Breathwork

In traditional cultures, the human life arc looks like the one described in Soulcraft by Bill Plotkin: “We take root in a childhood of innocence and wonder; sprout into an adolescence of creative fire and mystery-probing adventures; blossom into an authentic adulthood of visionary leadership and cultural artistry, and finally ripen into a seed-scattering elderhood of wisdom, grace, and the holistic tending of the more-than-human world.”

In today’s reality, our experiences are often much less connected — to ourselves and to the natural world. The resulting disconnection, anti-belonging, dépaysement , is at the root of much discomfort and pain.

Yet the breath is a powerful medicine for reconnection — with our bodies and with the universe. When we intentionally draw that cosmic energy into our lungs, we fuel ourselves with the chi that has steadily drumbeat through hearts for 800 million years. Through conscious engagement with our inhales and exhales, organized at specific intervals (I’ll guide you), we can safely and gently expand our consciousness to “time travel” across prior and future life chapters, repatterning as we go, to restore holistic balance.

Breathwork, known in Sanskrit as pranayama, has ancient roots, and Western science is (finally) corroborating the power of this practice. In our sessions, we may draw on breath cadences that are familiar to you from yoga classes, and we may explore entirely new ones, based on what’s alive for you in your body in that moment. I’ll be engaging in the same breaths with you, so we’ll be journeying side by side, together yet apart. At the end of the session, we’ll always return to the Conscious Connected Breath — slow deep inhales with equal-length exhales — to reground in the right now, and we’ll close with a debrief of anything that feels like it wants to be shared or discussed.

In my experience, the depth of transformative healing that often happens in breathwork sessions is inspiring and surprising. If it’s right for you, you’ll know.