Breathe: A Festival of Life
Breathe - Connect - Evolve
July 29th - 2nd August 2026
In Collaboration with The Breathe Team
A Celebration of Breathwork in the UK
This summer, hosted here at Leela we’re gathering again.
Welcome to a five-day breathwork festival dedicated to exploration, connection, and growth.This isn’t a retreat; it’s a call to those who feel the pull to deepen their relationship with themselves and others through the powerful practice of breathwork. Welcoming many different types of breathwork.
Imagine days filled with experiences that nurture both the playful and the profound, allowing you to step into who you are becoming with clarity and strength.
From 1-to-1 sessions to collaborative workshops, you’ll find a space where each breath supports a movement — within and beyond yourself.
Grounded in a commitment to the UK’s professional breathwork community, we’ll delve into topics that matter deeply to us: safety, building healthy networks, exploring new challenges, and cultivating a collective approach to responsibility.
Festival Summary
Begins on:
Wednesday July 29 at 14:00
Ends on:
Sunday August 2 at 14:00
Duration:
5 days / 4 nights
Hosted by:
The Breathe Team
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What you can expect…
Guided by professional facilitators, we’ll build a container together where insights are encouraged and intimacy is welcomed
Whether you’re here to attend to a personal journey or to refine your professional path, there’s room for everyone.
Together, we’ll co-create an open atmosphere where vulnerability meets empowerment, and where transformation happens not only through the breath but also through a shared presence.
So, come as you are, ready to feel, ready to be a part of a community committed to building connection and authenticity.
This festival is about sharing the joy, the power and the simplicity of the breath.
Join us as we breathe together and create a festival of life!
During this Festival we will…
Unlock the magic of breathwork and discover its incredible healing power.
Join a vibrant breathwork community and make joyful, like-minded friendships.
Explore a world of breathwork styles and dive into ancient and modern breath lineages.
Meet the experts! Connect with leading voices in breathwork and top UK training providers.
Work your breath magic with opportunities for group journeys and 1-to-1 sessions with sought-after breathwork therapists.
Dive deep within to release old patterns, explore your inner world, and heal past traumas.
Build your daily flow with tips and practices to make breathwork a part of your everyday life.
Bring it all together and integrate your breathwork breakthroughs for lasting impact.
Play, laugh, and explore as you discover just how much fun the breath can be!
Who is this for …
Those new to breathwork and wanting to learn more
Experienced breathworker and professionals
Those who are looking for alternative ways of healing
Those who want to try something new!
What are the benefits
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Discover the transformative power of breathwork to release trauma, uncover inner wisdom, and create lasting change in your life.
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Become part of a supportive breathwork community, building joyful friendships and meaningful connections with like-minded individuals.
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Gain insights from top breathwork experts, experience diverse modalities, and develop tools to create a sustainable daily practice.
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The vision
Our vision is to create a Breathwork Festival that brings people together to explore and experience the power of the breath.
Breathe: A Festival of Life aims to welcome practitioners of all breathwork styles, to share their wisdom with fellow breathers, who may or may not have previous experience of breathwork.
We envision that this wonderful community will continue to grow and expand, and for breathwork to be more widely recognised and used as a powerful modality that is available to each and every one of us, to assist us in our healing journeys; the individual, collective and planetary.
Meet the team
The Breathe Team are all volunteers passionate about Breathwork. After a successful launch of the festival in 2018, the team have been busy making their dreams become a reality.
Below is an image of 4 out 5 team members: Kerry, Mark, Karolina and Hannah. (Cate is our camera-shy but deeply present fifth member).
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Kerry Veitch
Kerry has been connected with rebirthing breathwork since 1993 and is a certified practitioner with two different schools. She focuses on embodiment practices such as Internal Family Systems and Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing, using a trauma informed approach. Kerry is a trainer with AIR School of Breathwork guiding & supporting students through deep personal processes to achieve a qualification in breathwork facilitation. She loves sharing the healing power of the breath with others, by holding retreats, weekly online group sessions, 1:1 sessions, and her deepest love, warm water rebirthing.
Karolina Mikulicz
Karolina’s search for a better, more present life, lead her to a Loving Relationship Training with the Mother of Rebirthing - Sondra Ray in 2012. That moment changed her, as for the first time she recognized and experienced the power of the breath. She began extended training, wishing to share this beautiful gift with others.
Currently living in Bournemouth, born in Poland, Karolina is a Rebirthing Breathwork and Liberation Breathing Practitioner, Breath Coach in training, Meditation Guide, an event organizer and a co-founder of Breathe A Festival of Life.
Mark Conrad
Mark joined the team in 2019. Mark discovered Breathwork in 2006 by experimenting after reading Stan Grof's books. That begun a wonderful journey with Rebirthing Breathwork that led him to take a long-term voluntary role in the International Breathwork Foundation until 2017. Breathwork communities have been for Mark, perhaps without exception, the most truthful, open and alive that I have been lucky enough to come across.
Cate Dunne
Cate is an accredited counsellor/psychotherapist with the BACP, equine facilitated psychotherapist and a clinical supervisor. One of Cate's interests in rebirthing breathwork is how it relates to body/muscle trauma memory and the role of the breath in safely facilitating release.
Hannah Kendaru
Hannah joined the Breathe team after having a vision for connecting with the UK community of Breathwork Facilitators. She is an Indonesian-British Breathwork therapist and trauma specialist. She is passionate about reclaiming the breath as a radical rebellion against all the ways we have been taught to play it small. She is founder of Inspire Breathwork and The Forest Garden, an initiative that combines the work of embodied social justice, decolonial healing and breathwork. Breathwork and embodiment brings us back into the deep remembrance of what freedom really means, remembering our souls and spirit through resilience and imagination, to remember our wisdoms for deep collective liberation.
Meet the Facilitators
Breath, Life and the change of Awareness: Exploring the possibilities of Breathwork
Bo Wahlström is co-creator of the first Breathwork training in Sweden 1986, co-founder of the International Breathwork Foundation and co-organizer of the very first GIC in 1994.
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Workshop 1: Breath, Life and the change of Awareness - Exploring the possibilities of Breathwork
Breath has been a subject for investigation since the emergence of self-reflection in humans. Breath is always with us and is in constant interaction with the vitalizing life energy in us. This awareness opens the possibilities for enhancing energy and expanding our consciousness. Breathwork is an eternal generator for exploring and experiencing deeper and wider realms.
Workshop 2: Presence, interactive guidance and healthy boundaries (3hours)
Benefits for all in the therapeutic settings.
Human beings are always interacting when they come together.
Whether verbally, emotionally, physically or energetically.
Drawing attention to this fact we can naturally develop our skills in communication. In a therapeutic setting the awareness of our presence and actions should be at its height.
Firstly for ethical reasons but with a quality presence and interactive guidance the benefits for both client and breathworker/sitter are maximized.
Insights and learnings go both ways.
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Bo Wahlström is co-creator of the first Breathwork training in Sweden 1986, co-founder of the International Breathwork Foundation and co-organizer of the very first GIC in1994.
With a background as an engineer and corporate consultant he is currently working as a course leader, lecturer and as a Health-tour guide in Himalaya. He has been teaching Breathwork in Sweden since early 80-ies but travels in many different countries, sharing his experience from being a seeker and explorer of human growth.
Experiential Function to Flow - engaging the full power of your breath for neurobiological optimisation
Christopher Gladwell will be sharing his deep work on the functionality of the breath with roots in biology, chemistry and human evolution.
