, and neuroscience to help individuals achieve optimal well-being.

With a background in athletics and a passion for breath techniques, Christopher's journey into breath training began at a young age. His interests expanded to deep yoga, martial arts, meditation, and biology, where he studied various practices such as Vedic pranayama and Conscious Connected breathing.

Christopher's expertise extends to psychotherapeutic modalities, body-based therapies, and a deep understanding of different meditative practices from Vedic to Taoist and Tibetan traditions. His teachings are rooted in scientific knowledge, and he emphasises the importance of the scientific method.

Join us for a gentle, grounded introduction to the transformative practice of breathwork.

In this session, you’ll learn how conscious breathing can support emotional release, nervous system regulation, and deeper self-awareness.

Whether you’re completely new or simply curious, this workshop offers a safe, welcoming space to explore your inner landscape through breath.

This workshop will include an introduction into breathing, the breathwork world, and the conscious connected breath - the most common breathwork practice for deeper explorations.

Beginner friendly and an essential foundation for the festival.

Hannah Kendaru is an Indonesian-British Breathwork Practitioner and Embodiment Facilitator and Trainer working on embodied approaches to healing intergenerational, historical, institutional and personal trauma. She uses breathwork and embodiment to bring us back into the deep remembrance of what love, liberation and justice means. She uses the breath to remember our connection to the earth, to our lineages and ancestors; for decolonial healing and rewilding our civilised minds, bodies and spirits.

Hannah is a member of the Core Breathe Team and a Director of the UK Breathwork Association.

Harmony Hannigan was brought up in a family where meditation, alternative medicine, and spiritual education were foundational. Her journey into yoga began at a Vedanta school in London, where she received her first initiation into meditation at the age of 10.

After earning a bachelor’s degree in Psychology, she traveled to India in 1999 to deepen her immersion in yoga, massage, Tantra, and Ayurveda.

In addition to her trainings in India and Thailand, Harmony weaves together teachings from respected masters and draws from traditions such as Advaita Vedanta, Kashmir

Shaivism, and Traditional Tantra philosophy. She has been offering teacher trainings, workshops, and retreats since 2009.

Since 2020, she has trained and worked with Conscious Connected Breathwork, becoming a trainer with Alchemy of Breath and, more recently, joining the Seven Directions faculty. Her integrative and therapeutic approach supports deep healing and transformation, combining classical pranayama with the more expansive method of conscious connected breathing.

She is the founder of a homely retreat center nestled in the Gredos mountains of Spain and is renowned for creating sacred spaces for deep inner work and reconnection with nature. Based between this mountain sanctuary and Madrid, she offers personalized retreats, workshops, trainings, and ongoing guidance that empower individuals to embody presence, resilience, and holistic well-being.

In addition to her in-person offerings, Harmony provides online 1:1 support and facilitates “Breathe the Goddess”—a unique workshop series that blends transpersonal psychology and breathwork with myth, symbolism, and the exploration of ancient feminine archetypes. These sessions invite participants to journey through the layers of the self, guided by timeless wisdom and the transformative power of the breath.

‘‘Mirror-mirror” is an explorative practice inspired by the Tantric archetype of Sodashi, the embodiment of our youthful, radiant self. In this workshop, we engage in light, playful, and uplifting interaction—meeting one another with presence, curiosity, and open-heartedness.

Through breath, touch, and simple movement, we begin to see beyond ourselves. As we hold space for the other with care and attention, we also receive the gift of being seen.

The other becomes a sacred mirror, reflecting back forgotten parts of ourselves—our tenderness, vitality, and longing to connect.

We move gently together through synchronized breath and partner-based postures, cultivating trust and attunement. The session culminates in shared breathwork and eye gazing—where we soften into the truth of our shared humanity.

“Breathe into Being” is a meditative breathwork session designed to guide participants into deep stillness and presence. At the close of a festival—when so much has been received, felt, and awakened—this is an invitation to pause and truly integrate.

Too often, breathwork ends in words or a rush to the next thing. Here, we honor silence as a sacred space where meaning settles and clarity arises. Through Conscious Connected Breath, we will gently drop into a state of deep presence, allowing the experience of the festival to echo inward, revealing what wants to be seen, felt, and remembered.

Inspired by Bagalamukhi, the tantric archetype of inner stillness and transformative pause, this session offers a threshold moment: a space to reflect on what we’ve received, before expanding outward once more—whether to reinitiate our path or take a new one.

We will close by entering the collective field, uniting our breath in a human mandala—anchoring purpose and presence in community, and stepping forward with unified intention.

A practical exploration of a physiology and function first approach to breathwork. This requires the intelligent exploration and resolution of breathing pattern disorders (BPDs) to recover full function. From here we can step into the neural navigation of state and practically understand and enable the process of hormesis, optimised cell signalling and psych-neurobiological optimisation. This embodied capacity will give you the opportunity to engage with your own and the collective evolution of humanity in a whole new way, from a whole new perspective. This session is rooted in the teaching from The Evolving Breath Volume One and Two, the new books on the science and traditional arts of breathwork.

