WHAT IS BREATHWORK?

Breathwork is a powerful way of releasing heaviness, emotional blocks and anything else you no longer need, bringing you back home to your essence.

Through using the BREATH, SOUND and MOVEMENT, it’s a way to be guided into a deeper connection with your body and yourself.

Breathwork is about tapping into the wisdom of our bodıes and gettıng out of our own way.

4 WAYS TO DO BREATHWORK WITH ME

1. NAKED BREATHWORK

This is an evening of a deep naked breathwork journey in an empowered and held space.

There is INNOCENCE and FREEDOM in our nakedness. It's part of our RAW and PRIMAL nature.

This group journey is an opportunity to claim back your power, bring harmony between your animal & spirit, masculine & feminine and your darkness & lightness.

⚡️ "This workshop is the most beautiful way to connect to all parts of yourself through breath. Lovingly, paced, held and offered with such generosity." - Siobhan

⚡️ "A deeply profound, psychedelic journey into the abyss of my Soul - gently yet with efficiency bringing up and out all the crap which is preventing me from being connected to my heart, Soul, sexuality and spirituality. Just by breathing!"

2. RECORDED BREATHWORK JOURNEYS

INNER LIGHT is an online library of self-mastery tools.

Here, you can find 8 GUIDED BREATHWORK JOURNEYS led by me.

You can practice whenever you like from the comfort of your own home with LIFETIME ACCESS.

Inner Light includes - meditations, dance journeys, journaling prompts & resources.

⚡️ “I absolutely love Inner Light, it’s inspiring and so full of love.”

⚡️ “Thank you for creating this. I will forever be grateful.”

3. ONLINE EMBODIED BREATHWORK SESSION

This is not just a breathwork session.

It's a breathwork session fusing BREATHWORK + EMBODIMENT + ENERGY WORK + SEXUALITY (if relevant)

In this session we work through any emotional or physical blocks you may be experiencing bringing you back to your POWER and FREEDOM 🔥

⚡️ “Whether it’s through breathwork or coaching, Isik has a wonderful gift of bringing me back ‘home’ to myself again.”

4. IN-PERSON EMBODIED BREATHWORK SESSION

This is ultimate embodiment experience you can have with me combining BREATHWORK + EMBODIMENT + ENERGY WORK + SEXUALITY + BODYWORK + RITUAL ⚡️

It’s COMING HOME to yourself ❤️

In the end of these sessions, often people feel reset, grounded, reborn saying, “I feel like ME” 🙏🏼

In addition to online breathwork session, there is touch, bodywork and deeper ritual element.

It’s held at your place or a hired studio space in London.

⚡️ “All I can say is WOW!! Today’s session was totally profound! I just know the impacts will be plentiful and positive.”

Not sure which option might work for you or have questions?

Book a call with me below. I look forward to connecting with you!

TESTIMONIALS

I combine tools from transformational, biodynamic and shamanic breathwork, emotional release tools, energywork, bodywork and sacred rituals.

BREATHWORK EXPERIENCES

ALICE CARDER

I went to a breathwork ceremony held by my dear friend @isiktlabar

Breathwork is close to my heart as it’s similar to EFT (Tapping) in that it enables us to feel and process our emotions.

This time what came up for me was a deep sadness that I’ll be apart from my girlfriend when I go to SE Asia for 3 months in January.

This was immediately followed by a wave of immense gratitude for the life of freedom I’ve created for myself and the fact I have an incredible girlfriend who supports me in everything I do.

Then I felt shame.

You see, I was raised by a single mum in a working class family and taught to work hard until I excelled and take every opportunity I could.

So I did, and with the challenges I’ve overcome along the way, I’ve never felt ashamed of what I’ve achieved. On the contrary I’ve always felt proud I’m doing the things my mum never had the chance to.

So where was this shame coming from?

It was my mind analysing my emotions of course. “How can you feel sad when you have such an amazing life?” “You should be grateful”, it mocked me.

