It’s baffling to read the evidential benefits of something as simple, ordinary and accessible as breath when it is done effectively. The challenge is that most of us have a less-than-optimal breath pattern due to years of human experiences accumulated and the innate connection of those to your breath.

Therapeutic breath practices are particularly helpful to unravel old patterns, beliefs and memories that hold us back and physiologically offer a ‘re-set’ to a healthy, natural breath that invites deep healing of the body-mind.

With patient acceptance, past experiences are invited to be re-membered safely and sensitively. Emotions and imprints of the original experience are able to resolve and heal. A revived sense of self, vitality, contentment and connection to life are common side effects.

Breath clients often describe their sessions as powerful, releasing and profoundly healing.

Soma, the Greek noun for body. Gnosis, the Greek noun for knowledge, wisdom. Together these form somatic (a.k.a embodiment) practices, which you’ve likely heard some hype about.   

These practices encourage us first and foremost, to quiet the mind and become acutely in-tune with the body using mindfulness, body-mind holism, voluntary, spontaneous and micro-movement, moving and/or guided meditations, somatic contemplation and other techniques.

Soma, the Greek noun for body. Gnosis, the Greek noun for knowledge, wisdom. Together these form somatic (a.k.a embodiment) practices, which you’ve likely heard some hype about.   

These practices encourage us first and foremost, to quiet the mind and become acutely in-tune with the body using mindfulness, body-mind holism, voluntary, spontaneous and micro-movement, moving and/or guided meditations, somatic contemplation and other techniques.

What to expect in an individual breath session varies depending on your previous experience in related work, and to a lesser degree, whether the session is virtual or in-person. Here is what to expect.

In your first session, we'll do more talking than in subsequent sessions, on subjects such as what you’re currently experiencing, previous related practices, the basics of breathwork & somatic therapies and your desired outcomes from working together. In most instances, we’ll also do a short seated breath practice in your first session.

Subsequent sessions will start to go deeper into breath and somatic work at an appropriate pace, custom designed to your unique goals and requisites. Every session will start with a check in - how you’re doing, what came up since we last met and will proceed based on what is topical for you in the moment, serving your highest goals.

You can count on roughly 2/3s of most sessions to be spent in somatic and/or breath practices, tuning in to your body, increasing your awareness and experimenting with specific practices.

Practices we deploy may include mindfulness, movement, bouncing, trembling / shaking, body-based experiments of various somatic based therapies such as Somatic Experiencing, Hakomi, Bioenergetics, meditation, contemplation and reflection, explorations in nervous system, gentle breath practices and more profound breath-based therapeutics.

Some of your sessions will be more profoundly shifting than others, and the key to this practice is to remain curious, patient, and open to the unfolding on its own timeline.