Christopher Gladwell is a highly experienced author, breathworker, contemporary yoga master, and coach. With over four decades of dedicated practice, his approach to mind training, breathwork, and embodiment blends ancient wisdom with modern science, offering you a grounded, transformative experience of what it is to be alive.

Christopher embodies the breath, mind, and body technologies, he shares. Including Vedic pranayama, depth meditation, Chi Kung, Conscious Connected Breathing, Tibetan meditative practices, systemic Shamanic wisdom, plus Sports science and contemporary evolutionary neurobiology, he walks the talk.

"Awaken & Align: Chakra Yoga for Breathwork Integration"

This four-part morning yoga series is designed to clear, activate, and balance your chakras to deepen your breathwork practice and support its integration. Each class will create sacred space for you to embody the healing energy of your breath, allowing you to align with your true creative flow and integrate insights from your breathwork sessions.

Starting with grounding and creative flow (Root & Sacral), we’ll move through confidence and heart-opening (Solar Plexus & Heart), then release blocks to authentic expression (Throat & Third Eye), and finally, elevate your practice to unify with higher wisdom (Crown). These practices will leave you feeling centred, energized, and connected, giving you the space to fully integrate your transformative breathwork experience.

Through intentional movement, affirmations, breath awareness, and chanting, you’ll clear energetic blockages, unlock your creative potential, and create lasting connection both with yourself and the community around you. 

Whether you're seeking greater clarity, empowerment, or a deeper connection to your lifeforce energy, this series offers the perfect foundation to expand your creativity and integrate the festival’s healing work.

"Breathing Your Creativity Into the World: Healing Blocks to Share Your Authentic Medicine"

In today’s digital landscape, the pressure to show up perfectly online can stifle our creativity. For breathwork and holistic practitioners, it’s essential to cultivate a presence that reflects the lifeforce energy we channel. But many of us struggle to share our true medicine, feeling blocked by fear, insecurity, and attachment wounds. This talk will explore how attachment styles impact the way we create and connect online, limiting our ability to express our authentic voice.

Breath is the embodiment of lifeforce energy, yet it’s easy to get trapped in patterns that restrict this natural flow. When we understand how our early experiences shape our creative expression, we can begin to release the unconscious blocks that hinder us from showing up fully in our work and online presence.

Join me for a deep dive into how we can heal attachment wounds, clear creative blocks, and begin to create from a place of truth. This talk will guide you through the intersection of breath, creativity, and trauma, offering practices and insights to help you reconnect with your authentic expression and confidently share it with the world.

Gabriela Blandy is an award-winning writer, qualified NLP and life coach, breathwork facilitator, chakra yin yoga teacher, shamanic practitioner, and Tree Goddess. Her work is deeply rooted in the belief that creativity is the natural flow of lifeforce energy, and when we heal our attachment wounds and clear energetic blockages, we reconnect with our authentic selves.

Drawing from her multifaceted background, Gabriela offers a unique approach to healing and self-expression. Through her work as a breathwork facilitator, she guides individuals to harness the power of their breath to release limiting beliefs, reconnect with their innate creativity, and step into their true potential. As a chakra yin yoga teacher, she blends movement, breath, and energy work to help others clear and activate the energy centres of the body, providing a powerful foundation for healing and growth.

In her Safe Creativity workshops, Gabriela teaches holistic practitioners and creatives to overcome the internal blocks and insecurities that often arise when sharing their work online. She draws on her experience as a qualified NLP life coach to help individuals understand how attachment styles and past wounds shape their creative expression, offering transformative tools to help them create from a place of truth rather than trauma.

A passionate advocate for nature, Gabriela also incorporates her spiritual practices as a shamanic practitioner and Tree Goddess, encouraging a deep connection to the earth and its healing wisdom. Her offerings empower individuals to express their creativity authentically, elevate their online presence, and build meaningful connections with their audience, all while embodying the truth of who they are.

Gabriela’s work is dedicated to helping others elevate together, fostering growth, connection, and empowerment on every level of being.

Part of being human is experiencing grief; whether it’s the loss of a loved one, job, relationship, place, identity, parts of ourselves, harm we’ve caused, sorrows of the world, ancestral grief, anticipatory grief, ecological grief…the list goes on.

As we know, ‘the body keeps the score’ and breathwork is a greatly supportive way of presencing any grief in the body, letting it be met and move through us. For grief wants to be expressed so we may thrive, and feel joy, gratitude, even bliss.

And in these wild and turbulent times, there’s never been a more important time to come together in our grief, to form the ‘sudden village’ that we can here at the Breathe Festival, so our grief can be transformed together in community for we were never meant to grieve alone; grief has been marginalised, our modern day culture has lost the ways of community living, community grieving, and that in itself is another source of grief - the loss of the village.

So let’s gather as a village here at the Breathe Festival, a held space awaits you where you can bravely bring your grief and be welcomed - whether your grief lives on the surface or is buried deep, whether it’s expressed with sound or silence, as anger, sadness, or numbness, your grief is welcome - this grief tending breathwork ceremony offers you the opportunity to breath through your grief so you may thrive and expand to more love, acceptance and joy in your life.

'Grief work is soul work. It is an act of soul activism.'

