BREATHWORK
"The breath is our most Sacred Medicine. Breath is our portal from life to death, our gateway to existence, and our most constant companion. Our breath becomes tight or shallow when we are nervous, and deep and expansive when we are at peace. It is both the record of our life experiences and our map to return home."
STEPH MAGENTA, INTEGRATIVE BREATH
Breathwork Training
Are you interested in breathwork training? Do you want to understand more about this life changing practice? I coach and guide students in their studies and deepening my own knowledge of breathwork, as a assistant trainer with Soul Therapist, Keli Carpenter. Learn the art and science of breathwork from our range of events below, including in-person retreats and online trainings
Mexico Breathwork Retreat January 2024
After the roaring success of both our Mexico retreat in January 2023 and the Barcelona retreat in May 2023, Keli and I are hosting this deeply transformative retreat again!
Sign up to our "Awakening Through Trauma” Retreat in Mexico, January 2024. Check out more details here.
Awakening Through Trauma Retreat
You will be supported across five days of profound, immersive healing workshops. These are designed to help you lean into your trauma and break cycles of the victim narrative and emotional stuckness. Some of the workshop topics: inner child work, healing the mother's wound, finding freedom through forgiveness and more.
Read more and sign up to the retreat here.
You will be supported in giving your wounds and emotions safe passage. So you can authentically show up just as you are, knowing you are worthy of love.
This retreat is for you if:
You are tired of fighting with or running from the past.
You are ready to take responsibility for your life.
You understand that in order to heal, you need to feel.
You know you can’t do it all on your own and don’t want to.
You’re aware some parts of you may be fearful of what uncover, and you equally know this is exactly why you need to join us on this retreat.
As Rumi says, “The Wound is Where The Light Enters You.” Embrace this opportunity to grow through your pain, to awaken through your trauma.
Beyond these 5 life-changing days together, you will take home tangible tools to support you with on-going integration, so you can continue to meet life and all that it has to offer!
Come and experience rich deep teachings that support profound breakthroughs. Keli and I are here to see you, hold you and support you in this safe and loving container.
Train in breathwork or become a facilitator
Learn the foundations of breathwork, how to process emotions and heal trauma with different somatic tools alongside being held space for in breathwork.
Join the TOSA Level One MTBT: ‘Becoming Undefined’
Details: Level One MTBT: 'Becoming Undefined', with Keli Carpenter and Briony Gunson
Dates: 12 weeks, Oct 10th 2023 - 9th Jan 2024
Place: on Zoom every Tuesday at 10:00am–1:00pm / PT 1:00pm–4:00pm ET / 6:00pm–9:00pm UK time (all sessions are recorded).
Cost: USD$1,595 (approx. £1,300*) or a payment plan of 3x monthly payments USD$533 (approx £450)
*exchange rate given as of October 2023.
Where did I do my breathwork training?
I am a qualified and insured Integrative Breathwork practitioner, taught by the esteemed teachers Steph Magenta and Dr Rae Riedel. I completed my 7-month training course in September 2020. I also have the privilege of being a Mentor for Integrative Breathwork facilitator training since November 2020 until May 2022.
Register here for regular email updates about coaching, meditation and breathwork.
Do you want to experience breathwork with me?
I ran free weekly online breathwork sessions for two years from December 2020 to December 2022. I have now moved my online breathwork sessions as part of a subscription. Scroll further down the page to find out more about my regular events and how we can work together.
I also am a breathwork trainer at Manchester BLOK, a world-class fitness studio, since July 2021. Book your slot here.
WHAT IS BREATHWORK?
Breathwork is a practice where we bring conscious attention to what is a subconscious action: breathing!
Breathing is with us from our first moment in life until our last. And our ability to consciously work with the breath – the pace, depth and direction/movement – has so many benefits.
For example, breathwork supports mental clarity, emotional regulation and psychological and physiological healing. How is this so? Our modern lives frequently over-stimulate us, meaning that our sympathetic nervous system is often activated into ‘fight, flight or freeze’ mode.
Our survival response can perceive a threat in things as minor as a terse email from the boss, or a brief encounter with a driver filled with road rage. Without learning to be self-aware of our thoughts and emotions, we end up flooded with hormones that create a significant imbalance to our body’s system. It’s something we see around us all the time: people off-balance and in habitual states of stress and fear-based reactivity. Over time, our mental health suffers, along with the erosion of our physical health.
Breathwork is one of the most potent ways we can bring balance back to the body and mind.
I have found it to be an incredible tool that’s facilitated a lot of healing in my own life. Breathwork has helped me to develop a deeper awareness of my emotional state and process a lot of suppressed trauma.
Scientific research is now validating much of what has been observed within different healing communities about the effectiveness of breathwork in terms of physiological and psychological healing. In fact, the 2019 Nobel Prize for medicine was awarded for the discovery of how cells sense oxygen.
Watch this TED Talk on the power of the breath by Max Strom:
WHO IS BREATHWORK FOR?
Breathwork is a mind-body practice that has a broad range physical and emotional benefits. A breathwork session can directly ease or facilitate beneficial shifts for experiences such as:
Lack of focus
Anxiety
Stress
Sleep issues
Can’t mentally switch off
Tightness is jaw chest, belly and hips
Grief
Lack of mental clarity
Emotional suppression
Physical tension
PTSD
Process trauma
WORK WITH ME
Transformation Through Breathwork
I offer private breathwork sessions, blending my skills as a qualified mindset coach and trauma-informed breathwork facilitator. It’s my honour to guide people through a powerful personal transformation process. The coaching element works with the conscious mind and the breathwork part works with the subconscious mind, using a “whole brained” approach.
You and I will work together to outline your intentions before we start, so we’re clear on what areas of your life you wish to explore. We will work with whatever is coming up in your life to be transformed. Whether that’s in your career, relationships, health, finances, etc. Be empowered to take charge of your own wellbeing, personal healing and transformation.
The Transformation Through Breathwork package involves bespoke one-to-one sessions, comprised of 1 hour of coaching and then 1 hour of in-depth breathwork. This includes guidance and intention specifically tailored to your journey. I also provided support between sessions and “Soul Work” in between, empowering you to carry out your own self-enquiry work.
Cost: £600 for a bundle of 4 x 2-hour sessions.
Drop me a line at briony@brionygunson.com to find out more.
Breathwork for business
You can hire me to lead breathwork and meditation workshops for your business, team or client. I love to host introductions to breathwork, which can be a highly engaging and effective way of supporting staff wellbeing. With my corporate background, I understand the pressures of working in high-performance teams. Get in touch and let’s talk about how a breathwork session can support you and your colleagues. My professional clients have included EY, AB In-Bev, Santander Bank, Lloyds Banking Group, WeWork, NHS, Cloud Imperium, MyTutor.co.uk and MattEssam.co.uk.
Check out my wellbeing at work page or drop me a line at briony @ brionygunson.com and let’s see what seems like a good fit.
If you’ve never tried breathwork before, you may wish to join one of my free monthly online workshops.
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