AN IMMERSIVE SOMATIC BREATHWORK EXPERIENCE
The Open State
There are things you can understand with your mind. And things your body needs to experience for itself.
More range. More capacity. More choice. More life.
A private 90-minute, trauma-informed breathwork experience to explore what's present, process what you've been carrying and open up more space for connection, choice and possibility.
90 MINUTES | PRIVATE 1:1 | ONLINE
Where's your attention going?
Understanding doesn't always change what keeps happening.
Sometimes you know the pattern - perhaps even where it came from - but that understanding hasn't necessarily changed what happens when it's playing out again.
How your boundary disappears when someone is disappointed. How you try to swallow your anger before you’ve even registered it. How you know you need rest, but when you finally stop, you can’t settle.
Maybe you find yourself overthinking, shutting down, reacting in ways you regret, or back in some old pattern you were certain you’d outgrown.
You can understand it and still not have a different response available when it matters.
You've been holding so much.
You’ve been carrying, organising, anticipating and keeping things together and moving - perhaps for so long that being the capable one has become its own kind of suffering.
Underneath that competence might be utter exhaustion. Resentment you feel guilty for having. Anger that hasn’t had room to open. Grief you haven’t had time to sit with. The accumulated pressure of being needed while quietly losing contact with what you need.
Perhaps you’re not looking for another way to cope better.
Perhaps you want somewhere you don’t have to hold it all together.
Things are changing.
A relationship, role or identity may no longer fit - you've moved through seasons and while perhaps nothing is obviously wrong, and now something doesn’t sit as well as it once did.
You may be questioning your work, your relationships, what you want, the way you’ve been living, or how your body and your relationship to it are changing over time.
You can feel that you're in a season of transition before you necessarily know what comes next.
You don’t need to know what's next to know something has to change.
You are ready for more.
More access to your creativity, desire, pleasure or vitality. More trust in yourself. More freedom to act on what you already know - and more faith, when you don't.
Perhaps you want to take the risk. Become more visible, vulnerable, courageous. Receive more. Express yourself more authentically. Bring manifest your knowledge into wisdom through aligned, embodied action!
Far beyond trying to appear the permanently 'regulated', optimised, more palatable or better-functioning version you were squished into.
More range. More agency. More freedom to inhabit the life you choose to create.
THE ART OF OPENING
Some things we cannot think our way into.
Sometimes we don't yet understand what's happening at all. We simply notice the places we feel stuck - the reactions that surprise us, the choices we keep avoiding, or the ways we hold ourselves back without quite knowing why.
And sometimes, you can understand yourself deeply and still find the old response taking over. You can know you need rest and still be unable to settle or fall asleep. Know the boundary you want to hold and still hear yourself saying yes.
Understanding matters. But knowing something and having a different response available in the moment are not always the same thing.
The Open State offers another way in.
Through conscious connected breathing, sound and somatic exploration, we work with a greater spectrum of your present-moment experience, rather than only talking about it.
The work is nervous-system-led and resourced, so activation can be explored without making intensity or emotional release the goal.
The aim isn't to 'fix yourself', force a release or become permanently 'regulated'. It's to open up more of your capacity to experience yourself and your life: to feel more fully,, explore what's beyond your familiar ways of being, and stay connected to yourself as new responses, perspectives and possibilities emerge.
What if opening yourself to what lies within could reveal more than you ever imagined possible?
“Leah held such a tender, warm and loving space for me to soften into,
which gave me the ability to safely explore my own inner landscape,
knowing I was being held so deeply.”
CAITLIN
INSIDE THE OPEN STATE
A whole world of experience lies within.
The Open State is an immersive, one-to-one somatic release breathwork experience that invites you beyond the familiar terrain of the thinking mind and into the rich, often surprising world of embodied experience.
Grounded in trauma-informed practice, it combines conscious connected breathing, music, sound and somatic exploration to create space for whatever may emerge, from emotional release and renewed clarity to deep connection, pleasure, expansiveness and wonder.
CONSCIOUS
CONNECTED BREATH
A continuous breathing pattern that invites you into a different state of awareness, opening access to sensations, emotions and dimensions of experience beyond the familiar.
SOMATIC AWARENESS
AND RESOURCING
Stay connected with your body as the experience unfolds, with embodied resources to return to when you need support, grounding, or space to let go of your thinking mind.
RESPONSIVE,
INDIVIDUAL GUIDANCE
You'll be supported to notice what unfolds, stay connected with your body, return to your resources when needed, with guidance responding to what you need rather than a prescribed outcome.
Nothing to force. Nothing you need to attain.
A whole world to explore, at your own pace.