Francis Weller

As an experienced space holder, breathwork facilitator, ceremonialist, grief tender

and artist, Michelle holds a variety of offerings and ceremonies, often with ritual,

song and poetry woven throughout in reverence to this one wild and precious life,

and as an invitation to gather together in community; whether that be to breathe,

to grieve, to dance, to share in circle, or to mark the change of seasons and the

turn of the wheel.

Michelle holds 121 and group breathwork ceremonies, Grief and gratitude

ceremonies, Womben Nature Dances in Dartmoor, is the host and ceremonialist of

the Totnes Wheel of the Year Collective, holding seasonal ceremonies in South

Devon throughout the year.

To gather in person or online, and find out more visit:

www.michellecadby.com

https://www.instagram.com/michellecadby/

Join us for a transformative Rebirthing Breathwork session, a powerful practice designed to release deep emotional blockages, restore inner balance, and awaken your true essence. Rooted in conscious connected breathing, this method helps dissolve stored trauma and stagnant energy, guiding you into a state of profound clarity and renewal.

As we journey through the breath, we will also harness the sacred power of Indian mantras—ancient vibrational sound codes that align the mind, body, and spirit. These mantras will amplify your experience, deepening your connection to the breath, quieting mental chatter, and activating a sense of peace and empowerment.

Whether you are seeking emotional release, spiritual awakening, or deep relaxation, this session offers a sacred space for profound transformation. Come breathe, release, and step into the power of your true self.

In addition, we will explore the origins of our core beliefs—especially the Personal Lie, the unconscious story formed in childhood that shapes our self-perception and patterns. Through a guided exercise and reflection, you will have the opportunity to uncover and transform these deep-seated beliefs, reclaiming the truth of who you are beyond old conditioning.

Kerry has been connected with Rebirthing Breathwork, since 1993, with a focus now on embodiment practices such as Internal Family Systems and Eugene Gendlin's Focusing, as well as her shamanic studies with Northern Drum. Kerry has a trauma informed approach, and the owner and trainer of AIR School of Breathwork. Kerry has also been teaching for Alchemy of Breath for five years, graduating hundreds of students into the breathwork community. She loves sharing the healing power of the breath with others, by holding warm water rebirthing retreats, weekly groups and 1:1 sessions.

Kerry is a practitioner member of the Global Professional Breathwork Alliance, GPBA and the UK Breathwork Alliance. Kerry’s very grounded nature holds a very safe space for breathers, holding them in their highest potential and being committed to the unfolding of each person’s own journey which of course is guided perfectly by our breath.

Soulspire Flow is a transformative journey of breath and movement, guiding you into deep soul embodiment.

Through Conscious Connected Breathwork and conscious dance movement practice, you will awaken your body’s wisdom and release what no longer serves you. Breath becomes the gateway to expanded awareness, while movement allows your soul to express itself freely. This powerful fusion dissolves emotional blocks, ignites inner transformation, and restores harmony within. Step into your essence, surrender to the flow, and let your soul breathe.

Petra, originally from Prague, Czech Republic, has lived in Zurich, Switzerland, since 2005. She is a devoted mother of two teenage children and a sweet dog, Oliver.

Her journey into breathwork began as a profound path of healing, self-discovery, and empowerment during her separation and divorce. Through breath, Petra not only reconnected with herself but also found her strength, voice, and inner softness.

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Petra’s introduction to breathwork started in 2018 in Prague, where she experienced her first one-on-one Rebirthing Breathwork session. Though she didn’t fully understand why at the time, she kept returning to the practice. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she found solace and transformation in online breathwork sessions, particularly through Rebirthing and Shamanic Breathwork.

In 2023, in the midst of her personal transformation, Petra committed to deepening her practice and enrolled in the Alchemy of Breath 400-hour Breathwork Facilitation Training, where she studied under the guidance of Kerry Veitch.

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Today, as a certified breathwork facilitator, Petra is passionate about guiding women, men, and children through life’s challenges, personal transformation, and journeys of self-discovery. Her sessions are known for their gentle yet profound impact, offering a safe space for deep healing and empowerment.

1.Exploring intergenerational trauma and healing, including our histories, cultures, environments and systems—both past and present through breath and embodied practises and enquiry.

2.Exploring how the nervous system is connected to our lineage and intergenerational existence, how stress, trauma, wisdom and resilience are all transmitted across generations and environments through time and space.

3.Identifying how intergenerational patterns are active within our own systems. What is impacting us and what is our sphere of impact?

4.Expanding our perspective to include not only what shapes our wounds, behaviours and beliefs but also what supports growth, renewal and the process of re-relating and re-rooting for holistic re-generation. Bringing this into our field of resonance allowing for greater choice and agency.

5. Empowering breathworkers, facilitators and changemakers to deepen their space-holding by widening the landscape of trauma and exploring the interconnected nature of multidimensional existence.

In the depths of our being lies a paradox: a great longing and deep fear intertwined - the desire to be truly seen. 

It has us retreating to our inner world when the outer is too much, and stops us from acting on our deepest wisdom.

Imagine what might be possible if we turn toward this fear as a source of power and connection?

Learn to Wield your Laserbeam

A profound 120-minute sacred somatic journey, guiding you to meet the treasures you already know are within and crucially, practice holding yourself whilst you let them and yourself be seen.

