Kym Burls - Breathwork Practitioner

Kym Burls - Breathwork Practitioner I help you regulate stress, reconnect with your body & find calm using your breath. Join my FREE 7-day course & start today.

Breathwork can generate profound insights.💡People often leave sessions with sudden clarity about relationships, behaviou...
30/04/2026

Breathwork can generate profound insights.💡

People often leave sessions with sudden clarity about relationships, behaviour patterns, or long-standing emotional themes.

These moments can feel like breakthroughs — and sometimes they are.

But insight alone rarely produces lasting change.

From a neuroscience perspective, understanding something cognitively doesn’t automatically update the nervous system.

This is why many people have the same realisation again and again — yet find themselves repeating the same behaviours.🔁

Insight may illuminate a pattern.

But integration — through practice, embodiment, and repetition — enables you to change it.

During their breathwork session a client shared:“I’m feeling so much joy.”And I’m here for it. Not simply in a ‘warm fuz...
28/04/2026

During their breathwork session a client shared:

“I’m feeling so much joy.”

And I’m here for it.

Not simply in a ‘warm fuzzy feeling’ way, but because it’s a recognition of a feeling within, that adds rather than subtracts, as part of the growth process.

Often we focus on removing, on letting go of, and while that can be helpful, it creates space



And without something to fill that space, it can often get refilled with past patterns.

That’s why I’m here for the joy.
For the acknowledgment of the positive.
For celebrating the glimmers within.

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Most people stay at the level of adjusting their breathing rate.Slow it down, feel a bit calmer, move on.And there’s not...
27/04/2026

Most people stay at the level of adjusting their breathing rate.

Slow it down, feel a bit calmer, move on.

And there’s nothing wrong with that—it works. But it doesn’t necessarily change the underlying pattern.

That’s where breathing depth comes in. And this is also where things stop feeling as straightforward.

Because when you begin to reduce breathing volume slightly, the response isn’t likely calming to begin with. It can feel agitating. Like you need more air. Like something is off. Like you should correct it.

That response is the pattern revealing itself.

It isn’t something to force through, and not something to avoid either. Just something to understand and gradually work with.

Over time, that edge settles. And when it does, the breath becomes lighter, quieter, and far less reactive—without needing to control it.

That’s the difference between a temporary shift
 and a more lasting change.

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If you’ve noticed this in your own breathing, or would like some tips for breathing depth, reach out. I’m happy to point you in the right direction or offer a few things to explore.

26/04/2026

Sink into stillness.
Feel the support of the ground beneath you.

This is your invitation to release, reset, and be supported.

Join me for the next Pneuma Breathwork & Sound Journey — where breath, body, and sound guide you back to centre.

Come as you are. Leave lighter.

> Friday 1 May
> Friday 5 June
> Saturday 4 July

Limited spots remaining. Check my bio for details.

Emotional release can feel powerful.đŸ’ȘDuring breathwork sessions people may cry, shake, shout, or experience waves of emo...
23/04/2026

Emotional release can feel powerful.đŸ’Ș

During breathwork sessions people may cry, shake, shout, or experience waves of emotion that have been held in the body.

These moments can feel relieving — and sometimes they are.😼‍💹

But catharsis alone doesn’t guarantee lasting change.

From a nervous system perspective, emotional discharge is only one part of the process.

What determines whether healing occurs is whether the system can process the experience without becoming overwhelmed, and whether the new experience is integrated into the body’s sense of safety.

Without regulation and integration, intense emotional expression can simply become another activation event.đŸ€Ż

Catharsis can be meaningful.

But transformation tends to emerge through gradual, repeatable experiences of safety, awareness, and regulation.

It’s one thing to breathe optimally when you’re lying down, relaxed, with nothing much going on.Most people can access a...
22/04/2026

It’s one thing to breathe optimally when you’re lying down, relaxed, with nothing much going on.

Most people can access a slow, quiet, controlled breath
 at least temporarily.
But that’s not where your breathing patterns are really tested.

They’re tested when:
> Your heart rate lifts
> Your attention is pulled in multiple directions
> There’s pressure, urgency, or demand

That’s where your default breathing shows up.

Not what you can do when you’re thinking about it

but what your system falls back to when you’re not.