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A practical exploration of a physiology and function first approach to breathwork. This requires the intelligent exploration and resolution of breathing pattern disorders (BPDs) to recover full function. From here we can step into the neural navigation of state and practically understand and enable the process of hormesis, optimised cell signalling and psych-neurobiological optimisation. This embodied capacity will give you the opportunity to engage with your own and the collective evolution of humanity in a whole new way, from a whole new perspective. This session is rooted in the teaching from The Evolving Breath Volume One and Two, the new books on the science and traditional arts of breathwork.
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Christopher Gladwell is a highly experienced author, breathworker, contemporary yoga master, and coach. With over four decades of dedicated practice, his approach to mind training, breathwork, and embodiment blends ancient wisdom with modern science, offering you a grounded, transformative experience of what it is to be alive.
Christopher embodies the breath, mind, and body technologies, he shares. Including Vedic pranayama, depth meditation, Chi Kung, Conscious Connected Breathing, Tibetan meditative practices, systemic Shamanic wisdom, plus Sports science and contemporary evolutionary neurobiology, he walks the talk.
Introduction to Breathwork and The Conscious Connected Breath
This is a foundation workshop for breathwork beginners to get an understanding of breathwork and how it can be used throughout the festival. Join Hannah Kendaru to get set up, and prepared for the experience ahead.
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Join us for a gentle, grounded introduction to the transformative practice of breathwork.
In this session, you’ll learn how conscious breathing can support emotional release, nervous system regulation, and deeper self-awareness.
Whether you’re completely new or simply curious, this workshop offers a safe, welcoming space to explore your inner landscape through breath.
This workshop will include an introduction into breathing, the breathwork world, and the conscious connected breath - the most common breathwork practice for deeper explorations.
Beginner friendly and an essential foundation for the festival.
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Hannah Kendaru is an Indonesian-British Breathwork Practitioner and Embodiment Facilitator and Trainer working on embodied approaches to healing intergenerational, historical, institutional and personal trauma. She uses breathwork and embodiment to bring us back into the deep remembrance of what love, liberation and justice means. She uses the breath to remember our connection to the earth, to our lineages and ancestors; for decolonial healing and rewilding our civilised minds, bodies and spirits.
Hannah is a member of the Core Breathe Team and a Director of the UK Breathwork Association.
Exploring your breath pattern for a powerful conscious connected breathe
Explore the Conscious Connected Breath with Nicola Price of Inspirational Breathing.
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3 hour session
After our welcoming circle, we have approx 90 minutes in which we explore your unique breathing pattern. We discover the individual power of five tools that help us to open up the breath and teach us more about ourselves.
For 60 minutes we have a led journey into a deep dive session with a conscious connected breath, utilising all five tools.
We discuss the key to building a sustainable breath practice that engages and creates the foundation for our inner journey.
We close with a circle, sharing, with questions and answers.
This workshop has a level of support to enable every person to have the opportunity of hands on individual attention if wanted and required.
A short intake form will be helpful, filled in prior to the session.
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When I came to breathwork in 2011 I knew I had found my last calling! Since then, I have dedicated my working life to exploring the power of the breath, creating a teaching programme for practitioners and supporting our growing community.
We have a small yearly intake of students, in a 12 month programme, starting with one-to-one work. As they gain experience, when ready, they have the opportunity to then join a dynamic collaborative program designed to engage and grow into groupwork, within the community.
I run a vibrant online regular 4 x a month community gathering called BreathCamp. It supports an individual’s journey and their breath exploration.
I love sharing the power of the breath and my ideas on social media, on Instagram @inspiraitonalbreathing there are over 1,000 posts, chanting gayatri, bopping and breathing, and sharing my passion in many conversations about breathwork.
As a grandmother with 5 young grandchildren, I’ve recently been inspired to take breathwork into schools. I’m presently training with Pathways, and with two wonderful women who qualified many years ago with me!
Anxiety, Intergenerational Trauma and The Menopause
Join Jo Lothian as she shares 3 workshops on key parts of our lived experience. All workshops are inclusive, practical, and designed to meet people where they are.
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1. Anxiety & Stress: When the Body Won’t Switch Off
This session looks at anxiety and stress through the nervous system rather than mindset or behaviour alone. Participants are guided through gentle tension and trauma release exercises to support the body’s ability to discharge held activation, alongside a short group Brainspotting practice to support settling and integration. I also share clear, practical insights into why anxiety can persist, and how food, nutrients, and genetics influence nervous system sensitivity. Participants leave with a direct, felt understanding of regulation and simple tools they can return to outside the festival environment.2. Women’s Space: Menopause, the Nervous System & the Body
A women-only session exploring menopause and midlife through the body, not just hormones. The workshop looks at how earlier life stress, trauma, and long-held roles can surface during perimenopause and menopause. Using tension and trauma release, group Brainspotting, and accessible nutritional and nutrigenomic insights, the session supports grounding and reconnection with the body during a period of significant internal change. This is a held and respectful space focused on women’s lived experience.3. Inherited Patterns: Ancestral & Intergenerational Trauma
This workshop explores how patterns of stress and survival can be carried across generations and expressed through the nervous system and body. Through guided release work and group Brainspotting, participants are invited to notice what feels familiar in their system, without the need for personal stories or disclosure. I also share simple insights into how stress can be inherited biologically and behaviourally, and how regulation supports choice over time.All workshops are inclusive, practical, and designed to meet people where they are.
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Jo Lothian is the founder of The Happy Reset. She works with individuals, groups and organisations, creating experiential spaces that explore how stress, ancestry and biology shape the way people respond to life. Her work brings together body-led tension release, group Brainspotting and nutrigenomics, helping people to recognise long-held patterns and develop more sustainable ways of living and working. Jo is a sought-after speaker and facilitator, including delivering sessions at Europe’s largest trauma conference. She is known for translating complex ideas about the nervous system, inherited stress and health into work that feels practical, embodied and relevant to everyday life.
Where the Body Opens, the Breath Returns and Morning Wake Up!
Join Yael Hochenberg on 2 workshops. Yael will offer a morning workshop and an introduction to MER.
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Workshop 1: Where the Body Opens, the Breath Returns: A Myofascial Energetic Release (MER) taster for Embodied Awareness 2hours
The body is a living archive, holding the imprints of stress, survival, and adaptation — often reflected both in the breath and in where pain is showing up in the body.
In this 2-hour trauma-informed workshop, we shall explore Myofascial Energetic Release (MER) as a gentle, embodied pathway to soften protective patterns, restore natural breath, and reconnect with bodily wisdom and pleasure.
Through somatic awareness, breath-led movement, and carefully guided consent-led partner work, with a present and listening touch, participants are invited to explore what is held in
Workshop 2: An early morning Embodied Movement Meditation to Set Up Your Day! Wake Up, Shake It, Unwind It, Dance It, Breathe It!
Wake up your body, get energy moving, set up your day, from the Inside-Out, with awareness, pleasure, somatic movement, expressive dance and the gentle conscious connected breath.
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Yael Hochenberg is a trauma-informed Integrative Somatic Practitioner with extensive experience guiding embodied and therapeutic transformation. A longstanding breathwork practitioner and somatic dance practitioner, she supports individuals and groups in releasing held tension, restoring natural breath, and reconnecting with their body’s innate intelligence.
Her work weaves together breath, fascia, movement, and sound, creating spaces where protective patterns can gently soften and authentic expression can emerge.
Originally trained as a ballet dancer and concert pianist, Yael includes the subtle power of musical and movement resonance into her facilitation.She is currently one of less than a handful of fully certified Myofascial Energetic Release (MER) practitioners in the UK, and is also trained to teach MER to groups, mentoring others in this trauma-informed, profound modality.
