What is a Breathwork Ceremony?

A ceremony is a space where the ordinary becomes sacred.

We take an average of 20,000 breaths each day. So many that the breath often fades into the background, automatic and unnoticed.

And yet, the breath meets us in every moment  – responding to our emotions, our thoughts, our stress, our tenderness – day in and day out.

In ceremony, we pause long enough to notice what is usually overlooked. We take something profoundly ordinary and meet it with intention.

We slow down. We listen. We allow the breath to shift from a function we use into a relationship we enter.

When approached this way, the breath becomes more than air moving in and out of the body. It becomes a doorway into sensation, memory, insight, and presence.

These breath ceremonies are more than just a "breathwork session". They are intentionally curated experiences and inner journeys that invite you to step out of habit and into profound presence.

Who These Ceremonies Are For

These ceremonies are for you if you are drawn to:

• Experiential, embodied inner work

• Working with the breath as a doorway rather than a tool

• Depth, ritual, and intentional space

• Nervous-system and trauma-aware facilitation

• Preparation and integration, not just the experience itself

They are especially supportive if you’ve felt that other breathwork spaces move too fast, go too hard, or leave you feeling dysregulated.

Each month's ceremony offers a different thematic focus, offering a new doorway for self-exploration.

📅 Second Sunday of every month (Upcoming: Feb. 8*, Mar. 8, Apr 12)
🕔 5:00–7:00 PM*
📍 Durango Collective
🎟️ $45 (sliding scale tickets available)

*The February 8th Ceremony is moved to 10-12 PM due to the Super Bowl.

Each ceremony weaves together:

• Gentle movement to awaken the body and quiet the mind

• Conscious connected breathing

• Guided meditation and imagery for inward exploration

• Dedicated integration time to help make sense of what emerges

Each unique ceremony may also include additional practices to support that month's thematic inquiry, such as live music, tea ceremonies, art practices etc. A description of upcoming themes and dates can be found below.

Upcoming Ceremonies

Sunday, February 8 • 10 AM - 12 PM • Between Inhale and Heartbeat

The heart is physically nestled between the lungs, held, quite literally, by the breath. Each inhale and exhale subtly shapes the rhythm of the heartbeat, and each heartbeat, in turn, responds to the quality of the breath.

This ceremony explores that intimate relationship.

As we slow down and bring attention to the space between breath and heart, we begin to sense how emotion, rhythm, memory, and presence live in the body, not as concepts, but as felt experience. Rather than trying to open or “work on” the heart, this ceremony invites us into a space of listening to it.

Live Music Support

Our February 8 ceremony will be accompanied by live, improvised music from Alan Kahler (chimaksou), the creator of the sound project Ambient Atlas.

Ambient Atlas is an exploration of the nature of time and the false dichotomy of being separate from the environment. Equipped with a 4-string electric bass and a table-top full of loopers, delays, reverbs, and other effects, Alan travels North America broadcasting his particular vibrational fingerprint to the universe.

Some have called him a weather man, conjuring clouds for ears and your imagination where each formation is unique, stretching into the sky from soft cirrus or commanding cumulonimbus to sprawling stratus or the odd lens-shaped lenticular.

A slow unfolding of auditory shapes tell a new story with each passing wind.

We are so grateful to Alan for bringing his sonic sculptures to our space, helping to deepen the sense of immersion and inner journey.

Sunday, March 8 • 5 - 7 PM • Releasing the Ties That Bind

We all carry threads of connection to people, patterns, roles, and stories that once served us but may no longer be ours to hold.

This ceremony offers a spacious, intentional container to explore those ties with care. Rather than forcing release, we slow down and listen to what is ready to soften, unwind, or be returned. The focus is not on severing, but on restoring a sense of inner agency and wholeness.

Registration for this ceremony will open soon.

Sunday, April 12 • 5 - 7 PM • The Breath We Come From

Our bodies hold stories, rhythms, and ways of being that did not begin with us, but live on through us. This ceremony invites a gentle exploration of that inheritance: the breath as a living thread that connects us to our ancestors, our lineage, and the long arc of human experience.

Through this ceremonial journey, we create space to listen for what has been passed down—both the strength and the weight, the resilience and the unfinished stories.

This ceremony is an invitation to honor what has shaped you and to remember that you are held within something much larger than yourself.

Registration for this ceremony will open soon.