A small Friday circle, held in a Mennonite village.

The room

The room is small on purpose. Eight to twelve people, lying down on the floor of a private space in the village of St Jacobs. Candles, a sound system, mats and blankets. The exact street address goes out in the booking confirmation, partly because the room is in a private home, and partly because a breathwork circle is the kind of thing you arrive at, not the kind of thing you drop in on.

St Jacobs is a small Mennonite village fifteen minutes north of downtown Kitchener-Waterloo, twenty-five minutes from Guelph, and about an hour from north-west Toronto. The farmers’ market is two minutes away. The river is a five-minute walk. The drive in is part of the practice.

The host

Your circle is held by a trained Conscious Connected Breathwork facilitator who lives and practises in the Village of St Jacobs. The facilitator's full name and lineage will be published here shortly. Until then, you can reach them through the contact form below.

Every circle is held by a single trained facilitator. The practice draws from the Conscious Connected Breathing tradition, a well-studied lineage that pre-dates the recent breathwork boom by decades. It treats the breath as a doorway to the subconscious, not as a performance. The container is small, sober, and quiet. The work is yours. The facilitator's role is to make the room safe enough that you can do it.

What we believe about the work

We believe the breath is doing most of the work, not the facilitator. Our job is to make the room safe enough for you to do yours.

We believe a sober room is a kinder room. There’s plenty of breathwork that’s blended with plant medicine or psychedelics. We’re not it. Every circle is sober. The breath is the doorway, and that’s already a lot.

We believe in small rooms over large rooms. The sharing circle works because the room is small enough that the silence carries weight when somebody speaks. A hundred people in a warehouse can’t do this.

We believe in showing up monthly. You can do one circle and never come back. You can also come every month for a year. Both work. The practice is durable and welcomes both shapes.