When the New Year started, I made a resolution like many others—mine was to live more in the present moment. It felt like the right move after spending years healing from my past.

I used to let my past experiences shape my present and future. I carried them with me, sometimes without even realizing it. But after a lot of healing, I finally felt free, ready to move forward without the baggage of the past holding me down.

My reason for training as a facilitator goes right back to birth. I was born blue and not breathing. I was taken away by doctors for around 10 minutes. My mum was delirious and unsure what they did, but on returning I was able to take my first breath and the blue colour faded.

During my childhood and for the first 14 years of my life I had serious breathing issues. I couldn’t breathe through my nose at all. I was asthmatic and needed an inhaler. I suffered from severe snoring and sleep apnea. I would breathe loudly and was teased about it relentlessly at school.

My journey into breathwork began with two pivotal experiences that drew my attention to the importance of proper breathing techniques. In 2022, I participated in a local community theatre show. The musical director noticed I had shallow breathing patterns, which was hindering my vocal projection, so I tried just simple breathing deeper on my own. Six months later, I decided to try Reiki for the first time. Interestingly, the Reiki teacher also pointed out my shallow breathing and emphasized the benefits of deeper breathing techniques for both physical and emotional health.

What brought me here? I feel this can be such a loaded question…Where do I start.

Well to really tell why I am here, I need to give you some back story to my life. In a nutshell, how I found breathwork was by having a lot of events happen in my life, that I didn’t know how to deal with.

This all came to a head about 5 years ago, when I started going though a divorce from the father of my children.