The Breath Connection

08/12/2025

Morning beautiful people!❤️

We’re raising much needed funds for the Curtis Palmer Program Charity Page.by completing 12 cold water immersions in December 🧊💪
Yesterday we ticked off Dip 2 in a very icy River Goyt ❄️🌊

Every penny raised goes directly to the CPP to support so many people - including the 10-day Breathwork & Cold Water Immersion course, often described as life changing and by some, life saving. 🫶

And this morning we start Week 2 of our 25th CPP course 🙏
The feedback has been incredible already. This week we introduce functional breathing and more simple lifestyle tools for a better, calmer, stronger life.

If you’d like to support the mission, even a small donation helps more than you know ☕️❤️
Donate here: https://gofund.me/4550c1265

Thank you for your kindness - December really is a month of giving 🎅✨

07/12/2025

Today we held a Dynamic Breathing session and river dip at The Garden House charity farm. ❤️

A local gem in Marple that supports local causes and provides jobs and training for young adults with learning difficulties, amongst a host of other brilliant things.

All proceeds ( A great amount 🥰 ) went directly to The Garden House as a small thank you from us. When we were just starting out, they supported us by letting us use their beautiful land to run our early sessions. We will always be grateful for that.

A massive thank you to everyone who came along. Your donation will do so much good. You absolutely smashed the very icy river like proper water warriors. 🥶💪🌊

Big love to our friend Kevin and the whole Garden House team. You are the best.

Wishing everyone a most beautiful Sunday. ❤️

Big LOVE
Sam & Miranda

07/12/2025

Last night was something special ✨

We held our Conscious Connected Breathing session right where it all began - Marple Bridge, Brabyns Park Centre 🌿💛

I first met Miranda in a field during lockdown. She guided a CBB session for me and some friends in a big tent ⛺️
That evening genuinely changed the direction of my life.

It felt like old weight shifting.
Years of stored stress, protective patterns, and parts of me stuck in survival mode - finally loosening through the breath 🌊🫁

Out of all the practices we share, CBB is our favourite ❤️
Because it helps people drop out of the mind and into the body - calming the nervous system, releasing what’s been held, and reconnecting you to who you really are 🧠➡️💓

We’ve been in talks about CBB with several Universities and NHS trusts too - they can see there’s a real place for this practice in the healing process 🙏✨

We also want to say how proud we are that people so often comment on how safe and loving our space feels 🫶💛
That means the world to us.
It’s one of the things we’re most proud of.

To every brave soul who joined our last CBB session of 2025 - thank you ✨
And that final added journey at the end… 😮‍💨🔥
We won’t give it away, but the power of it speaks for itself 😉

In 2026 we’re expanding into a 2 hour Breathwork journey 🕯️✨
Watch this space 👀

Have a wonderful Sunday ☀️
BIG LOVE
Sam & Miranda ♥️

06/12/2025

Week 1 complete ✅ and we’re feeling so much gratitude.
A huge thank you to the Curtis Palmer Program Charity Page. for everything you do - and especially for your support funding 25 of the 10 day Breathwork & Cold Water Immersion courses. 🙏

We’ve already witnessed incredible shifts in just the first week. When Veterans and Police officers come onto this course, we’re often meeting people who carry more than most - trauma, PTSD, depression, stress, anxiety - the unseen weight of years spent serving others and running towards danger when many would run the other way. 🫶

Breathwork, meditation, and cold water immersion are powerful ways to help rebalance the body and nervous system. From the functional foundations of retraining a sometimes dysfunctional breathing pattern, to bigger high ventilation practices - they all have their place. 🌬️🧠

And yes, the word meditation can still get a sideways glance 😅
But what we’re really teaching is the power of Now - presence, steadiness, awareness - and how that can become a lived state, not just a sit-down practice. 🧘‍♂️🧘‍♀️

And the cold… ❄️
The cold is a powerful teacher. Combined with everything else we pass on, this course is regularly described as transformational - and sometimes life saving. 💙

Myself and Miranda have worked incredibly hard to shape this course since December 2020 into what it is today. None of it would have been possible without the support and faith of Damien Isherwood, the whole CPP team, and the incredible fundraisers who make this work possible.

