Breathwork
The way we breathe shapes the way we feel, how we think, and how we meet the world around us. Breathwork is not just a technique, but a doorway to greater calm, balance, and energy. Your breath can be a steady anchor in times of stress and a source of vitality when you need it most.
At Leigh Marsden Holistic Health, we share a variety of practices, from gentle diaphragmatic breathing that eases tension, to alternate nostril breathing that brings balance, to circular breathing that helps restore flow and lightness. Each practice is an invitation to come back to yourself, settle the mind, and open to a deeper sense of wellbeing.
Benefits of Breathwork
Experience reduced stress and anxiety, increased relaxation, enhanced focus and mental clarity, improved physical endurance, reduced pain and inflammation, better sleep quality, boosted immune function, and overall improved wellbeing through regular breathwork practice.
Incorporating Breathwork
Leigh seamlessly integrates breathwork into her yoga classes, retreats, and special events, blending traditional wisdom with modern practices for a holistic approach to wellbeing.
The Breath Clinic
Join Leigh for our specialised breathwork clinic, focusing on breathing retraining with physical, mental, and emotional benefits. Build breath control and capacity, manage stress and anxiety, improve mental alertness, and find support for long COVID recovery and chronic breath difficulties. Experience deep relaxation and discover the transformative power of conscious breathing.
By 1:1 appointment
Breathwork Journey
Breathwork Journey is a transformational process, in which the breath is connected in a conscious, continuous cycle, which allows participants to achieve an altered state of consciousness, and to move energy and emotions through the body. Leigh provides a safe, nurturing breathwork journey experience, with live music and experienced facilitators to help you gain the most out of your experience.
By 1:1 appointment
Breathe Better
with Leigh Marsden
Location:
Cost:
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$250
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Includes 3 × individual sessions, a structured home-practice programme between sessions, and support throughout the three-week programme. Sessions can be spaced out to suit your schedule (rather than consecutive weeks) if needed.
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60 minute assessment of your functional breathing: $60 - go from there to see if you'd like to commit to the 3 session programme.
Experience Includes:
Breathe Better may be useful if you notice things like:
• frequently feeling short of breath or like you can’t get a satisfying breath
• breathing mainly into your upper chest
• regularly sighing, yawning or taking big breaths
• becoming breathless when talking
• your breathing becoming fast or difficult to settle when you’re stressed
• relying heavily on mouth breathing/waking up in the night with a dry mouth
• getting more breathless than you’d expect with everyday activity
• feeling that you’ve simply never learned how to breathe well
We’ll look at your current breathing patterns (including sleep and night breathing patterns) and mechanics, diaphragm and rib movement, nasal breathing, breathing regulation and COâ‚‚ tolerance, and how your breathing responds to movement and increased demand.
The work is individual, so the sessions will be shaped around what we actually observe in your breathing rather than following exactly the same exercises for everyone.
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My relevant background:
• Master of Speech & Language Therapy (First Class Honours), University of Auckland
• Registered Yoga Teacher
• Qigong Teacher
• Breathwork facilitator
• Experience developing and delivering breathing, nervous-system regulation and trauma-informed programmes