And I am (grateful). But somewhere along the way I began to believe that if things are going well I’m not allowed to feel emotions that contradict this. As though I’ll burst my own bubble of happiness if I do.

When my best friend died 7 years ago I experienced the deepest sadness I’ve ever felt AND the most intense gratitude that I’d known her at all. I came to know this particular blend of emotions as grief.

Labelling it as grief then perhaps gave me the permission to feel it.

But I’m not grieving being apart from my girlfriend while I travel am I? Maybe in a strange way I am. Or maybe this is the imprint grief left in my body, after all these years, fragments still being uncovered and brought into the light.

Whatever it is, I felt it that evening during the breathwork ceremony. I shook and screamed and sobbed and laughed.

I began to let go of the old belief that I can’t feel deeply sad and grateful all at the same time. And I welcomed in the new belief that I am allowed to feel whatever I feel. That it’s safe to do so. That it doesn’t mean I’m ungrateful, or spoiled, it just means I’m human 👋🏻

Michael McCaffrey

I’m writing this having recently experienced a powerful breathwork session.

Recently I was introduced to breathwork and was fortunate enough to get the chance to work with an incredible facilitator.

For those of you unfamiliar with breathwork it is a healing modality that, using rapid deep breathing, allows you to shed trauma held in the body as well as shifting energetic blocks. For me it is a very primal practice, tapping into something so deep within.

Throughout the past 10 years I have experienced some shifts in the body but actually much of my practice of meditation has shifted my psychology rather than the deeply held trauma I have carried for much of my life.

And so last night I went deep. I am more than willing to push myself and commit fully to whatever arises and today was no different. Today something huge shifted.

I encountered my profound grief and rage that I had been holding regarding my mum and her condition. I roared with all my heart, tears poured out of me, sobbing, whaling.

I yelled so loudly that my mum might hear me and remember who I am. I yelled so loudly that God would know my anger at what has happened to her. I felt the pain and suffering inherent in being human in it's entirety. I writhed and rocked and shouted. The sounds that were arising were from my depths. I lamented that my mum doesn't get to see how far I’ve come and that I was fundamentally okay having helped and supported me through my troubled past.

Knots and pains in the body have opened up, moved around. Things have worked themselves free in some noticeable way. My body feels different. My energy levels have shot up through this work, my motivation levels have increased. My meditation is deeper and more still than ever before.

All this from breathing, you might ask? Well, yes. 

I am discovering that this work dovetails so wonderfully with my meditation practice. In fact I have been so taken by this work that I have recently learned to facilitate it myself and hope to be sharing it in the coming months.

In the meantime if you are interested in the transformational potential of the breath I highly recommend the lady I have been working with, Isik Tlabar . I cannot speak highly enough of her and the space she creates in order for the body to do it's work. <3

JOANNA HARRIS

What have I let myself in for?

I finished my interview with Isik Tlabar, transformation coach and breathwork facilitator, where I learned all about the benefits of using breathe to release emotions. Now it was time for me to experience it, and I suddenly became very nervous!

What Isik had taught me made complete sense. Emotions are energy in motion and if we don’t feel them and release them, we trap them in our body. But now it became very real. These were MY trapped emotions.  As intrigued as I was, I was also very scared about what may come out. What would I need to face which I had been repressing? And how could I let it out front of another person?

Isik immediately sensed my trepidation and put me at ease. She explained how the session would run and how I would use breathe and movement to free the emotions. The good part was that I did not have to re-live the event that lead me to suppressing the emotion, I just needed to allow the emotion to be expressed so that it could pass. She showed me movements to safely release the emotions out, such stomping, banging my fists into pillows and shaking.

Let the breathing begin

I laid down on a comfortable, pillow-filled bed, in the calming sanctuary of her living room. As Isik guided me through some simple breathing to relax me, I somehow knew everything was going to be fine. Isik has an incredibly energy that nurtures and supports you, providing pure love without judgement. I could let myself go and explore the journey Isik would take me on.

