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.
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
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.
Directory
Trained, trusted practitioners across every county in Ireland — in person and online.
12 years guiding individuals through deep breathwork journeys. Certified in Holotropic Breathwork and Somatic Experiencing. Offers 1:1 sessions and monthly group circles.
Performance breathwork specialist working with athletes, executives, and anyone seeking to optimise their physical and mental state. Ice bath ceremonies a speciality.
Creating safe, sacred containers for emotional release and transformation. Trained in conscious connected breathwork with 8 years of practice and facilitation.
Rooted in the ancient yogic tradition, Fionn offers Pranayama retreats in the stunning landscape of the Dingle Peninsula. Group and private sessions available.
Clinical breathwork therapist integrating somatic breath techniques with trauma-informed care. Specialises in anxiety, grief, and nervous system regulation.
Facilitates powerful group breathwork ceremonies in West of Ireland, often incorporating music, movement, and nature-based ritual into the experience.
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Practice
From the vagus nerve to the polyvagal theory, modern science is finally catching up with what ancient traditions have always known. Here's what happens in your body when you breathe consciously.
Styles
Two of the most transformative breathwork modalities compared.
Community
How a small group of practitioners began building a national network.