Breath of Life

About this event

Breath of Life

Experiential Breathwork Intensive with Michael Heartsong Cutter

We enter this life with an inhale and we leave with an exhale. Everything in between is an embodied dance with the breath.

When we're excited or angry, our breathing becomes faster. When we're depressed, it may become slow and shallow. Fear can cause the breath to freeze or become rigid. What gets really interesting is when we are in deep states of presence, breathing can be almost non existent. Our breath mirrors our emotional state, but the relationship works both ways. When we consciously change our breathing, we can change emotional and physiological responses to more easily move through life challenges.

This Breath of Life is a day-long, in-person intensive that will give you practical and powerful tools for exploring your breath, your body, and your own capacity for transformation. The practices we explore will range from strong and primordial to lovingly gentle, and sublime.

Bring an attitude of curiosity, playfulness, and adventure. It is appropriate for anyone at any stage of breathwork practice. Whether you're ready to dive deep or approach gently, you will be held in a safe supportive container.

The way out is in!

More than just a breathwork class, The Breath of Life is an immersion into ancient principles and methods for clearing stuck energy, regulating the nervous system, developing deep presence, and becoming more conscious of how you direct your attention and energy in life.

You are invited to learn, but more importantly move beyond intellectual understanding to directly experiencing the beauty and magic that breathwork has to offer including:

• Balance the autonomic nervous system

• Learn about CO₂, O₂, HRV physiology

• Learn to control fight/flight/fawn response

• Release emotional wounds and stuck energy

• Transform fear into freedom

• Directing the prana/chi for healing

• Bring vitality to the body and inspiration to daily life

• Develop greater nervous system resiliency

• Access altered states of consciousness

• And so much more

What We Will Do

• Breath of Life — a cohesive combination of practices based on ancient yogic and modern breathwork methods. Breath of Life is ada[table to be deeply invigorating or gentle and balancing. • Connecting Breath — Coherence breathing to sync brain, body and mind and prepare to go deeper

• Cyclical Breathwork & Retentions — A breathing pattern to clear stuck energy

• Canoe of Light — Deep cyclical breathing and visualization to go deep

• Conscious Connected Breathwork — Activate energy to go deep—the way out is in

• Ancient Yogic exercises to direct blood, oxygen, prana for healing

• Space of God breathwork for deep meditation

This Will Support:

• Nervous-system regulation — Use the breath to shift your internal state and return to greater balance

• Releasing fear and resistance — Practice staying present with emotional discomfort or uncertainty

• Embodied presence — Move beyond thinking about transformation and begin practicing it in the body

• Daily breathwork practice — Leave with practices you can continue using to support your everyday life

No previous breathwork experience is required. Come prepared to participate and experience what can happen when you work consciously with your breath.

What to Bring

Bring a mat or cushion as we will be lying on hardwood floor, blanket, water bottle, and light snacks for lunch. Note: Due to the nature of this work it is best to not eat a full lunch but instead bring light snacks.

Who Can Attend?

Breathwork is for everyone! If you are currently breathing, you can attend.

After registering, you’ll complete a brief Breathwork Agreement to help you consider which practices and level of intensity will best support you. There will be more discussion and support around this in the event as well. All are encouraged.

My Story with Breathwork

My relationship with breathwork began in the early 1990s. I was an avid rock climber and had taken up yoga to develop flexibility and core strength. While climbing, I noticed that I was instinctively using the same breathing patterns I was learning in yoga. When I began using them consciously, they transformed my ability to focus, move through fear, and go beyond what I thought were my limitations. Years of martial arts practice broadened that understanding and gave me more ways to apply it.

In 1999, my relationship with breathwork became profound.

A girlfriend of mine had developed a stubborn case of bronchitis. During a hug, I experienced what felt like an energetic transfer between us. The next day she felt fine, but I had a tickle and over the following weeks I became seriously ill. I lost nearly twenty pounds, began coughing up blood, and continued to worsen into a very serious health issue despite several rounds of antibiotics.

Months earlier, I had registered for a four-day breathwork intensive. I did not think I was well enough to attend, but after hearing my story, the facilitator encouraged me to come.

Doing intense breathwork with a severe respiratory illness was not easy. By the end of the intensive, I was exhausted, raw, and depleted. That night, I awoke in a deep sweat—and the mysterious illness was gone. What followed were weeks of powerful kundalini awakening experiences that changed my life. They left me with a direct knowing of the power of the breath and of what can happen when we trust ourselves enough to move beyond perceived limits of what we think is possible.

Years later, I put the work to another practical test. Pain medication used during extensive dental procedures left me feeling sick for days, so I asked my dentist to let me try using breathwork instead. She thought I was crazy but agreed to let me try. I was nervous, but as I relaxed into the sometimes intense sensations, regulated my breathing, and trusted the process, the pain went away. Since then, I have undergone more than a dozen procedures—including a root canal and deep cavities—without painkillers.

These are my personal experiences, not medical instructions, guarantees, or promises that anyone else will have the same results. I share them because they showed me, directly and undeniably, that we can have far more influence over our experience than we have been taught to believe.

Breathwork continues to be part of my daily life. I use it to regulate my nervous system, go deep into meditation and altered states of consciousness, and remain resilient through the stresses and challenges of life. The extraordinary experiences get the most attention, but daily practice is what anchored them and made them last. I whole heartedly believe that if you practice, dedicate yourself and open your heart that you will undergo your own transformative journey.

About Michael Heartsong Cutter

Michael Heartsong Cutter is a shamanic healer, life purpose guide, and bridge between the Indigenous and modern worlds. He supports clients through life transitions, to transform challenge into strength and reconnect with the beauty, purpose, and meaning in life. He organizes trips into the Andes and Amazon of Ecuador for people to experience the culture and healing of his Indigenous teachers and elders.