Jonny O'Donohue

For over 15 years I worked in operations. The furthest from Breathwork you could possibly get! Food safety and manufacturing, KPIs and spreadsheets. I built teams and systems and I was really good at it. However, as my career grew, while things looked good on paper, I started to become disillusioned and disconnected and I stopped feeling much of anything.

My sleep started to suffer, I was checked out at home, I was in a constant state of stress which had just become normal. It felt like I was just existing - not really living.

Then my wife suggested a breathwork session - I didn't even know what breathwork was then - but I was open to trying something new.

I arrived at this conscious connected breath session (still no idea what I was getting into). The guide told us to lay down and showed us this circular breathing technique. Music was being played and we began. For the first ten minutes I was like "WTF is this?" and all of a sudden the monkey mind started to get bypassed and I felt waves of emotion coming over me - I laughed. I cried and then cried some more. I had the most profound insights about my life and purpose. I sat up after that session and was convinced that this practice was something that a lot of people could benefit from. I returned home and felt more connected to myself, and my wife, than I had in a long time.

That session changed my direction and I inhaled (sorry) as much information as I could about breathwork - the different modalities, the science, the spiritual aspects. Ultimately I left my corporate job and not long after, I moved to Mallorca. I spent an intense 6 weeks in India learning about conscious connected breathwork and complemented this training by becoming a certified Oxygen Advantage® Advanced Instructor because I wanted to understand the science of breathing as well as the depth of it.

How you breathe all day, every day, shapes your sleep, your focus, your energy and how you handle pressure. How you breathe in a deeper session can open up parts of yourself you've been avoiding for years.

That's the work I do now. I bring both sides together: the practical, measurable side of functional breathing and the deeper, trauma informed side of connected breathwork.

I mostly work with people who look like they have it together. High performers, often men, who've recognised that they are disconnected somehow - with themselves, their partners, their purpose.

I know that place well, because I lived there.

I'm not here to fix you. You don't need fixing. Most of us just need a way back into our own bodies, and the breath is the most direct route I've found.

If any of this sounds familiar, start with the assessment. It takes a few minutes and shows you exactly where your breathing is right now.