Where the Soul Meets the Breath!

This is a space where each breath guides you beyond the physical, connecting you to the depth of your soul, a journey into something much greater than the body alone.

What is Somatic Breathwork?: Somatic Breathwork is a body-based practice that uses intentional breathing patterns to regulate the nervous system, release stored emotions, and reconnect the mind and body. By accessing the breath, we can shift emotional states, calm the mind, and support deep healing, bridging the gap between science and spirituality.

Physiological & Physical Effects: Breathwork influences the autonomic nervous system, shifting between sympathetic activation (fight-or-flight) and parasympathetic relaxation (rest and digest). Fast, deep breathing, increases oxygen intake, heart rate, and blood circulation, creating a heightened state of alertness and energy. In contrast, slow, deep breathing lowers cortisol (stress hormone), reduces inflammation, and improves oxygen efficiency in the body, promoting cellular repair and relaxation. Controlled breathing also enhances vagus nerve function, which regulates digestion, heart rate, and emotional balance.

Neuroscience of Breathwork: Fast breathing increases dopamine, creating heightened awareness, while slow, rhythmic breathing increases serotonin and oxytocin, fostering relaxation and emotional stability. Techniques like belly breathing can induce altered states of consciousness, activating the limbic system (emotional brain) and allowing access to repressed memories or emotions. Deep breathing stimulates alpha and theta brainwaves, associated with meditation, creativity, and deep introspection.

Polyvagal Theory & Nervous System Regulation: According to Polyvagal Theory, the breath plays a key role in nervous system regulation by activating the vagus nerve, which helps shift between sympathetic (stress response) and parasympathetic (calm, connected state). Fast breathing can trigger mobilization energy, helpful for emotional processing, while slow breathing activates the ventral vagal state, fostering safety, connection, and emotional resilience. This makes breathwork a powerful tool for managing anxiety, trauma recovery, and emotional balance.

Spiritual & Energetic Perspectives: From a spiritual standpoint, breath is life force energy (prana, mana or spirit) connecting us to higher states of consciousness and deeper self-awareness. Belly breathing and other deep breathing practices can lead to mystical experiences, ego dissolution, and profound emotional releases, allowing for deep spiritual insights and healing. Slow, deep breathing enhances intuitive clarity, energy alignment, and a sense of peace and interconnectedness. Many traditions view breath as a sacred bridge between body, mind, and spirit, facilitating both inner transformation and expanded awareness.

Conclusion: Somatic Breathwork is a powerful practice that integrates physiology, psychology, neuroscience, polyvagal regulation, and spiritual awareness to support healing, self-discovery, and emotional balance. Whether used for nervous system regulation, trauma release, or spiritual awakening, the breath is an accessible and profound tool for transformation, offering both scientific benefits and deeper soul connection 🌬This practice enhances emotional resilience, enabling the body to choose regulation over habitual reaction. It promotes deep self-connection, taking you on a courageous journey into self-awareness where true growth happens. Somatic Breathwork taps into long-held sensations and memories, activating a healing response in the body. Unlike talk therapy, which often focuses on understanding, Somatic Breathwork emphasizes feeling emotions and sensations, encouraging expression rather than suppression.

Cool Components For Athletes: Through stretching the diaphragm and intercostals, massaging internal organs, and training the body to hold more air, we enhance physical and emotional health. Breath holds reset the body and mind, producing nitric oxide, which supports brain function, heart health, and athletic performance. This practice builds emotional resilience and optimizes breathing for athletes. It reduces muscle fatigue, strengthens the diaphragm, improves circulation, stabilizes heart rate, increases lung capacity, and enhances clarity, presence, and decision-making, while also lowering cortisol and reducing inflammation.

What to Expect: Each 90-minute session—offered via Zoom—includes roughly 30 minutes of fast paced, diaphragmatic belly breathing with three big breath holds and finishing with 30 minutes of slow paced breathing at the end, both beginning and ending in prayer and plenty of time to journal or share! When we drop into these spaces designed for healing it is very common to also have emotional releases that can look like crying, laughing, screaming, moments of anger, increased bodily temperature, the need to move etc. whatever it is, it is invited and celebrated! As it is an essential piece to why breathwork is so profound. Feeling to heal! And in a lot of peoples case, expect to feel things you may have never felt, from sensations to emotions, and the power to feel the widest range of emotions from deep pain to the greatest joy, connecting your feelings and sensations to stories in new ways, that become the clues and blueprint to creating a better life, one full of joy and passion, truth and authenticity!

What you will need in a session: A safe space with no distractions to lie down, water, a blanket, a journal yet optional, headphones, and the willingness to connect with your breath! Thats it.