And we’ll never forget meeting an incredible human in a field - - a moment that helped set so much of this in motion. 🌿

The secret to the success of these courses is simple - we use the tools that saved us.
And we remind our people that the answer isn’t outside of them.
It’s within them.
They are the answer. ❤️

Thank you, CPP. We’re so proud to walk beside you. 🤝

05/12/2025

✨ TWO MAGICAL WAYS TO RESET BEFORE CHRISTMAS ✨

If December already feels busy, loud, and a little too fast…
come and exhale with us.
We’ve got two beautiful sessions to help you soften your shoulders, steady your mind, and feel more like you again before Christmas hits full speed.

🌙 1) Conscious Connected Breathwork (indoors ) - Saturday 6th 6.30-9pm
This is a deeply soulful session. Powerful, yes.
But also tender, steady, and quietly transformational.

We breathe together as the day fades, letting the week fall away layer by layer.
A chance to come home to your body, your heart, and that calm inner place that December can sometimes drown out.

🕡 Saturday 6th at 6.30pm
📍 Brabyns Park recreational centre
💷 £25
🍲 With a warming dhal afterwards

Expect release, clarity, and a soft kind of strength - the kind that makes you feel held by life again.

🌿 2) Dynamic Breathwork & River Dip - Fundraiser
A brave, beautiful, heart-opening morning in nature - with a purpose.

📅 Sunday 7th December
📍 The Garden House
💷 £25 - every penny goes directly to The Garden House
🍲 Warming soup & hot chocolate after

Back in 2022, Kevin and the team created a forest space and safe river access for our sessions. This place has held so much magic for our community - and this is our way of giving back.

Expect deep breathing, a gentle challenge, belly laughs, and that sparkling feeling you carry home with you.

✨ No experience needed for either.
We guide you safely, gently, and at your pace.

📲 To book, message me directly on 07751033429

Let’s breathe, reset, and step into Christmas feeling clear, steady, and quietly powerful.

BIG LOVE

Sam & Miranda ❤️

04/12/2025

Day 4 of our Curtis Palmer Program 10 day Breathwork & Cold Water Immersion course and the shifts are already huge. The group is all in - curious, open and doing the work. 🙌❄️

Dynamic breathing is at the heart of it. Changing the rhythm, playing with CO₂ and adding breath locks lights up the body, helps oxygen reach the tissues and floods the system with feel good chemistry. Some of it we can explain with science…some of it you can only understand by feeling it.

These courses are genuinely transformative. The secret is this: it was them, all along. We already have everything we need once we know where to look, and how to breathe. 💫

Cold water immersion is amplifying the whole process beautifully - more on that next post. ❄️
And next week we’ll be adding simple day to day functional breathing, so these shifts keep going long after the course ends. 😮‍💨

Big LOVE,
Sam & Miranda ❤️❤️

03/12/2025

Feeling the December squeeze already? 🎄💨
Before the diaries fill and the to-do lists take over, come and breathe with us.

This Saturday 6 December, 6.30 pm
📍 Brabyns - Marple Bridge

We’re opening our Conscious Connected Breathwork circle to our wider community - all of you beautiful humans who follow our work and quietly think “I really need something like this.” 💗

Conscious Connected Breathwork (CCB) is a deeper, more intentional style of breathing - like a guided inner journey using your breath as the bridge.
It can help you:
✨ Gently release layers of tension and emotion you’ve been holding onto
✨ Quiet the overthinking mind and drop into a feeling of deep presence
✨ Feel lighter, clearer and more connected to yourself
✨ Open the heart, soften armour and reconnect to your inner wisdom

For many people it feels like a powerful reset - as if someone has pressed “clear” on the stress of the year and helped you come home to yourself. ✨

You don’t need any experience at all - it’s perfect for complete beginners as well as seasoned breathers. We’ll guide you step by step, explain everything, and we pride ourselves on holding an incredibly safe, loving, non judgemental space. You are so looked after in this room. 🤍

This is a powerful practice, and it is contraindicated for some people.
If you’re interested (or not sure if it’s for you), please drop us a DM or message us on 07751033429 and we can gently explore together whether it’s the right fit for you.
Use the same number to book your spot.

