There’s something about the breath that feels almost too simple… and yet, it’s everything.

It’s the first thing we do when we arrive here, and the last thing we do when we leave. And somewhere in between, we forget it’s even there, regulating us, acting as a guide to bring us back home to ourselves.

Breath, to me, hasn’t always felt like magic.

I’m probably not supposed to say that as a Trauma-Informed Breathwork Facilitator, but I prefer honesty and truth over purple-washed facts, gift-wrapped toxic positivity, and stale affirmations.

I breathed shallowly as a child due to many rounds of bronchitis in which breathing deep caused physical pain. As a child I had to walk on eggshells in my family home and at Catholic school for being ✨too much ✨ and the first thing children do when they’re trying to keep themselves small or be invisible to avoid getting in trouble is to hold their breath. As I got older I smoked cigarettes for many years; essentially while I was growing up I had no conscious connection to my breath.

There were, however, many bright spots over the years of conscious breathing

When I was in high school I swam competitively and my strokes were connected to my breathing
After graduating college I decided to start running and learned more about my breath
I practiced Tai Chi in college and its a moving meditation connected to shifting energy with breath
Tattoos are painful and I have many, the only way to move through the pain is to control the breath
I have always loved to hike, and during hikes, I am always connected to breath
I have been a yogi since I was 20 and have always connected breath to movement

Fast forward to my early sound healing and energy session days, I was always connected to my breath as that is the only way to receive information from your client and then ground it out of your body - by breathing deeply and exhaling out your tailbone or soles of the feet - I call this breathing like a dragon because of the ferocity of the breath. When you hold space for people moving through deeply difficult emotions one of the things that is most helpful is to regulate your own breathing. We literally are tuning forks and respond to our environment - if someone is moving through extreme discoherence, the best thing you can do is offer powerful coherence by breathing and centering yourself.

One fateful night I was invited to collaborate on a Breathwork + Meditation + Sound Healing Session. I was invited to participate in the whole event and close the ceremony with a Crystal Bowl Journey. So I blindly attended my first ever Breathwork Session…

I am a deeply curious person by nature and love learning new things, but to be honest, when I entered this evening, my ego came too, as I had done so much energy and sound work for literally over a decade I thought ‘what could this possibly teach me,’ and boy I was in for a ride 🎡😂

The practitioner lead us through Dirga Pranayama (3 part breath) and then as the music increased in speed, so did our breath - and before I knew it my arms and legs had tetany and were curling in toward my torso. I was seeing a psychedelic kaleidoscope of color that started in my third eye and then burst forth surrounding my entire body and biofield, and then the colors filled up the environment around me, then the whole shala, and beyond.

I was tripping balls.

People started to cry which gave me permission to cry. I howled while some growled and then we all began to laugh - big belly, juicy laughs. Laughs like you haven’t laughed since childhood when you were carefree and didn’t understand war or taxes.

It was fucking delicious.

With tears pouring down all of our faces, an hour went by without us even realizing or understanding ✨time ✨ because we were so deep in our experience the only thing that existed was our experience.

That’s when I decided to study and become a Breathwork Facilitator

Breathwork deeply humbled me. It was a reminder that we can always find new depths to ourselves, learn new things, and access long-forgotten parts of ourselves.

The simplicity of the breath spoke to me as I am a person who appreciates efficiency; I carry my tuning forks around the world and they fit in my backpack.

The breath barely takes up any space at all, and yet it gives us permission to take up all the space we need.

When I look back I see that this isn’t necessarily the ~ modality I chose ~ it’s one that sat quietly and patiently in the background, staring at me and waiting for me to return the glance. It wove itself into my being before I knew it was happening - through swimming, hiking, yoga, meditation, sound healing sessions, and sitting with people in their most raw, cracked open, vulnerable moments.

For a long time, I had the understanding that the breath was a doorway to connect the mind / body, the physical / spiritual. My conscious breath is now an anchor that connects me to my inner strength and the present moment, it’s a bridge between my body and mind, and it’s a simple power move to bring chaos into clarity.

Breathwork + Guided Meditation

I offer Breathwork + Guided Meditation as they are so closely related (second cousins at the most); they support the cumulative understanding of each other. We can use the breath to help us deepen our meditation and through deepening our meditation we become more acquainted with the power of our breath.

Your breath provides a portal to your nervous system, your emotions and your truth. It helps you uncover the exact emotions, triggers, and feelings that you can use as trailheads to help you meditate.

We use breath as an entry point and through listening and allowing, we create space for whatever wants to shift. There is no ‘right way or wrong way’ - there is only the willingness to meet yourself. Breathwork + Guided Meditation can feel soft and subtle, or it can feel like the deepest unclenching you’ve ever experienced. It’s just about finding what is there, witnessing it, and constantly coming back to yourself and the present moment - which where all the magic happens.

I completed a formal Trauma-Aware Breathwork Certification in 2025, which gave an official stamp on an official paper for what I had already been living and practicing for years - I have always found real learning comes from being surrounded by it and living it.

This is your ✨official invitation ✨

Your breath is always there, waiting to meet you exactly where you are. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, curious, cracked open, or somewhere in between, this is your invitation to slow down, to feel and remember.

I can’t wait to guide you back to your breath.

Let’s breathe together. Book a session here.

xoxo