The workshop is really a ritual of self-discovery and collective empowerment for these times.

The Alchemical Arc

We'll create a sacred circle and through an alchemical blend of touch, breath, sound, and presence, guide you through an arc.

1. Clear and Clean set up: Create a powerful field of self responsibility, acceptance, and support
   
   

2. Grounding Meditation: Gently anchoring  you into the space and your body, as deep as feels right for you.
   
   

3. Presence + Touch: Connecting with your boundaries; awakening access to the inner realm, connecting with the density necessary to hold your power.
   
   

4. Presence + Touch + Breath: Activating the system with conscious breath and allowing emotions/sensations with compassion.
   
   

5. Breath + Sound + Movement: Unhooking the grip and letting yourself be expressed, witnessed and supported - and teaching you how to hold that for yourself.
   
   

6. Regrounding + Sharing: Integrating the experience with nurturing breaths. Honouring your journey and the collective experience.
   
   

A Call to Courageous Action: As we close this experience, you'll be invited to make a commitment - one powerful action born from the connection to yourself and one another.
Because, now the world needs us to act from the very depths of our hearts.

Cat Moyle is a Somatic Guide and Teacher.

She works with unconventional, curious, hard working people, who feel moved to make the world  a better place. 

Her client base is a beautiful circle of therapists, space-holders, care-givers, activists and artists.  Loving leaders who are in touch with something deeper and are committed to live from there. 

Her work draws people back to their bodies, to the remembering of their wisdom and power so  they can live their lives, run their businesses and be a part of their communities from this deeper  place. Lovingly, sustainably and as an act of resistance. 

She is a qualified amanae practitioner, massage therapist and energy worker so uses touch,  breath, movement, somatics, sound and energetics.  

She works: online and in person; one to one, in groups and on retreats; in the UK, Europe, Central  America and wherever she is invited.  

Since 2022 she has collaborated with fellow somatic therapist to develop a Sacred Somatic Journeys teaching programme based on their combined expertise and experience. 

She is an over sharer, altruist, optimist, prolific swearer, yogi, meditator, dancefloor demon and  massive fan of sounds, the sea and crunchy food.

Each school will have 10 minites to present their training, curriculum and ethos.

We will then have time for Q&A after.

Some schools include:

• AIR School of Breath

• Inspire Breathwork

• Make Some Breathing Space

• Intuitive Breath

• Inspirational Breath

Our bodies hold stories—our own, our ancestors’, the land’s. The nervous system carries the echoes of what came before us, shaping how we move through the world. This workshop is an invitation to connect—with yourself, with the earth, with the elements moving through and around you.

The air we breathe gives us life, just as the winds of change have shaped those who came before us. The warmth of the sun fuels our passions, just as fire moves through our creativity. The grounding of the earth beneath us reminds us that we belong, offering stability when we feel unsteady. When we tune into these natural forces, we begin to understand how deeply we are held by the world around us.

But we also carry what has been unspoken—stories inherited through generations, patterns shaped by culture, society, and survival. When these stories remain unheard, they can manifest in the body as tension, pain, or disconnection. By recognizing and honoring them, we create space for release, for integration, for a new way of being. This is a practice of remembering—not just intellectually, but physically, emotionally, and energetically.

This is not just about individual healing; it’s about reclaiming the parts of ourselves that have been waiting to be seen. When we connect to our nervous system, we connect to the deeper rhythms of the world itself. And in doing so, we create space for change—not just within, but all around us.

Come breathe, feel, and connect. This is an offering, a remembering, a homecoming.

Bonnie

In 2020, during lockdown and experiencing complete burnout from the corporate world, I made the decision to train in breathwork, knowing deep down that helping others is my absolute passion. Now, as a double certified facilitator with Integrative Breath and Seven Directions Breathwork specialising in Conscious Connected Breathwork and a Body Worker, I focus on supporting people with chronic pain and guiding them in regulating their nervous systems from burnout and stress.

Breathwork has been a powerful anchor for me during life’s most uncertain and challenging moments, helping me navigate deep change and feelings of hopelessness. My mission is to share my experience, knowledge, and heart—to create nurturing, grounded spaces where people can reconnect with the power of their breath, reclaim their bodies, and restore balance to their nervous systems. More than anything, I believe in the power of community and in coming together to heal, grow, and breathe our way back to a healthier, more grounded way of being.

Amanda

As a Registered Mental Health Nurse with years of experience in the NHS and an Holistic Health Practitioner, I am uniquely positioned to guide individuals on a journey back to their roots of belonging and practice. Drawing from my experience in mental health nursing, I understand the importance of addressing the deep-seated emotional and psychological aspects of wellness present in every part of people's lives. Especially for those which formed part of our drive to work in healthcare or health-related practices.

Through my holistic approach, I encourage those I work with to reconnect with their ancestral wisdom and innate healing abilities. By honouring their cultural heritage and embracing traditional personal and professional practices, individuals can tap into a rich source of strength to be a unique practitioner, working ethically and with morality to improve community health.

Whether it's incorporating indigenous rituals, breathwork, or ancestral rites, I empower individuals to explore and reclaim their authentic selves.

