I started hosting these Breathwork + Community Circles out of sheer frustration.

Hang in there, I’ll explain.

As someone who has been teaching yoga and breathwork in studio spaces for many years, I have come to find that most studio schedules leave very little room for real human connection before and after practice.

And I get it, having a stacked schedule with back to back classes is a great way to appease a wide variety of customers who are simply doing their best to get their self-care practices in when it best fits their busy lives.

We see it all the time: class starts on the hour – most people show up and leave rushed or frantic – 5 min after class starts, and chomping at the bit to get out as soon as it's over without even a smidge of a hello or a goodbye to the teacher or those they just spent the last hour practicing alongside. 

And at the same rate, being rushed in and out of such a meaningful practice, like Breathwork or Yoga feels counterintuitive to me. It feels… transactional; which just doesn’t resonate with the way I prefer to hold space.

As a facilitator of embodied healing, I believe it is very important to get a sense for why and how a person is arriving into a practice so that I can more deeply understand what they need and how I can best support them while they are under my guidance.

Additionally, I find so much power in offering those who join me for practice the opportunity to get a feel for who they are sharing the experience with as a way to cultivate a deeper sense of safety within the communal healing space, and so they can meet other like-minded and like-hearted humans.