Breathe & Belong

An immersive, heart-opening breathwork and community experience

Breathe + Belong is a 90-minute community breathwork experience designed to help participants release anxiety and emotions stored in the body while forming meaningful connections with a group of like-minded people over the span of 3 weeks.  

Just in time for the holidays, the sessions will help you step into these all-consuming days with a greater sense of EASE, GROUNDEDNESS, EMPATHY, LOVE, FORGIVENESS and BLISS.  

Practicing this type of breathwork in a group unites people in a way that inspires vulnerability and deep connection in a space where you belong and are HEARD. 

We will begin each session with an introduction to this 3-part, circular, breathwork modality and present the theme of the week.  We will then discuss what we intend and hope for YOU to receive from this practice before offering participants a moment to set an intention for their own experience. 

The group is then gently guided on a 40-minute breathwork journey to music.  As the session comes to a close, we spend about 5-10 minutes safely sealing the practice and bringing the group back easefully.  Participants will be encouraged to further connect directly to their hearts with some self-loving journal prompts, before closing with a conversation circle designed to foster a trusting, supportive, non-judgemental space and form loving community around a shared experience.

Each week will follow a similar structure, but we will also be incorporating short group and paired exercises that will integrate and expand on the themes we are working through during each session.  These exercises may include but are not limited to; Being SEEN exercises, anger release techniques, speaking truth exercise, connection with inner child, artistic flow and mandala drawing. 

Weekly themes may include: Feeling safe in your body; empathy, compassion, forgiveness for others setting healthy boundaries; energetic and empathic self-care; embracing the inner child; setting attainable goals; next steps on your path; self love and self partnership. 

Beneficial side effects of this breathwork and community experience:

• Big life and energetic shifts

• Big emotional release

• Boosted clarity

• Improving health

• Increased inspiration and creativity

• Reduced anxiety

• Bringing unconscious thoughts into consciousness

• Deeper trust and connection with the body and intuition

• Aligned and more meaningful connections with others

• The feeling of belonging to yourself and to a group

• Unexpected and welcomed feelings of bliss.

The BIG Why:

We carry around an armor in the world for our emotional and physical safety. While it protects us from pain and harm, it also often blocks us from experiencing and processing our emotions and forming real connections with others. Breathe & Belong is born from the desire to create a space where people can take off the crushing weight of that armor and open themselves up to be truly seen, to explore who they are without suffocation, to practice vulnerability, and allow their hearts to exhale.

In this world everyone is strapped to a “thing,” whether it’s a phone, a job, a goal, a relationship, repetitive anxious thoughts, etc.  These “things” end up separating us, not only from others, but from ourselves. We as a society are moving away from human connection, and it’s important to clear space for supportive and loving communities to form. The more our hearts can connect to others, the more love can emanate through humanity and in turn help heal pain in the world.  

Breathing in a group unites people in a radical and rare way. It creates a sense of shared humanity, gives people permission to feel, and highlights our similarities over our differences. This breathwork experience brings a sense of lightness and freedom that inspires vulnerability and connection.

The Facilitators:

Amanda Scott is a brilliant, badass, mystical, magical being who heals people with her hugs and her big, beautiful heart.  She’s former TV Creative Executive Producer turned Spirit Healer and is now offering her services to those looking for a little “something different” in their therapeutic repertoire through her business HIGHER-SELFISH.  She sees clients for dynamically charged intuitive healing sessions or 1:1 & couples Breathwork sessions.  Amanda’s intention in her work is based on connecting people to the voice of their highest self. And in turn, helping to further clear the path towards discovering their innermost, unique genius, so that they can start expressing a more brilliant and aligned version of themselves on the planet.   

Mandy Sciacchitano is a bold, stoic and beautiful warrior of wisdom.  Her brilliant ability to help people uncover their truest hurdles and spirited gifts comes from a deep intuitive place that one must witness to believe.  Mandy is a certified life coach who specializes in facilitating brave and vulnerable conversations and experiences that help women feel safe, whole, fully expressed, and empowered to self-heal. Her superpower lies in her ability to translate deep, soulful conversation into practical actions and experiences that build self-worth and self-trust. Whether she is guiding a breathwork or cacao circle, coaching 1-on-1, or leading a retreat, she is obsessed with guiding women out of their heads and into their hearts, forming deep connection with their bodies and with one another so that they can feel empowered, embodied, and clear.

Yoga mats and blankets are required, please bring journal or pen and paper,  bolsters or pillows optional.