The Breath Connection

05/09/2025

✨ Last-minute magic ✨

We’ve just had TWO spaces open up for tomorrow’s Reset Retreat – and if your body and soul have been calling out for a pause, this might be the sign you’ve been waiting for. 💫

Picture this…
🌿 Gentle yoga to ease you into the day
🌬️ Breathwork to reset your nervous system
❄️ Ice baths to awaken courage and resilience
🧘‍♀️ Metta meditation & chanting for deep connection
🌸 Qigong to restore balance and flow

And because nourishment is everything…
🥗 A home-cooked vegan lunch made with love
🍹 Healthy homemade juice shots
🍫 Cacao & date energy balls (the tastiest little bites of bliss)

This is your invitation to step away from the noise, reconnect with yourself, and remember what it feels like to feel calm, clear, and alive. Because you are so worth it. ❤️

📍 Our beautiful home on the edge of the High Peak, Mellor
🕥 10.30am – 5.30pm, Saturday 6th of September.

Only 2 places – they won’t last long!
👉 Book directly here: thebreathconnection.org/registration

Come reset with us. 🌿✨

Have a wonderful weekend- BIG LOVE- Sam, Miranda and ❤️❤️❤️

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04/09/2025

Did you know that every Thursday evening at 9pm Sam & I run a 20 minute Coherent Breathing session on Zoom - you can come, with cameras on or off, and relax into this gentle practice, experiencing all its many benefits.

If you'd like to join us, head over to our group https://www.facebook.com/groups/breathedontburnout where - once you're in - you'll find the registration link to join.

Simple, gentle, and quiet but so effective for winding down at the end of a day

30/08/2025

🌿 Feeling frazzled? Try this calming reset today 🌿

When stress builds up, your breath is one of the fastest ways to bring yourself back into balance. Here are two simple tools you can try right now:

✨ Alternate Nostril Breathing (Nadi Shodhana)
• Sit comfortably and rest your left hand on your lap
• With your right hand, use your thumb to gently close your right nostril
• Inhale slowly through your left nostril
• Close the left nostril with your ring finger, release the right nostril, and exhale slowly through the right side
• Inhale through the right, then close it and exhale left
• Continue for 1-2 minutes, moving at your own pace

This simple practice balances both sides of the nervous system, steadies the mind, and leaves you calmer and more focused.

✨ The 5 senses check-in
When anxiety spins you into your head, come back into your body by naming:
• 5 things you can see
• 4 things you can feel
• 3 things you can hear
• 2 things you can smell
• 1 thing you can taste

It’s a powerful way to anchor yourself in the present moment.

These are just a taste of the practical, science-backed tools we’ll be sharing in our next Back to Balance course, starting 27 October. Four weeks to help you manage stress, restore calm, and feel more like you again.

If you’re ready to reset before the year ends, join us here 👉 thebreathconnection.org/backtobalance

🌱 Small daily practices. Big changes in balance.

Have a wonderful weekend – BIG LOVE,
Sam & Miranda ❤️❤️

29/08/2025

✨ Last night in our Breathe Don’t Burn Out Facebook group, we gathered for a 20-minute guided coherent breath meditation.

Science shows that just 20 minutes of coherent breathing - ideally morning and evening - can improve heart rate variability (HRV) 💓, which is a key marker of resilience and how well your nervous system adapts to stress.

When you add a simple positive “I am” statement, like “I am calm”, the repetition helps create new neural pathways 🧠 - gently rewiring the brain towards steadiness and ease.

Last night’s session was extra special. We wove in the Buddhist practice of Metta (loving-kindness) 🌸 - a way of sending compassion and goodwill to ourselves and out into the world. Miranda will now be sharing this practice every evening, along with another 120 beautiful souls from across the globe, as she comes to the penultimate day of her Vipassana retreat.

The world needs more of this right now. 🌍❤️ All are welcome to join our Breathe Don’t Burn Out group. (Link in the bio to join)

BIG LOVE to one and all,
Sam & Miranda xx

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28/08/2025

✨ A huge shout-out today to Miranda ✨

Last Wednesday she embarked on her fourth 10-day Vipassana meditation course at the Dhamma Dīpa in Hereford.

Today is her 8th day. Right now, as you’re reading this, she will be meditating… from 4am until late evening. Up to 16 hours a day. Even while eating and walking, she remains in meditation, immersed in this ancient practice.

Vipassana is one of the most powerful techniques in the world – rediscovered by Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, over 2,500 years ago, and thought to have roots over 4,000 years old.

It teaches us this simple truth:
👉 You’ve got to go in, to get out.

This isn’t an easy path. It takes immense courage, discipline, and heart. I know Miranda will see it through – but I’d love for us all to send her love and support for these final days. 🙏

As the Buddha said:
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

We are all connected 💙

BIG LOVE as always. ❤️

27/08/2025

Are you a retired or serving Police officer, get in touch.

If this is you or someone you know DM us today. ❤️

Our next 10 day online breathing course, deigned to help with anxiety, stress, depression and mental health wellbeing, with The Breath Connection runs from Sep 8th to the 19th. It’s just a hour a day Mon to Fri for 2 weeks at 0630 daily. This will be our 24th 10 day online course we have run having helped close to 500 police officers, police staff and military veterans. Some describe the course as life changing some as life saving.

