What is Breathwork?
Conscious Connected Breathwork (CCB) is a profoundly effective breathing technique and therapeutic process that:
Activates the body’s natural healing
Promotes self-exploration and self-awareness
Offers a path to conscious personal transformation
Why do I trust it enough to offer it?
The effectiveness of this mode of breathwork is in the way that it empowers us to self heal - to build more trust in the body and in the breath to guide us to what needs attention in our own unique nervous system. I have experienced and witnessed time and time again that when the space and intention are created to pay close attention to the breath and deeply listen to the body - healing, insight and release will happen.
I guide and support you to breathe in a specific way (CCB) and explore with curiosity what arises in the body.
I hold that space with reverence and loving presence but it is your body, your breath that will guide you where to go, my job is to support you to stay with it, stay curious and trust.
What’s unique about how I offer this work?
Connecting with nature and the elements — Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Spirit — is central to my own practice, and something I weave into every breathwork session.
We begin by taking time to arrive. Through simple ritual and a quiet walk along the bush tracks in the foothills of kunanyi, we come into relationship — with the land, the more-than-human world, and our own inner terrain.
Nature invites us in — not as visitors, but as part of a living system. When we slow down, breathe, and truly listen, our bodies begin to attune. In that stillness, the nervous system can settle — not in isolation, but in quiet conversation with all life around us.
From this place of presence and openness, a deeper inner landscape begins to emerge — ready to be explored through the Conscious Connected Breath. The session then unfolds by the warmth and safety of the fire, held in the Mountain Studio at Zoe Dojo.
It’s important to note that this modality of breathwork isn’t about the outcome of simply ‘feeling better’ or using the breath as a way to get ‘high’. While the practice offers a raft of physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits, its intention is to create a space to fully meet ourselves with curiosity and compassion — to give our bodies permission to do what they intuitively know how to do: heal and regenerate.
That process isn’t always easy and can often be confronting, if you’re ready to go there.
But it is a necessary part of growth and transformation — always with the understanding that something good is trying to happen.
This is the hero’s journey.
What becomes possible when a man truly connects to his breath?
There is a phrase I’ve heard around menswork; ‘How you do anything is how you do everything’ and it is so true. The unique imprint of our psyche, both the shadow and the light, underpins how we show up to anything in our lives - and this couldn’t be more true than in the way we breathe. How we breathe is how we live.
The breath can be restricted, forceful, smooth, expansive, calm, rushed, erratic, fearful, rhythmic, full, expressive - the list is endless and will change from moment to moment, situation to situation. We all have patterns, habits, tendencies and ways of doing things that have been shaped by our stories, past traumas and experiences, our physical bodies, relationships - our entire internal and external worlds.
Through deeply connecting to the breath in this way and tuning into the body we begin to become aware of these patterns and explore them.
In doing so we can uncover more parts of ourselves that want to be seen and heard.
This process of recognition, expression and release changes the physiology of the breath over time - restoring natural flow and opening space for a fuller, more expansive breath to move through the body .
As the breath expands so does our life and our capacity to meet it fully in our own unique way.
You do not need to become someone else.
You simply need to remember who you are.
