My breathwork is not about a temporary cathartic high nor is it performative. Most breathwork in my opinion, including holotropic breathwork, as well as many psychedelic journeys can overstimulate the nervous system or bring us to profound transpersonal awareness but without the support and tools for true integration.

My approach is different. It’s grounded in presence, safety, and real trauma resolution.

These sessions go far beyond technique. They’re rooted in extensive training in integrative somatics and trauma healing, along with a personal, intuitive attunement to the subtle body’s energy system. I draw from a wide range of modalities, always with deep respect for the body’s timing and inner intelligence.

What sets this work apart isn’t just the tools, but how they’re used: with deep listening, careful pacing, and relational dynamics.

Each session is adapted to your unique nervous system. Together, we move at the pace of trust.

Breathwork refers to intentional breathing techniques used to support regulation, presence, and healing. In my practice, breath is not just a tool—it’s a portal into the nervous system, a way of meeting what's alive in the body, and often, what’s been held there for too long.

Breathwork can be understood across three categories as I refer to them below and I’m uniquely trained in and work with all, each with a different intention and effect. This particular offering is about activating breathwork (#1).

1. Activating Breathwork

This is the kind used in my trauma-resolution breathwork offering and is always referred to as conscious connected breath. It involves consciously activating the nervous system through rhythmic, connected breathing (circular breaths) to bring forward stored or stuck emotional patterns. When merged with somatic healing like in my offering, this type of breathwork supports deep release and transformation by helping the body complete unfinished responses to past overwhelm or trauma. It’s somatically powerful and taps into deep and pre-verbal layers of transformation. This type is also helpful for more deeply connecting with your physical body and becoming more confident in it. 

2. Functional (or Corrective) Breathing

This type of breathwork focuses on restoring natural, efficient breathing patterns. Notice how when you get very anxious, nervous, fearful, angry, or sad, your normal breath pattern changes? Well most of us are naturally breathing in one of those or other states without consciously even noticing. I’m trained in Buteyko Clinic Method to help restore natural breathing patterns and bring balance to the mind-body connection. This is often subtle but restorative work that helps reduce chronic stress patterns and supports overall presence and nervous system health.

3. Regulating Breath Practices

These are simple, in-the-moment techniques like box breathing or extended exhalation and are skills that everyone should learn. They help ground the nervous system, soothe activation, and bring you back into presence when things feel overwhelming. These practices are supportive for daily regulation, but they typically don’t create deep transformation on their own.

Somatic healing is based on the understanding that the body, not just the mind, holds memory, emotion, and lived experience. Unresolved trauma or overwhelm can live in the nervous system, shaping how we feel and relate, often without us realizing it.

Notice how we get butterflies in the belly when nervous, teary eyed when sad, flush when angry? These are the body’s physiological responses to emotions moving through us.

Emotions are physiological. But when we're overwhelmed, that natural flow gets interrupted, and the nervous system can become stuck in survival states. Somatic work helps complete what was once interrupted, supporting the body’s innate ability to release, resolve, and return to presence.

Somatics is “bottom-up” using movement, breath, sensation tracking, co-regulation, and compassionate awareness to restore safety and alignment from within (whereas talk therapy, for example, is a top down approach).

See also my:

• somatic trauma resolution brainspotting offering or

• general somatic healing here

Trauma isn’t a pathology, It’s an adaptive, protective response wired for survival. Healing trauma means restoring a sense of safety so you can be present with yourself again. Presence is the gateway back to your true self, because trauma creates barriers to the heart, which is inherently self-healing.

While trauma can stem from acute events (“big T”), trauma healing work also works with chronic, developmental, or relational wounding (“small t”) - the subtle yet lasting ways we disconnect from ourselves to survive. These survival strategies become protective identities that mask the authentic heart.

True healing supports the completion of what was once interrupted: stored impulses, repressed emotions, and unresolved stress. As we meet those parts with compassionate presence, the nervous system can slowly restore its natural flow.

Not everything in us is a trauma response, and it’s important not to reduce ourselves to that. But by honoring the ways your body and psyche once protected you, you can now choose a new path, grounded in safety, wholeness, and self-trust.

Whether or not you identify with the word trauma, you may relate to chronic stress, emotional suppression, or grief. Whatever the name, healing means returning to the body, to presence, and to your innate resilience.

The body, as the first layer of mindfulness, supports us in deeper inner awareness and connection to our present moment experience.

The breath, which means spirit or life force across languages, revives our vitality and unlocks our infinite reservoir of compassion ad creativity, opening us up to intimate connections to ourselves, others, and to life. The deeper the breath, the deeper the feeling.

Activating breathwork in particular is used to access the layers of the autonomic nervous system through stimulation, while putting our analytical and intellectual mind to rest so we focus on feeling.

My focus is on true healing so is not about over-stimulation or temporary catharsis so this is approached from that perspective.

Trauma is held in the body, so it must be healed through the body.

For those not ready to commit to a longer-term integrative sessions, I offer a focused 7-session breathwork series to gently unwind the body’s bands of tension. We move from the eyes down through the neck, chest, diaphragm, belly, and pelvis—each belt revealing a layer of your lived experience.

These bands are more than just muscular. They represent where we’ve stored fear, inhibition, grief, and unmet needs. The gut may hold suppressed instinct and dread. The heart stores relational wounding. The throat often guards our authentic voice and expression.

Trauma is layered, and so is this work. We move at your pace, tracking sensation, emotion, and nervous system cues as we go deeper toward your core.

This is about releasing not just tension, but old defense patterns and protective identities, making space for ease, insight, and the creative resources that have been waiting beneath the surface.

Feeling is healing. And we do this together, through compassionate presence.

If currently managing a heart condition, detached retina or glaucoma, diagnosed brain or abdomen aneurysm, high blood pressure, uncontrolled diabetes or thyroid conditions, epilepsy, experiencing or being treated for psychotic or mental illness conditions (including diagnosed bipolar or schizophrenia), recent surgery/injury, currently pregnant, or any serious medical or mental condition mentioned that you are unsure about, this type of activating breathwork is not recommended.

Sessions are either online from anywhere in the world via live Zoom, or in-person in NYC.

New York City sessions take place in Chelsea, Manhattan.

Private groups as well as couples sessions are also available.