By honouring their roots and practicing rituals that resonate with their heritage, individuals can experience profound healing and transformation, for themself as well as honouring those who they work with.

My role is not just to provide therapeutic interventions but also to facilitate a deeper connection to one's sense of belonging and purpose. By embracing ancient wisdom and practices, individuals can cultivate a sense of wholeness and belonging that transcends modern-day challenges.

Through this journey, individuals not only heal themselves but also contribute to the collective healing of their communities and future generations. As a bridge between conventional healthcare and holistic healing, I guide individuals towards a holistic approach that honours their roots and fosters true wellness of the whole person.

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An introduction into the Three Pillars of the WHM: Breath, Cold Exposure and Mindset Training and will comprise of a very experiential format with a guided breathwork session and a safe guided ice bath.

The workshop must be completed in full and participants cannot just show-up for the ice bath, it is far more than a simple “ice-bath experience”. Of course Gus will not force anyone into taking the ice-bath if they decide against it when the time comes.

Please come prepared and already wearing your swimwear.

Gus is an Advanced Wim Hof Instructor, Advanced Oxygen Advantage Instructor, Author and Conscious Breathwork Coach. He has been playing and experimenting with this practice and meditations for the past 20 years.

Gus first became interested in the health benefits of breathwork, cold exposure and meditation as a free-diver off the Dorset coast – an activity that opened the door to a new world and perspective on life.

Since then he has pursued many high-stress careers around the world first as a professional chef, then an internationally acclaimed environmental campaigner. He’s served as an elected city representative on the local, national and international stage and even spent a year working as a cowboy in the mountains of Colorado.

Gus studied psychology and philosophy at University and advanced physiology as part of his Paramedic training in Colorado, which halted at the EMT level with his return back to the UK.

Over the last five years he returned to his source and is now a professional breath, cold-exposure and confidence coach.

3 hour session

After our welcoming circle, we have approx 90 minutes in which we explore your unique breathing pattern. We discover the individual power of five tools that help us to open up the breath and teach us more about ourselves.

For 60 minutes we have a led journey into a deep dive session with a conscious connected breath, utilising all five tools.

We discuss the key to building a sustainable breath practice that engages and creates the foundation for our inner journey.

We close with a circle, sharing, with questions and answers.

This workshop has a level of support to enable every person to have the opportunity of hands on individual attention if wanted and required.

A short intake form will be helpful, filled in prior to the session.

When I came to breathwork in 2011 I knew I had found my last calling! Since then, I have dedicated my working life to exploring the power of the breath, creating a teaching programme for practitioners and supporting our growing community.

We have a small yearly intake of students, in a 12 month programme, starting with one-to-one work. As they gain experience, when ready, they have the opportunity to then join a dynamic collaborative program designed to engage and grow into groupwork, within the community.

I run a vibrant online regular 4 x a month community gathering called BreathCamp. It supports an individual’s journey and their breath exploration.

I love sharing the power of the breath and my ideas on social media, on Instagram @inspiraitonalbreathing there are over 1,000 posts, chanting gayatri, bopping and breathing, and sharing my passion in many conversations about breathwork.

As a grandmother with 5 young grandchildren, I’ve recently been inspired to take breathwork into schools. I’m presently training with Pathways, and with two wonderful women who qualified many years ago with me!

Multi-Dimensional Dance Journey into JOY

Come and move your body from the Inside-Out, in this lightly guided Somatic Breathe Community Dance Journey, designed to integrate your day of Breathwork! 

Deep-drop into All That You Are, Expanding your Energy Field, while tapping into the Unique, Conscious, and Creative Dance of your Body, Heart, Mind and Soul.  

YOU, Your Dance, Your Body, Your Integration, Your Community, accompanied by a sublime, soul-stirring, soundscape!

DanceJOY Early Morning Body Wake Up!

Come As You Are, Dance to Feel & Dance to Heal!  

Start your day with a soul-stirring, body-centred, joyfully grooving, somatic, FUN, dance-fitness experience! 

This 60 minute experience shall bring a perfect balance of freedom and form (simple choreographic patterns) with great world-inspired music, a playful and safe cardio workout, harmoniously nourishing body, mind, emotions and spirit, and readying your whole being for a wonderful day of Breathwork.  

Always drawn to the Sacred and Mystical via the ‘Embodied’ route, Yael is a trauma-informed and experienced Certified Transformational Breath® Facilitator and Group Workshop Leader, a Somatic DanceJOY Facilitator, with a Bachelor of Music Degree and Concert Recital Diploma GSMD. 

She holds an ITEC Diploma in Holistic Massage and Anatomy and Physiology, is a Hanna Somatics Coach, and is also currently a practitioner in training with MER (Myofascial Energetic Release), bringing in an extra layer of depth into her Breathwork offerings. 

She offers Inspired, Body-Centered workshops and events weaving together a combination of Sensory Conscious Dance, Breathwork, Bodywork and Sound Healing.  

Her professional life also includes piano teaching, and choir directing, and she comes from a background as a performing concert pianist, ballet dancer and a lifetime of Inner Enquiry.

The opportunity to express emotions through fluid acrylic art. This medium is perfect for all, and is a beautiful way to process and express our emotions through paint.

