“Portals” is the name of my new business with my partner, JP Paglia, and our breathwork workshop is our first Portals offering!

Portals Breathwork is a small group workshop in a beautiful ceremony space in the woods with live meditative music. The combination of breathwork, live music, and bodywork offers a powerful portal to the healing potential of your own psyche.

Breathwork alone is a fantastic way to move energy and facilitate healing. In order to overcome the effects of stress or trauma, we must discharge the stuck energy from our bodies, and breathwork is one way to do that. This approach appeals to those who are ready for transformation and want to take charge of their own healing.

Because breathwork involves “overbreathing,” it can bring up intense physical and emotional feelings as energy is coming up and out. Purposefully agitating our systems helps to move our tissues from a “freeze” state of immobility into mobility, which is essential in the healing process.

Deeper and faster circular breathing (and other techniques) causes a change in balance between carbon dioxide and oxygen in the body. Purposeful extended hyperventilating activates a tremendous healing response.

According to James Nestor, author of Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, “This breathing technique was found to really transform the mental health of so many.” He says, “We know it works,” it’s “extremely effective,” and “very much worth checking out.”

Click here for a clinical report on the effectiveness of Holotropic Breathwork, which Portals Breathwork is based on.

The “very deep hallucinatory dreamlike state” that breathwork can elicit is part of why “it’s been so therapeutic for so many people.” Breathwork is an empowering way to achieve a non-ordinary state of consciousness without the use of substances and with no adverse effects.

Beyond its healing capacities, breathwork is also a wonderful tool for personal/spiritual exploration and growth. It can help you connect to your deeper self and your path in life as well as connecting with nature and others.

Group sessions can magnify the healing potential and sense of connection. After brief introductions, we will have a 90-min breathwork session in which you will follow breathing instructions while lying on a mat with a blanket, pillow, and eye mask. Live meditative soundscape music will enhance your experience and reduce potential distractions from others.

Music on its own has long been used as a portal to the mystical. Sound waves can be used to alter our vibrational states, helping to bring about shifts in perception and consciousness as well as affecting us on a cellular level. Music amplifies meditation and breathwork, allowing us to reach much deeper levels of release and healing.

Rather than using tribal instruments or crystal bowls, JP utilizes synthesizers, samplers, and a variety of effects, borrowing musical structures from the past but expressing them with instruments created in our own time and culture: a remix of shamanic tribalism, the psychedelic pioneers of the 1960’s, ambient electronic, and contemporary sound engineering.

Bodywork is the third component of Portals Breathwork that can offer tremendous healing in and of itself. See my bodywork page for more information. This is used as needed to help release stuck energy.

We will end with a closing circle where you can share a little about your experience, according to your comfort level. Sharing time will be limited to keep on a schedule. Ceremonies will start at 6:00PM and end around 8:30PM.

There is also the option for a 90-min. individual session (60 minutes of breathwork with time to process before and after) for those who would rather not participate in a group ceremony, but this will take place in my usual office space with recorded music.

Group and individual breathwork sessions are the same price as my regularly priced sessions and can be used as one session from a package deal.

Doing this work with facilitation as well as doing preparation and/or integration sessions before/after are important for deep and lasting transformation.

The combination of this specific style of breathwork, original live music, and bodywork — as well as access to individual sessions for preparation and integration — is unlike anything else out there. We are so excited to share it with you and assist in your healing transformation!

Contact me to find out when ceremonies will be offered.