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Trauma
Informed
Breathwork

Your breath is a bridge.

Breathwork is a dynamic holistic practice that explores the intricate relationship between the body, mind, and spirit.

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breath as a gateway to healing

Did you know that everything you need to heal is already within you?

Breathwork is an ancient holistic practice that has been adapted for modern therapeutic use, offering incredible benefits for bringing balance to body, mind, and spirit. Through the alchemy of breath, we are invited deeper into self-understanding.

I offer individual and group breathwork sessions, both online and in-person, designed to support deep nervous system regulation and healing.

"Healing trauma involves resetting your nervous system so it can go back to its natural rhythm of regulation." - Peter Levine

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What Is Trauma-Informed Breathwork?

Trauma-informed breathwork is a body-based practice that uses intentional breathing patterns to help regulate the nervous system and process what’s been stored in the body. Unlike purely high-intensity styles, this approach emphasizes safety, pacing, and choice — while still allowing space to stretch your edges when you feel ready.

Sometimes the breath is slow and grounding. Other times, it may become more active or rapid, helping you move energy, access deeper layers, and release what’s been held inside. Trauma-informed breathwork is different because it always keeps you in the drivers seat. You set the pace and decide what you are ready for, and together we create a container that honors both your nervous system and your growth.

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How It’s Different from Other Breathwork

Many breathwork styles move quickly and dive deep — which can feel activating or even disorienting to a nervous system already carrying trauma. A trauma-informed lens works to minimize that impact by holding the practice with pacing, choice, and integration, so those same benefits can actually land in a safe and sustainable way.

Here’s what that looks like in practice:

  • Prioritizes safety and pacing, so you never go beyond your readiness

  • Respects the window of tolerance, gently expanding it over time.

  • Integrates nervous system science with embodied awareness.

  • Offers grounding and integration, not just a peak experience.

  • Centers choice and agency — you can always slow down, pause, or shift.

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What to Expect in a Session

Everyone comes to breathwork with a different starting point, so before your session, we'll chat about your goals, any concerns you have, and past experiences that might shape your breathwork journey.

After that, we always begin with grounding— gentle body awareness and breath awareness— before introducing any intentional breathing patterns. While some session may focus on grounding and calming your nervous system through slow diaphragmatic breathing, lengthening the exhale, or gentle rhythmic patterns, others can dive deep and explore edges.

Depending on your needs, our work might also incorporate elements like guided visualization, active imagination, or even shamanic journeying—powerful tools that can help you access deeper insights, connect with your inner world, and explore expanded states of awareness.

After the breathwork itself, there’s time for integration together— space to land, reflect, move gently, or journal what arose.

Who this breathwork is for

This practice may be especially supportive if you:

  • Experience anxiety, panic, or hypervigilance

  • Live with trauma, PTSD, or chronic stress held in the body

  • Feel disconnected, shut down, or “out of your body”

  • Have tried talk therapy but want a more embodied approach

  • Want to gently increase your capacity to stay present with emotions

Beginners welcome.

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Hey! I’m Taren.

& I am so happy you are here.

Briefly: I am a somatic practitioner, storyteller, and trauma alchemist. My approach to healing is rooted in lived experience: not just theory, but the kind of descent that reshapes you from the inside out.

I offer breathwork because breathwork changed my life. It taught me that healing isn’t about force or fixing— it’s about listening to the body, following the breath, and allowing what’s been held inside to finally move.

Breathwork has the ability to open inner doorways, connecting you to buried parts of yourself and guiding you through a process of release, renewal, and transformation.

Are you ready to begin? Book a session below.

What Folks Are Saying

  • This Breathwork changed my life this weekend. If you've been feeling stuck, bogged down, stressed out and depressed and want to make a change I HIGHLY recommend working with Taren.

    I usually wake up on Mondays with a tight chest, elevated heart rate, dreading what the week holds. This is the first Monday in YEARS I haven’t felt any of that, and I directly correlate it to the work I did with Taren.

    — S.K

  • Taren’s breathwork and facilitation are both deeply grounding and profoundly transformative. In her presence, you feel held with such safety that softening, unraveling, and releasing even the unseen weight you’ve been carrying becomes possible.

    Her breathwork is more than a practice — it’s an invitation into wholeness. The precision of her guidance, the gentleness of her attention, and the depth of her insight all weave together to create a profound healing experience. With Taren, the mind clears, the body remembers ease, and the heart opens to possibility.

    She is not simply facilitating breathwork; she is helping awaken something essential in us — a remembering of who we truly are. To work with her is to experience healing as both grounded and sacred, both scientific and spiritual. It is rare. It is transformative. And it is a gift I trust and believe in completely.

    — Aniela Gottwald, Founder of Riding Wild

  • I had a full out of body experience in my session with Taren. I was in the cosmos.

    My guides were with me and I received an energy clearning in my womb. I also got a message from my guides I have been needing. This was such an amazing experience. More of this pelase!

    — K.G

  • Taren was a tremendous help during a difficult time in my life. I have no doubt many people will be blessed by her work.

    I went into my breathwork session with an open mind, needing support with grief, trauma and the anxeity that had started showing up around decision-making. Taren was so calming and kind, and the experience was so helpful in so many ways. I felt a release of deep grief and trauma and had a powerful spiritual experience that was very personal to me. In the days that followed I noticed real changes. I had several big decisions to make, and for the first time in a long while I was able to make them with confidence and clarity. — Lois D.

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FAQ’s about
Trauma-Informed Breathwork

  • Online breathwork sessions are structured to provide a focused and expansive experience. Your breathwork journey will be guided through active imagination, allowing for deeper mind-body integration.

    Depending on where you are at with breathwork (new to it, or seasoned) different breathing techniques will be encouraged.

  • Breathwork sessions typically last between 1 to 1.5 hours. During this time, you'll be guided through various breathwork techniques and active imagination to help deepen your experience with self.

    Each session allows for ample time to explore the breath fully, making space for grounding, exploration and integration.

  • Yes, there are certain contraindications to consider before practicing this style of breathwork. I typically tell people that if there is anything that would keep them from doing an intense workout, I need to know. It doesn't mean you can't do breathwork, it just means we need to adjust the breathing technique.

    If you have certain conditions, it's important to let me know before practicing this type of breathwork. This includes those with cardiovascular issues like high blood pressure or heart disease, severe mental illness, epilepsy, recent surgeries, or if you're pregnant.

    Additionally, if you have a history of panic attacks, respiratory problems, or significant trauma, it's important that I am informed of this before breathing together.