Each workshop will provide all materials and tuition by me and each participant will create their own unique piece of art.

I would love for us all to create a small additional piece and then create a huge collaboration piece of art to represent this wonderful festival.

I'm Kay. I am a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Therapist and an OA Functional Breathing Instructor.  In 2020 I attended a fluid acrylic art workshop and let's just say I became hooked! I continued the technique at home in a small little loft room, and bit by bit they got better and better. When I became brave enough, I showed them to a few friends and the response was amazing. They encouraged me to start selling my work and that was when PilchArt was born! Soon the commissions started coming in and before I knew it I had to make the dining room into a studio and spend many of my days painting. I was asked to display 3 huge pieces at The Nici Hotel, a 5 star hotel in my home town of Bournemouth, and I now have pieces dotted all over the surrounding area in various cafes, showrooms and co working spaces. Art is now my absolute passion. It has become my therapy for me, and I have found it, and continue to find it incredibly healing. In 2023 I had so many people asking me to do workshops that I started running those too. They are just a joy! From 8 to 80 years old, everyone loves it!

 The process is hugely cathartic.  I am passionate about rolling these out onto a larger scale in the community. I have run them recently at Cherry Tree Nursery for individuals that have been affected by life impacting mental health issues. The feedback has been humbling from them all and fills my heart. My hope is to continue rolling these out to those that need it most in our society. I would love to run them in the prison system with women. So that's me really! 

The liminal space is the in-between, not fullness nor emptiness. Liminal spaces exist as transitional, transformative, and metaphorical thresholds. We invite you to be here, in non-aspirational living.

In a time of increased pressure to show up, be (Instagram) ready, grow/expand or exist as something more or less, this workshop is a prayer to the space between. Between growth and decay, yin and yang… where there are no intentions, and balance just is.

Who remains when we stop trying? Who are we in liminal spaces without gender, colour, role, or identity? No duality, or division.

This is the one we can trust.

We will be using short breath holds during our conscious connected breathwork to meet and be in the liminal space between breaths. These will be guided - this is not about chasing a peak experience or sporting breath training.

Instead, gently touch the liminal space and let yourself be touched by it.

Wherever you currently are, come and discover what’s here in the heavy, deeply nourishing and nutritious oil of primordial soup where nothing is created or destroyed.

Nakita and Angie met during their breathwork training with ‘Alchemy of Breath’ - they have collaborated and enjoyed each other's meanderings ever since. They love mirroring the playfulness of each other's inner child, and embrace each opportunity to create lightness and joy.

Nakita:

A qualified teacher with more than a decade of experience in working with others toward embodied, holistic growth and development. Nakita has trained and mentored with ‘Alchemy of Breath’ as a facilitator and practitioner, as well as exploring certifications and teachings in somatics, warm water breathwork, and inner union. Nakita is also a long-term meditator and student in both Hinduism and Buddhism, having studied with nuns in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan and being born of Indian descent.

Angie:

Training since 1996, Angie has much experience working 1-1 and in groups in holistic health. From working and teaching in the subtle field of Reiki, through a plethora of grounded bodywork techniques such as Thai and Ayurvedic treatments. She is a qualified Transformational Coach and experienced in serving plant medicine ceremonially. Angie teaches the art and science of Yoga, and is an Alchemy of Breath Trainer and Practitioner in Conscious Connected Breathwork. 

These trainings have explored and included Anatomy and Physiology, Somatic Experiencing, Intuition expansion, and Shamanic journeying. She is also trauma-informed and educated in Raw and Ayurvedic food preparation, Aromatherapy and Multiple meditative techniques.

Angie created her own venue that supported over 30 holistic practitioners. She is experienced in hosting and collaborating with workshops and on retreats. Please connect to explore working with her. 

In this workshop, we intimately co-create pathways for social and health equity by exploring how our emotional ecology can both shape and co-create a collective experience.

Through breathwork and shared reflection, we will begin to uncover how systemic and structural injustices affect our wellbeing and explore ways to transform them.

We will engage in storytelling and dialogue, connecting our experiences to the wider community and imagine new possibilities.

We reclaim our feelings and emotions to drive change and meaningful action.

This is an interactive and embodied space where we come together to build, move and deepen connections.

As a Registered Mental Health Nurse with years of experience in the NHS and an Holistic Health Practitioner, I am uniquely positioned to guide individuals on a journey back to their roots of belonging and practice. Drawing from my experience in mental health nursing, I understand the importance of addressing the deep-seated emotional and psychological aspects of wellness present in every part of people's lives. Especially for those which formed part of our drive to work in healthcare or health-related practices.

Through my holistic approach, I encourage those I work with to reconnect with their ancestral wisdom and innate healing abilities. By honouring their cultural heritage and embracing traditional personal and professional practices, individuals can tap into a rich source of strength to be a unique practitioner, working ethically and with morality to improve community health.

Whether it's incorporating indigenous rituals, breathwork, or ancestral rites, I empower individuals to explore and reclaim their authentic selves.

By honouring their roots and practicing rituals that resonate with their heritage, individuals can experience profound healing and transformation, for themself as well as honouring those who they work with.