Because we know money can feel tight right now, we’re offering this session for £25, including a bowl of delicious home made vegan soup afterwards. Nourishing breath + nourishing food. What’s not to love? 🥣✨

If your body is whispering “I need a reset before Christmas”… this evening is for you.
Come and lie down, let the world fall away for a while, and give yourself the gift of one truly magical December night. 🌙

Big love,
Sam & Miranda x

01/12/2025

DAY 1… AND WE’RE OFF! 🚀❄️❤️

Course 25 of the Curtis Palmer Program Charity Page. launched this morning and the energy is already incredible. The feedback… unreal. And we’ve only just begun! 🙌

The CPP has been described as life changing – and over the years, genuinely life saving. It’s all made possible by the most dedicated volunteers and by the incredible people who fundraise and donate so this work can continue. ❤️

To everyone who has supported the programme in any way – thank you. Your kindness genuinely changes lives, and we feel it every single time we run a new course. 🙏✨

And because we want to play our part too… we’re taking on 12 Dips in December to help raise more funds. 🥶💙
We kicked off Dip 1 this morning as part of our cold water demo for our Day 1 attendees – showing them exactly how to begin their cold water journey safely and confidently. 🌊❄️

If you can spare anything at all, please donate using the link below.
And if things are tight this Chrimbo, you can still join us – do your own 12 dips, anytime, anywhere – and share our link on your socials. Every share makes a difference. ❤️🙌

Donate here:
https://gofund.me/4550c1265

With love and gratitude,
Sam & Miranda ❤️❤️

01/12/2025

Our hearts are full! 🥹❄️💚

Yesterday’s Reset Retreat was everything we love: courage, connection, giggles and proper deep rest.

We had mums and daughters, best friends and brave souls who came on their own… some completely new to breathwork and cold water, some of our gorgeous regulars. You really are the best people and we are so grateful you chose to spend the day with us 🥰

We began with a gentle functional breathing session for stress - simple, practical tools you can take away and use anywhere to calm your system, clear your head and feel more in control 🌬️🧠

Then we moved into a beautiful yoga session led by Rachel 🧘‍♀️ before sitting down together for the most delicious home cooked vegan chilli for lunch - 19 different plants in one bowl 🌶️🥦🥕🫘 Nourishing, colourful and so good for body, mind and gut.

After lunch guided a powerful medicine walk in nature - moving, breathing and listening to the land together 🌿🍂

From there we shifted into super powerful Dynamic Breathwork… big energy, big release and so much courage in that room 💥💨

Then came the ice baths at sunset. As the light faded and the cold really settled in, you still chose to get in. Sitting in those tubs of icy water, breathing together, shaking, laughing, focusing and finding that quiet, strong place inside. Fierce, brave and beautiful 🧊💪✨

We finished wrapped in blankets and fairy lights with the most gorgeous Yoga Nidra, led wonderfully by Miranda (which I joined in and it was absolutely heavenly 🧡😴). A room full of calm bodies, softer shoulders and steadier hearts. This is why we do what we do.

We’ll be adding a Reset Day Retreat in January 2026 🗓️
And if you’re ready to take your self care to the next level, we have:
• very limited spaces on our 6 - 9 February retreat
• good availability on our 13 - 16 February retreat

If you feel the pull, message us for details and come and reset with us 💌

BIG LOVE Sam, Miranda and Rachel ❤️❤️❤️

29/11/2025

🥶GET READY… THE 'TWELVE DIPS OF CHRISTMAS' IS COMING!! 🥶

This December, we’re inviting YOU – our community – to step up, dive in, and be part of something big!

From 1st to 31st December, we’re committing to doing at least 12 cold dips to raise money for the Curtis Palmer Program Charity (CPP) – and we want as many of you as possible to join us.

This is your chance to end the year with purpose. To do something bold. To do something that makes you feel alive, centred and strong!

And to support a charity doing extraordinary work with police officers, police staff and veterans across the UK. The CPP supports people living with injury, illness, PTSD, stress and burnout – offering recovery programmes, breathwork and cold-water training, outdoor challenges and a powerful sense of community.

