Riggs ALosa
Breathwork is the intentional use of breathing patterns to support regulation, awareness, emotional release, and deeper connection with the body. Conscious, connected breathing helps shift stress patterns, increase vitality, and create space for insight and healing.
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In today’s fast-moving world, it can be difficult to quiet the overactive mind. By creating a bridge between the conscious and subconscious parts of ourselves, Breathwork sessions can bring both buried pain and the deep joy of being alive to the surface, allowing your body’s innate wisdom to guide you toward exactly where you are ready to breathe, open, and release.
Using a full, relaxed breath that begins in the lower abdomen and flows continuously through the inhale and exhale without pause, you are guided through a conscious connected breathing pattern with supportive therapeutic presence. This process helps awaken the body’s natural capacity to heal.
When we choose to breathe with and through life’s challenges, we strengthen our resilience, create new neural pathways, and begin to interrupt automatic stress reactions in the nervous system.
By consciously returning to the breath, we teach the nervous system to stay present with a wider range of sensations, allowing the natural breath to become fuller, deeper, and more relaxed over time.
Whether you are seeking trauma integration, emotional release, or stress relief, Breathwork can support you in becoming more resilient in the face of difficulty and more at ease within your body. It invites the whole self back toward its natural state of balance, vitality, and joy, offering a felt sense of wholeness from within.
Begin the process. Step more fully into your life with this powerful healing practice, and gain a meaningful tool you can return to again and again in your everyday life.
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Check-in: Taking time to settle into the space and share what is present at the moment. Taking a few deep breaths.
Intention Setting: Setting an intention aids the breath in locating stored emotions and provides an anchor during and after the session.
Breathe: Coming into a lying position with a blanket and bolster. Allowing the breath to take over and breathing for 20 - 40 minutes.
Integration: Grounding through journaling or coloring.
Reflection: Checking in to bring the session full circle. Sharing final thoughts and feelings.
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Sessions will be held at an agreed-upon location and last for 60 - 90 minutes.
What to bring:
Water bottle
Journal and pen
Light snack
Yourself : ) Ready and willing to be present
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I am currently enrolled in a 400-hour certification program with Spiraldance Breathwork and am recruiting supervised practice clients to complete the Breathwork Certification Training Program.
Practice clients will sign a participation agreement, committing to a 7-session series, and complete an online feedback form at the end of the series.
Sessions come at no cost to practice clients.
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All information shared between client and practitioner during Breathwork sessions is held in confidence and treated with care and respect. Information may only be shared with others if the client gives clear consent.
Session notes will be shared with teacher Tania Zuckerman and will be held in a secure folder until the end of the session series.
“Breathe and you know that you are alive. Breathe and you know all is helping you. Breathe and you know that you are the world. Breathe and you know that the flower is breathing too. Breathe for yourself and you breathe for the world.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
My journey to Breathwork began with a deep longing to heal. For much of my life, I hardly noticed my breath. It felt automatic, just part of life. As I became more aware, I started to understand the breath as something much more sacred, a bridge between myself and something greater, the connection with life itself.
I return to the practice again and again because I feel it changing the way I move through life. I become more present, more open, and more able to experience love, peace, and calm in a real and lasting way. The breath, whether we call it Lifeforce, Qi, or Prana, has become my greatest teacher. Its wisdom, gentleness, and power continue to show me that even what feels impossible can begin to soften, open, and transform.
I’m deeply honored to share this somatic practice with those seeking transformational change in themselves, their communities and beyond. Let’s begin.