If you need help be that change reach out….just pm us your email for more details.

27/08/2025

✨ RESET RETREATS 2026 ✨
6-9th Feb & 13-16th Feb

After our October retreat sold out so quickly (and with so many asking for more), we’ve opened not one but two back-to-back Reset Retreats in February 2026… and spaces are already being snapped up!

📍 Plas Cadnant, Anglesey – our absolutely stunning home for the weekend, complete with magical grounds, our own river, waterfall and a natural pool for daily dips.

💧 Daily cold dips (including a sea dip!)
🌬️ Breathwork journeys to reset body + mind
🧘 Yoga + qigong to reconnect and restore
🌿 Immersion in the very best of nature
✨ The soulful magic of Rachel (Rise and Wild)
🍲 Delicious home-cooked food by our wonderful Kim

Secure your place today with just a small deposit – email us directly: sam.murray@thebreathconnection.org

✨ A beautiful way to begin 2026 – reset, reconnect, and build that inner strength. ❤️

26/08/2025

✨ Reset Day Retreat – Saturday 6th September ✨

Sometimes we all need a day to stop, to breathe, to remember what matters.
Our Reset Retreat is exactly that – a chance to step away from the noise of the world and put yourself first.

Nestled on the edge of the High Peak, in our beautiful space, you’ll be guided through a full day of practices to restore, replenish and reconnect – with yourself, with nature, and with others.

Together with our soul sister Rachel from Rise and Wild, we’ll share:
🌿 Breathwork sessions to calm and energise
🌿 Yoga and Qigong for grounding and flow
🌿 Ice baths to reset body and mind
🌿 A nourishing, home-cooked vegan lunch
🌿 Simple, practical self-care tools you can carry into daily life

Whether you’re looking to kickstart a wellbeing routine or simply need time out to recharge, this day is for you.

Only 4 spaces left – book now at www.thebreathconnection.org.
Come and join us – let us hold the space, so you can simply arrive, exhale, and receive.

BIG LOVE,
Sam, Miranda & Rachel ❤️❤️❤️❤️

21/08/2025

🌿 Big week here at The Breath Connection 🌿

We landed back in the UK at 4am on Tuesday morning and I had the incredible news that I’ve been named a finalist in the Veteran Awards for the work I do with the Mighty Curtis Palmer Program and everything we’ve built here at The Breath Connection ❤️🎉

Yesterday I dropped Miranda off at the Dhamma Dipa Centre in Hereford where she’s starting her fourth 10-day Vipassana meditation course.

For anyone who doesn’t know, Vipassana is one of the hardest but most powerful things you can ever do.
✨ 4am wake ups
✨ Up to 16 hours of meditation a day
✨ Complete silence (no talking, no eye contact, no communication with the outside world)
✨ Simple meals and long stretches of fasting

When I did mine, I found it one of the toughest but also the most beautiful and enlightening experiences of my life. That’s why I believe it’s so important for us at The Breath Connection to keep doing this work ourselves, to embed what we learn through these life-changing practices into everything we share and teach.

In the end, sometimes the only way to find the answers is to go inside. 🌌

Please send Miranda lots of love and strength for the next 10 days. I can’t wait to see what wisdom and treasures she unearths… is it even possible for her to be any more wise?? 😊❤️

19/08/2025

What a wonderful surprise to come back from a family break too 🥰

Super honoured to be recognised by my peers and the work we do with the mighty Curtis Palmer Program! 💪🙏❤️

14/08/2025

Sun, sea, family and rest. ❤️🇬🇷

Out of the office.

Sending BIG LOVE, 💝

Sam & Miranda. 😍😍

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10/08/2025

I couldn’t of wished to volunteer my time with a better bunch of young men- a special thanks also to Tim Felton 22years in the Royal Marines, now a trained Psychotherapist for your kind support yesterday, your wisdom, and for the 50 years of friendship. ❤️
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Today Shaw Heath Bees took the game far beyond the pitch and into the hills

We hiked up Kinder Scout together, shared a powerful breathwork session in the open air, and took the plunge with a cold-water dip in the river below.

It wasn’t just exercise though it was connection. It was mates looking out for each other. It was switching off from the noise and remembering what really matters.

Huge thanks to Sam Murray from Breath Connection ... your honesty, your story, and the tools you shared will stay with us long after the feeling returns to our toes. From your journey through PTSD and addiction to finding purpose, you’ve shown us that there’s strength in vulnerability and power in breathing together.

Every SHB player there left a little lighter, a little stronger, and a little more reminded that none of us walk alone. We are family.

We’ve captured the climbs, the laughs, the freezing dips, and the quiet reflections in photos and videos from the day, real moments that show what it’s all about: mateship, courage, and connection.

Whether you’re flying high or struggling quietly, days like this prove we’ve always got each other’s backs. You are not alone

🙏 Thank you, Sam
🙏 Thank you, Vikki
🙏 Thank you, Bees

Here’s to more than football. Here’s to being there, really there, for your teammates, your friends and family and those you love.

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