There’s a gap between practicing how to breathe well in stillness, and exploring what happens when the load increases.

Next time your breathing naturally speeds up—during a walk, training, or a busy moment—notice:

> Do you immediately lose nasal breathing?
> Does the rhythm become erratic or rushed?
> Can you coordinate it without trying to “slow it down”?

Observe whether your breathing can adapt without falling apart.

Because that’s the real marker of change.

Not how it looks in stillness
 but how well it holds up when life isn’t.

*Note: adaptation doesn’t mean forcing your breath into a pattern it naturally doesn’t want to be in. Rather, it’s about having the capability to shift the breath to meet the demands, and then back down afterward.

This was the beautiful feedback from a recent breathwork client.No big breakthrough.No emotional purge.Just a quiet, ful...
20/04/2026

This was the beautiful feedback from a recent breathwork client.

No big breakthrough.
No emotional purge.

Just a quiet, full-bodied recognition of what’s already working, of what they’re already capable of, of acknowledging & appreciating the parts that don’t need fixing.

Feeling those things — properly — might be the most powerful shift there is.

Breathwork can create powerful experiences.đŸ’„Certain breathing patterns, through changing blood chemistry, influence emot...
15/04/2026

Breathwork can create powerful experiences.đŸ’„

Certain breathing patterns, through changing blood chemistry, influence emotional centres in the brain, and temporarily increase neural plasticity. That’s why people often encounter strong emotions, memories, or insights during sessions.

But intensity alone doesn’t determine whether change actually occurs (or lasts).

From a nervous system perspective, lasting transformation tends to emerge through repeated experiences of regulation and safety, not just dramatic peaks of emotional activation.đŸ—»

When the system becomes overwhelmed, it often shifts into survival responses — fight, flight, freeze, or dissociation. In those states the priority is protection, not learning.

Breathwork can open doors to meaningful insight.đŸšȘ

But what determines whether those insights become lasting change is what happens after the intensity subsides.

Before you open a new browser tab, document or email this afternoon
 pause for 30 seconds.The morning caffeine buzz has ...
14/04/2026

Before you open a new browser tab, document or email this afternoon
 pause for 30 seconds.

The morning caffeine buzz has likely faded.
You’ve cleared the urgent emails.
Maybe even sent the one you were putting off.

And yet
 the work is never really done!

Before you jump into the next task, try this quick nervous system reset:

1. Sit comfortably in a neutral posture
2. Roll the shoulders back slightly, open the chest
3. Relax the jaw — teeth gently touching
4. Slow inhale through the nose, filling the lower torso
5. Long slow exhale — nose or mouth — let the body soften
6. Lift your gaze and look around your environment
7. Quietly say to yourself: “Reset before react.”

Nothing dramatic.

Just a small reset before continuing your Monday with a little less tension and a little more presence.

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If you’d like more breath-centred tools like this, you’ll find plenty over on my blog (link in bio).

Today, on World Breathing Day, you’re invited to pause, breathe and reconnect with the natural world and yourself (and s...
10/04/2026

Today, on World Breathing Day, you’re invited to pause, breathe and reconnect with the natural world and yourself (and someone else if you’re up for it).

After you read this post, all you need to do is


1. Find a safe, comfortable space outdoors to sit down
2. Take 10 slow, conscious breaths
3. Become aware of what you can see, hear, smell, and touch (& taste?)
4. Check in with yourself by asking; “How do I feel now?”
5. Get on with your day!

Thanks for being a part of the breathwork community and for your support in helping me to help people make the most of every breath.

14/01/2026

Not all breathwork experiences are the same.

Some sessions focus on intensity and pushing through.

For some people, that works.
For many nervous systems, it doesn’t.

When breath and sound are delivered with care — when pacing, rhythm, and safety come first — the body doesn’t need to be forced into release.

It allows it.

Pneuma Breathwork & Sound journeys are designed to:
> calm the nervous system
> soften the body
> quiet the mind
> support regulation before anything else

No pressure to “go deeper.”
No overriding your body’s signals.

Just guided breath, therapeutic sound
 and space to genuinely unwind.

If breathwork has ever felt too much — this is VERY different.

Experience it for yourself — tickets for the next session are now available.

Address

Adelaide, SA

Website

https://www.kymburls.com/7-day-breathwork-video-course

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