Liminal Connections with Amanda Davis

Liminal Connections with Amanda Davis Integrative health consultancy, and breathwork training for social, racial and health equity. RMN.

Bring people together for better Community Social and Health Equity

It's that time again!I am so looking forward to see you all again next Wednesday 7-9pm, for our breathwork group in Seve...
06/03/2026

It's that time again!

I am so looking forward to see you all again next Wednesday 7-9pm, for our breathwork group in Sevenoaks.

Remember to book in advance to access all of the information you need.

All welcome, no previous experience needed.

If you have signed up to my email newsletter, you'll be aware there are now even more spaces to breathe with me online and in person! I'll share more soon here.

Always with love,
Amanda
❤️

Basic b*tch or too much?Over the years she’s been called many things - both of these and everything in between.She’s bee...
04/03/2026

Basic b*tch or too much?

Over the years she’s been called many things - both of these and everything in between.

She’s been called the N word.
“Bounty.”
Too beautiful.
Stunning but chaotic.
Selfish.
Torture.
Emotional.

She’s been fed promises. Words spoken with certainty. Futures described in detail. And she’s learned this: words can carry weight - but actions are truth.

And words left unspoken? They create uncertainty. Silence can distort a connection just as much as cruelty can.

So strangely, when people use their words to harm, at least she knows where she stands. At least she knows how close to bring the connection.

People project. They label. They try to mould others into what feels comfortable for them. Over the years, many have tried to shape her into who they wanted her to be. Smaller. Softer. Easier. More convenient. Quieter. No drama.

She doesn’t fit in one box - and she’s not meant to.

Yes, sometimes it feels heartbreaking. Because people shouldn’t wound others. This can especially hurt when we live from our heart.

But here’s the truth she lives by:

❤️ You have to matter more than the words somebody gives you. ❤️

When you truly vibe there - your boundaries for self-preservation and sovereignty become consistent. Not reactive. Not performative. Just steady.

To the “basic b*tches.”
To the “too much” souls.
To anyone who’s been renamed, reshaped, or reduced.

Just do you.

Your people will stay. The rest are simply tuned to a different frequency.

And that’s okay.

03/03/2026

As breathwork facilitators, we must meet people where they are, in their body, mind, life, and world. This is not an invitation, this is an essential part of practicing as a breathwork facilitator.

I’m all for a powerful, insight-filled breathe on occasion - mostly now as a more experienced breather, facilitator and teacher, as I recognise the agency in clear and clean intentions for myself and others. But pushing intensity when someone is already managing trauma, grief, racism, parenting stress, illness, or survival mode can tip them into fight, flight, freeze, fawn… or jaguar - that sharp, hyper-alert instinct to defend.

Most people who step onto the breathwork mat (something which is used often in these spaces), will not know or comprehend what is being hidden beneath their surface of coping - whether through masking, surviving or a facilitator explicitly explaining what the breathwork process can truly uncover.

Layer upon layer of “revelation” isn’t always healing. It can be overwhelming. Even re-traumatising.

Now I work with breath for grounded insight and integration, not spectacle or catharsis - that’s why you rarely see me posting photos and videos of spaces I hold, or sharing others stories. The people I work with deserve dignity, privacy and space - at the very least!

Encouraging evocative music, headphones, open-mouth connected breathing, or touch to drive deeper release - without fully understanding someone’s capacity and context - usually serves the facilitator more than the breather. This part of practice can be disorientating and people can find themself somewhere they do not want to be, or pretty amazing and not want to return.

Intensity isn’t the same as healing.
Insight isn’t the same as integration.

Breathwork is an intuitive art.
It asks us to slow down, tolerate subtlety, and honour finding a source of internal safety as the breakthrough.

Capacity before catharsis.
Consent before intensity.
The person before the practice.

📸 photo because sometimes I like to stand on my yoga mat in heels - this not my ceremony, whereas supporting a whole person is!

There’s something deeply human about hope, especially the hope of something we need. Sometimes when we stay in something...
02/03/2026

There’s something deeply human about hope, especially the hope of something we need. Sometimes when we stay in something for years or repeat patterns of waiting, we can be holding onto the hope of…

Safety.
Belonging.
Love.
Recognition.
Stability.
Being chosen.

But when we spend years holding onto the hope of something we need, instead of what’s actually here, that pattern doesn’t stay in one place.

It shows up everywhere.

✨ In work
Staying in roles that drain us because we hope they’ll finally feel secure or we’ll be recognised.
Over-giving because we need acknowledgment.
Waiting for leadership or culture to change.

✨ In friendships & community
Holding onto one-sided connections because we need belonging.
Remaining in spaces that don’t feel safe, hoping inclusion will grow or that we can help others see us.

✨ In relationships
Staying because we hope they’ll become emotionally available.
Minimising harm because we need love.
Confusing empathy with endurance.

Hope is powerful. It often began as protection.
But when hope becomes the place we live, we can slowly abandon ourselves inside it.

A gentle question:

Am I responding to what is here? or to what I need this to become?

Releasing misplaced hope isn’t giving up.
It’s choosing to have your needs met somewhere they can actually be held. 🌿

You can work this alone or find somebody to work through this with. This might involve a financial exchange, rather than an energetic exchange.
How does it feel to hear you might need to spend money on your hope habit?
My professional experience is that when we believe we can change something after years of hoping things will change, we are still living in hope, and we sometimes need support or help or navigate our way out of this.