My role is not just to provide therapeutic interventions but also to facilitate a deeper connection to one's sense of belonging and purpose. By embracing ancient wisdom and practices, individuals can cultivate a sense of wholeness and belonging that transcends modern-day challenges.

Through this journey, individuals not only heal themselves but also contribute to the collective healing of their communities and future generations. As a bridge between conventional healthcare and holistic healing, I guide individuals towards a holistic approach that honours their roots and fosters true wellness of the whole person.

I would like to offer morning Qi Gong sessions to start the day at the festival outside in the fresh air. Offering a space for us to come together to be barefoot on the earth, held in the support, wisdom and beauty of the trees. 

Qi Gong is a form of breath-work and mindful body movement, designed to balance our energy system, cultivate deep internal power and strength, releasing old or stagnant Qi making space for the fresh. 

Qi can be translated as the Breath and Gong means to Work, thus Qi Gong is Breath-Work. The foundation of Qi Gong breathing is shun hu xi or “natural respiration” which translates as “free flowing, going with natures current.” In this morning practice we will slow down together, and come in to alignment with our-selves and our-cells, our bodies and our breath. 

I will guide the practice as an exploration of the 5 elements and how they can be experienced in our bodies. We will begin by taking time to connect to the Qi of the Earth, the ground beneath our feet and then gently bringing awareness to the earth of the body. Then stretching, opening and warming up our joints, tendons and ligaments connecting with the Wood element of growth, play and creativity. We will then soften into a flowing like Water Qi Gong practice, letting go of tension allowing our breath and Qi to freely open and expand connecting to the fluid nature of our breath and the element of Air. We will complete with the Fire element connecting to our own heart’s fire, our own unique expression, allowing this fire to expand we will connect out with another, with the group and with the whole of life. 

I have been practicing Qigong for over 18 years, it has been a huge part of my journey of self discovery, gently guiding me in the power of the breath, movement and presence. My practice has lead me to explore energy healing for both myself and for others through bodywork and now breath-work. Qigong is my foundation practice a place i always come back to a gift i would like to share with others. My teaching is greatly inspired by the earth energies that surround us, our connection to heaven and earth and the elements of life. 

We'll be demonstrating, with the group participating as if they were the children, some of the breathwork tools used within the PTR programme and showing some of the other activities and strategies PTR uses, such as tapping and positive psychology.

You will also hear about our Facilitator Training programme and our vision for reaching as many children and their communities as possible.

Helen Bradley and Helen Spencer, both former Primary school teachers, met in 2020 whilst training to become Inspiration Breathing Practitioners. Since qualifying in 2021, they have both taken a deep dive into all things breath; avidly reading and researching as well as completing training with BreathWork Africa, becoming practitioners in Reiki and Therapeutic Face Massage, and Helen B. a Mental Health First Aider and Helen S. completing a Certificate in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy.

They both work with clients 1:1 and in groups and love sharing this powerful work, guiding people through Functional breathing and Conscious Connected Breathwork techniques. As former teachers, it struck us that it would be hugely beneficial if children were taught this effective and accessible tool to help them regulate and, in turn, become more resilient.

In 2022, Helen B. met Samanta Echo, a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist and Conscious Parenting Guide.  With their shared passion for building resilience in children they created the not-for-profit organisation ‘Pathways to Resilience’ (PTR).  They now deliver programmes rooted in Breathwork to children aged 8 - 16, as well as workshops to parents/carers and training days to school staff. PTR secured 3 years of government funding allowing us to reach more children in our area of Hampshire. In 2024, Helen S. joined the team to help drive PTR forward in reaching as many children and their communities as possible. We are proud to say that in March ‘25 our first cohort of Facilitator Trainers will be graduating allowing this vital work to spread far and wide. We are extremely grateful that four of those trainees joined us after we ran the workshop at The Breathe Festival last year!

We are offering a workshop of 3 rounds of 25-minute self-enquiry Breathwork sessions:

1. BODY - letting go of what no longer serving us

2. HEART opening consciousness to allow ourselves to receive

3. SOUL remembrance so we realign with our divine purpose.

Susie Smith – Intuitive Breathwork

Breathwork & Emotional Trauma Therapist | Embodiment Mentor | Shamanic Energy Worker| Mental Health First Aider

Susie has been a qualified Breathwork Therapist and Trauma Informed Facilitator for over 8 years. Working deeply with Conscious Connected Breathwork and the history within the Nervous System, creating somatic and profound experiences for everyone attending her 1:1 sessions or workshops. 

Being deeply intuitive by nature enables Susie to work with the frequency of your own body intelligence, dropping you into higher states of consciousness through the body’s wisdom and the power of the breath. Helping clients unpack unconscious emotional baggage and restore the body to its sovereign state. 

Susie’s path has weaved its way through a deep and transformative education in Conscious Breathwork, Emotional Trauma Healing, and the history they both hold within us

Leigh Jones – Breathe with Leigh 

Breathwork & Holistic Lifestyle Coach | Functional Movement Practitioner |  Life-long student of whole human health.​

Leigh firmly believes that within every individual resides an innate impulse to grow, evolve and thrive. His mission is to help people remove the physical, mental, and emotional barriers that obstruct this natural flourishing. 

