Breathwork is a way to move stuck energy and emotions through the physical body.
Anytime you are intentionally using your breath, you are doing breathwork. There are many different ways to do breathwork and breathing as a tool can be found in many cultural and spiritual traditions.
Box breath, shamanic breathing, holotrophic, conscious connected breathing, rebirthing, diaphragmatic breath, 4-7-8, three-part breath… so many options of using your breath to communicate and tend to your body and nervous system!
What is breathwork?
Breathwork is a type of active meditation that can facilitate self-healing, help connect you with your inner wisdom and deep intuition, and support you in releasing what's no longer serving you.
This breathing technique uses an active form of inhales and exhales to increase the oxygen to create movement of qi, energy, sensation, emotions, creativity, and open up the mind to expanded consciousness. A 2025 study shows that practicing breathwork with music is uniquely effective in inducing altered states of consciousness - also referred to as a sense of “oceanic boundlessness”.
The main style of active, high-ventilation breathing used in sessions, in its simplest form, encourages you to breathe deeply into your belly, then up into your chest, and then release the breath from the mouth.
The purpose is to stir up the emotional center of the body (the 2nd and 3rd chakras), bring that energy up to the heart center (heart chakra) to wash it with love, and then release the energy through the mouth. Following the active breathing, sessions will end with slow, restful diaphragmatic breathing for integration.
How breathwork can help you:
The beauty of this work is that through the breath, you can process your emotions, past trauma, and current challenges, all while bypassing the thinking brain. This creates a powerful shift that can help you move through transitions in life with more ease.
Breathwork might be right for you if:
You feel like you're ready for an emotional release that is facilitated with love and compassion
You feel "stuck" and don't know why
You're having difficulty in opening up your heart or increasing your ability to receive love and support
You would like to let go of any limiting stories or beliefs that are holding you back from being the fullest version of yourself
You want to connect in more intentionally to the creative muse and your artistry
“I really didn’t know what to expect going into the Breathwork session, but Amy immediately helped me feel at ease and explained the process in a way that made me very comfortable. Amy has an amazing ability to immediately create an environment of trust and acceptance, which allowed me to get the most out of my session.
Prior to the session I felt very stagnant and stuck emotionally, but as soon as the session ended I wanted to do it again! Once I surrendered to my breath and the process, I felt an emotional release and had a lot of emotional clarity over the next few days. I will definitely be booking another session with Amy and truly believe it’s something that everyone should experience for themselves.”
What to expect in a breathwork session:
During a breathwork session, you'll lie on a massage table, fully clothed, and be guided through a specific breathing technique to a playlist of music while your practitioner intuitively guides you through your experience.
The specific active breathing technique gives structure to the logical mind in order to make space for the wisdom of the body to come through in sensations, emotions, expression, and shifts in energy. While sessions usually start here, there is a lot of room to play and tailor the breathing to you and what you need.
Tools such as essential oils, crystals, herbal smoke, guided visualization prompts, and other forms of energy clearing might be used during your session as well.
While patients often experience a lot of varying physical sensations during the session (tingling, vibration, tightness, floaty, lobster claws, muscle tetany), a general commonality afterwards is a deep sense of peacefulness and calm.
We offer a variety of breathwork options:
Private one-on-one breathwork healing sessions
Private duo sessions (great for partners, siblings, business partners, etc)
Private one-on-one breathwork + tarot coaching healing sessions which include a short tarot reading in addition to the breathwork session
Private one-on-one breathwork + energy healing sessions which include an extended rest with energy medicine in addition to the breathwork session
Public breathwork classes in our classroom
Private breathwork groups for your friends, family, team, etc in our classroom
“My partner and I attended a breathwork session and had a fantastic experience. The session was both relaxing and powerful, creating a space where we could connect on a deeper level than we do in everyday life. It was a unique experience that helped us be more present with each other and ourselves. The guidance throughout the session made us feel comfortable and supported, and we left feeling refreshed, grounded, and more connected. I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a meaningful experience, whether on their own or with a partner.”
Common questions about breathwork:
What if I already do some breathwork as part of my daily yoga practice. Is this the same thing?
The breathwork practiced at our clinic has roots in pranayama, but is more activating than most breathing patterns practiced in yoga classes. If you’re doing Kundalini breathing daily you’re doing something similar to the breathwork practiced at the clinic, but still a bit different.
If you are familiar with holotropic breathwork, this is also similar and different to the type of breathwork done at the clinic.
What if I already do some breathwork as part of my daily yoga practice. Is this the same thing?
The breathwork practiced at our clinic in has roots in pranayama, but is more activating that most breathing patterns practiced in yoga classes. If you’re doing Kundalini breathing daily you’re doing something similar to the breathwork practiced at the clinic, but still a bit different.
What is breathwork good for?
Breathwork is exceptionally useful for the following:
Moving through a crossroads in life with more grace and ease
Forgiving old grudges and personal pain
Physically releasing old trauma that’s still being stored in the body
Letting go of limiting beliefs that are holding you back
Living with chronic disease
Connecting with source energy
Increasing creativity and inspiration
Are you just breathing the whole time and that’s it?
The appointment starts with a check-in and discussion around what brought you to this work. Then you’ll set an intention for the session and start the active breath. You’ll continue with the active breath for anywhere between 20 to 35-min while your practitioner intuitively leads your body through different clearing methods to help facilitate any necessary energy clearings or somatic support.
After, you’ll rest with your normal breath rate for several minutes while your body and mind integrate the healing work. There is often time after the breathing practice to verbally process and share the experience with your practitioner, if that feels supportive.
Why can breathwork create such intense sensations and be so effective?
During the active breath the mind gets out of the way and lets the body do the work it instinctively knows how to do. That’s the true beauty of this work! So often we over analyze our problems to death - without ever truly clearing them from our physical and energetic selves.
This work completely bypasses the thinking brain and focuses only on the physical and energetic brains. It’s because of this focus on the physical and energetic selves that so much sensation occurs in the body during a breathwork session (tingling, heaviness, tightness, floating sensations, emotional responses, etc).
