Birdsong opens the space. Breath moves through it. Silence closes it. Whatever form the session takes – an hour on a Wednesday evening, a three-hour immersive – with the Celtic trees, or a quiet gathering at the turning of a season – those three things run through all of it.
If you have never breathed with us before, the Midweek Exhale is where you begin. Free. Every Wednesday. Come as you are.
Join the Midweek ExhaleEvery Wednesday | 7:30pm UK | Free | Live on Zoom
Gentle breathwork. Birdsong and silence as bookends. Camera on or off – no pressure, no performance. Four breathworks in an hour, in the middle of the week.
If you have never breathed with us before, this is where you begin.
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Eight times per year
Each Celtic seasonal moment Online
£11 per session
Included free in
The Exhale Begins (Tier 1)
A gentle gathering at each turning of the Celtic Wheel of the Year — the solstices, equinoxes, and the cross-quarter fire festivals. Some breathwork woven in, but this is a collective pause more than a breathwork session. A quiet acknowledgement that the light has shifted.
4th Friday of the month
7:00pm–9:00pm UK | 2 hours
£27 per session
Included in The Exhale Softens
(£22/month)
A two-hour breathwork session shaped by the sky’s current story. The session moves through elemental invitations before weaving Elements Breathwork, Conscious Connected Breath, and Coherence — with birdsong and silence between each. Closes with Way-Weaving and a sharing circle.
2nd Sunday of the month |
6:00pm–9:00pm UK | 3 hours
£37 per session |
Included in The Exhale Rests (£44/month)
A three-hour immersive rooted in a tree from the Celtic Tree Calendar. Apple, Hazel, Holly, Birch, Alder — each month a different tree guides the breathwork. Teaching, meditation, breathwork, and integration shaped by that tree’s particular wisdom.
Every session at The Exhale Awakening begins with birdsong and ends in silence. This is not decoration. It is structure.
Studies suggest that listening to birdsong may lower cortisol – the body’s primary stress hormone — and some research indicates that the benefits can persist for up to eight hours after just a few minutes of listening. The mechanism researchers describe is soft fascination: the birdsong captures attention gently, without demand, giving an overloaded nervous system permission to rest. The deeper reason is older than any study. Birdsong has always meant safety. Our nervous systems still carry this knowing, older than language, older than thought. When the birds are singing, something in the body begins to settle.
Silence works differently. Neuroscience suggests that the brain grows new cells in the hippocampus during periods of stillness – not during stimulation or learning, but in quiet. Our nervous systems are always scanning the soundscape, assessing safety or threat from every background noise and notification. Silence gives that scanning permission to stop. Not because the threats have been removed, but because the input has. What follows is not emptiness. It is the body beginning to do the work it cannot do when the world is loud.
This is why every session ends there. In the silence, the breathwork settles. Something is tended.
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If something in this work is asking to go deeper, this is where we teach. You can also explore the TEA Tree → to see how this work is rooted.
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→ Breathwork Facilitator TrainingA note on safety. Breathwork is a powerful practice. If you have a history of cardiovascular conditions, epilepsy, severe anxiety, bipolar disorder, psychosis, or are pregnant, please speak to your GP before beginning any breathwork training programme. This page is for information purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. The Exhale Awakening reserves the right to decline enrolment where we feel a programme is not appropriate for an individual’s current circumstances.