Yael’s approach is grounded, relational, and trauma-aware, guiding participants to soften long-held armour, reconnect with their breath, and explore embodied aliveness with curiosity, presence, and safety. She will also be offering 1:1 MER sessions at Breathe Festival for those seeking deeper, personalized bodywork experiences.
Poetry and Breath Dive & Breath is Qi - Qi is Life
Join Emma Money-Kyrle every morning on the grass for 60 minutes of silent Qigong, a great way to start the day or on her Poetry and Breath workshop
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Workshop 1: A Poetry Dive
is an immersive session with music, breath, movement and poetry designed to help open, move and welcome feelings, sensations and emotions. It provides an opportunity for participants to integrate what may have been coming up during the breath sessions, whether consciously or unconsciously.
The session will begin with a guided movement meditation, from stillness to dancing and shaking, loosening up and freeing up our bodies, we then move into the poetry dive, a blend of music and spoken poetry, where each person is encouraged to lie, move or breathe however they need to, letting the music and poems wash over them. Then it’s time to pick up the pen and write, allowing a stream of consciousness to move onto the page liberating the flow of feelings and freeing our own unique expression. We will then share our writings in partners and as a group giving space for our inner world to be witnessed and integrated together as a group circle committed to authenticity, and self honesty.
Workshop 2: Breath is Qi - Qi is Life
I am offering morning Qigong sessions, outside on the grass, I will guide the practice through movement and stillness, into sound and silence, weaving in poetry and sound. The practice will be an exploration of the 5 elements or 5 phases of Earth, Air, Water, Wood and Fire and how they relate to our bodies.
We will move through a wave of activity beginning in silence and stillness then into more activating and clearing practices using a powerful breath, releasing the heaviness of the night and making space for the fresh Qi of the new day. Then we will gently drop into a peaceful expanded state slowing the breath and following simple movements opening our awareness to all that is. Leaving us feeling lighter, calmer and more connected to ourselves, to the group and to all of life.
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Playful Journey into Breath & Laughter
Join Hanyika Bliss for this playflu journey of breath and laughter.
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This joyful, heart-opening workshop invites you to explore the natural connection between breath, laughter, and wellbeing. Rooted in Laughter Yoga, the session weaves intentional laughter with conscious breathing and gentle movement, creating a playful yet deeply nourishing experience.
Laughter Yoga is based on the understanding that the body responds to intentional laughter in the same way as spontaneous laughter. This simple shift can trigger powerful physiological benefits, including increased oxygen intake, stimulation of the parasympathetic nervous system, and a reduction in stress hormones. When laughter and breath come together, the body is supported to relax, reset, and restore balance.
In this playful journey, laughter becomes a form of embodied breathwork. Through light-hearted exercises, movement, and moments of connection, you’ll be invited to soften tension, release emotions, and reconnect with a natural sense of inner joy. Periods of stillness and awareness allow space to integrate the experience and notice subtle changes in your body and mind.
No previous experience is needed — just curiosity and a willingness to play. Come as you are, breathe deeply, laugh freely, and leave feeling lighter, more connected, and refreshed
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I’m passionate about bringing joy and supporting others on their journeys of growth, healing, and self-discovery. My path began as a primary school teacher in the Czech Republic and has since evolved into working in adult education and as a self-love therapist. I’m deeply inspired by healthy living close to nature, which I consider my sanctuary and a vital source of balance and creativity.
I first discovered Laughter Yoga many years ago while living in Brighton. I’ve always loved laughing, moving my body, and cultivating a good mood, and yoga has long been one of my go-to practices. When I learned about the powerful research behind voluntary laughter and its profound benefits for physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing, I was instantly hooked and decided to train as a Laughter Yoga teacher.
Alongside laughter, I’m deeply fascinated by the magic of breath and its impact on our minds and bodies. I regularly attend workshops and trainings to expand my knowledge and experience, continually deepening my practice and understanding.
Today, I live at Leela Centre, a vibrant community where I share my gifts and spread the giggles on a regular basis. My sessions are playful, inclusive, and deeply nourishing — an invitation to breathe, let go, and reconnect with joy, lightness, and the wisdom of the body.
Grief Tending Breathwork Ceremony & Seasonal Breathwork Ceremony
Join Michelle Cadby on these deeply earth-based breath ceremonies - one attending grief and the other attending our seasons.
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Grief Tending Breathwork Ceremony
Part of being human is experiencing grief; whether it’s the loss of a loved one, job,
relationship, place, identity, parts of ourselves, harm we’ve caused others or ourselves,
sorrows of the world, ancestral grief, ecological grief…the list goes on. In these turbulent times we’re living in, there’s never been a more important time to come together in our grief, so our grief can be transformed together in community.
Breathwork is a greatly supportive way of presencing any grief in the body, creating space for it to be met and moved through, even released. A held space awaits you where you can bravely bring your grief and be welcomed - whether your grief lives on the surface or is buried deep, known or unknown, whether it’s expressed with sound or silence, as anger, sadness, or numbness, your grief is welcome - this grief tending breathwork ceremony offers you the opportunity to breath through your grief so you may thrive and expand to more love, acceptance and joy in your life.
Grief work is soul work. It is an act of soul activism.
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As an experienced space holder, breathwork facilitator, ceremonialist, grief tender and artist, Michelle holds a variety of offerings and ceremonies, often with ritual, song and poetry woven throughout in reverence to this one wild and precious life, and as an invitation to gather together in community; whether that be to breathe, to grieve, to dance, to share in circle, or to mark the change of seasons.
Michelle holds 121 and group breathwork ceremonies, a variety of grief ceremonies, women’s nature dances in Dartmoor, is the host and ceremonialist of the Totnes Wheel of the Year Collective holding seasonal ceremonies in South Devon throughout the year, and sometimes performer, sharing her poetry and musical offerings at such fireside gatherings as these seasonal ceremonies.
To gather in person or online, and stay up to date with Michelle's events & offerings, sign up here: https://www.michellecadby.com
Connect online here: https://www.instagram.com/michellecadby/
Breathwork | Grief Tending | Seasonal Ceremonies | Women's Nature Dances
~ Offered as an invitation to the heart ~
Breath and sound as vehicles for imagination and change.
Join Ambar Surastri in an immersive breath and sound exploration using breath, sound, movement and stillness to help you drop out of the noise of everyday life and into your own inner world of imagination, a source of creativity and clarity.
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A 90-minute immersive breathwork & somatic sound workshop
Modern life rarely gives us permission to pause. This workshop creates that opportunity. A 90-minute exploration using breath, sound, movement and stillness to help you drop out of the noise of everyday life and into your own inner world of imagination, a source of creativity and clarity.
Through a mix of breathwork, somatic movement, and live guided sound, we'll move between the waking state and a deeper, more imaginative space. The part of us that's resourceful, creative and connected. This is where change begins: first within ourselves, then rippling outward into our communities.
The session weaves in practices of collective presence and decolonial integration with gentle, accessible ways of exploring how we relate to ourselves and each other in times of shared uncertainty.
No prior experience with breathwork or sound is needed. Come as you are. Bring your curiosity.
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Ambar is a trauma-informed certified sound healing therapist, gong practitioner and yoga nidra teacher who is fascinated by the transpersonal, aliveness and creative dimensions of human beings.
