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Breathwork
Sometimes the body holds what the mind has been carrying for years. Or keeps it deeply hidden from our reach.

People come to breathwork for different reasons. Some come exhausted — not from lack of sleep, but from years of holding things together. Some come curious. Some come because they've already talked through it all, but the new state is not yet reachable and they want a shortcut to the changes.
You don't need to know exactly why. You just need to be willing to breathe.

How it works
Breathwork is an intensive breathing practice — specific patterns, active phases alternating with pauses, with electronic music and guiding. The pauses make it less intensive than holotropic breathing or Rebirthing, which means it's possible for everyday use and fully works online. And yet — it's not a shallow experience. It has the potential to bring you wherever you need to be at the moment.
At the most basic level — this is physiology (the boring part). Oxygen, carbon dioxide, the nervous system. By changing the breathing pattern we can influence gas exchange, blood pH, activation level. Direct, measurable influence on how much energy you actually have access to — and where it goes. We can basically switch from the sympathetic nervous system (responsible for action and execution) to the parasympathetic nervous system (responsible for deep relaxation and recovery) and back.
But that's not the whole story.

Breathing is also a way of reaching what you can't access cognitively. What's already written in the body — tension, suppressed reactions, unfinished impulses, things you've "survived", "processed", "understood" — but never actually moved through in the body.

When the breathing pattern changes and you go deeper, it's not only physiological activation that rises. Material comes up. Emotions, reactions, pieces of experience you've been carrying compressed for years. This isn't metaphor — it literally feels like energy that was previously going toward holding things in suddenly becoming available.

Breathwork gives access to both layers at once: biochemistry and the unconscious. And in that combination appears the resource that willpower alone simply can't reach.
What it is capable of giving:
  • Clarity — not as an intellectual state, but as a nervous system state. We bypass the background noise and suddenly you can actually see what's there. Two-week rumination resolved.
  • Courage and resilience — the ability to hold tension without immediately reacting. When you can stay with discomfort, you can speak, choose, refuse, risk. Without this, energy either leaks or blocks.
  • Desire — not a list of goals, but the direct impulse: "I want this." In overload, desire goes quiet or becomes anxious. When energy moves freely, desire becomes direction.
  • Permission to take up space — without shrinking, without explaining yourself, without constant internal correction toward what others expect.
  • Vitality — when energy stops going toward holding and control, it starts to feel like warmth, movement, aliveness, contact.
  • Strength — not in bursts. The steady kind. The ability to do, to complete, to hold through.
  • Creativity and insight — what appears when you bypass the rational mind entirely.
  • The kind of deep rest that goes somewhere massage doesn't.
(And the list goes on.)

What happens in a session

We start with a conversation — where you are, what you're carrying, and most importantly — where you want to arrive, what you want to experience.


Then the main part: breathing, music, guiding, living through whatever comes. And lastly — but no less important — integration: sitting with what came up, making it conscious, finding where it wants to go.

You come out with an experience you've never had before. Every journey is unique. Every one is a treasure.


Format:

150 min · CHF 280 · In person in Zurich or online

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Hi! I'm Anastasiia Goncharenko
— psychologist, PCC coach, and existential analyst, based in Zurich. I work with people who are self-aware enough to know something needs to change, and ready enough to actually do something about it.

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I work at the intersection of emotional depth and strategic clarity — with those who want to live fuller, not just cope better.
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