This isn't breathwork that asks you to breathe harder, push further or chase a release. The work is trauma-informed and nervous-system-led, with resourcing, attunement and choice built into the experience. You set the pace, and you remain in charge throughout. No prior experience or perfectly formed intention is needed.
WHEN MORE OPENS UP
More authenticity.
More possibility.
The Open State isn't about reaching one particular feeling or having one extraordinary moment. It's about exploring what might open up within you, and discovering how much more could become available in the life you return to.
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More pause between trigger and response.
Notice what's happening sooner, stay connected to yourself and have more choice in what happens next.
02
More access to what you've been holding.
Emotion, sensation or experience that has been difficult to reach through thinking alone may become more available to feel and process.
03
A stronger relationship with your body's signals.
Recognise activation, needs, boundaries and internal cues before they have to become overwhelming to get your attention.
04
More capacity when life gets bigger.
Stay more connected to yourself through uncertainty, visibility, intimacy, difficult conversations or change.
05
More access to wonder, pleasure and aliveness.
Creativity, desire, pleasure, expression, intuition, awe and a connection to something greater can all be part of what opens up.
MEET YOUR GUIDE
"I won't decide where the journey should take you. I'll help you stay connected to yourself while you discover where it leads."
Hello, I'm Leah. Your guide into The Open State.
I'm a Somatic Release Breathwork practitioner and transformational coach, certified across breathwork, multiple somatic modalities, coaching and trauma-informed practice.
My relationship with this work is also deeply lived. Breathwork has been part of my own practice for around a decade, alongside many years of personal inquiry, embodiment work and navigating change from the inside.
Alongside my practitioner qualifications, I bring a background in neuroscience research and teaching human physiology, including advanced academic study of the nervous system. That scientific foundation sits alongside the somatic and experiential ways of knowing that inform how I understand and facilitate this work.
My role is to create a well-resourced, responsive space where you can explore beyond your familiar ways of experiencing yourself. I'll help you establish the grounding and resources to feel supported as we venture into whatever opens up, whether that's an emotion you've never quite been able to reach, a surprising sense of freedom, or something beautiful you don't yet have words for.
I'll stay attuned to you throughout, offering guidance, resourcing or space as the experience unfolds. You set the pace. I help you explore what's possible.
YOUR JOURNEY INTO THE OPEN STATE
Your somatic breathwork experience, from beginning to beyond.
A 90-minute, one-to-one Somatic Release Breathwork journey, held online and shaped around what you're bringing into the experience.
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Before we meet
Your experience begins with a short pre-session intake, giving you space to consider what you might like to explore or move towards, while giving me a clearer sense of what you're bringing to the work.
You don't need to arrive already knowing. An intention, feeling, question, pattern you've been noticing - or simply curiosity - is enough.
I'll personally review what you share, screen for contraindications and prepare your session with you in mind.
02
Arrive + resource
We'll begin by arriving into the space, connecting with your body and whatever intention you're bringing to the journey.
I'll introduce you to the breathing pattern and practise it with you before we begin. Together, we'll also establish an embodied resource you can return to throughout the journey and beyond.
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Explore The Open State
Drawing on what you've shared beforehand, I'll select a journey from the Liminal Library whose music and themes align with what you're exploring.
As you breathe, I'll stay attuned to your experience and respond in real time, offering guidance, helping you reconnect with your resource, adjusting the breath with you, or giving you more space to follow your own process.
The journey provides the container. What unfolds within it is entirely your own.
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Bring it into your world
We'll leave time to gently reorient, reflect and begin integrating whatever has emerged.
During this time, I'll guide you through a personalised breath practice you can take with you, so you have a way to continue working with what you're exploring beyond the session.
Afterwards, I'll send you an integration guide to support the process, and I'll personally check in with you, with space to share what you're noticing or ask questions about anything that continues to unfold.
The session may end. The relationship with what you discovered doesn't have to.
IS THE OPEN STATE CALLING YOU?
You might feel drawn to this experience if you...
✧ want support with stress, overwhelm, nervous system regulation or feeling less reactive
✧ find yourself repeating patterns or responses you'd like more choice around
✧ want space to process emotions you've been holding, avoiding or struggling to access
✧ feel disconnected from your body, needs or inner signals and want to rebuild that connection
✧ are navigating a transition, loss, relationship change, decision or period of uncertainty
✧ want to expand your capacity to stay present, hold boundaries and respond more intentionally when things get difficult
✧ want greater access to pleasure, creativity, desire, intuition, self-trust or your own inner compass
✧ are curious about altered states, deeper self-exploration or spirituality
✧ simply feel that something is ready to shift, open or be explored, even if you can't yet name what it is
You don't have to relate to all of these. One is more than enough.
