Breathing in community has a powerful personal, communal and global impact.
One breath shifts our personal nervous system.
Multiple synchronous breaths shift the collective nervous system and change the world.
Throughout history, people have come together to pray, sing, chant and breathe. Daily practice in community that is centered around loving kindness, compassion and communing with our life force creates a quantum field that impacts us and all those in our field.
Daily ritual held in the sacred container of community (sangha) is a profound anchor in times of global uncertainty.
When we punctuate the mundane with sacred practices nested in community, it changes the landscape of the mundane. Life becomes a prayer.
Breathing everyday since January 2021
When the breath becomes an ally, our capacity grows. When we practice the breath daily in sangha, we amplify our capacity exponentially.
After a month of daily breath practice you will have:
A toolbox of breaths to help you navigate life.
An anchoring ritual to move through the mundane.
Deeper intimacy with stillness and the relaxation response.
A community of people on the path to awakening.
Warm Welcome,
My name is Alicia. I have been consciously practicing the breath for 20 years in my personal and professional practice, using it as a tool to support people with symptom mitigation and root level healing.
I work with people as multidimensional beings to support liberation as a practice of unraveling our conditioning.
I combine Somatic Experiencing with breathwork to build a bridge between the subconscious and conscious mind - the implicit and the explicit - allowing longstanding patterns to emerge and be supported, held and felt in a new way - in relationship with the loving witness and the vast web of relations.
My work emerges from the intersection of science and spirituality as I weave modern science with ancient practices to create 30 minute daily practices that draw from quantum physics, Vedic philosophy, Chinese medicine, Buddhism and my direct experience with trees, fungi, bull frogs, and many other sentient beings that walk my path with me.
I have been offering a breathwork class that has been running live, daily on zoom since 2021. I also teach practitioners how to harness the breath for liberation and healing and I provide somatic based therapy (with and without psychedelics) and individualized breathwork sessions to harness the breath for personal and collective liberation.
I am committed to regenerative practices, local community resiliency and loving ourselves and each other back to wholeness as an act of collective liberation.
"Amidst all the chaos and uncertainty of life right now, I have found such a grounding, calm and peace in my daily breathwork practice with Alicia and our breathwork sangha (community). It is much like the still points we have cultivated at the bottom and top of the breath. Alicia guides this practice so masterfully, with compassion, permission, and such great care. Her playfulness throughout the practice is such a wonderful reminder to embrace that childlike wonder inside of me, that can get so lost in all the responsibilities and heaviness of being an adult human, navigating this complex world."
- Alison K. Massage Therapist & Yoga Teacher
¨ Breathing within a community practice provides a sacred space for me to connect with myself, my community, and the world around with deep intention every day. I arrive each morning just as I am, knowing I am unconditionally accepted and loved.¨
- Sarena F. Psychotherapist
"Alicia is a treasure among treasures. I feel so incredibly grateful to have found her. She brings breadth and depth to her teaching, drawing from an impressive array of traditions and approaches including yoga, qigong, Somatic Experiencing, and parts work to name a few. I am often astounded be her knowledge. How can one person hold so much? Alicia's background as a trauma therapist combined with her profound empathy allows her to bring highly skilled safety and attunement to the Breathwork practices. She creates a container that allows for grounded trust, expansion, and transformation - a rare combination. I consider it to be a real privilege to be one of Alicia's students and a member of her breath sangha.
Sara S. Psychotherapist
"I am absolutely loving the practices and am so grateful to have found this body of work. Really appreciate your depth of knowledge and nurturing kindness. These practices feel very safe and sacred within the container.
"Thank you so much for this practice! You are such a gift. Breathing in community has been transformative and the connections and friends I have made here are full of depth and caring and will last me a lifetime. The focus you and this practice placed on community has changed my life. Your teaching is compassionate and intelligent and I am grateful to learn from you and Carrie."
Nicole S. Psychotherapist
¨I have been taking Alicia’s breathwork class for about 2 months now. It feels like such a gift to give myself time every morning to connect with myself and my body. I always feel better afterwards. Learning to work with the breath has been an amazing experience. It feels calming, energizing, enlivening, and just plain good.¨
Jess F. Accupuncturist
"Alicia's daily Breathwork and Apprenticeship has absolutely transformed my overall wellbeing. Thanks to these last 6 months, I now have a rich toolkit of breaths available when I am fatigued, anxious, or need to work out the stiffness in my joints. More than that, though, I also have a community and a sense of belonging. I have returned to my natural state of being thanks to this work of attuning to my breath."
-Safrianna L. Psychotherapist
"Four years of daily practice and three apprenticeships later, it is an honor to express what being connected to Alicia has meant to me. I am a life long seeker of knowledge and the day I me Alicia was fortuitous for me. The depth of her knowledge is equaled only to the expansiveness of her heart. Alicia has taught me the importance of ritual, of honoring ancient practices, syncing with the lunar cycles as well as the importance of community and shared purpose of sangha. Whatever Alicia's teachings are, she offers them with kindness, compassion, humility, levity and love. The daily practice and apprenticeship has kept me balanced, stable, tethered between the sacred earth and celestial light. Obviously, I am a big fan!"
-Bonnie D. Massage Therapist & Biodynamic Breathwork for Trauma Release.
"Alicia is my favorite local lore. Her Breathwork Apprenticeship poetically weaves an honoring consolidation of ancient teachings and the science of our bodies and breath with relational care and integrity. I love and value my experience so much that I have signed up for another year. Deep gratitude to Alicia, Carrie and Travis. I highly recommend the daily Breathwork practice too. Breathing in community is the medicine for these times."
-Jody B. Psychotherapist & Yoga Teacher
"I have deeply appreciated all the carefully crafted materials, the interactive aspects, watching other students apply the methods in the own unique ways, and practicing in my own body. I so appreciate the trauma informed way that she approaches the breathwork - the gentleness, the invitation to self awareness and choice. I truly do think this breathwork is a missing link, maybe THE missing in trauma treatment and nervous system regulation modalities like SE. The way she brings together all the different threads of ancient and new wisdom teachings into this practice is inspiring. She is a gifted teacher and guide. I have really been blessed to learn from her."
-Clare W. PsyD, Hakomi Practitioner
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