Breath & Depth: A Breathwork Experience

An exploration of presence and aliveness

Breath & Depth is an invitation to explore conscious connected breathwork with presence, ease, and receptivity.

This session offers a carefully held environment in which you can become more intimate with your breath and lived experience – or simply enjoy a meaningful and enlivening experience in good company.

The invitation is to stay present with whatever naturally arises, meeting what unfolds with warmth, curiosity, and a willingness to be touched. No forcing breakthroughs or striving for specific results.

Some people notice waves of sensation, emotion, perceptual change, or spontaneous movement. Others encounter stillness and relaxation. Some simply appreciate the opportunity to breathe, feel, and connect without needing anything further to happen. All responses are valid and supported.

What Is Conscious Connected Breathwork?

Conscious connected breathwork is a technique in which the inhale and exhale flow continuously, with no pause between breaths. The breath is fuller and slightly faster than your natural resting rhythm, creating specific physiological changes.

This is an activating practice, not a relaxation technique. It temporarily increases nervous system arousal, creating conditions in which it may naturally begin to shift or reorganise. This can bring intensity, though it can also settle into stillness.

Who Is This for?

This session is for people who are curious about breathwork and interested in exploring experience with presence.

You may be drawn to this event if you’re looking for:

• a meaningful, embodied experience without pushing to achieve or resolve anything
• a supportive space to breathe, feel, and connect
• an opportunity to explore breathwork without promises of transformation
• a longer-term interest in how such experiences might gradually integrate into life

No prior experience with breathwork is required.

The Approach

Many approaches to breathwork and related modalities tend toward one of two poles: agency or surrender.

At their best, each offers something essential. A focus on agency empowers us to engage, to take responsibility, and to participate actively in our own becoming. An emphasis on surrender invites us to soften control and trust the body’s innate capacity for self-regulation and integration. Yet when held in isolation, both can quietly distort. Agency can harden into control and striving; surrender can slide into avoidance or passivity.

Rather than choosing between them, this work emphasises presence: staying in direct contact with immediate experience without trying to manage, fix, or make anything happen.

Rather than promising particular outcomes, the practice is oriented toward creating space in which something genuinely ready to emerge can do so. Sometimes this emergence takes the form of a strong or vivid experience. At other times it is subtle or quiet. Both are equally complete.

Depth is not assumed to reside in intensity, nor meaning in immediacy. What matters is not what happens, but how it is met and, if relevant, how it is integrated.

If this orientation resonates, this event may be for you.

Session Structure

• Opening circle, grounding, and orientation
• Breathwork journey (approximately one hour)
• Settling and integration
• Optional sharing

This event is limited to 8 participants.

Preparation

All participants are required to:

• Read the Key Information & Safety document in full before attending. This resource carefully explains the range of potential effects and the safety guidelines. The estimated reading time is 10-12 minutes, but this step also saves substantial time in the session.
• Complete a short acknowledgement form prior to the session

The purpose is to ensure your participation feels fully informed, grounded, and resourced.

Links to both documents will be provided in your confirmation email.

Basic preparation guidelines include:

• Arriving on an empty stomach (at least 2 hours without eating, 4+ is ideal).
• Avoiding alcohol or substances for 48 hours prior.

Practicalities

What to bring:

• Comfortable clothing suitable for lying down
• Eye mask (recommended)
• Water bottle
• Blanket and thin pillow (if desired)
• Journal (optional)

Provided:

• Yoga mats

Your facilitator

Marcel Scharth facilitates breathwork with an emphasis on presence and emergence.

His approach is informed by training across multiple breathwork modalities, alongside a strong interest in developmental psychology, nervous system regulation, contemplative practice, and the phenomenology of altered states. His role is to steward a space in which participants can meet their own experience honestly and at their own pace.

Marcel offers breathwork sessions through Sublime Breath, a practice dedicated to breathwork education for everyday practitioners and curious explorers.

Health & Safety

This practice involves changes in breathing that can affect the body and nervous system.

Contraindications include (but are not limited to):

• Pregnancy (at any stage)
• Cardiovascular disease
• High or low blood pressure (uncontrolled)
• Detached retina or glaucoma
• Brain or abdominal aneurysm
• Epilepsy or seizure disorders
• Uncontrolled diabetes or thyroid conditions
• Bipolar disorder or schizophrenia
• Severe trauma or PTSD
• Recent psychiatric hospitalization or acute mental health crisis

If you have any questions about whether this practice is appropriate for you, please contact the facilitator before registering.