Welcome to Trauma-Informed Breathwork

Embark on a transformative journey within during our immersive 3-hour event. Through movement, sound, authentic relating, journaling, cacao, and breathwork, dive into a profound exploration of self.

Unlock Healing Potential

Experience Trauma-Informed Breathwork, a powerful practice that guides you into non-ordinary states of consciousness, unlocking the brain's emotional and memory centers. Led by Anna Wood, a seasoned Psychotherapist specializing in trauma, delve into understanding stress, trauma, and their effects on emotional health.

Your Journey Awaits

Trauma-Informed Breathwork centers around using a specific, long-form breath pattern that will activate sympathetic and parasympathetic responses from your body. Each journey is different. You may feel a deep level of calm, gain messages from your subconscious, experience a powerful energetic or emotional release, or connect with something more metaphysical. Your body is intelligent and will use this practice in whichever way it needs on the day. As your journey concludes, you will be guided into a safe and loving integration process with the frequencies of gentle crystal singing bowls and restorative grounding practices.

Benefits You Can Expect

· Higher self-awareness

· Deep relaxation

· Altered states akin to meditation and transpersonal experiences

· Support for PTSD, depression, and anxiety

· Emotional catharsis and trauma healing

The Essence of Trauma & Breathwork

Trauma is a human experience - at some point, everyone encounters it. One study shows that approximately 70% of people worldwide experience at least one traumatic event in their lifetime. Often categorized as a “Big T” trauma, like sexual abuse, a natural disaster, and war, or a “Little T” trauma like a breakup, prolonged stress, or financial trouble — all traumas have an impact on our bodies and subconscious mind. Over time, these impacts can compound and become further internalized, and ultimately, trauma manifests as physical or emotional symptoms/disease. Breathwork has many positive effects on alleviating anxiety, stress, and the emotional tension held in the body. Breathwork can also help heal trauma, release stored/stuck energy, and restore aspects of ourselves that have been impacted by traumatic events. As the pressure of our emotions begins to release, a path toward healing and wholeness is made clear, and balance is restored.

Understanding Trauma-Informed Breathwork

The Trauma-Informed Breathwork that we facilitate is based on a Holotropic-style form of breathwork. Holotropic breathwork is classified as deeply transformational and meaningful work. The word Holotropic means: “moving toward wholeness,” originating from the Greek words “holos,” which means ‘whole,’ and “trepein,” which means ‘moving towards’. This breathwork technique pairs quickened breathing with evocative music to elicit healing and transformational experiences for the individual. This type of breathwork brings participants into non-ordinary states of consciousness, allowing suppressed thoughts and emotions to more easily surface, be expressed, processed, and released. Allowing ourselves to feel and heal from the emotions and memories that comprise these traumas is a profound process. The emotional charge of the traumas is allowed to flow, and its hold on us is released. After a single session, people share their experience as “feeling lightness and clarity”.

What to Bring

• Water bottle

• Journal or notebook

• Yoga mat

• Pillow, cushion, or bolster

• Wear comfortable clothing

Please arrive by 12.50pm to start on time. These processes take the time they take, and sometimes we run over. Please allow for an extra 30minuts so that you don’t have to rush off in the middle of group reflections.

Expert Guidance for Your Journey

Anna Wood brings forward a decade of experience as a Psychotherapist to support participants in safely exploring the depths of their psyche. As a specialist in the trauma field, Anna provides a unique, trauma-informed lens under which participants can safely access these trending breathwork practices. Before your journey, Anna will introduce tools to activate the appropriate brain hemispheres, guiding participants to gently drop into their body and connect as a group, creating a safe space where everyone feels fully supported and capable of using this breathwork to the best of their ability. Integration is another hugely important aspect of the Trauma-Informed Breathwork process. We offer our participants time after breathwork for journaling, grounding, and group reflection.

Continued Support & Offerings

We are here to support you in your own practice of self-discovery and healing. Access a post-event breathwork recording, avail special discounts for our diverse offerings, from hot and cold therapy to private breathwork and holistic psychotherapy sessions.

Disclaimer

Breathwork is a powerful experiential tool for accessing your own inner healing. As this process can bring up intense emotions and strong physical sensations in some, it is not recommended for those with certain types of conditions including head injuries, heart conditions, pregnancy, recent surgery, serious mental health issues, or other physical limitations. If you are unsure, please consult your family doctor.