Return to the Wisdom of Your Body
Breathwork is a somatic practice that works directly with the nervous system, helping you access sensations, emotions, and patterns the thinking mind alone cannot reach.
Through intentional, connected breathing, sessions create space for what has been held to surface and complete, opening a pathway beyond thought and into deeper clarity, presence, and truth.
This is a practice of remembering.
You carry a lot.
Not only the visible responsibilities of a full life, but the quieter ones too. The emotional weight of relationships, the subtle pressure of expectations, the constant awareness of everything and everyone around you.
You've likely done the thinking work already. Read the books. Sat in the therapy sessions. Asked the harder questions about yourself.
You understand your patterns. You can name the dynamics. You see things clearly.
And still, something remains just out of reach.
Because the place it lives isn't in your mind. It's in your body.
In the tension that shows up before you even realize you're holding it, in the subtle ways the nervous system stays braced even when things appear calm.
Not because you haven't tried.
But because some things aren't meant to be understood first. They're meant to be felt.
The mind suppresses,
the body remembers.
Research Meets Ritual |Why Breathwork Works
Breathwork directly engages the nervous system while bringing awareness to sensations, emotions, and patterns held in the body.
When you consciously alter the pace and intensity of the breath, your physiological state begins to shift, allowing activation to surface and resolve while the nervous system learns it can return to regulation. Long-held patterns of tension and bracing begin to soften. Sensations and emotional responses are given space to surface and complete without force.
Somatic awareness deepens this process. Where breathwork opens the door, somatics helps you cross the threshold through sensation, micro-movement, sound, and gentle attention to what the body is expressing. Humming, sighing, vocal tones, tears, or spontaneous sound can become natural pathways for energy and emotion to move through the system.
Together, they create something neither achieves alone: change that lives in the body, not just the mind.
What Happens in a Session
Each session begins with arrival.
Before we breathe, we ground. Simple practices orient the nervous system and bring awareness into the body, creating the conditions for the work to unfold safely.
From there, you'll be guided into a rhythmic, connected breathing pattern. The breath itself is simple. What it creates is not.
As the practice deepens, what has been held in the body begins to have space to move: sensations, emotions, memories, clarity. Nothing is forced. The breath creates the opening. The body decides what is ready.
Music supports the full arc of the journey, helping the nervous system move through activation and return to settling.
Integration follows.
Equal in importance to the active practice, this is where the body settles, reorganizes, and begins to metabolize the experience. This is where the real work happens.
Intensity can arise in this process, but it is never the goal. What matters most is how the body returns to regulation afterward.
Capacity over catharsis. Physiology before interpretation. Integration as the real work.
What Shifts
The changes that come from this work are rarely loud.
People often describe feeling more settled in themselves. Emotions that once felt stuck begin to move. The quiet vigilance the body learned to carry starts to soften.
There is more access to rest. More presence. A clearer sense of what they actually want.
Underneath the practical shifts, something deeper is happening.
The layers that accumulated over years of performing, managing, and holding everything together begin to loosen. What was suppressed begins to surface. What was forgotten begins to return.
This is the work of remembering.
The work of uncovering who you already are.
Breathwork Sessions | Ways to Work Together
VIRTUAL
GROUP
BREATHWORK
Spring Equinox
Monday, March 23rd
6:30pm PST
A live candlelit ceremonial breathwork session to honor the Spring Equinox and open our weekly Monday night gatherings.
$26 · 60 minutes
PRIVATE
1:1
BREATHWORK
A one-on-one session guided in direct relationship with your process.
These sessions allow for deeper pacing, integration, and individualized support.
$170 · 90 minutes
PRIVATE
BREATHWORK
SERIES
For those wanting to work with breathwork over time.
A 3-session container allows the nervous system to unwind more gradually while giving space for integration between sessions.
$444 · 3 Sessions
About Lindsay
I'm Lindsay, a breathwork facilitator and ceremonial guide who supports people in reconnecting with themselves through embodied practice.
I didn't come to breathwork as a teacher first. I came as someone genuinely searching, someone who had spent years in yoga, meditation, and deep self-inquiry and still found herself carrying things she couldn't think her way through. When I discovered breathwork in 2013, something shifted in a way nothing else had. It moved what years of practice, therapy, and self-awareness could not.
Since then, this work has become one of the ways I navigate life's harder seasons and return to myself again and again.
I've trained in breathwork facilitation, somatic and trauma-aware practice, and ceremonial approaches to healing, studying with teachers and mentors over many years. I bring more than two decades of lived experience in consciousness work into every space I hold.
I guide from embodied knowing, not theory. My role is not to direct your experience, but to hold a space where something deeper can unfold, a space where the body can soften, where truth can surface, and where people can begin remembering who they really are.
At its heart, this work is about connection — to yourself, to one another, and to the deeper intelligence of life moving through us.
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FAQs
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Breathwork is generally safe for most people. Sessions are paced to support your nervous system, and you are always encouraged to listen to your body, adjust the breath, or pause at any time.
However, this type of breathwork is not recommended if you are pregnant or have a history of seizures, glaucoma, or certain heart conditions. If you have any medical concerns or questions about whether this practice is appropriate for you, please reach out before registering.
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Breathwork can create a range of physical and emotional sensations. Some people experience warmth, tingling, or waves of emotion, while others feel calm, spacious, or deeply relaxed. Every session is different. The goal is not to force an experience, but to allow the body to move and settle at its own pace.
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No. Intense emotional expression can happen, but it is not the goal of the practice. What matters most is how the nervous system returns to regulation afterward. Many sessions are quiet, subtle, and deeply restorative.
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Conscious connected breathing is a rhythmic breath pattern with no pauses between the inhale and exhale. This continuous flow of breath changes your physiological state and can bring awareness to sensations, emotions, and patterns that are usually outside conscious attention.
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No prior experience is needed. Each session is guided step by step, and you are always in choice about the pace and depth of your experience. Many people come simply out of curiosity or a desire to reconnect with their body.
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Wear comfortable clothing and create a quiet space where you can lie down comfortably. Many people like to have a blanket, eye covering, chapstick, water, and a journal nearby for reflection afterward.
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Group sessions are held weekly on Monday evenings at 6:30pm PST. All sessions are held via zoom and you will receive a link 60 minutes prior to class start.
Drop-in sessions are $26. A monthly membership at $80 gives you unlimited access to all weekly sessions. -
If you have a question that isn’t covered here, please reach out directly at hello@activistoflove.com. We’ll make sure you get the clarity you need to feel fully aligned in your yes.
A Prayer
Breathwork has been one of the most
transformative practices in my own healing journey.
Through the breath we meet our grief, our joy, our rage,
and our love. We remember what we thought had been forgotten. We soften our edges and deepen our trust.
This is sacred work — a ritual of release and remembrance.
If you feel called to explore it for yourself, the invitation is here.
May we have the courage to walk our prayer.
services Style
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THETADROP
A 6-week ceremonial microdosing experience weaving research, ritual, ceremony and community.
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JOURNEY WORK
A transformational journey of preparation, ceremony, and integration, held with deep care and reverence for profound healing.
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Gather
A space to breathe, heal, and remember—together.
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Breathwork
A transformative practice that uses conscious breathing to deepen awareness, release emotions, and access expansive states beyond thought and identity.