Finding your voice, Conscious Connected Group Breathwork

I’m delighted to invite you to a Conscious connected Breathwork journey. Conscious Connected Breathwork is a practice of breathing with attention, presence, and gentle guidance — allowing the inhale and exhale to flow fully, without pause or restriction. It’s a simple yet profound way to bring awareness back into the body, release tension, and create space for what wants to be felt and remembered.

In the process of growing up, we learn to fit in, to only show the parts of ourselves we believe others want to see. For many, this process can involve silencing parts of the Self that we deem unacceptable. We may have been told explicitly or implicitly that these parts of Self are not welcome. Family, culture and society can teach us to silence ourselves, to cut off from intuition and deep knowing. To turn down the volume on the inner voice, and the outer voice.

When we silence ourselves, we lose access to our intuition.

When we silence ourselves, we shut down our bodies.

We may have been silenced and when we continue to silence ourselves, we keep the cycle going.

When we swallow down the words we want to say but don't, we silence ourselves.

When we stop our tears from flowing, we get a lump in our throats, we get migraines, we hold onto tension in the body, creating pain.

When we ignore our anger, the vital force that tells us our boundaries have been crossed, or alerts us to injustice, that energy lives in the body, causing inflammation. We lose the gift of the message, the messages that tells us what action we need to take so that we can respond to life. The energy leaks out in other ways, passively, or we send that energy inwards towards the Self, causing harm to ourselves.

When we keep ourselves silent and keep hidden our deepest truths, we stay hidden to the world, hidden to ourselves.

When we keep ourselves silent we keep ourselves small.

This smallness lives in the breath, in the constriction of the muscles, the rolling in of the shoulders, the stomach pulled in, the volume of our voice, our stance and posture, our ability to ask for a pay rise, our ability to speak our needs. In our language, saying sorry when we've done nothing wrong.

The connection between the inner voice and our Selves can lead us to our deepest gifts. It can lead us to our deepest wounds. When we open the connection, we make space for the wound to breathe, to be cleaned, to scab over and one day to close over and create scar tissue. Not to erase but to not be so raw. To create the conditions for the wound to heal, just like we would for a physical wound. We open ourselves to our own voice. Our unique gifts and contributions to the world.

The connection between the outer voice, the vocal chords, and our physical well being, our nervous systems, is deep and vast. Physiologically and psychologically.

When we learn to use our voices, no matter how unrefined at first, we learn to listen to our truth. We learn to speak our truth. To stand in our strength and our vulnerabilities. Saying I am here and I matter.

Through breathwork, we can build trust that the breath will take us where we need to go. To build curiosity, to open to what wants to be known. The sensations in the body, the images in the psyche, the numbness, the pain, the joy, the expansion, the constriction. The void.

We can learn to listen to our own voices. Internally and eternally. There is space to heard. Literally and metaphorically.

So rather than growing up, this is an invitation to grow down, into the Self, into the roots of your being, the roots of your ancestors and your heritage. To listen to the stories that are held deeply in the body.

This is an act of rebellion. A coming home to Self. To your inner child. Your inner adolescent. Your inner older wiser self. Will you listen to the call?