Ireland's Home of Breathwork
A central gathering place for Ireland's breathwork community — connecting practitioners, students, and seekers with transformative breath practices.
Breathwork is the conscious practice of using the breath as a tool for physical, emotional, and spiritual transformation. Through deliberate breathing techniques, we can shift our nervous system state, release stored tension, and access deeper states of awareness.
From Pranayama's 5,000-year lineage to modern neuroscience's discoveries about the vagus nerve, breathwork bridges ancient wisdom with evidence-based wellbeing.
About Breathwork
Breathwork encompasses a wide range of techniques — from gentle, relaxing practices to profound, cathartic experiences. Whether you’re seeking stress relief, emotional healing, spiritual exploration, or peak performance, there is a breathwork practice for you.
Ireland has a growing, vibrant community of trained practitioners offering everything from one-to-one sessions to group ceremonies and multi-day retreats. However it is perhaps surprisingly difficult to understand what is happening and to connect to breathwork practitioners — hence this website.
This is a beta version. Feedback welcome.
Understanding Breathwork
Not all breathwork is the same — and that's a good thing. The DART model gives a simple, practical map to help you understand where different practices sit, and choose the right approach for what you need right now.
Developed by Paul Reynolds · Extended from the ART framework by Dr Philippa C R Wheble
Your baseline — the healthy way to breathe throughout everyday life, not an intervention.
Foundations
Buteyko / Oxygen Advantage is the breathwork practice most focused on improving day to day breath.
Everything else builds on getting this right first.
Noticing the breath without actively changing it. The entry point to breathwork as a practice.
Practices
Awareness is always the first step — even within Regulation and Transformation sessions.
Specific breathing patterns designed to regulate the nervous system — up, down, or balanced.
Activating ↑
Balancing ↔
Relaxing ↓
* Can induce Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness with longer sessions.
Breathing patterns that induce Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness — deeper inner work, emotional release, and healing.
Practices
These sessions require an experienced, trained facilitator and a safe, held container.
Find a Practitioner
57 practitioners across the island. Click any pin to learn more.
Directory
Trained, trusted practitioners across every county in Ireland — in person and online.
"Are you a breathwork practitioner based in Ireland?"
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