Expansion Breathwork Ceremony | Northern Beaches

Expansion Breathwork Ceremony

Your breath holds the key to an extraordinary possibility: accessing states that can open the way to transforming how you experience yourself and reality. This intimate event combines conscious breathing techniques with expert guidance to access and navigate non-ordinary states of consciousness, offering the potential for breakthrough insights, emotional integration, and lasting transformation.

What You'll Experience

• Cacao ceremony to facilitate heart-opening and deep presence
• Carefully guided conscious connected breathwork journey
• Lush, ethereal soundscapes
• Expert guidance for navigating altering states
• Opportunities for authentic connection in an intimate group setting
• Safe environment for deep exploration
• Integration circle for processing and sharing

What's Breathwork?

Conscious connected breathwork is a powerful technique that connects your inhales and exhales in a continuous flow, with no pauses between breaths. Unlike everyday breathing, this practice creates specific physiological and psychological conditions that can shift you out of ordinary consciousness into profound territories of experience.

This simple yet powerful technique has been refined and studied over decades of practice and research, offering a reliable pathway to cultivate deep insight, emotional resilience, and shifts in perspective.

What is an Expanded State?

An expanded state is not simply an altered state of consciousness. While many experiences can temporarily shift our ordinary state—from exercise to musical performances—an expanded state offers something more profound: it creates conditions for genuine transformation in how you understand yourself and reality.

In these states, you tend to become:

• More present, engaged, and open
• Deeply curious and creatively alive
• Flexibly responsive rather than reactive
• Intimately connected to yourself and others
• Capable of fresh insights and perspectives
• Naturally integrated and whole

Expanded states can facilitate the release of limiting patterns while unveiling new possibilities for being and relating in the world.

Why Join this Experience?

• Access profound states of consciousness through time-tested methods
• Experience the transformative potential of conscious breathing
• Release limiting patterns and access new possibilities
• Connect with your innate capacity for insight and healing
• Gain tools for navigating non-ordinary states
• Connect with others interested in conscious evolution

Who is this for?

This journey is ideal for:

• Seekers of genuine transformation and expanded awareness
• Those ready to explore beyond ordinary states of consciousness
• Individuals interested in personal growth and emotional integration
• Anyone wanting to understand themselves and reality more deeply
• Both newcomers to breathwork and experienced practitioners

The ceremony is limited to a small group to ensure personal attention and meaningful group connection.

Agenda

18:30 – Opening circle

18:45 – Cacao Ceremony

19:15 – Breathwork Journey

20:45 - Integration and closing circle

21:00 - Event finishes

Please arrive on time!

Preparation

• Arrive on an empty stomach (at least 2 hours fasting, 4+ is ideal).
• Avoid alcohol or substances for 48 hours prior.
• Read the health information section below and be aware of the contraindications.

Practicalities

• Wear comfortable clothing.
• Yoga mats are provided.
• Bring a blanket and a thin pillow, if desired.
• Consider bringing a journal.
• Stay hydrated – bring a water bottle.

Try it at home!

My colleagues from Alchemy of Breath offer a free online breathwork session every Sunday.

This event uses a similar approach and breathwork technique. I'm confident you'll enjoy the online session and feel inspired to experience a longer and more immersive journey in person.

Your facilitator

Marcel Scharth is a breathwork practitioner passionate about guiding individuals to use the power of conscious breathing to connect more deeply with themselves and achieve lasting transformation.

His training and experience across multiple breathwork modalities allow him to create powerful journeys that facilitate genuine transformation and offer practices designed to support a wide range of goals and needs, from sports performance to holistic well-being.

Health and safety information

Breathwork results in specific physiological changes in the body and can lead to intense physical and emotional release.

As a precaution, the following conditions are contraindicated in conscious connected breathwork practices:

• Pregnancy
• Cardiovascular disease
• High blood pressure
• Detached retina or glaucoma
• Brain or abdomen aneurysm
• Epilepsy
• Uncontrolled diabetes or thyroid conditions
• Bipolar disorder or schizophrenia

If a contraindication applies, participation requires medical approval.

I advise you not to participate in case of a full stomach, flu, virus, or fever.

Trauma-informed breathwork

If you're seeking breathwork specifically for trauma release, please let me know so I can provide personalised guidance.

While many are drawn to breathwork for cathartic emotional release, please be aware that trauma experts generally recommend a more nuanced approach for healing trauma. For those on a trauma healing journey, I offer specialised sessions that prioritise building internal resources, gradual processing, and the development of emotional regulation skills. These trauma-informed practices may be more beneficial for your needs.

Your well-being is my priority, and I'm here to support your unique path with care and expertise.