WHO THIS IS NOT FOR
This work isn't for you if you're looking for a passive experience, someone to tell you what your experience means, to be pushed towards a cathartic release, or a promise of a particular outcome. This is participatory work. You'll be breathing, noticing what's happening in your body and making choices throughout the experience. You remain in charge of your pace and can slow down, change the breath, return to a resource or stop at any point.
Somatic Release Breathwork is not a substitute for medical care, psychotherapy or crisis support.
Conscious connected breathing is an activating practice and isn't appropriate for everyone. Certain physical and mental health conditions are contraindicated - see the full contraindications below in FAQs.
You'll complete a pre-session intake before we meet, which I'll personally review to ensure this form of breathwork is appropriate for you.
CLIENT EXPERIENCES
“...allowed me to share and uncover parts of myself, and to comfortably process emotions that had been sitting in my system for quite a while.”
"I was guided by Leah in the somatic release Breathwork style over a 2-3 month period and couldn’t recommend Leah more if I tried ✨
Leah held such a tender, warm and loving space for me to soften into, which gave me the ability to explore my own inner landscape, knowing that I was being held so deeply by Leah
The fact that I was supported by her for multiple sessions over an extended period allowed for a sense of trust and safety to evolve as we went along, which allowed me to share and uncover parts of myself, and to comfortably process emotions that had been sitting in my system for quite a while
Leah brings a wealth of embodied knowledge and powerful facilitation skills to the sessions, which gives you the opportunity to be seen and held in such a profound way
I highly recommend Leah and the somatic release Breathwork style to anyone who desires to deepen connection with their body, expand their nervous system capacity and develop greater emotional regulation!
Thank you Leah for all that you are and for supporting me in this powerful Breathwork process 💖"
Caitlin
Private Somatic Release Breathwork client, 3 month journey
““It was absolutely beautiful. Profound, even.”
After her session, Leah shared in a voice note that she felt she'd had the reset she needed to follow through on things she'd been wanting and needing to do for herself but had been putting off - something that had felt difficult for quite some time.
“I reckon the breathwork session with you has given me the reset I needed to give space for all of that. I’m so, so grateful... It was absolutely beautiful. Profound, even.”
Leah U
Private Somatic Release Breathwork client
THE PROMISE
Not just somewhere you go. Something you can bring back.
Breathwork can open different doors for different people, and even your own journeys may take you somewhere entirely different each time.
My commitment is not to manufacture a dramatic breakthrough or treat intensity as proof that the work is working. It is to create a carefully prepared, trauma-informed and nervous-system-led experience in which you can explore what arises while remaining connected to your body, your choices and your own capacity.
Before we begin, I’ll help you establish embodied resources you can return to as the breath activates your system. Throughout the journey, I’ll stay closely attuned to how you are responding - to your breathing, your body and your capacity to remain present. I may guide you to adjust the breath, reconnect with a resource, orient to the room, follow what is emerging or simply give you more space. The session responds to you, rather than pushing you towards a prescribed cathartic release.
And the work doesn’t end when the music stops. We’ll make space to understand what emerged and identify a personalised practice to support what you are exploring. I’ll personally check in after your session, giving you an opportunity to share what you’re noticing and ask questions related to your experience. If you need support beyond what a follow-up can appropriately hold, I’ll help you consider the next step or connect with more suitable support.
Because the purpose isn't simply to step outside your everyday life for 90 minutes. It's to discover what else might be available within you, and what becomes possible when you bring that expanded awareness, connection and capacity back into the life you're living.
CHOOSE YOUR JOURNEY
Your invitation into The Open State
with Leah | Liminal Pulse
Not sure where to begin?
One journey is a complete experience in itself. Three offer the opportunity to return, explore further and discover what else unfolds.
Choose a Single Journey if you're new to this work, have something particular you'd like to explore, or simply feel curious about where the experience might take you.
Choose the Three-Journey Series if you're ready for a deeper exploration over time. Each session builds on what emerges in the last, with space between journeys to integrate, notice what's shifting and discover what you're drawn to explore next.
AN OPENING JOURNEY
One complete 90-minute private breathwork experience.
For your first exploration, a particular intention, or simply the curiosity to discover what might open up.
YOUR JOURNEY INCLUDES
✧ One 90-minute private online session
✧ Pre-session intake + personalised preparation
✧ Liminal Library journey selected for you
✧ Personalised integration practice
✧ Integration guide
✧ Personal post-session check-in
SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICING
$77 AUD
THE OPEN STATE SERIES
Continuity, integration and room for the work to unfold over time.
For those drawn to explore further, with space between journeys for each experience to inform the next.