His holistic approach with clients addresses the various pillars of health. This includes nervous system regulation, trauma resolution, breathwork, hydration, nutrition and gut health, sleep, stress management, movement, and archetypal work.

Aloha Ohana 

Lets Join together to embark on a transformative heart-based breathwork journey with the ancient Hawaiian, “Breath of life”. 

The breath of life guides you gently and effectively to awaken your heart space, this is where the magic happens!

When we breathe together we experience deep feelings of love and connection creating long lasting feelings of joy, bliss and love - Nevada! 

Through this guided Heart based Breathwork you get to experience deep relaxation, emotional release, and a revitalised sense of direction in life with heightened awareness, and more focus on the things that are most important to you 💗

Join us as we create meaningful connections, feel love and awaken the heart together! 

Aloha

My journey started over 27 years ago back in the 90s when I trained to be a Clinical Aromatherapist and massage therapist. 

Since then I continued training in many different health related modalities including Sport massage, Reflexology, Yoga and Thai massage. 

After travelling for three years I emigrated to Australia and this where my first introduction to using the breath in my massage practise came from. 

It was whilst training in Hawaiian Lomi Lomi Bodywork that I discovered by using the breath I could massage for many more hours and it was a way to let out any stuck energy within the client. 

I soon realised that I wanted to learn more so travelled to Hawaii and did a mastership in Lomi Lomi bodywork which including using the breath within our massages and body work. 

I experienced my first conscious breathing session whilst in Hawaii and it completely changed my life in one session. I went from grieving fro the last 10 years to feeling a sense of life and joy again, this encouraged me to learn more about the breath. 

I then went on to train in various modalities of breathwork 

JP Crimmi as a Breathwork Facilitator for one on one, couples and group classes. 

Soma Breath as a Breath Instructor 

Wim Hoff Fundamentals 

Dan Brulé Breath Mastery 

Jen is the founder of Nalu Breathwork and Nalu Massage Training.

She started her journey back in the Uk over 27 years ago where she studied to be a Clinical Aromatherapist and Reflexologist.

Jen first experienced the power and transformation of Breathwork on the island of Maui – Hawaii whilst doing a mastership in Hawaiian Lomi Lomi healing work. Unexpectedly and gratefully Jen experienced a massive shift and transformation which took her from a stage in her life of grieving for the last 10 years to feeling free, content, and joyful again. 

This gave Jen the knowledge that she wanted to share this powerful transforming work with others and help others change their life.

Jen has dedicated most of her life to transforming the lives of people for the better with massage and healing work and she now aims to help others do the same for their communities.

Helping people find their soul purpose so they can help their local community to experience optimum health and well-being with the power of the breath.

She believes that by serving others she is helping the world be better place one breath at a time.

Join us for a powerful breathwork journey into the enteric nervous system — your body’s "second brain" and the true seat of intuition. Through conscious connected breathing and gentle somatic practices, we’ll activate your gut wisdom, calm the nervous system, and tap into the sixth sense you’ve always had.

No experience needed
Calm the mind, trust the gut
Breathe, feel, remember

Eddie

I know what it’s like to feel lost, stuck in ever repeating patterns of shame and guilt, darkness and depression rearing up continuously, scared to be in your own head, and completely disconnected from the world. I spent years trapped in that cycle, using drugs and alcohol to cope, feeling like I didn’t belong anywhere. But the thing that finally allowed me to become free, was right under my nose—it was my own breath.

Breathwork(CCB) changed everything. It  helped me process the past, and gave me a way to reconnect with myself. Once I saw what this tool could do, I knew I had to share it. I trained in breathwork and became a facilitator, the mission was simple, give this away as cheaply and make it accessible to all, so others can experience what I had. I chose to work with addicts and prisoners—because I’ve been in both of those places myself.

Since then, I’ve worked with over 2,000 addicts and alcoholics in rehab, led sessions for thousands more in my own classes, and brought breathwork into prisons and continue to work with the forgotten and give this gift away to any who need it.

Natasha de Grunwald is a published author, international Breathwork, Trauma and Somatic expert. She is the founder of the Trauma Release Method and Seismic Orgasmic Breath experience.

Based in London and Brighton she travels internationally to facilitate Breathwork events and to teach healing methods for mind, body and soul.  As a powerful speaker and advocate for trauma and Somatic healing she runs events, workshops and retreats along with 1:1 client work. 

With 4 decades of experience as a leader practising and teaching holistic and complimentary therapies her passion and expertise centres around Breathwork, nervous system regulation, trauma healing, Somatic modalities, inner child and shadow work, myofascial touch, ancient healing practices, nutrition and powerful coaching. 

This isn’t surface-level breathwork, and it’s also not breathwork as you know it!

In this 2-hour immersive session, Natasha guides you through two embodied processes that melt mental noise and drop you straight into your body’s knowing. 

Through the Trauma Release Method and the Five Element Process, you'll experience breath, movement, sound, and self-directed touch to move what’s ready to shift — and hear what your system’s been trying to say. You will also experience how Somatic Coaching and the breath come together to support people on their path.

Walk away clearer, lighter, and more anchored in truth that didn’t come from someone else. It came from you.