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 deep care 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, we create a space of safety and trust, essential 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 care, presence, and deep respect for your process.

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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 — quietly powerful, deeply honest, and always yours.

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

Upcoming Dates & Locations:

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Lisbon

April 19, 13- 18h , SPECIAL EVENT with Katrin Heuser.

Details see below.

Mafra

April 20, 10-12.30h

Info & Registration via whatsapp to: +351912882091

Monchique

March 25,  10- 12.30h at Mãe d'Agua.

Infos and Registration here.

Loulé

April 12, at the 11:11 Yoga and Art Studio.

Infos & Register here.

Aljezur

March 29, April 20, close to Aljezur.

16- 18.30h, 35 €  Register here.

Special Events

Befriending the Nervous System, Somatic Exploration and Breath

A workshop in collaboration with Katrin Heuser

This workshop brings together breathwork, somatic practice, gentle touch, and nervous system education in a way that is both accessible and applicable.

Rather than approaching the nervous system as something to fix or optimise, we’ll explore what it means to begin relating to it differently – with more understanding, responsiveness, and care.

The afternoon is structured to move from insight into experience.

We begin with a guided exploration of how the nervous system shapes breath, perception, and internal states. This includes a clear, practical introduction to breath mechanics and their relationship to regulation – what supports steadiness, what increases activation, and how to recognise the difference in your own body.

From there, we work with simple somatic tools and optional partner-based touch explorations, offering a direct experience of how contact can support regulation, orientation, and a sense of grounding.

After a short break, the second half of the workshop centres around a guided breathwork session. This creates space to experience a different quality of contact – with breath, sensation, and internal rhythm.

We close with time for reflection, sharing, and integration.

What the workshop includes

  • a practical introduction to the nervous system and its role in regulation
  • ⁠breath 101 – how breathing patterns influence internal state
  • ⁠simple somatic tools to support grounding and responsiveness
  • ⁠gentle touch and basic bodywork principles to explore co-regulation
  • ⁠guided enquiry and journalling
  • ⁠a facilitated breathwork session
  • ⁠integration space with tea and cake

This workshop is suitable for anyone curious about breathwork and nervous system care, whether for personal exploration or to inform their professional practice.

No prior experience is required.

 

Date & Location

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Lisbon

19th of April 2026,  13-18h at Little Yoga Space, Baixa, Lisbon

Energy exchange:

Early bird until 9th April – €55
Full price – €65

Registration required. Limited space. Max 8 participants.

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

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