Group Breathwork Sessions

Rooted in breath, held in connection, open to what’s ready to unfold.

Breathwork is a powerful and gentle way to come back to yourself.

Through conscious, connected breathing, we create space to feel, release, and reconnect - with the body, the heart, and what truly matters. These sessions are held with integrity and a trauma-informed approach. Whether you’re seeking clarity, emotional release, or simply space to breathe, you’re welcome here.

Learn more about my approach to breathwork.

How Group Sessions Work

Each breathwork ceremony lasts between 2 and 4 hours. Depending on the location.

We begin by arriving together - taking time to connect, settle, and open. Through gentle movement, body awareness, and sharing, together we create a space for safety and trust, for a deep and nourishing experience.

The breathwork journey itself lasts approximately an hour. You’ll be lying down, supported and guided by carefully curated music - sometimes even live - that helps you drop in and stay connected. Afterward, you’ll be invited into stillness, with sound healing to support integration, followed by optional sharing in circle.

Each session may carry a different theme, but all are held with integrity, presence, and deep respect for your process.

 

Contraindications

Breathwork is not for everyone, and it’s important to be clear about that. If you are pregnant, suffer from severe heart disease, glaucoma, strong asthma, or have a history of psychosis, the group sessions are not suitable for you. If you have any physical or mental health condition, please reach out beforehand so we can discuss whether this practice is appropriate for you.

Your safety and wellbeing always come first.

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Before You Join

  • Please avoid heavy meals before the session. Light foods like fruit or soup are fine, but ideally, come with an empty stomach (2–3 hours without food is best). If you have diabetes or a medical condition, please reach out beforehand.
  • This work can be profound. If you’re pregnant or have a history of psychosis, strong asthma, severe heart disease, or glaucoma, please contact me first to check if this journey is right for you.
  • Attending more than one session is recommended. The breath meets you where you are, and each time can take you deeper.

Upcoming Events in Portugal

Breathwork Group Sessions

A space to soften, release, and come home to yourself.

This breathwork journey is an invitation to let go of tension, meet your emotions with compassion, and reconnect with yourself, your body, and the collective field of support.

Rather than pushing into catharsis, we’ll use gentle, connected nose breathing in a trauma-informed space to guide you inward - into a deeper presence with what’s here.

Through somatic practices, movement, sharing, and guided exercises, we’ll create a field of trust where you can be met with all that you are in the current moment.

The breath becomes our medicine, quiet, powerful, deeply honest, and always yours.

Spaces are limited depending on the location, between 8 - 15 participants maximum. Registration is required. 

Upcoming Dates & Locations:

Fire Module-22

Mafra

April 20, 10-12.30h

Info & Registration via whatsapp to: +351912882091

Aljezur

May 18, June 1 &15, close to Aljezur.

17.30h - 20h,  35 €  Register here.

Monchique

June 27,  10- 12.30h at Mãe d'Agua.

Infos and Registration here.

 

Upcoming Events Switzerland

Breathwork Gruppen Sessions

Ein Raum, um sanft zu werden, loszulassen und wieder bei dir selbst anzukommen.

Diese Breathwork-Reise ist eine Einladung, Spannungen loszulassen, deinen Emotionen mit Mitgefühl zu begegnen und dich wieder mit dir selbst, deinem Körper und dem kollektiven Feld der Unterstützung zu verbinden.

Anstatt in Katharsis zu gehen, nutzen wir sanftes, verbundenes Atmen durch die Nase in einem traumasensiblen Raum, um dich nach innen zu führen – in eine tiefere Präsenz mit dem, was gerade da ist.

Durch somatische Praktiken, Bewegung, Austausch und geführte Übungen erschaffen wir ein Feld des Vertrauens, in dem du mit allem willkommen bist, was du im gegenwärtigen Moment mitbringst.

 

Der Atem wird zu unserer Medizin – leise, kraftvoll, zutiefst ehrlich und immer dein eigener.

Teilnehmer Anzahl ist beschränk auf 12 Teilnehmer. Bitte um Voranmeldung. 

Ort & Datum

Fire Module-22

Luzern

27.Mai 2026

Von 18 Uhr bis 21 Uhr

 

Anmeldung per email [email protected]

 

Like a massive cleaning session, or as if an enormous blow-dryer sweeps everything that is no longer needed out of my house. That’s how it felt – one hour of focused connected breathing with Mela Mariposa. And this is how I feel now – an hour later: released, vibrant and wide open. Smiling for no reason other than being alive and feeling it. It seemingly opened up a few floodgates as well. Creative ideas and answers to questions I recently had are pouring in towards the end of the session.

Being a lover of Yoga, guiding other people through all kinds of embodiment modalities and just now coming back from my own Yoga retreat I thought I was relaxed and open already. But the “going through” some of the motions and emotions that moved me during this potent breathing process is what brought the ultimate relaxation and the feeling of having experienced a big clean-up at the same time.

Not that it was all that messy, but contraction is sneaky and tightness in body and mind a daily occurrence.
Welcoming whatever arises with a thorough inhale and letting go of it with a sigh-like exhale. This is pretty much all there is to the technique. But girl, does it get to you, when you do it more than half an hour!

Embracing whatever there is, welcoming all, is the mantra in Mela’s guidance. Yes to what is. Yes to life. Letting go of the holdings, the contractions. Both are teachings for life, nothing less.
And an invitation: Expanding into the vastness of being. Feeling joy in every cell. Vibrating with energy. And then me wanting to jump up and embrace the world instantly, starting half a dozen new projects at once.
Mela keeps us on the ground, guides us back to our everyday consciousness. Gentle and caring.
No session is like another, is what she tells us right from the beginning. Leave your expectations outside. Open up for something new.
It worked. It was a truly unique experience. Thank you, dear Mela, for holding such an exquisite space!

Simona

Germany