09/01/2026
There’s something I’ve been sitting with for a while, and I’m going to say it plainly.
Not all breathwork is created equal.
And some of the new hype styles…
they remove the very thing breathwork is built on
connection.
When you put noise cancelling headphones on a group of people,
blindfold them,
and blast a pre programmed digital soundtrack so loud they can’t feel their own heartbeat…
You disconnect them from everything that matters.
From the facilitator’s attunement.
From the other humans in the room.
From the energy that actually moves when people breathe together.
From the subtle things, emotion, intuition, presence, safety.
You get the illusion of a big experience,
but not the depth.
And here’s the part most people won’t say out loud.
If a facilitator can’t feel you…
they can’t support you.
They can’t redirect you.
They can’t ground you.
They can’t catch dissociation before it spirals.
Headphones and hype can’t replace attunement.
Tech can’t replace presence.
Let me be clear, music is not the enemy.
I use playlists too.
I spend hours feeling into what each journey needs, from the pacing, the rise, the drop, the space between.
Music is a tool.
But in some of these new styles, the music becomes the facilitator…
and the facilitator becomes redundant.
Music should SUPPORT the breathwork,
not override the body.
Not drown out intuition.
Not replace presence.
And when people dissociate, shut down, or get emotionally flooded behind headphones,
no one knows.
No one sees.
No one can intervene.
That’s not just ineffective,
it’s unsafe.
Breathwork was never meant to isolate people.
It was never meant to be consumed like entertainment.
It was never meant to be outsourced to a machine.
Breath is relational.
Breath is communal.
Breath is alive.
When you strip away connection, body language, intuition, energy, and the ability to respond in real time…
you remove the soul of the work.
You’re left with theatrics.
Volume.
Overwhelm.
And a room full of people having “big experiences”
without actually processing anything.
I’m not here to attack facilitators.
I’m not here to shame anyone’s preference.
People can do whatever they want.
But I am here to protect the integrity of this work.
And integrity requires connection.
Not performance or production.
Not programming.
I am here to speak honestly about the difference between depth…
and distraction.
Between ceremony…
and spectacle.
Between attunement…
and automation.
Some things should never be replaced by technology.
And breathwork… real breathwork, grounded breathwork, embodied breathwork,
is one of them.
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