YOUR SERIES INCLUDES
✧ Three 90-minute private online sessions
✧ Initial intake + intention check-ins
✧ Three Liminal Library journeys selected for you
✧ Personalised integration practices after each journey
✧ Personal post-session check-in after each journey
✧ Space for each journey to build upon the last
SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICING
$200 AUD
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. You don't need any previous breathwork experience to begin.
At the start of your session, I'll introduce you to the Somatic Release Breathwork method, teach you the breathing pattern and give you time to practise before we move into the journey itself. We'll also establish a resource you can return to throughout the experience.
I'll be there to guide you as you breathe, responding to what I notice and what you need along the way. You don't need to know how to do this before you arrive. That's part of what the session is for.
Breathwork can support people experiencing stress, anxiety, overwhelm or difficulty settling, although it isn't a treatment or substitute for medical or psychological care.
Somatic Release Breathwork isn't simply about using the breath to make yourself calm. Conscious connected breathing can be activating. The practice gives you an opportunity to notice how activation, emotion and sensation move through your body while staying connected with resources, choice and support.
Over time, practices like this can support greater somatic awareness and nervous system flexibility - including noticing activation earlier, having more choice in how you respond, and finding your way back towards steadiness when you've been overwhelmed.
For me, it means we work with your body rather than pushing past it.
Before the breathwork begins, we'll establish embodied resources you can return to throughout the journey. During the session, I'll stay attuned to what's happening and offer guidance, adjustments or space in response to what you need.
You remain in charge of your pace. There is no expectation to breathe harder, go deeper or push towards an emotional release. If activation arises, we can work with it while maintaining connection to resource, choice and your capacity in that moment.
Release may happen. So might emotion, movement, imagery, insight, pleasure, stillness or an altered state. None of these is a measure of whether you've done the session "right".
You don't need to arrive with a perfectly formed intention.
You might bring a feeling you can't quite make sense of, a reaction or pattern you keep noticing, a decision you're sitting with, something you're longing for, a part of yourself you want greater access to, or simply the sense that something is ready to shift.
Sometimes the starting point is simply curiosity. We can begin there.
Every breathwork experience is different, and even your own experience can vary from one session to the next.
Conscious connected breathing can create an altered, embodied state and may bring changes in physical sensation, emotion, energy, perception or awareness. As you breathe, you may notice physical sensations, emotion, movement, energy, memories, imagery or insight. You might encounter grief, anger, resistance, pleasure, tenderness, clarity or a sense of release. Your experience may feel expressive and intense, or quiet, spacious and deeply internal.
There isn't a particular state you need to reach or a certain kind of release that has to happen for the session to be meaningful. Part of the work is meeting what arises and allowing your experience to unfold in its own way.
Nothing has gone wrong.
Somatic Release Breathwork does not treat catharsis, intensity or emotional release as the measure of a meaningful session. Sometimes emotion moves very visibly. Sometimes the experience is subtle, spacious, physical, insightful, pleasurable or quiet.
The intention isn't to make something happen. It's to create conditions in which you can notice and work with what is actually happening, while remaining connected to yourself.
Sometimes what matters most becomes apparent during the session. Sometimes you recognise it afterwards, in the way you respond, choose, feel or move through your life.
No. Conscious connected breathing is an activating practice and isn't appropriate for everyone.
Certain physical and mental health conditions are contraindicated, which is why you'll complete a pre-session intake before we meet. I'll personally review your responses before confirming that this form of breathwork is appropriate for you.
View the full contraindications + Breathwork Participation Agreement →
Somatic Release Breathwork is not a substitute for medical care, psychotherapy or crisis support. If you're unsure whether a health condition or medication may affect your suitability, please seek advice from an appropriately qualified healthcare professional before booking.
A single journey is a complete 90-minute experience and a good place to begin if you're new to this work, have something particular you'd like to explore, or simply want to experience Somatic Release Breathwork for yourself.
The three-journey series gives us more continuity. Rather than treating each session as an isolated experience, we have space to notice what changes between journeys, explore what becomes available and let each session inform where we go next.
If you're curious but unsure, begin with one. If you already know you'd like more room to deepen into the work over time, choose three.
We'll leave time at the end of your session to reorient, reflect and begin integrating the experience.
I'll guide you through a personalised breath practice you can take with you, and you'll receive an integration guide to support the days that follow. I'll also personally check in with you afterwards so you have space to share what you're noticing or ask questions about anything that continues to unfold.
Not everything needs to be understood immediately. Sometimes integration is less about analysing the experience and more about noticing what feels different - what you're aware of, what you're choosing, what you need, or what you're ready to do next.
The next threshold doesn't ask you to know -
it asks you to enter.
There are places we cannot think our way into.
Moments when understanding has taken us as far as it can,
and insight, possibility, and knowing have to take form through us.
We don't need to know every step.
Only to answer what's calling us into the next.