Breathwork Mastery (RBM) is a creative, self-mastery practice using gentle breathing and awareness as a pathway to healing and higher consciousness.
This style of breathwork emerged from the Rebirthing Breathwork movement of the 1960’s. In the 80’s, Alakh Analda, an initiated Swami and rebirthing breathwork practitioner, founded Breathwork Mastery. Born in Australia, Alakh studied Metaphysics and trained as a metaphysician. After returning to Australia from India and through her many years of practice, she discovered that a conscious, gentle, subtle breath when partnered with intentions could effectively get breathers in touch with birth patterns. Through this process now called Breathwork Mastery, the breather can clear and re-wire imprints at a cellular, subconscious level and create more lasting, integrated and sustainable changes in life. Breathwork is life and the breather can create everything in life from this awareness.
This work was later passed down and further refined through the breathwork practice of Eleanor Mann and The School of Breathwork. With her research and training psychology and the nervous system, she further affirmed that this approach supports the parasympathetic state, allowing the body to calmly and safely unwind and release stored patterns and beliefs at an unconscious level. This is why we often say Breathwork Mastery is a process of the self revealing the self.
Breathwork Mastery sessions are guided by the breather’s own psyche rather than external elements or any intervention. The facilitators are trained in over a thousand hours of session work, theory and other competencies while living fully into this work during the course of a two year in depth diploma program. With intention and breath, breathers naturally uncover and unwind early imprints so much so that it can be a surprise when they realize how much their intention has been created in life with this new awareness. The breather’s process unfolds at a pace that is safe and ready to be integrated with their own nervous system.
Breathwork Mastery is not a quick fix, but a way of living consciously and free. This practice supports self-awareness, personal responsibility, and the ability to consciously create our experiences.
What is Breathwork Mastery?
“Rebirthing Breathwork is a conscious, connected body/breath technique which activates an inner non-mundane experience. This results in a number of internal experiences. One is where thoughts, pains, memories or feelings or energies that have been held down with the breath, are able to surface to be released, cleared or resolved. The process is freeing of limitations from previous decisions, beliefs or conditioning. “ Alahk Analda
Upcoming Experiences
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A relaxed, guided breathwork session. Breathwork Mastery (RBM) is a gentle, conscious and slow breathing practice. The breath is never forced and everything is allowed and included in the sessions. There is no agenda only spaciousness and choice.
A first session can last up to 3 hours. A comfortable breathwork space is created both in person and virtually. Breathers enjoy a cozy cushion, a blanket, a journal, and an altar.
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A relaxed, guided group session can last up to 3 hours depending on participants.
These small groups range from 4-6 participants. The smaller the group is ideal because the level of space and support given to each breather. Sometimes there will be more than one facilitator.
More about Breathwork
This gentle, guided breathing practice activates your body’s natural state of healing.
Breathwork honors safety and uses a slow and gentle breath. This is not an activating breath.
This slow breathing works with the parasympathetic nervous system.
This is not about pushing, fixing, or forcing change.
It’s about slowing down… softening… and creating the conditions for awareness to unfold.
Through a process of intention + breathing + integration we get in touch with subconscious thought patterns and ways of relating to life. These can be decisions we made early on in life or in our birth process or symbolic of past lives.
We gently dissolve these beliefs and/ or we create more space to be with these very big and experiences and therefore finally receive the validation we are searching for.
This can be a brief process for some practitioners and for others it can take many years.
We can be gentle with our process and we can create the support we need now in order to live more freely and with joy and ease.
Breathwork honors subtle shifts in awareness, non-linear healing which we refer to as “our process”
About Me
I came to breathwork after a long and complex journey of chronic illness and spiritual seeking. From a very young age, I was exposed to healing and alternative health models through my mother’s journey of recovery. This was both a blessing and a curse to be in a constant search for better health. The cycle was endless when it came to feeling well in my body and spirit.
Early on in my own sobriety as a young adult I began training to become a meditation teacher. I received spiritual names, took vows, and devoted myself to teachers. In both lineages I practiced, the culture was one of pervasive disempowerment in the teacher/ student dynamic and at times this felt very unsafe. In a deep pattern of seeking to understand and resolve my own early childhood experiences, I bypassed my body’s intuition. This continued until my health would not allow me to practice anymore.
Woven through my spiritual studies was another thread and course of training in somatic psychology and other methods of embodiment work such as The Feldenkrais Method and Focalizing. Over the years, I turned to these approaches as a safe and healing anchor. I incorporated these trainings into my spiritual practices in hopes of more integration. My work grew more and more into land-based and community healing, very rooted in my years spent living and working at the Esalen Institute. I continued to circle this work until finally leaving Los Angeles and starting my farm, Peace of Wild, in 2015. My search continued for ways to integrate health and wellbeing, spirituality and land-based, ecological practices.
Through Breathwork Mastery, I have come to realize that all this searching for healing and integration was my own journey to resolve the spiritual experiences that I had during my birth and early childhood.
Those experiences, while intense and painful, where the necessary groundwork for my path to self-mastery.
When I became a mother everything changed. Seeking feel away and embodiment became everything for me. I was certified as a Somatic Coach and Focalizing Practitioner, as well as trained as a Birth and Postpartum Doula and yet I could not give myself the support I so longed for.
After the birth of my second son in 2022, while deep in a break down around this pattern of support, I found The Reconnected community and Eleanor Mann and The School of Breathwork. I experienced my first breathwork mastery session. While navigating chronic health issues, caring for my mother and re-parenting myself, I found breathwork as an anchor to my Wellspring and the source of everything I had been searching for.
In 2024, I joined The School of Breathwork’s first US training. During the intensive two year curriculum, I resolved experiences I had “worked on” for years in many different therapies. During this time my mother was also close to dying. She passed away peacefully during the last months of my training. With the support of my intentions, my breathwork community and facilitators, I was able to facilitate her serene passage and sit for her during her last breaths.
As a breathwork practitioner in training, I am honored to contribute to this work now expanding throughout the US. I sit with breathers from a place of lived experience. My love of Breathwork Mastery and this community and new paradigm of healing leads the space. I know this work has the capacity to bring great healing to the collective consciousness and I am deeply excited to see this unfold in the coming years.