Reach out to work with me 1:1 or attend a group, know you’re not in this alone, I invite you to rewrite your hope into asking for help 🫶🏽

“Global Majority” refers to people who are Black, Brown, Indigenous, mixed-heritage and racialised - communities who mak...
01/03/2026

“Global Majority” refers to people who are Black, Brown, Indigenous, mixed-heritage and racialised - communities who make up the majority of the world’s population. Many people appear to have “white” skin but are actually of global majority.

POC stands for People of Colour. It’s often used in Western contexts to name shared experiences of racialisation, while recognising that those experiences are not identical.

These words matter because breath does not happen in a vacuum.

And if we’re honest, many - maybe even most - mainstream breathwork spaces are shaped by westernized wellness culture. Spaces that can appear beautifully curated, softly lit, aesthetically pleasing.

But for many people of the Global Majority, those same spaces can feel quietly disorienting.

Because our history - and the history of breathing (or not being able to breathe) - is rarely acknowledged.

Breath is political.
Breath is ancestral.
Breath has been restricted, policed, stolen.

Yet in many rooms, we are asked to “create internal safety” without the external context being named.

For some of us, internal safety takes more than a playlist and a yoga mat when we are sitting in a room full of whiteness - yes, I actually said that!

So what happens?

We code-switch.
We perform calm.
We freeze.
We fawn.
We hold it together.

And sometimes we leave feeling more retracted than when we arrived. More unseen. More alone in our experience.

Not because breathwork isn’t powerful.
But because context matters.

When we centre Global Majority and POC experiences in breathwork, we are not excluding others.

We are acknowledging that bodies shaped by racism, migration, colonisation, and chronic stress require spaces that understand those realities.

Breathwork is not just technique.
It is relationship - with body, history, power, and place.

Naming Global Majority and POC is about moving from “neutral” to honest.

And honesty is what makes progress possible.

Why not train with us as a facilitator?

This Breathwork Training is double certified by and held by 🌱

26/02/2026

I see you.
I feel you.
I breathe with you.

With so much truth being shown to us in many forms universally, it is our responsibility to ourself to just breathe, pause, stop and make choices which serve us and those around us.

Invite yourself to feel instead of scroll.

Always with love,
Amanda 💗

Date yourself. Especially after something long or intense ends.Today I took myself to Brighton, my place to reset in div...
25/02/2026

Date yourself. Especially after something long or intense ends.

Today I took myself to Brighton, my place to reset in diversity. I lived on the Isle of Wight as a teen, and the sea became my grounding, my clarity, my escape from some intense experiences (even before I had words for the racism I was experiencing).

So, this wasn’t just a beach trip today.

It was recovery after surgery.
Reclaiming my body, AGAIN! It amazes me how many times we can do this and still find new parts to enjoy and love more.
Walking 10k, something I couldn’t imagine a year ago when chronic pain and PTSD had my body inflamed beyond capacity from years of experiencing racism, stress and abuse.

Sunshine. Sea air. Pebbles. Music (mostly and ). Strangers.
No phone. No roles. No rushing. Nice to bump into too 💗 Even walked past .glitch but didn’t say hello, to preserve his privacy 🫶🏽

Just me, reconnecting with every sensory part of myself and the resilience I’ve built by undoing what oppression, racism and survival once did to my nervous system.

Dating yourself isn’t indulgent.
It’s repair.
It’s rebuilding trust with the one person who stays, you.

Take yourself out.
Fill yourself up first.

I’m back home in the peaceful haven I’ve created with my sons, and I can honestly say I f@&king love myself in a whole new way when I give myself space to reconnect like this.

When was the last time you took yourself on a date? 💗

and I are back in West Malling on Friday 13th March at 10am for our beautiful sound and Breathwork collaboration. Hope ...
24/02/2026

and I are back in West Malling on Friday 13th March at 10am for our beautiful sound and Breathwork collaboration.

Hope you can join us, we’ve missed you! 💫

Breathwork isn’t about doing it right.It’s about being met where we are. Many of us, especially those shaped by lived ex...
23/02/2026

Breathwork isn’t about doing it right.

It’s about being met where we are.

Many of us, especially those shaped by lived experiences like, racism, medical harm, or survival through systemic oppression or abuse, learned early how to perform healing for others yet not always ourselves.

The Breathwork facilitator training I offer exists to unlearn that. We learn to co-exist in our body with these experiences by acknowledging our nervous system, biochemical and mind responses. We cannot simply unlearn the ongoing and physical experience of living with the mind and body memories, however can recognise what is happening and when, and make space to meet ourselves (and others) there.

We cannot solve or save others.
But…
We can be beside people in their experience.
We can offer tools to support their remembrance.
We can support their wisdom to grow.
We can support ourselves and our growing community of ethical facilitators to reflect and grow, personally and professionally.
We can recognise what is ours and what is theirs, and where these merge.

19/02/2026

It really is much easier than our smart brains and tech think it is.

Back to natural connection.
From the roots up 🌱
Literally!

19/02/2026

I recorded this whilst recovering from surgery. Having a low day, I felt bored and “dysregulated”. Then in dawned on me, I hadn’t been able to use my usual practices because of fatigue and discomfort! You see, even as a nurse and integrative health consultant I still get caught in the trap of conditioning.

I simply wasn’t dysregulated, I just could not move in the way I needed to find release!

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https://www.liminalconnections.co.uk/breathwork-facilitator-training

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