Breath Journeys

A transformative breath journey is a guided breath session in which you connect fully with your breath for about an hour. At its centre is the connected breath, a continuous rhythm without a pause between inhale and exhale. After a while this rhythm brings you into an expanded state of awareness. Your analysing mind steps back and space opens for whatever wants to show itself.

You are held by music composed for this process, sometimes by movement as well. The breath takes you out of your head and into your body. That is where feelings, old themes and tension live. During the journey they can come to the surface and be lived through. Some things get truly felt for the first time, others can finally dissolve and come to a close. Your nervous system gets the chance to release familiar stress patterns and find balance again.

You need no previous experience and no technique to learn beforehand. You are guided gently and safely through the whole process, from the first arrival to the integration afterwards.

Breath journeys take place in person in Zurich and online from home, in a group or entirely for yourself in a 1:1.

In a group the shared field carries you. A force arises that takes you along without you having to expose yourself. In a 1:1 everything follows you: your pace, your theme, your journey, closely accompanied from the first to the last minute.

Online is just as deep as in person. All you need is a quiet place, headphones, a stable connection and an hour without interruption. The upside: you are in your own home and can simply stay lying down afterwards.

For anyone curious to meet themselves in a new way. No previous experience and no spiritual background needed.

Breath journeys offer a lot to people who often feel caught in their head and want more access to body and feelings. Also to those who carry old themes, patterns or emotions that have no room in daily life and are willing to feel through them consciously.

And to anyone looking for more clarity, intuition or a deeper connection with themselves, who wants to enter a process with curiosity, without knowing exactly what will come.

A session usually lasts two to three hours, the breath journey itself about one hour of that. At the beginning you simply arrive, before any breathing happens. It is about feeling welcome and safe, exactly as you are. Often with a short meditation and a few words about what awaits you.

Then the journey begins. It follows a natural wave in three phases: activation, where breath and body slowly come alive. The peak, the most intense part, where the most can move. And relaxation, where everything settles again.

Then comes integration, perhaps the most important part. You stay lying down and sense what the journey did with you, without pressure, without hurry. Sometimes writing or drawing helps the experience land. At the end there is often a sharing, a moment to put into words what you lived through. It is never a must.

Important: you are accompanied the whole time, from arrival to the very last moment. None of it is yours to get through alone.

You need very little, and you will find most of it at home, whether the journey takes place in person in Zurich or online. These you always need:

• A pillow for your head, maybe a second one for belly or chest
• A cosy blanket, you may get cold during the journey
• An eye mask or a cloth for your eyes
• Water or tea for afterwards
• Notebook and pen, in case you want to journal
• Lip balm, breathing makes lips dry

• Do not eat anything heavy beforehand, ideally nothing for 90 minutes before
• Wear comfortable clothes in which belly and chest can move freely
• Leave space afterwards, no tight appointments on the same day
• No substances such as alcohol, drugs or plant medicine before the session

In the following cases taking part is not possible. If you are unsure, just write to me and we will look at it together.

• Being under 18
• Epilepsy
• Detached retina or glaucoma
• Severe osteoporosis
• High blood pressure that is not medically controlled
• Cardiovascular conditions, including past heart attacks
• Strokes, seizures or other neurological conditions
• Aneurysm in yourself or in two or more close family members
• Taking blood thinning medication
• Pregnancy
• Asthma, participation possible with your own inhaler
• A diagnosis of bipolar disorder or schizophrenia
• Psychiatric hospitalisation or a severe emotional crisis in the last 10 years
• Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Unhealed injuries that intense movement could worsen
• Recent surgery
• Other medical, psychiatric or neurological conditions that intense physical or emotional processes could affect