Rachel Harveland - Somatic Breathwork Practitioner

03/04/2026

02/28/2026

No matter what the current administration wants you to believe, another world IS possible.

This poster will show you another detail every time you look at it.

Link to art: https://www.rlmartstudio.com/product/another-world-is-possible/

02/28/2026

We’ve started a Community Contribution Fund as part of our Holding Humanity Breathwork Healing Event ♥️

You can donate by visiting https://www.rachelharveland.com/shop/p/holdinghumanity-23thf

You can also request a spot, no questions asked, by reaching out to any of us 🫶🏻

Help us spread the word to potential givers & receivers by sharing this post 🙌🏻

02/26/2026

As a lover of thresholds, I’m treating my 1:1 sessions and groups as such… a threshold moment for your body and spirit.

Virtual sessions can be booked right at the link in bio ✨ In-person sessions are by request.

02/25/2026

I turned 34 this last weekend 💕

Birthdays used to be my favorite thing. Not just for myself but for others too. As a child, I would set an alarm in the middle of the night sometimes to throw up balloons and streamers to decorate birthdays for my family.

As I got older and in the bar scene, birthdays were fun and carefree. I had lots of friends and family come to dinner and we’d need to call ahead to make sure they had room for us all.

And then I got older. I started birthing children. I started losing friends. Things slowed way down. And birthdays became and amplifier rather than a fun escape. To everyone else, it was just another day.

For several years my birthday consisted of me crying at home.

This year was a little different but only in the sense that I had the capacity to really dig into why that was. The same feelings arose but I was able to meet them with more compassion. I purposely booked a breathwork session for the day after so I had help in getting to the root of why this was a thing for me.

And ultimately we uncovered that birthdays for me now are a milestone marker, a mirror showing me up close what my life looked like and what I wanted it to look like. They were a day I wanted to feel celebrated, seen, and honored for just being me. But ultimately how I had been feeing about myself through years of changes as I grew my family and changed my lifestyle and friend group was the real root cause….

Motherhood is a threshold I honor so greatly and am so grateful to have gone through. And also, it’s been years since I’ve felt truly wild, free, alive, and beautiful. Most days I feel tired, overwhelmed, and guilty about not giving my kids the attention I’d like to.

I post this because I know, from years of sharing this with others, that I’m not the only one who feels this way on their birthday. It’s normal. And also we can change that by being real with ourselves and compassionate with ourselves.

This is the year I’m dedicated to finding my aliveness again 🙌🏻♥️

02/13/2026

Maybe you relate...

I was the type of person that didn’t realize I was burnt out until my body got anxious, shut down, collapsed, or got sick.

I am learning, from my own inner healing and also from the decolonial movement, how my brain is wired to extract from my body and from the earth until collapse. I am wired to keep working, keep producing, keep going, even if my body is screaming to slow down. I could not hear it until I was in an extreme.

Someone told me they thought they were having a heart attack years ago but when they went to the hospital, were told it could be panick attacks - she didn’t realize her body was at that level until they said that, then it resonated.
Someone else told me they want to keep pushing forward, not stay in the past, so they keep a positive mindset and hope that their body follows suit, but it didn’t - she repeatedly went to the doctor for throat issues & severe throat tension until she screamed her heart out in the breathwork session and it was gone.
Before I got married the 1st time, I didn’t get my moon cycle for over 5 months. I thought I was fine but my body was clearly telling me something was off.

Lately, I feel like I’m hearing such similar stories from so many people, just different manifestations of it.

Our minds feel fine, so we assume we’re fine. Meanwhile, our body is sending us signals that we can’t hear because we’re programmed to ignore them in the name of this profit-driven, upside down society we’re in.

This still comes up for me sometimes. More often than I’d like. But I’m doing the inner work to shift that so I can re-imagine a new life, so I can create a life that is in integrity with my body’s cycles and needs as well as our planet’s.

We’re the creators, we’re the stewards, we’re the mothers of this time. I think this is THE most important work to shift the tides. You feel me? ❤️‍🔥

02/12/2026

I’ve never really identified as a sensitive spirit. But lately I’m realizing just how sensitive I actually am.

I’m sensitive to the emotions of others, to harsh lights, chaotic sounds, and oh how sensitive I am to the world right now. Uff. 🙏🏻

But I know that my sensitivity is not only a strength for me now but is evidence of my humanity and evidence of the healing I’ve done for my lineage.

I don’t want to shut the world out because I know I have a part to play in it and I know other people are depending on me showing up and speaking up in whatever way I can, so tending to my sensitive nature through my breathwork practice and through my daily rituals is an absolute must.

It’s a hoax to think we’re able to stay regulated in these times. It’s impossible unless we’re exercising privilege we were born into to avoid the world. But things like breathwork make the space in between regulated and dysregulated greater. Like you can give your body the space it needs to express whatever the hell it needs to express without the mind getting in the way to explain it away and it doesn’t shut you down, you’re able to come back to a place of calm from stress much easier. And therefore clear up so much more room for the creative energy needed to forge new paths, take risks, or use your voice for good.

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Quick note: Holding Humanity early bird tickets are only on sale until next Thursday! Grab yours now if you’re planning to come 🌱

I’ll also be at The Studio Wellness Collective 2/21 for an in-person breathwork ceremony - link in bio ✨

More virtual groups coming soon 🕯️