Breathwork Events
What is Conscious Connected Breathwork?
This healing practice uses the humble power of breath to quiet the incessant chattering mind and enter a gentle expanded state of consciousness where insight can emerge…
Breath is our most accessible and powerful vehicle for healing and transformation. Yet it is so omnipresent that we often take it for granted and its potential goes untapped. This conscious connected breathwork modality unleashes the alchemical potential of the breath. For this experience, we’ll lay in a relaxed position and simply use the breath, guided by evocative music, to enter a gentle expanded state of conscious. From this place, your inner healer can emerge. You may have important insights, cathartic releases, glimpse a different way of thinking and feeling, or experience deep rest and rejuvenation. Breathwork is a practice that tones your nervous system, making it more flexible and resilient. This is one of the keys to healing trauma, depression and anxiety. Breath penetrates and breaks up the “crusty and crackly” layers of conditioned living to reveal the luminous vitality and wisdom that exist at your center.
Julia Hollenberg, RDN, CD, E-RYT 500 came to embodiment work through supporting individuals in eating disorder recovery. She understands embodiment as a lifelong journey and is passionate about guiding others into a respectful, caring relationship with their bodies—one that allows you to fully inhabit your being in all its mystery, beauty, joy, pain, and divinity.
Breathwork, for Julia, is a “spoonful of medicine” from an expanded state of awareness—an accessible, digestible way to support healing, connect with inner wisdom, and touch the deeper mystery of life.
Jan 19th, 2026, 7:30-9:00PM
Ahimsa Yoga & Pilates
1629 Queen Anne Ave North
Space is limited to 12 participants
Also offered Feb 16th, Mar 16th 2026 7:30-9pm
Unbound: Breathwork + Sound Bath
Unbound is an invitation into expansion, release, and freedom—an embodied experience of reconnecting with your limitless potential and innate wisdom. Breath and sound are the medicine.
In modern life, our minds are often constrained by conditioning and inherited beliefs; our spirits by ego and identity; and our bodies by chronic stress and held tension. This practice is designed to gently loosen those bindings.
Through conscious connected breathwork, we use the breath as a vehicle to move beyond the habitual, thinking mind and into a more spacious, open state of awareness. This journey supports access to deeper insight, emotional & energetic release, and may bring a felt sense of inner freedom or deep knowing. At the same time, it works directly with the nervous system, cultivating resilience, flexibility, and a greater capacity to meet life’s challenges with presence and ease.
This practice can also serve as a powerful intention-setting or integration experience for those working with psychedelics, helping translate expanded states into embodied wisdom. It is complementary to many therapies, catalyzing and deepening your already-unfolding process.
After the breathwork opens and softens the places within that are ready to shift, you’ll be guided into a closing sound bath. Crystal bowls create healing vibrations to support deep relaxation, nervous system regulation, and gentle landing.
You may leave feeling refreshed and grounded, tender and open, deeply relaxed, or carrying a clear insight—a quiet pearl of wisdom arising from within.
Expand your consciousness. Access deep insight. Experience deep rest.
Preparing for Breathwork
Please wear comfortable non-restrictive clothing. Eat a nourishing meal or snack at least 2 hours before the class. I recommend not making stimulating plans after the experience. Your experience can best be integrated into your being through rest, journaling, talking with a trusted loved one, drinking lots of water, gentle movement, reading poetry, or taking an epsom salt bath.
Contraindications:
Because this breathwork activates your nervous system, contraindications include: heart conditions (history of heart attack, stroke, uncontrolled high blood pressure), eye conditions (glaucoma, detached retina), PTSD or other mental health condition requiring hospitalization in the last 10 year (please discuss with your therapist to get clearance), and history of seizures. Reach out to me with questions about whether breathwork is appropriate for you.
