BREATHWORK

Breathwork works powerfully and quickly, creating space for deep transformation within.

A more loving, compassionate, clear and courageous experience of you lies on the other side of the breath.

WHAT IS BREATHWORK?

Transformational Breathwork is an active meditation technique that uses the breath to purge the body and nervous system of emotional debris. It is deeply cathartic and has the capacity to move and transform stuck emotional energy.

When we clear our stuck emotions – all the thwarted experiences of sadness, fear and anger – our brains become more coherent and our nervous systems soothed. We start to feel calmer and clearer, and more able to live with courage, compassion and confidence.

It helps to bypass our thinking brain, quiets the incessant mind chatter and allows us to drop into our bodies. A noisy mind may experience true peace and stillness for the first time. Instead of listening to our heads as we usually do, Breathwork gifts us the space to really hear our hearts.

Breathwork offers an opportunity to connect to our life force energy, the loving presence that exists within each of us. The more often and more deeply we connect with this space, the more our embedded conditioning starts to transform and we find ourselves released from painful patterns.

It can help:

• release us from the grip of anxiety and shift stagnant feelings of inertia and depression

• transform our thought-life from one of darkness and despair to one of softness and ease

• to feel grounded, rooted and safe within our own bodies

• gain clarity where there was confusion, and uncover courage where there was fear

Breathwork reaches our buried pockets of pain in a way that many other methods can’t. It can dissolve layers and layers of fear, grief and shame stored in our tissues and make way for an entirely different relationship with ourselves – one which is rooted in self-love, self-compassion and gentleness.

The pattern of breath I work with is about uncovering, unfurling, undoing. It is about deep healing.

ASK ME A QUESTION

If you’re looking for a way to feel more at home in your own skin, a way to understand yourself more clearly, and a way to move in the world with more ease, more peace and more flow, Breathwork could be for you.

The Payoff:

1:1 Breathwork sessions offer a safe and tender space to explore and release unprocessed emotions.

By allowing and sensing our feelings instead of squashing and suppressing them, they tend to cease silently puppeteering our lives and decisions.

We learn to approach whatever arises in us with curiosity and compassion, instead of judgement, and as a result, big overwhelming feelings tend to lessen in frequency and intensity.

We can then receive the gifts:

• life energy is unblocked and flows more easily

• our nervous systems calm & bodies relax

• clarity grows

• we feel a sense of freedom and empowerment

• we experience more love, kindness, empathy, joy, delight, awe and gratitude

“Breathwork has been a revelation – a powerful source for self discovery and deep physical and mental healing.

Cognitively the shift in destructive thought processing has been incredible.

Olivia is a wonderful guide. Her infectious warmth is balanced beautifully with instinctive insight and a nurturing approach towards self curiosity and reflection. With her support I have been able to trust the process, embrace vulnerability and find a deep sense of contentment and joy with my situation.”

∼ Rhonda K.

Breathwork can support in:

• the release of buried emotions

• uncovering limiting beliefs

• developing healthier thought patterns

• shifting feelings of anxiety and depression

• experiencing your body as safe

• feelings of profound peace within

• creating a new perspective on old behaviour

• dissolving defences and opening the heart

• experiencing revelations and seeing previously unseen connections

• making space for clarity where there was confusion

• addiction recovery

By inducing an alternate state of consciousness, Breathwork is a practise that bypasses our cognitive and intellectual attempts to ‘fix’ ourselves and one that heals us at an invisible cellular level.

Words can neither conjure nor convey the alchemic power of Breathwork. It needs to be experienced to be believed.

If you’d like to experience the magical capacities of your own breath – the heart medicine that lies within you – I am available for 1:1 healing sessions as well as group Breathwork.

The pranayama yogic breath I work with is taught by world renowned master David Elliott, with whom I trained. This breath is not about relaxation – it is about uncovering, unfurling, undoing. It is about deep healing.

~ Wendy T.

"I felt so blessed - TRULY - to connect with Olivia, and to feel held by her. I felt sooo gifted upon to receive such an incredible breathwork session. WOW. So Powerful. By far, the best session I've had in a long time. She is truly gifted. Olivia is such a big, bright, beautiful spirit. She radiates huge light and beauty! And so genuinely so. Thank you again for being the beautiful radiant soul you are. Keep shining your radiant light.”

~ Niki W.

"Olivia has helped me crawl out of the darkest point of my life towards a brighter future. She was able to reach me when others tried and failed because of her warmth, honesty and courage. She has helped me to see the world from an entirely different perspective. Life is more colourful because of her."

~Rachael M.

"Olivia put me at ease immediately with her serene presence and authenticity. After my Breathwork session, the anxiety I normally endure in the evening didn't exist. I had an amazing feeling of peace and well-being, and slept all night without waking at all."

~ Maya S.

"Olivia made me feel at home straight away. Prior to the session I’d been feeling life had become stagnant and was feeling low and unmotivated as a result. I came with the intention for a ‘shift’ and could feel this shift happening as the breathwork was carried out – I literally felt my body get lighter and the heaviness I’d been carrying lift from my body. I really feel Olivia helped guide me gently through a tricky time in my life, and helped shift my gloom to a brighter space."

WHAT A SESSION LOOKS LIKE

1:1 sessions are typically 75-80 mins long.

We will start with conversation – to uncover what’s currently weighing on your heart and what feels difficult right now – then move into the active breath for 25 mins during which I will intuitively guide and support you.

This is followed by a deliciously nourishing 10-15 min relaxation and integration, after which there will be time for questions and sharing about your experience.

3 or 6 MONTH 1:1 HEALING JOURNEY

A deeply nurturing space – an enveloping bubble of support – utilising the magic of Breathwork to explore your emotional landscape.

This is for you if:

• you’re feeling stuck

• you’re needing to process and release some deep rooted pain

• you’re navigating a big life transition

• you’re struggling to shift a pattern or habit

• you’re needing to feel held and supported

We meet weekly for the first month, then fortnightly.

In between sessions you will have 1:1 support from me including, but not limited to:

• intuitively created bespoke journal prompts to invite deep self-reflective enquiry

• suggested supportive solo practices and actions

• texts and voice notes

HOW IT WORKS

- THE BIOLOGY

Breathwork oxygenates the hypothalamus gland which releases endorphins and neuropeptides, creating a sense of peace and well-being.

The parts of the brain that usually talk to each other effectively get shut down, allowing access to different pathways and different parts of ourselves that we may have buried.

The technique also stimulates the vagus nerve, which helps combat anxiety and shuts down “fight, flight, or freeze” response. This then helps re-regulate the nervous system after being in a dysregulated state (which often accompanies the experience of trauma).

GROUP SESSIONS

Experience Breathwork in a group setting in one of my Breathwork circles.

Breathing together in circle offers a deeply connecting, nurturing way to explore Breathwork. You will be guided on an experiential journey of release and self discovery, utilising a blend of Breathwork, journaling and an invitation for sharing.

My intention is always to create a safe space for everyone’s voices to be heard, not just mine.

When we sit in circle, we open up the opportunity for our voices and our breath to create space for inner transformation. We privately but collectively bloom together.

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BOOK A 1:1 SESSION

A 75-80 min private session is priced at £65.

(Within the 3 -6 month 1:1 Healing Journey, each session is £55.)

Sessions are either in-person in my home studio (Leicester, UK) or online via Zoom.