Breathwork in mainstream western practice is either individual, 1:1 sessions or group sessions where people come together for a one off session, like a yoga class, do their breath and return to their daily lives.

For me something is missing with both of these.

With 1:1 breath you deeply explore yourself and get to share that experience with your facilitator like you might a cognitive therapist. You grow and change but the people around you remain the same. And the people around you may not have the skills or tools or interest in reflecting and witnessing the experience you have gone through and the person you have remembered yourself to be and have now become. So you either:

• abandon the changes you have grown into

• begin the work of finding new people to connect with

• isolate into yourself with your new remembered self

All of these are valid responses to a lack of support within the environment so many of us live in.

Then you may experience group breathwork.

You join a group, you work out your lungs, you have an experience, the breath ends, everyone has a chance to say something if they wish and you are sent off with encouragement to integrate and left to carry the experience back into the harshness of our everyday lives, potentially without anyone to reflect or witness what you just went through. It feels good in the moment but the potential for deep integration is missing, your body, spirit, may have undergone an experience of profound freedom or an experience of profound confusion, but the container feels individual and the potential for depth fades away.

These breathwork structures are currently the most common in western breathwork offerings. And I KNOW there’s another way.

With Breathwork being so profound to us as individuals, I believe it has the potential to have a wider impact on our lives and an actual impact on society when it becomes an anchor for practicing in and within community.

Where when we breathe together in community it means building a co-created container that can hold the fullness of the whole, learning to witness and be witnesses, exercizing agency and consent, awareness and practice of our safety and that of others, and development of trust. The fullness of the experience of breath is easier to integrate into our bodies and into our lives because we have a space we are known in, we are walking a new path and have CHOSEN to walk alongside and CREATE this path with our co-liberators. Those who see us and are invested in our rememberance and freedom of self as we are invested in them.

The effects of the breath ripple because we learn how to hold space for ourselves and what it is to hold space for each other without losing self.

We remember our freedom through the freedom of one another.

Co-liberators.

THIS is why I am offering these sessions as community creation series. This 6 session program is a short form exploration of what is needed from the facilitator - me - to support and facilitate the creation of community anchored in breath within a cohort. What I learn from this offering will help me develop a long form 12+ week community creation program where deep community can be practiced and not just seeds planted but roots developed and trees grown :)

I am SO excited to share this journey with you and thank you for your willingness to participate in this exploration of community creation through breath to see what we can make when breath is centered in community.