Like many of us, she was born to forget, now here to remember. Who she was, before the world decided how she should be. Her lived experience with i.e. trauma, loss, grief, burnout and breast cancer diagnosis has challenged her to utilise sound, stillness and breath as a vehicle for healing, (re)connection and transformation.
She is training to become a Psychosynthesis counsellor and completing her second year of the breathwork therapist training with Hannah Kendaru of Inspire Breathwork, rooted in embodied social justice and decolonial healing.
Her mission is to help individuals liberate and cultivate their sense of agency, with their intersectionality, to remember and return to the breath in a society that took them away.
Her background with 12+ years in the creative and advertising industry, where she has worked as senior creative producer and project manager, has shown her the wonders of art, design, music, culture and creativity through imagination, and how individuals move through the world.
Nurturing Breath: The Breath as a Resource Through Felt Sense
Join Nakita Singh and Angie Oakes in this experiential workshop to reconnect with the body as a source of insight, regulation, and resilience.
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Nurturing Breath: The Breath as a Resource Through Felt Sense
This experiential workshop invites participants to reconnect with the body as a source of insight, regulation, and resilience. Through gentle somatic practices and guided reflection, participants begin by slowing down and bringing attention to their internal landscape, cultivating awareness of how sensations, emotions, and breath are experienced within the body. In doing so, they are introduced to the language of felt sense - the subtle, embodied signals that offer valuable information about our needs, boundaries, and wellbeing.
Participants will explore simple practices that support connection with themselves and other, creating a sense of safety, curiosity, and shared presence. A guided resourcing meditation helps individuals identify internal and external sources of support, while a reflective body-mapping activity offers a creative way to notice where these resources are felt and held within the body. These practices encourage participants to build a personalised understanding of what steadiness, nourishment, and support feel like in their own nervous system.
The workshop then moves into an introduction to conscious connected breathing, including clear guidance on the breathing pattern and how to approach the practice with choice and self-awareness. Participants will be invited to take part in a 50-minute facilitated breathwork session, integrating the tools and resourcing techniques that they have learned. Nasal breathing is suggested to support a steady and regulated pace throughout the experience.
By weaving together felt sense awareness, resourcing practices, and breathwork, this workshop aims to strengthen emotional regulation, deepen self-awareness, and foster meaningful connection. Participants leave with practical tools they can return to throughout the festival and beyond, supporting ongoing wellbeing, balance, and embodied presence.
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Nakita:
Nakita brings over a decade of experience in education, combined with a deep commitment to somatic and contemplative practice. A qualified breathworker and facilitator, she guides experiences that integrate breathwork, meditation, and body-based awareness to support nervous system regulation, inner child healing, and embodied self-understanding. Her approach draws on trauma-informed principles and parts work, while also incorporating long-standing contemplative traditions.
Born to an Indian family, Nakita’s work is shaped by a personal journey of exploring heritage, spirituality, and intergenerational healing, weaving inspiration from both Hindu and Buddhist teachings into practices that are accessible and relevant for modern life. A dedicated meditator for more than fifteen years, she has studied in various contexts, including time with monastic communities in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan and practising Vipassana meditation.
Angie:
Training since 1998, Angie has much experience working 1-1 and in groups in holistic health. From working and teaching in the subtle field of Reiki, through a plethora of grounded bodywork techniques such as Thai and Ayurvedic treatments. She is a qualified Transformational Coach and experienced in serving plant medicine ceremonially. Angie teaches the art and science of Yoga, and is an Alchemy of Breath Practitioner in Conscious Connected Breathwork.
These trainings have explored and included Anatomy and Physiology, Somatic Experiencing, Intuition expansion, and Shamanic journeying. She is also trauma-informed and educated in Raw and Ayurvedic food preparation, Aromatherapy and Multiple meditative techniques.
Angie created her own venue that supported over 30 holistic practitioners. She is experienced in hosting and collaborating with workshops and on retreats. Please connect to explore working with her.
Explore The Waters as a living Conscious Being and Rebirthing Breathwork
Explore the power of water and breath with Kerry Veitch from AIR School of Breath. Using the breath, ancient Indian mantras and deep inner inquiry, join Kerry Veitch from AIR School of Breath to explore limiting beliefs and the personal lies of our unconscious beliefs.
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Presentation (1hr) : Explore The Waters as a living conscious Being:
How does water interact and dance with our breath?
How does the water carry and communicate our emotions, intentions and energy fields?
Workshop 2: Rebirthing (2.5hr) :
Using the breath, ancient Indian mantras and deep inner inquiry, join Kerry Veitch from AIR School of Breath to explore limiting beliefs and the personal lies of our unconscious beliefs.
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Kerry has been connected with Rebirthing Breathwork, since 1993, with a focus now on embodiment practices such as Internal Family Systems and Eugene Gendlin's Focusing, as well as her shamanic studies with Northern Drum. Kerry has a trauma informed approach, and the owner and trainer of AIR School of Breathwork. Kerry has also been teaching for Alchemy of Breath for five years, graduating hundreds of students into the breathwork community. She loves sharing the healing power of the breath with others, by holding warm water rebirthing retreats, weekly groups and 1:1 sessions.
Kerry is a practitioner member of the Global Professional Breathwork Alliance, GPBA and the UK Breathwork Alliance. Kerry’s very grounded nature holds a very safe space for breathers, holding them in their highest potential and being committed to the unfolding of each person’s own journey which of course is guided perfectly by our breath.
Singing as Medicine
Join Rebecca Morton on this unique and powerful session using the breath and your voice. As a professional singer and actor, Rebecca creates an inclusive space for beginners and the experienced.
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Singing as Medicine
Breathe and Sing: The body is our instrument and the breath sets the voice free. Tune up and tune in. A Workshop where we connect with the breath and the vibration of the voice, moving into singing simple rounds, which increase in complexity depending on the experience of the group. This for anyone who sings, has ever wanted to sing or thinks they 'can't' sing. All are welcome.
If breath is the first medicine, vocalising is the second. We have an intimate relationship with our own voice that can be explored and developed into a powerful vehicle for expression and freedom.
Singing as Medicine is an opportunity to connect - connect with the earth, our breath, our bodies, our voice and each other.
I am an experienced and professional singer, actor and singing leader, and a qualified and experienced practitioner of Alignment Breathing. I bring my deep work together in an opportunity to uplift and connect through the vibration of the breath, the voice and singing together.
‘Singing is a powerful form of breathwork in melody. It naturally extends the exhale, engages the Vagus nerve, reduces stress hormones, and releases physical, emotional and mental tension through rhythmic vocal respiration, improving wellbeing through sound-led breathing.’
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Singer, Actor, Mother, Breathwork Practitioner, Writer, Dramaturg.BA (Performing Arts), MFA (Dramaturgy), DipAB
Member: ABA, IBF, MEAA
I work with feelings and connection. For most of my life, I’ve explored the intersection of creativity and healing.
I trained in Rebirthing Breathwork in the 1990s, soon after completing my Performing Arts degree. My performing career included touring in large-scale musicals, Shakespeare and other plays, and writing and touring my own shows.
In 2016, after extensive life experience, I reconnected with healer, shaman, and medicine woman Diane Jeffries of Sacred Fire Breathwork. I trained intensively with Diane in Alignment Breathwork (conscious connected breathing) for over three years, and continue to deepen and update my skills and qualifications regularly, with such teachers as Hannah Kendaru of Inspire Breathwork, as well as working with my mentor of 25 years, psychoanalytic psychotherapist Deborah Coulthard.
In 2024, I completed my MA in Dramaturgy at the Victorian College of the Arts. I now bring together decades of experience in the arts, education, healing, and life to offer a holistic, embodied, and compassionate practice.
