“The body, not the thinking brain, is where we experience most of our pain, pleasure, and joy, and where we process most of what happens to us. It is also where we do most of our healing, including our emotional and psychological healing.”
My trauma-informed approach is grounded in the belief that each of us has the capacity to heal and transform.
While conscious breathing practices have roots in indigenous cultures and traditions, the term breathwork now encompasses a wide variety of practices to affect the body and consciousness. Breathwork is the practice of consciously working with the breath to unwind tension patterns in the physical, mental, and emotional body.
As a breathwork facilitator, a teacher of yoga and a somatic practitioner, I draw on a wide variety of breathing practices to support holistic wellbeing for my clients. The primary modality I offer is conscious connected breathwork to access a deeper connection with body, breath, psyche, and spirit, in support of healing, insight, and self-discovery.
Breathwork is a form of experiential therapy in which the patterns and memory of the body, nervous system, and psyche can be accessed, with the potential to affect profound transformation in our day-to-day lived reality and experience.
Group sessions are a powerful and an accessible way to experience breathwork.
Online sessions are 60-minutes, including a brief introduction to the practice, a 30-minute breathwork journey and time for integration at the end. From the comfort of your own home, you can kick back, turn the music up, and drop into a deep journey of experience and insight. You will be verbally guided and energetically supported, and feel connected and strengthened by the energy of the live group experience.
In a breathwork session, you will be guided in a 3-part breathing technique – a 2-part inhale into the abdomen and chest, followed by a relaxed exhale. Adjustments to the baseline breathing pattern are welcome as you explore the relationship between your breath and embodied experience.
“Whoever travels without a guide needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.”
Online Group Session Rates (60-min) Sliding Scale
This structure makes it possible for more people to access this experience, supported by the community and those who have access to more resources.
$0 - Free: I don’t believe money should be a barrier to care, if you’re not able to contribute financially but crave support. Coupon code:FREE
$10 - Supported access: For those with currently limited financial resources who will benefit from access supplemented by the community. Coupon code:SUPPORT
$15 - Fair access: For those with sufficient financial resources and who can pay fair value for the experience. Coupon code:FAIR
$25 - Rebalancing access: For those with more than enough financial resources and a desire to support access for others to help rebalance systemic inequity.
WAIVER & RELEASE OF LIABILITY
In registering for a breathwork session with Chelsea, you must read and agree to the terms of the release and waiver of liability.
PRECAUTIONS TO CONSIDER?
While this kind of breathwork is valuable to anyone interested in healing and personal growth, there are some conditions that may require modification or additional support, and some conditions that are not recommend. These include:pregnancyhigh blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, or glaucomaepilepsybipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or dissociative identity disorderhistory of severe PTSD or complex traumaactive spiritual emergency
If any of these apply to you, you are welcome to contact me to discuss potential modifications and to assess whether this work will be beneficial. *A note on trauma. While breathwork is a somatic healing modality that can be supportive in trauma resolution, it may NOT be appropriate for some histories of significant trauma. Please contact me if you have any questions about how to proceed mindfully and compassionately in your breathwork journey.