Their work changes lives. And together, we can help them reach even more people.

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO
✨ 12 cold dips in December
✨ Any cold water counts – shower, bath, pod, sea, river, lake (as long as it's safe!!)
✨ Take a photo, share it, tag us
✨ Ask your people to donate to our GoFundMe page:
✨ And most importantly… join in!

This is about community, courage, connection... and doing something that genuinely matters.

The GoFundMe page link is HERE: https://gofund.me/1ffab26d5

WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN US
Because you’ll feel incredible afterwards.
Because it’s a challenge with heart.
Because showing up for yourself and others is powerful.
And because every single dip helps support someone rebuilding their life.

GET READY. DECEMBER IS COMING!!
We’ll be dipping. We’ll be cheering you on.
And we cannot wait to see this community come alive with cold-water courage.

Are you in? Drop us a 🥶💙❄️ if so!

Big love,

Sam & Miranda

This December we’re challenging all members of our community to c… Miranda Bailey needs your support for The Twelve Dips of Christmas - in support of the CPP!

29/11/2025

Tomorrow is your last chance before Christmas to press pause, breathe, and properly reset.
If you’ve been feeling frazzled, “always on”, or dreading the festive rush - this day is for you.

Only a few spaces left now 🎄✨

What’s waiting for you:
• 🌿 Gentle guided yoga and a mindful, meditative walk in nature to bring you out of your head and into the moment
• 🌬️ Dynamic Breathwork to calm and energise you, before stepping into the ice baths to meet your edges with courage
• 🥗 A nutritious, delicious home cooked lunch - with simple tips to keep your energy steady all day (and through December)
• ✨ Practical nervous system tools you can actually use in real life, especially when things get busy

You’ll head home with:
• 🔋 Ways to refill your own energy tank when you’re running on empty
• ☀️ Skills to lift or soften your mood, instead of being ruled by stress
• 📆 Small, do-able habits that will support you through Christmas and into the New Year
• 🧊 A real sense of “I can do hard things” (thank you, ice baths)
• 😌 Micropauses to breathe out stress and breathe in calm - anytime, anywhere

Retreat details:
• 📍 Mellor, Church Road, SK6 5LX
• 📅 Tomorrow · Sunday 30 November
• 💷 £95
• 🎅 Our final Reset Retreat before Christmas

Come on your own or with a friend. Whether you’re brand new or experienced, you’ll be held, welcomed, and looked after. Expect warmth, community, laughter, and those little sparks of magic that change how you feel about yourself.

We’re so happy to be holding this space with our beautiful friend and co-facilitator Rachel . We cannot wait to welcome you in. 🤍

👉 Ready to grab one of the last spots? Book here: www.thebreathconnection.org

Big LOVE as always,
Sam, Miranda and Rach ❤️❤️❤️

28/11/2025

🌿 A very special event at The Garden House, Marple Bridge 🌿

🎅🤶A Christmas Breathe & Dip…all for an amazing charity!

Back in 2022, we met our good friend Kevin Swindells, who had transformed waste ground at the Roman Lakes in Marple Bridge into a truly magical community farm - a place for families, local charities, and schools to breathe out and feel at home.

Kevin instantly recognised the importance of the work we do and, with such generosity, he built us a beautiful space in the forest to hold breathwork sessions, and even made safe a spot in the river where we could dip.

For over two years, we held countless sessions there - and honestly, it was one of the reasons The Breath Connection is what it is today.

So, as a sign of love and appreciation for Kevin’s commitment, friendship, and for all the wonderful team at The Garden House Marple, we are hosting a special Dynamic Breathwork & River Dip on:

📅 New date: Sunday 7th December
🍲 With warming soup & hot chocolate afterwards
💷 Tickets £25 - every penny going directly to The Garden House
📩 To book, please contact us directly at sam.murray@thebreathconnection.org- 07751033429

Spaces are limited - so please be quick.

Let’s come together, breathe deep, dip in, and raise vital funds to keep this magical place going.

With big love,
Sam & Miranda ❤️