I am honoured to share the powerful, transformational tools of breathwork and singing with the world.
Cycles of Wisdom: Breathwork with the Maiden and the Crone
Join Susie Smith and Angel Theodora in reclaiming intuition by somatically embodying both the Maiden (openness to life) and the Crone (wisdom from lived experience), and integrating them into a grounded, intuitive inner authority.
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This experiential breathwork workshop invites participants into a somatic exploration of two powerful inner archetypes: the Maiden and the Crone. Inspired by Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Estés, the session explores how intuition is restored when these forces are reunited. Beyond age, the Maiden and Crone are approached as living inner intelligences — the Maiden embodied through the inhale as openness, curiosity, and aliveness; the Crone through the exhale as discernment, boundaries, and lived wisdom.
Through guided self-inquiry and Conscious Connected Breathwork, participants journey through distinct archetypal phases before integrating both into a unified inner knowing. This ritual-style workshop supports deep listening, embodiment, and intuitive insight through breath, body, and myth.
You Are Enough - 9D Breathwork
Join Karina on this 9D somatic breathwork journey. We welcome Karina as an Alchemy of Breath Facilitator and Professional Member of the UKBA to introduce us to this approach. She will help us understand how binaural beats, hypnotic techniques and affirmation can help support our healing.
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*The UKBA does not accredit 9D as a Training Provider as a root to qualification as a Professional Breathworker. Furthermore, concerns exists in their promotion of these intense techniques to the public without in-depth training. The UKBA and Breathe Team do not recommend 9D for inexperiencedbreathers or public.
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It is a deeply immersive, empowering 9D somatic breathwork journey focused on dissolving self-doubt, reprogramming subconscious beliefs, and anchoring self-worth through sustained active breathing, affirmations, visualisation, breath holds and a powerful vocal release.
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Hi everyone, I am Karina Davy – 9D Breathwork facilitator, Hypnotherapist & Psychotherapist.
My work is inspired by my own journey of searching for the root cause of my struggles and reconnecting with myself.
I first experienced the healing power of conscious connected breath back in 2019 when I was going through a difficult period in my life experiencing a high amount of stress and anxiety. It made me realise how something as simple as our own breath can have a tremendous positive effect on our health & wellbeing. I am truly fascinated by the way our minds and bodies work and all the healing potential we hold within.
Having witnessed the transformational effects of mind programming through hypnotherapy and breathwork I was keen to combine both modalities to create more profound shifts. That’s when I discovered 9D Breathwork.
I am very excited to bring this modality into the world and I am committed to holding a safe and ethical space for my clients where confidentiality is key.
Full Circle / Full Circle - Somatic Exploration of Space Holding
Join Cat Moyle on a somatic journey from outer to inner to outer again, weaving meditation, breath, sound, touch and gentle movement to explore self, support and boundaries.
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Somatic practices to explore how to hold yourself, be held and hold others in these times.
Breaking down patterns of overgiving, self abandonment, grasping so we can learn to hold others in a way that is healthily boundaried, well resourced and sustainable.Arc
Hold yourself - Breath, sound + touch to connect to inner resource.
What holds you - Meditation to connect to “external” resources, practice receiving support.
Hold boundaries - Somatic practice to hold self + observe boundaries
Hold yourself in connection - Breath + touch practices to connect with another, observe giving/receiving and what happens when you withdraw support.
Return to self
Sharing, next steps.
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Cat Moyle is a Somatic Guide and Teacher
She works with big hearted, deeply empathetic spaceholders. Those acutely aware of how complex humanity is and yet, who remain hopeful, imaginative and committed. Those who just want to be able to pour their medicine into the world.
She understands that those she works with - coaches, somatic practitioners, breathworkers - chose a challenging path - they work in an unregulated industry, holding people in a deeply capitalist and individualist culture that thrives on separateness, whilst supporting them to remember their wholeness, their connection to the collective and the power they have to make a difference.
She is committed to addressing the isolation, under-resourcing and insecurity that can exist in this work. To ensuring spaceholders (many of whom are solo-preneurs) have access to community, supervision and support so that burn-out or quitting the industry are not where experienced practitioners end up. Especially not in these times.She has worked in this space for 25 years as a qualified somatic practitioner, energy worker and coach. She has worked with over a 1000 clients and spoken at international embodiment conferences alongside Gabor Mate and Peter Levine. Her passion is in the doing though, in getting people back into their bodies, in community. She works online and in person in the UK and Europe and wherever she is invited.
She is often first and last on the dancefloor, swears like a sailor and is partial to a well made margarita.
Breathe for Recovery
Join Vicky Middleton in this workshop. This is recovery-informed breathwork experience for those rebuilding stability after addiction, mental health challenges or prolonged stress.
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Breathe for Recovery is a recovery-informed breathwork experience for those rebuilding stability after addiction, mental health challenges or prolonged stress.
Rooted in nervous system science and trauma-aware facilitation, this session moves in gentle waves of activation and regulation, expanding emotional capacity while keeping safety at the centre.
Together we explore how moments of activation can shape reactive behaviours and how intentional breathing restores steadiness, flexibility and choice.
The session closes in a deeply grounded state, followed by an invitation into the Tiny Breath Reset framework - a simple, anchor-based breath ritual designed to meet you in real life: in moments of craving, pressure or overwhelm.
A breath ritual you can truly integrate into your day-to-day life. A small pause. A conscious breath. A return to yourself.
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My work is rooted in a simple belief: beneath every symptom and pattern lives an intelligence within the body, quietly working to protect, guide, and bring us back into balance.
For much of my life, I lived disconnected from that intelligence, moving through survival, chaos, addiction, and the internal pressure to mask and protect myself from the world around me.
It was a whirlwind that was met with daily migraines, insomnia and anxiety that eventually stopped me in my tracks and forced me to re-evaluate my whole life.
What I came to understand changed everything:
My survival patterns weren’t flaws.
They were patterns I had learned to stay safe.My body was not failing me.
It was communicating loudly with me.And for this, I am deeply grateful.
My pain became the bridge to transformation, and my Breath became the path back home.
Through this wild journey of life I found my passion. I have experienced the power, essence and freedom of each breath, and know how it returns me to presence, aliveness, and a deep sense of coming home to myself. It truly is the most beautiful gift when you feel the power of your awakened breath moving through you, and guiding you on a path of alignment.
And now I have the joy of sharing this path with others. To help people remember the innate intelligence of their own breath, and to help people discover a grounded, embodied path back to their full beautiful human potential.
I believe it’s the the greatest gift to help people reconnect to their breath.
Breathing into your embodied parts and The Healing Breath Journey.
Join Jacqui Storm in 2 workshops to explore the breath and the body through gentle rebirthing breathwork.
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This workshop invites you into a gentle, guided exploration of the body through conscious breath. Breathing Into Your Embodied Parts is a somatic experience designed to help you reconnect with the places within you that hold sensation, memory, and meaning.
Through intentional breathing, guided awareness, we will bring presence to different embodied parts—listening to what they carry and allowing space for integration and release. This workshop supports greater self-awareness, emotional regulation, and a deeper sense of wholeness.
No prior experience is needed. Come with curiosity and an open breath, and leave feeling more grounded, connected, and at home in your body.
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Jacqui Storm is a dedicated breathwork facilitator and co-director of AIR School of Breathwork, with a lifelong commitment to health, well-being, and embodied transformation. Over decades of study and practice, Jacqui has explored the deep interconnections between breath, body, emotion, and resilience. She believes that stress lies at the root of much physical and emotional suffering—and that the breath is one of the most accessible and powerful keys to profound change.
Her background spans holistic healing disciplines, beginning in her youth with Reiki, reflexology, and deep tissue massage, progressing through formal training in acupuncture, twist therapy, meridian therapy and natural nutrition, and advanced breathwork modalities including The Avalon Institute of Rebirthing. Jacqui also holds extensive yoga teacher training and therapeutic expertise, and is a registered member of the CNHC for Yoga Therapy.
Over the years Jacqui has integrated spinal therapy with breathwork, bringing a unique somatic perspective to healing that addresses physical tension, emotional stress, and nervous system balance together. Her approach supports participants to reconnect with their inner healing intelligence, cultivate embodied presence, and access deep states of release and renewal.
Jacqui brings warmth, clarity, and grounded insight to her work, offering workshops and sessions that empower individuals to rediscover ease, joy, and vitality through conscious breathing.
Breathe to Become - Bionic Breathwork with Headphones Immersion
Join Naomi Buff in Breathe to Become, an uplifting empowering breathwork where we breathe, move and dance your way into the most alive version of yourself in 90 minutes.
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Breathe to Become is an uplifting empowering breathwork where we breathe, move and dance your way into the most alive version of yourself in 90 minutes.
We open with intention, drop into conscious connected breathwork with headphones, let the body shake off everything it has been holding and rise up into ecstatic dance that will leave you feeling electric.
This is session gives your breath permission lead you somewhere your mind could never take you and discovering what is waiting for you on the other side as you breathe to become the future you!
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I'm Naomi
44 years of plot twists, breakthroughs, and bedroom-floor rebirths.
I’ve been on a wild ride. And no, I’m not where I thought I’d be at 44. But I am exactly where I’m meant to be.
I can honestly say: I love myself. I love my life. And that love? It was hard-earned.
I’ve hit rock bottom more times than I can count—each one scarier, louder, more disorienting than the last. But every breakdown became a portal. Every detour cracked me open. And every time, I rose stronger.
My “Becoming” Chapters Look Like This:
I grew up as the eldest daughter to a Lebanese father who’d wanted a son. I felt unworthy before I could even speak it. That early imprint of rejection shaped how I saw myself… until I decided to change the narrative.
My parents divorced when I was nine. I spent my teens trying to figure out how to fit into the chaos—before I realized I wasn’t born to fit in. I was here to stand out.
I became a mother at 22. And again at 30.
I’ve been married twice.
Divorced twice.
And the second one nearly broke me.
But it also became my greatest teacher—and I’ll always be grateful for that heartbreak.I’ve had health scares. Accidents. Illnesses that tried to silence me. But every time, I chose growth. I chose breath. I chose me.
I moved to Monaco, started a business in a country where I didn’t speak the language or know the rules. I launched a food supplement into Harrods. Created a healthy menu for the Fairmont Hotel. Came runner-up on Monaco MasterChef. Taught French chefs to cook, without speaking French. (Iconic, I know.)
And through it all...
I’ve kept rising.
I’ve kept evolving.
And I’ve kept showing up as the woman I’m here to become.Because my mission isn’t just to heal myself—
It’s to guide others through their own becoming.I don’t offer surface-level transformation.
I offer soul-level reclamation.So whether you’re on the bedroom floor right now…
Or pouring champagne on your next chapter…I’m here to remind you:
You’re not broken. You’re becoming.
And yes, you’re an unstoppable force of magic, too.
Deep Sym Immersive
Join Kira Zhigalina and see yourself as you breath in light. Connect with others through breath. Sym is a synthesis of art, tech and wellness.
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Your Breath in Light
Connect with others through breath. Expand the diaphragm and explore pranayama breathing practices using a unique biofeedback device. Sym (www.deepsym.com) is an interactive art object that visualises breathing, synthesising technology, art and wellbeing. Wearing a soft belt sensor the participant's breathing is visualised in a soothing light, picking up and encouraging deep slow diaphragm breathing which activates the parasympathetic nervous system response, instantly creating a state of calm. A unique opportunity to deeply connect to the breath in a tangible way and connect to others without words. Each Sym allows up to 4 in a group, each person’s breath is visualised as a different colour. As the group syncs their breath, Sym radiates with rainbows!
The workshop offers a chance to reset the nervous system, refocus the mind and reconnect to the breath. Kira, Deep Sym Founder, will guide the participants through calming breathing techniques, opening up the diaphragm, encouraging slow diaphragmatic breathing and educate on the benefits of this fundamental practice. Towards the end of the session we will attempt to synchronise breathing patterns and see how long we can sustain the rainbows in a coherent smooth breath - a magical experience.
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Kira Zhigalina is an artist, Pranayama trained breathwork practitioner and founder of Deep Sym - an interactive light experience that visualises breathing real-time. Her lifelong fascination with the power of breath started as a teen when she had a profound experience that inspired a lot of her art practice. Her core artistic intention has been in recreating that experience of non dual cosmic unity for the participants. Working with different mediums, including film video and sound, the exploration eventually led to working with light and interactive installation.
Starting in 2015, she began collaborating with engineers to design sensors and develop biofeedback technology that visualises breathing and allows multiple people to connect using their breath. This started as an art installation - Symbiosis, which took many different forms and travelled all around the UK and beyond.
Through showcasing Symbiosis at a multitude of exhibitions and festivals it was evident that people benefited from connecting to their breath in this novel way and many claimed it reduced their anxiety. Furthermore, the design of the sensors encouraged deep diaphragmatic breathing specifically, which it turned out many people struggled with, carrying dysfunctional breathing patterns. Sharing the Symbiosis experience has become about holding space and guiding people into deepening their breath awareness and encouraging better breathing practice. Throughout, Kira deepened her knowledge about breath from both physiological and more mystical perspectives.
Wanting to create more impact by creating a compact version of the Symbiosis experience, Deep Sym was born, launched last year. Now, Kira holds immersive breathwork workshops in London and beyond, at festivals and events, bringing the unique aspect of visual biofeedback and multi user capacity for deeply connecting, calming and transcending breathwork experiences.
Breathing with Chronic Pain
Join Leyla Firatly in exploring how chronic pain is an intelligent protective mechanism of the nervous system — an attempt to keep us safe in an unsafe world. In this workshop, we will explore a mind–body perspective on how pain arises, and reflect on the social and systemic conditions that deliberately leave so many of us living with chronic symptoms
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Chronic pain is an intelligent protective mechanism of the nervous system — an attempt to keep us safe in an unsafe world. In this workshop, we will explore a mind–body perspective on how pain arises, and reflect on the social and systemic conditions that deliberately leave so many of us living with chronic symptoms. We will discover how the breath can be a powerful healing path for physical symptoms, and practice tools to support ourselves and those we care for when pain arises. This path of healing gives us our agency back, a reminder that something so deeply physical can be met, and moved, with nothing more than our own breath.
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Leyla grew up in Istanbul, a city whose depth, contradictions, and interwoven cultures shaped her. As a child, she was diagnosed with advanced scoliosis, learning early to experience her body as fragile and unreliable.
This early relationship with her body profoundly shaped her work. After a year of intense immobility from lower-back pain, she discovered mind–body medicine, which helped her reconnect with her body, regulate her nervous system, and experience a depth of healing she didn't think was possible.
Through this process, Leyla began noticing how many people live in states of contraction. This contraction — manifesting as pain, anxiety, or nervous system dysregulation — is often reinforced by systems that disconnect us from our bodies, nature, and each other.
Now, she creates spaces where people can reconnect with their breath and nervous systems and remember their innate capacity for healing and agency. Over the past year, she has been deepening her work by exploring breathwork and healing through a decolonial lens and reclaiming the breath as a pathway back to embodied wisdom and collective liberation.
7 Generations Breathwork
Join Richard Spearing on a powerful guided meditation then expands our perspective, inviting participants to journey back seven generations to sit with their ancestors, and then forward seven generations to listen for what is needed now.
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We live in a time of deep uncertainty and disconnection; this two-hour journey invites participants to explore the question of legacy — who we are becoming and what we are leaving behind. Through guided reflection and small-group dialogue, we reconnect with our ancestral roots and the stories that have shaped our lives. A powerful guided meditation then expands our perspective, inviting participants to journey back seven generations to sit with their ancestors, and then forward seven generations to listen for what is needed now. The session culminates in a 40-minute conscious connected breathwork journey, supported by carefully curated music to create space for insight, release and clarity. Together, we will pose a simple but urgent question: Seven generations from now, how can we proud of who we were?
Eat, Drink, Breathe: How Breathwork can Transform Our Relationship with Food
A deep-dive with Daisy O’Clee into how our breathing impacts every aspect of our enjoyment of food and drink. We will also explore the link between practices that involve tuning into bodily sensations, such as Rebirthing Breathwork, and more regulated, intuitive eating.
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This is a deep dive into the transformational power of intentional breathing to shape our enjoyment of food and drink.
Through a combination of science and embodied breath and sensory exercises, this 90 minute workshop will explore:
The importance of triggering the parasympathetic nervous system before eating.
How stress and mouth breathing impair our ability to taste.
Retronasal breathing as the primary mechanism for experiencing complex flavours.
The role of breathing in digestion and metabolism.
How certain breath practices strengthen our eighth sense - interoception - which connects us to the signals of the body, encouraging intuitive eating and reducing cravings.
Together we will slow down and consider our relationship with the two fundamental and interconnected pillars of human existence.
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Daisy discovered the power of the breath six years ago during a period of extreme stress, including the escalation of her daughter’s severe epilepsy and her dad’s death. A shamanic breathwork journey was the way in - a door to another world that connected early experiences of fear and anxiety with insights about her current situation.
Daisy has since explored many types of breathing and trained in Rebirthing Breathwork and the Butetko method, uncovering a greater sense of peace and joy in the process. A trained journalist by trade, Daisy loves researching different aspects of breathwork and to share what she has leant with the world.
UK Breathwork School Presentation
Join UK Registered Breathwork Schools to understand the course, curriculum and ethos. Essential for aspirational Breathwork Facilitators.
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Each school will have 10 minites to present their training, curriculum and ethos.
We will then have time for Q&A after.
Some schools include:
AIR School of Breath
Inspire Breathwork
Make Some Breathing Space
Intuitive Breath
Inspirational Breath
You Are Already Enough, The Art of being held & Rest in Love - the art of receiving
Anja Woszczyna is a Tantra teacher, trauma-informed intimacy coach, senior yoga teacher, and holistic body therapist dedicated to helping people reconnect with their bodies, their truth, and their capacity for love and pleasure.
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Workshop 1: Rest in Love — The Art of Receiving
So many of us move through life giving, holding, and trying — rarely letting ourselves be truly met. This workshop is an invitation to soften, slow down, and allow love to land in the body without effort or performance. Through presence, gentle embodied practices, and conscious connection, you’re invited to experience what it feels like to receive as a lived truth, not something you have to earn. This is not about doing more, but about letting the armour melt so the heart can open in its own time. Come as you are, and leave feeling more nourished, grounded, and quietly alive.
Workshop 2: We Rise Together
A Ritual of Gratitude, Witnessing & Collective Empowerment
This workshop is a collective ritual of gratitude and appreciation, inviting participants to pause, acknowledge what they’ve walked through, and honour one another for the courage it takes to grow. Rooted in embodied presence, we create a space where each person reconnects with their own inner resources rather than seeking empowerment outside themselves. Through simple, guided practices and conscious witnessing, participants are invited to receive appreciation without performance or fixing. This practice reminds us that evolution is not only about striving forward, but also about recognising what has already been lived, learned, and survived. By counting our blessings together, we strengthen our capacity to stand in our own centre and become active participants in our own evolution.
Workshop 3:
The Art of Being Held - Conscious Touch Workshop
You’re invited into a gentle, non-sexual space of conscious touch and presence where you can slow down and feel truly seen.
I’ll guide you to settle into your breath, soften your nervous system, and remember your own inner resource without needing to strive or perform.
Within a clearly held, consent-based container, you’re welcome to rest, to be met in your humanity, and to experience connection that feels safe and nourishing.
As you allow yourself to be seen and supported, something within you can naturally rise — grounded, resourced, and alive.
This is an invitation to come home to your body, to your breath, and to your capacity to participate in your own becoming, held by the presence of others.
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Anja Woszczyna is a Tantra teacher, trauma-informed intimacy coach, senior yoga teacher, and holistic body therapist dedicated to helping people reconnect with their bodies, their truth, and their capacity for love and pleasure. With a background spanning yoga, Tantra, somatic practices, and nervous system work, her approach bridges ancient wisdom with modern understanding of the body–mind connection.
Anja’s training included extensive study of pranayama (yogic breathwork), meditation, and embodied awareness practices. Alongside this foundation, she has continued to deepen her knowledge through studies in nervous system regulation, polyvagal theory, and trauma-informed approaches to embodiment, allowing her to support people in ways that are both deeply transformative and grounded in safety.
Her work focuses on awakening sensual aliveness, healing relational patterns, and cultivating conscious intimacy. Through workshops, retreats, and one-to-one sessions, Anja creates spaces where people can slow down, reconnect with sensation, explore authentic expression, and rediscover the intelligence of their bodies.
Drawing from years of experience in Tantric practice, somatic bodywork, conscious touch, and relational coaching, Anja guides participants into deeper presence with themselves and others. Her facilitation style is warm, clear, and deeply attuned, inviting participants to explore intimacy, desire, and connection with integrity and consent.
Anja teaches internationally at festivals, workshops, and retreats, and hosts regular community gatherings through her Tantric Heart events. Her work is devoted to supporting people to transform shame into confidence, disconnection into intimacy, and survival patterns into a vibrant, embodied experience of life.
More about her work can be found at www.anja.me.
Breaking Perfect: A Return To Your Authentic Self Through Intuition
Join Donna Jackson on an immersive workshop where participants close their eyes and enjoy powerful Intuitive Psychology techniques to recognise what is holding them back from living the life they wish.
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My specialist area is perfectionism, or more specifically, breaking it. This 60-90 minute workshop will start with a brief outline of understanding how perfectionism shows up in day-to-day life and why we find it so hard to break away from perfectionist thinking. I will then invite participants to find a comfortable place sitting or laying down and close their eyes, moving into a ‘deep intuitive trust’ technique for nervous system regulation and to help participants drop out of their head and into their body.
We will then explore the areas in life that carry pressure to keep striving to be perfect, the impact this has and how it feels. We will then move into a future visualisation where participants will step into a time where the pressure to be perfect no longer exists and they are free to be their truest self. The will notice how much lighter, and more expansive life feels to live this way and how different things are - how they behave, how they dress, how they interact with others, what others notice about them.
I will then invite participants to notice what qualities they have within them to bring this future to life and what small step they will commit to taking forwards.
