Breathwork & Sound Healing
"The breath is the key that can open thousands of doors. The body is allowed to find the alignment between the earth and sky, and the practice becomes a richly rewarding voyage inwards where gifts are always offered...”
~ Sandra Sabatini
For over 20 years I have practiced and worked with healing paths, yoga and sound. I combine elements of these modalities into breathwork and sound healing sessions - a powerful practice for releasing tension, creating inner space and transformation.
Breath carries life force energy. In every moment breath ~ life ~ is flowing through our bodies. Like the ever present waves of the ocean, in and out, pausing in the stillness in between. We breathe and yet, we are also being breathed by life. Until our last breath, when our spirit is released, from our body...
As babies, we are soft and open, and breathe naturally and fully in our bellies. As we grow and encounter challenges stress, and traumas in life that we are not able to release, this can cause us to tighten and store that tension in our bodies. The tension impacts the flow of the breath which can become constricted, weak or shallow. As this happens, our life force energy can no longer freely flow through our bodies - like water that is dammed or stagnating in a river.
At the heart of many traditions around the world are practices of working with the breath, to relax the body, clear our mind and energy and expand our consciousness. Working with breathing practices is a potent way to let go, cleanse, to go beyond the mental thoughts, and connect with our intuition - inner-knowing.
Breathwork & Sound Healing Sessions
Working with your intent and your breath; guided by voice and journeying with sound, I guide you through inner landscapes encouraging you to let go, and retrieve lost soul parts through the breath. We may work with different breathing practices, or focus mainly on one. You will be gently guided in breathing healing and compassion into the spaces within and breathing to release heavy energies and negative influences; breathing into stillness, into your being, from where healing and insight arise.
Held within a sacred ceremony space, calling upon the assistance of the divine, ancestors & guides, I work with a variety of healing tools, smudging, voice, drumming, rattle, crystal singing bowls, and music to facilitate your sound and breathwork journey.
Benefits of Breathwork and Sound Healing:
- Feeling of calm
- Inner space and quietening of the mind
- Deep rest and relaxation
- Opening of the heart
- Releasing emotions, allowing grief to flow
- Releasing trauma
- Releasing energetic blocks and tension in the body
- Calming anxiety, confusion and fear
- Increased oxygen in the blood
- Restful sleep
- Intuition, vision, inspiration, creativity
- Clear mind and energy
- Ancestral healing and healing childhood wounds
- Deeper connection with Nature, self and others
Some Contraindications for Breathwork:
• Cardiovascular problems
• High or abnormal blood pressure
• Epilepsy or history of seizures
• Anyone on heavy medication, must consult with your doctor first
• Severe psychiatric symptoms or mental illness
• Recent surgery
• Glaucoma
• Aneurisms
• Pregnancy (must practice gently only)
Reciprocity: £70 (or £45 low income)
Group sessions are held fortnightly, as live sound journeys & ceremonies, which include breathwork. See here for more info and dates
“Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh