29/10/2025
Hello, I need to be honest with you. As I write this, I can feel a weight in my chest - the kind that comes from feeling boxed in after spending too many hours behind a screen. The truth is, I’m feeling overstretched.
Working online, running a business, creating content - the screen time adds up and to way more than people think. I miss being in the room with people - that’s where I come alive. That’s where I feel connection, flow, and purpose. Sitting at a computer, I can feel myself close and shrink a little (literally) - and it plays havoc with my back and posture. I find I'm not moving enough, sitting for hours in one position, spread between so many to-does that never cease. And everybody wants a reply now! That could spin me out and occasionally it does - and then I remember tho breathe - not just take a few breaths but specific breaths for rapid nervous system regulation. And I have loads of these to choose from!
It’s a strange irony, writing about nervous system regulation while my own system is asking for repair. I can feel the fatigue of intensity, of holding it all together, of keeping the engine running. And yet, in this truth, I also feel the reminder of why this work matters so deeply.
I don’t believe in teaching from perfection. I believe in teaching from practice - from lived experience. From remembering, again and again, that the moments we forget to breathe, regulate, stretch, or connect are the very moments we need it most. I see myself as lucky knowing what I know and using it numerous times a day - without it, I’d be in such a mess.
We live in a world that keeps us running faster and faster. Especially those of us who are self-employed and hold space for others - practitioners, therapists, facilitators. We give a lot - sometimes, often, more than we have.
And unless we slow down, pause, and refill, we can’t keep offering what’s real and alive in us. The beauty is, we can do this as we go along rather than having to stop completely.
That’s what my upcoming weekend workshop, Breathwork & Nervous System Regulation for Facilitators and Therapists, is about.
It’s about remembering how to slow down inside, how to optimise our state through our breath, energy, and awareness. How to reconnect to something deeper in ourselves. It’s about coming home to the body and finding or creating deep regulation from within - for ourselves and for our clients.
Breathwork & Nervous System Regulation for Facilitators and Therapists�22nd – 23rd November 2025�
Yogasara Studio, Bristol�
Tickets are on a sliding scale from £120 - £220
This course will become CPD-certified in the new year and will cost much more than this one so grab yourself a bargain this time round.
Booking info in comments
We’ll explore various types of breath, we'll move, release, and reset. You’ll leave not only with tools for your work, but with nourishment for your own body, nervous system and heart. This is a practical workshop - it's not full of science - you will feel the effects and body memory is king for me. One of my spiritual teachers, Barry Long, used to say "knowledge is the b***y prize" and I agree, knowledge on it's own does little for us. However, embodied knowledge is wisdom and this trumps knowledge every time.
For now, I’m going to step away from the laptop, feel the air on my face, the earth under my feet, gaze at fractals in nature rather than stare at pixels on a screen and give myself a slice of what I’ve just written about.
I hope if this speaks to you then you’ll join me in November - so we can share this in person.
I hope you can come if it piques your interest.
With love,
Pete