The music begins and I sink into myself. The soundtrack, I later realise, is an epic journey, an incredible compilation Isik has put together which perfectly accompanies the process we would go through. With different breathing techniques, such as panting, or deeper continuous in-out breathing, strange things started to happen.

Emotions releasing

I felt frustration coming out of me. My arms wanted to shake, my head moved side to side and my legs kicked out. Waves of annoyance filled me. I became incredibly mad, a real kind of angry, hate filled mad and I screamed and screamed, and my body flailed about. Isik held the space for me and let me express what needed to come out. She neither consoled nor comforted me but was just with me and allowed me to go through what I needed without judgement.

Different emotions kept pouring out of me. I have no idea how long the process lasted, maybe an hour or hour and a half. In between emotional releases, Isik would return me to the breathing to guide me through the process. As I had also given her permission to touch my body, she would work with me to release and channel the emotions through energy healing.

Unexpected depth

At one stage, I found myself on my back with my knees bent and legs raised. I felt a deep groaning and a desire to push, like being in labour. This was actually a very powerful release for me, and in discussing with Isik after, it can be common with women for various reasons. For me, it released the tension I had put on myself, for not wanting to be a mother.

I also had an amazing release of laughter, deep gratifying belly chuckles that seemed to go on and on. And when this subsided, I was overwhelmed by a very low and sorrowful weeping. Tears softly rolled down my cheeks, and I wept for my loss and my pain. I cried for the younger me who had been subject to my own torment of self-hatred.  I felt her pain and sorrow.  When I was her, I experienced the emotions of self-hatred, but I had never released how much I had hurt myself too, how much pain was suppressed, because I had behaved that way to myself.

Returning to self

As the sound track completed its epic journey of my emotional release, I lay there and became calm. Isik gently guided me back into the room and to a state of peace in the present moment. I realised just how light I felt. It was like I was carrying around a burden in my body which was just so normal to me, that I didn’t really know it was there. But once it was gone, I felt freed.

I had such a wave of compassion for myself and for my humanness. I felt love and kindness for myself, and understood what I had just given to myself, was an act of self-love. In expressing the trapped emotions, I released myself from their power. I also felt an immense gratitude for Isik, for her to be with me in my suffering and pain, holding a safe space, and allowing my release without judgement. She is an incredibly grounded healing facilitator and I am honoured to have experienced her compassion and kindness.

Anonymous

The breathwork on Thursday was again very strong.  I am still learning to trust my body and in awe of how it knows what it wants to release and how to find the right movement and position to do this.  There is an inner dialogue where my mind says “just lie still” and then my body starts to move and part of my mind distrusts my body and wants it to stop, so I tell my mind to get out of the way and let me body go where it needs to go.

I have always been rather sceptical about statements that we are all “made of light”, seeing this as a nice metaphor for goodness and love rather than anything more literal or real.  However, my expense in the breathwork session this week opened my perception in a new way.  

I felt pain and a frozen rigidity in my right hand and arm. As I breathed into this place a tingling vibration began in my hand and fingers, to start with like pins and needles, then more and more intense, like electricity.  Eventually the intensity was so powerful, the vibration to strong that I experienced my hand being filled with what I would call pure light, an immensely strong healing energy that then spread up my arm and gradually dissipated into my whole body.  I released a lot of tears, sadness, grief, pain, loss and longing. And then felt very peaceful.

Anonymous

Thanks again for another beautiful and powerful session on Thursday.

Once again I took a few more steps forward in trusting my body to know what I needed, where the pain and trauma was being held, and how to release it safely.  The special magic this time was a sense of the outer layer of my body gently but firmly holding and caressing the contracted, wounded and hurting inner parts.  This holding allowed the inner core to relax, release and expand, with deep, long sounds from my belly and throat, as well as sweet streams of tears from my eyes.  I felt a freeing joy in the release and the crying.  The places of pain and blockage shifted and melted, leaving me with a gorgeous vibration all over.

I had another night of vivid dreams afterwards.

So grateful for this possibility in my life right now.