What do you enjoy about breathwork and how has it helped you?
What I love most about breathwork is how simple it is, and how much power lives inside that simplicity.
It goes wherever I go. I don’t need a special room or the right conditions, just breath, and myself. It has become an anchor, something I can return to in any moment, in any weather.
I didn’t arrive here quickly, though. I started with something more dynamic, more intense chasing the big release, the cathartic moment, pushing and striving. And for a while, that felt like it was working, the way intensity often does. But it never quite held. The change never lasted much past the session itself. It was only when I found the gentler path that something actually shifted and stayed shifted. Gentle wasn’t the compromise I thought it might be. It was the thing that actually worked.
The gentler practices especially have taught me a kind of presence I haven’t found anywhere else. Each breath arrives, and then it leaves again and somewhere in that arriving and leaving, I remember I don’t have to hold everything so tightly. Old patterns, old fears, the need to control it all, they loosen, breath by breath.
Breathwork has changed how I meet myself. I’ve learned to accept who I am, rather than who I think I should be. There’s more ease now, and less of the old anxiety that used to run the show. Even in hard moments, I can come back to presence and from there, back to steadiness.
It’s given me a place to set down tension I didn’t know I was carrying, and a quieter way to meet stress when it comes. But more than anything, it’s taught me acceptance, of myself, of the moment, of what is. That steadiness carries into how I live, and how I mother, how I hold space and into everything else I do.
Breathwork is my sanctuary. A place I return to, again and again, knowing it will meet me and steady me, every time.
Where did you complete your training (or where are you still in training)?
Graduate Facilitator, Mentor and Teacher at Breathing Space
Licensed Aria Breath Practitioner
Oxygen Advantage Functional Breathing Instructor
Oxygen Advantage Advances Breathing Instructor and Buteyko practitioner in progress
Are you trained in any other modalities?
I do love a training! I am a retired primary school teacher and have many trainings from that time.
I am an EFT Practitioner, an NLP practitioner and a Flower and Vibrational Essences practitioner. I have trained in mindfulness, time line therapy and hypnosis, crystal healing and oracle card reading
I am currently studying Sacred Plant medicine.
How do they integrate with breathwork?
Everything I do begins and ends with the breath. Any other modality I use is built on the breath. Breathwork has allowed me to gather up all my passions and begin to create the life I always dreamed of.
What is your personal journey?
I was born, brought up and still live in Inishowen. I spent 3 years in college in Dublin where I did my teacher training but have lived here before, during and since that time. I am completely rooted in the land here and in all things Irish Celtic. I am married and have 3 adult children.
Having lived in the very northern tip of Ireland all my life has shaped my life in so many ways as have the challenges I have been faced with. All of this life experience is part of who I am today and even though it was difficult at times I have come to the point where I appreciate all of it.
I taught for 34 years in the same school, only a short distance from home. I loved teaching and I loved all the children I taught but I realised it was time to do something new just last year.
Finding a new path where I could lean into what has been living in my bones all this time has been exciting, fun at times and terrifying. I realise now that this is the culmination of so much of my life up to now – my love of story through the Irish myths and legends, my sense of place, my desire for belonging, my life surrounded by tradition and ancestors, my total immersion in nature and her cycles, my love of a tradition and a language that is deeply carried, generation to generation, and now through me.
My life’s purpose is to walk beside people as they find their place and their purpose, to guide them as they remember all that they already are, and to help them find the ease to accept it.
I want to be part of a movement that helps people come home to their own tradition, whether they were born into it or found their way there, and to love it, wherever that leads them.
And for my own part, I want to share proudly my tradition, and all things Celtic so others can feel the depth and richness of what we carry.
I love this place where I live, I love Harry Potter and Disney, I love reading, I love trees especially one particular Oak tree and I love learning new things.
What do you stand for, and what do you stand against?
I stand for –
Rest as a birthright, not something earned
The belief that no one is broken, we are already whole, simply unfolding
Companionship over authority – walking beside, not standing at the front as the expert
Balance – the feminine and the masculine, each honoured, neither waiting on the other
Slow, cyclical living, moving with the seasons and the tides rather than against them
Slowness, and the patience to let things settle in their own time
Kindness, plainly, as a baseline, not a bonus
I stand against –
Anyone who positions themselves above the people they’re meant to be walking beside
Unkindness, in any form it takes
Preaching dressed as wisdom, with no room left for someone else’s view or experience
Dishonesty in any form
People without integrity – where what’s said and what’s done don’t match
Pushing through, forcing past what the body or the moment is asking for, rather than listening to it
What is your greatest wish for your clients
My greatest wish for my clients is that they come to know, in their body and not just their mind, that they were never broken to begin with.
That they find their way back to themselves, to their own rhythm, their own pace, their own voice, rather than becoming someone new.
That they learn to rest without needing to earn it first, and to trust the quiet as much as they’ve always trusted the doing.
And that somewhere in the walking beside them, they find a little more of their own tradition, their own roots, their own ground to stand on and feel proud of what they carry.
That they come to trust their own breath as much as they trust anything else in their life, knowing it will always be there, asking nothing of them but presence.
That they stop needing permission from anyone else to feel what they feel, or to rest when they need to.
That they leave steadier and a little less alone than they arrived and less afraid of their own depths.
That the change that happens with me is one that lasts not a lift that fades by the following week, but something that settles into how they actually live.
That they come to see their own story, even the hard parts, as something worth honouring rather than fixing or hiding.
