Ninna Millikin - Body Centred Counselling and Breathwork

Ninna Millikin - Body Centred Counselling and Breathwork I offer counselling sessions using Breathwork, a simple and powerful tool that taps into the innate wisdom of your body.

Sessions address mental health issues, support stronger relationships & create greater personal vitality and freedom.

Early 🦅 catching tasty 🪱
28/06/2025

Early 🦅 catching tasty 🪱

28/06/2025

The 31st annual GIC will be held at the beautiful Kingfisher Bay Resort on K’Gari (formerly Fraser Island) in Australia. Join us as we breathe, move, create and connect.

A lot of clients assume I am a meditator because a lot of what happens in a session is adjacent;being with your own expe...
22/06/2025

A lot of clients assume I am a meditator because a lot of what happens in a session is adjacent;
being with your own experience with an attitude of curiosity and compassion.
My relationship to meditation has a layered history. More on that in comments, but here is a 20min guided meditation from my favourite teacher Tara Brach

Meditation, Emotional Healing, and Spiritual Awakening from Tara Brach, PhD - Psychologist, Author, and Meditation Teacher

I'm very fortunate to have received funding to attend the Global Inspiration Conference being held in paradise. It will...
12/06/2025

I'm very fortunate to have received funding to attend the Global Inspiration Conference being held in paradise. It will be the first time I've attended a conference of any kind, I am just a little excited. Thanks International Breathwork Foundation (IBF)

31/05/2025
Like these little cyclamen seedlings, I am emerging. For months I’ve watered the soil and was about to throw it into a g...
23/04/2025

Like these little cyclamen seedlings, I am emerging. For months I’ve watered the soil and was about to throw it into a garden bed when a little shoot appeared.
I’ve gone very quiet on this page…most of the last year has been devoted to the challenges of facing a life-threatening illness.
It wasn’t a time for supporting clients, but of enduring hardship, receiving love and care and simplifying life.
Regular Breathwork helped immensely to navigate such a hard time.
Like any major life experience it gave me many gifts, one of which was to see clearly what the essentials of life really are. (Or are for me).
I am starting to see clients again, slowly and gratefully. ❤️

Two metaphors occurred to me yesterday as I walked a well-loved track- a circuit and this time I started where I usuall...
26/07/2024

Two metaphors occurred to me yesterday as I walked a well-loved track- a circuit and this time I started where I usually end.
The views were unfamiliar and fresh. I regularly turned to look behind me and say ‘Oh this is where I am.’
It reminded me of sessions where the non-ordinary state of consciousness generated by breathwork re-castes habitual narratives or entrenched understandings.
Neural pathways re-routed like a path from the opposite direction, the familiar recast.
Secondly I noticed the beauty of the trees - scarred, burnt, hollowed out. Like gorgeous courageous clients who are all the more magnificent for the things they have survived and grown through.

Yikes! Who wants to join me for a plunge into nipaluna’s river timtumili minanya in August 🥶?Many associate breathwork w...
29/06/2024

Yikes! Who wants to join me for a plunge into nipaluna’s river timtumili minanya in August 🥶?Many associate breathwork with cold water thanks to Wim Hof, perhaps the most famous advocate of the benefits of Breathwork.
You can’t help but breathe deep and hard when your body goes into cold water, and in a Breathwork session this style of breathing supports your capacity to stay regulated whilst plunging into unresolved inner experience (excuse the pun!)
Cold water and deep breathing stimulate the vagus nerve and parasympathetic nervous system - both providing the resources to transform trauma and connect to your self, without the distraction of mind chatter.

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Last week a long-term client who has been consistent and committed to her healing journey came for a last session. It ha...
10/04/2024

Last week a long-term client who has been consistent and committed to her healing journey came for a last session. It has been such an honour to witness her unfurling clarity about the early-life experiences and inter-generational narratives that have formed her patterns and tendencies and the coping mechanisms that have been both limiting and highly effective life skills.
As she leaves nipaluna for big adventures I farewell her with a mix of sadness - I will miss accompanying her journey so closely - but mostly a huge feeling of pride for her development and excitement. The insights she’s had about herself in the non-ordinary states of consciousness that breathwork allows, will stand her in good stead for a deep and rich journey ahead. ❤️✈️

"I was surprised at how easy it was in a group, despite initial nerves and anxiety around sharing and sounding silly. I ...
08/04/2024

"I was surprised at how easy it was in a group, despite initial nerves and anxiety around sharing and sounding silly. I felt very held. Expect intense vulnerability and connection. It's a place of non-judgement, a community I felt connected to as we shared a deeply emotional journey."
We still have a few places left for this Saturday, reach out if you are considering it. 🫶

New glasses - my partner said I look like an academic 🤓- which might be handy today as I’m giving a talk to the team at ...
19/03/2024

New glasses - my partner said I look like an academic 🤓- which might be handy today as I’m giving a talk to the team at Open Arms (the Department of Veterans Affairs counselling service) about Breathwork and Body Centred Counselling.

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Hobart, TAS

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Monday 10am - 2pm
Wednesday 10am - 2pm
Thursday 11am - 3pm

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What Can Breathwork Help With?

What can Breathwork help with? The short answer to this is pretty much anything! Body Centred Counselling and Breathwork is a form of therapy, and it can be hugely helpful with any of the difficult times in life; feeling stuck, facing big changes or decisions, coming up against the same issue in various contexts.

I personally came to Breathwork after trying a few different modalities for a situation that had me feeling powerless to change. I understood it intellectually but I was playing out old programming and it took more than just understanding. It took deep change. That was over a decade ago and I credit Body Centred Counselling and Breathwork and my therapist and teacher Cindy Aulby with delivering me through a very dark time and the path I have walked since.

What would bring people to Breathwork is as varied as feelings of overwhelm, grief, sadness, fear, a crisis or major transition, relationship difficulties, parenting woes, big decisions; anything that causes you to need support and a helping hand. But Breathwork counselling will also equip you with tools and perspectives that you can use every day for the rest of your life to help face the challenges that will inevitably occur for all of us. Life is not static, the one constant is change. And how relieving to have some good habits up your sleeve to support yourself when the going gets tough.

And when life is great, Breathwork is a wonderful way to explore the more subtle aspects of your inner life, when you are not in crisis mode there is so much less activation of the nervous system and profound depths can be explored. In these times Breathwork sessions can be a gorgeous way to expand into gratitude, bliss and contentment, or delve into the things that don’t get a chance to be heard when we’re in distress.