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Donna Marie Jackson | Master Intuitive Psychology Coach & Behaviour Change Specialist
I am the founder of Living Free Coaching, a transformational style of coaching designed to dismantle the pressure to be perfect and guide you towards the most authentic version of you. By embracing the imperfect, you can finally feel at peace in your body and in who you are. We do this by reconnecting to your intuition, the highest form of intelligence you hold, and working with your subconscious mind to bring brand new awareness into consciousness.
My unique style blends the intuitive with the intentional, drawing on powerful Intuitive Psychology methods and Insight Coaching. The answers are almost never in the places you are looking and I am your guide while you navigate the messy, wonderful path of growth and self-acceptance.
My mission was born through lived experience. After a 20-year struggle with bulimia and low self-worth, followed by the life-altering loss of my beloved mum, I chose to rebuild powerfully, from the inside out. I left the corporate world to become a full-time coach, travelled extensively and ran 30 half-marathons in 30 days for charity. That healing journey now fuels my deepest work with others.
Clients describe working with me as thought-provoking, lifechanging, and deeply non-judgemental. I pride myself on creating a safe space for vulnerability and real, lasting growth.
When I’m not coaching, you’ll find me watching documentaries about mountain climbing, listening to podcasts about stories of overcoming adversity, eating delicious food and dancing,
I truly believe that accepting yourself fully is the catalyst for everything you have ever wanted.
Anchoring agency through breath and movement
Anchor agency in the body with the breath and movement with Pip Raine.
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To anchor agency in the body with the breath and movement requires a listening, sensing and feeling into where and when our grounding has felt aweigh. Here we get to explore what it feels like when we give ourselves the permission to plant our feet steady, and lengthen and widen our rooting.
We will gently bring some inquiry into our somas with visceral communication. Every bit of feedback is a chance to notice how we may have built protection over the years, protection of possibly not wanting others to feel uncomfortable (not wanting to rock the boat), and in turn has caused us harm, it has caused us to stay small, to stagnate, to loose hope.
With a short (roughly 10 mins) somatic expressive movement, we get to attune to our rhythm, our pace, our soul. Remembering to play and have fun during these deeper explorations as we welcome all that arises.
From here we will smoothly transition into a conscious connected breathwork (40 mins) bringing what the movement started into the breath. Melting, igniting, reclaiming and getting clear on the parts that are ready to be felt into, as we deepen and nurture our inner world with unconditional love, imagination and care.
Giving time here to close and seal your practice with space for you to create your integration.
When we centre ourselves through our anchor, we get to live and connect with each other in our fullness.
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Hi, I am Pip she/they… a white queer bodied woman. I am a British Breathwork, movement and voice facilitator, a singer, dancer and a lover of music, nature, adventure and all the colours of expression that we live in to make a soulsome life.
A little about how the breath entered my life ~
Breathwork entered my life at the first stages of a major life transition…it had been over a year since I had left my old career as a singer and dancer in theatre and on cruise ships, as well as leaving the city of London which had been a stable base for many years. During this time and with the passing of my Dad who lost his battle with copd, I felt it in my bones that the message from my ancestors was to breathe, and to remember and reclaim the parts I’d lost along the way. Essentially reconnecting to my breath, body, soul and agency.
I have been a breathwork and movement facilitator for 4yrs now and I am currently in the infiltration year of my second training with Inspire breathwork.
I am anchored in social justice and social change and my values are deeply planted with integrity, inclusion and care.
My work is to stand securely in my footing and centre to support and stand by/for the LGBTQ+ peoples/communities. As well as bringing the breathwork to musicians, creatives, bands and orchestras.
Here is a little about my history, my lineage and my purpose ~
I am a child of the harsh, choppy and very chilly north sea
I am a child of the market towns, villages, valleys and wild heather carpeted moors.
I am a descendant of working people, grafters, boat builders, crafters and community builders. I am a descendant of musicians, music lovers, singers, dance teachers, intuitives, and salt of the earth people.
I am also a child of unprocessed emotions, of suppressed feelings of unhealthy coping mechanisms and lost dreams.
Here we are at this moment in time…
And from my heart to yours, I truly welcome the whole of you.
Exploring Altered states - A Breathled practice & Tools for the anxious & addictive mind
Join Lucy Spragge in an embodied exploration of 3 topics activating the energetic body and find deep presence, grounding and inner wisdom.
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Workshop 1: Exploring Altered States
120 minute immersion in breathwork and posture to activate the energetic body and find deep presence, grounding, and an invitation to explore altered states of being
Workshop 2: Exploring tools for the Anxious and Addictive mind
Workshop 3: A short reset breathwork practice.
Learn a 30 min breathwork practice to take with you anywhere. Whether you’re in a festival field, an office desk, a car park, a short breathwork practice can completely change how you feel, ground you in the moment, and soothe the nervous system.
Breathwork for the loved ones who have passed
A Breathwork Journey to remember and celebrate your loved ones who have passed.
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A Breathwork Journey to remember and celebrate your loved ones who have passed.
We will gather in circle to light a candle, breathe and connect with these important people from our lives.
Please print an image or bring a photo or small memento of your passed loved ones to this session. You will be invited to place them together with the other participants loved ones at the centre of our circle.
The people in your life who were strong for you and held you when the storm came. The wise ones who taught you how to navigate this life. The ones who inspired you and helped make you who you are today.
The ones who will always live on in your heart.
Let’s honour each of them and breathe into memories of the times spent together. An opportunity to feel them close with love and gratitude.
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Carson is passionate about bringing the healing powers of Breathwork to the world. He is a Breathwork facilitator gifted in holding, tender and safe space.
After many years working in the corporate world, suffering from burn out and grief. Carson found Breathwork. It was a life changing discovery.
‘My health and perception of myself, my purpose and my relationship to the people around me in the world changed dramatically. I still marvel at the sense of connection that comes with something as simple, yet profound as the breath’
Trained with Alchemy of Breath, Breathwork Bali & Breathing Cold. Carson continues to explore the adventure and potential of conscious breathwork.
Carson offers regular group Breathwork sessions in East Kent.
Practical Information
Arrival and departure times
Arrival Wednesday July 29th 2026 from 2:00 pm.
Ends Sunday August 2nd 2026 @ 2:00 pm.
What’s included …
Ticket includes festival, food & camping with your own tent gear
Festival & Accommodation Costs
Pricing details…
Full Festival Price: £430
Non-residential Ticket: £360
Weekend Ticket from Friday: £240
Friday Saturday (camping overnight only Friday): £215
Your ticket includes:
Full access to all workshops, music, and events
5 days / 4 nights accommodation (or camping)
All meals and teas
Sauna access and festival facilities
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Payment Plan
We understand that everyone's financial situation is unique, so we've designed our payment plan with flexibility in mind.
Secure your place by spreading the total cost into manageable instalments. We offer the option to pay a deposit and spread the balance over the remaining months before the payment deadline which is a few weeks before the start of the event. There is a £5 charge for using this payment plan option, and payment dates will be clearly outlined when you book.
Cancellation & Refunds
Our Cancellation policy can be found here.
Food at Leela
All food is vegetarian, drawing inspiration from cuisines from around the world. Garden produce is used when available including green salads and culinary herbs.
There is a separate tea making area with a wide range of beverages which include herbal teas, coffee, decaf, green and black teas, hot chocolate, plus cow’s milk and alternative milks.
We cater for the following diets …
Dairy-free / Egg-free
Gluten Free
Sugar conscious
Vegan and vegetarian
Food is prepared in a shared kitchen where allergens are present. See our food information page for details.
