Breathe Life Into You - Somatic Integrative Trauma Therapy - Breathwork - Retreats

I joined Joanna’s retreat which was absolutely perfect, I loved every minute of it! To start off with the instructor, the beautiful energy of Joanna allowed us to have an extremely unique spiritual and somatic experience. She organised an incredible schedule which made 4 days feel like 2 weeks of break. The emotional release was one I have never felt before in my entire life and the breath work sessions offered by Joanna are life changing! Additionally, the choice of venue was above and beyond, a peaceful retreat center in the middle of Portugal with 5 star service and incredible wholesome food. Thank you for a magical experience ❤️

I had a truly excellent experience working with Joanna. She was extremely professional and approachable, taking time to clearly explain the process and ensuring I was comfortable throughout. The entire experience has been hugely beneficial, and I am very glad to be continuing to use Joanna’s online platform. I cannot emphasise enough how positive this process has been for me, and I’m very grateful to Joanna for her expertise and support. If you’re reading these reviews and considering working with her, take this as your sign to go ahead — I am confident you will have an equally positive experience.

I know from my own experience that breathwork is the most effective tool you can have for self-development, enhancing awareness and self-sufficiency. I have tried many different methods, from classic talk therapy to Kundalini yoga, and my takeaway is that breathwork, when guided by a professional facilitator and teacher, is the best gift you can give your future self. Was it easy? No way! I was crying, I was screaming, I had many deep insights, but the main question—was it worth it? One million percent, YES! This has been the best thing I've done for my mental happiness in the last year or more. I will definitely return next season for the next step in my breathwork journey. I feel so energized and at ease with myself! I feel joy and true happiness—emotions that I thought would be impossible to bring back. But thanks to Joanna and the retreat team, here I am, smiling again and enjoying my life! It was incredible! Thank you, and see you soon!

I have been doing therapy for years and I got to a point where I started seriously thinking that maybe therapy is not for me. Until I have come across a breathing session Joanna guided where I just felt that I’m really safe to just collapse, and collapses I did. I started seeing Joanna on a regular basis over the next few months, during which she has become the signal in world that is drowning in noise. The guide to light rather than the promise of it. The light that reveals the path, and not blinds with its intensity. This sounds poetic but, it is the way I felt and experienced rather than the way I think.

I had three in person breathing sessions with Joanna after we had a few online classes. What can I say other than it was exactly what I needed. I’ve lived for 45 years and I never understood the power of breath and the therapeutic qualities of active breathing until my sessions with Joanna. She was gentle and effective. She pushed just enough while making it clear that I was in a safe environment. Her sessions let me break through some emotional logjams that I was battling with and I now have a tool to help me on my journey, breathing, that is always available to me. Thank you very much Joanna.

I've heared it and felt it (especially when it got difficult) many times that starting a therapy would be helpful. I've tried few regular therapies but never turned it into a regular thing (maybe I did not come across the right people, was not ready or maybe did not have skills to talk about myself and my feelings; or maybe all of them;)) and life would go on until I really needed a change: enter Joanna. These few 1-on-1 sessions with her were a breakthrough that made some cracks in my emotional shell. Deep-breathing with Joanna brought some essential feelings and memories onto the surface what only makes me jump into myself even deeper. I feel more open to myself, have more love and understanding towards myself (feels so so good). Throughout the sessions I felt guided, secured and taken care of. Another great thing was receiving an access to an app with breathing and journeling excercises so that I can practice and built on the experieces I gathered during sessions. Needless to say, O already have next sessions booked in my calendar;) I highly recommend therapy with Joanna. As a person who have only started working with my emotions, the past and consciousness I say it is never too late to start and there is never a better moment to do it, especially whe you have a great guide next to you.

Hello, Joanna! This is a review of a transformational retreat coordinated by Joanna/Claudia team in October 2023. I think that Claudia and Joanna are a great team, balancing each other out perfectly. Joanna was assisting individuals with working their way through profound breathwork and self-questioning. Claudia was helping us to remain connected with our bodies through this entire cycle. Joanna did a few interesting activities with us through which we could comprehend how the words that we tell ourselves know impact our physical and mental states. An exceptionally strong thing brought by Joanna were our three breathwork sessions during the retreat. They've, first and foremost, put "WORK" in breathwork understandably: after one session, you feel like you've completes 2 hours of weighty climbing or cardio. Be prepared! Also, your body, brain and soul continually work together through connected breathing (a breathe in that follows the exhalation and afterward the cycle repeats). In your mind's eye, you may be seeing things: the images symbolising injuries put away in your body, visual answers to your inquiries, or perhaps some vivid visuals, fractals and brilliant hexagons (that part was fun!). Your body will clean itself from gathered injury and blockages. Your spirit will likely feel recharged toward the finish of the session. How Joanna's breathwork helped me was cleaning my body from repressed anger and assist me with understanding the justification behind my food-related unhealthy habits— where do they come from and how to treat them. Because of the retreat, I'm feeling more energised, and it seems like I returned to my energy level from a long time back. I began paying attention to my body while taking my meals and eating slowly and consciously. I value Joanna's capacity to dive deep in her healing work. I love the way she isn't anxious about the shadowy side of human feelings and how nonjudgmental and cherishing she is. That, yet I like her broad information on how human breathing functions and her no obvious reasons of ideas that I considered before to be too new-agey and hesitant 🙂 Much thanks to you, Joanna.