Learn pranayama and somatic breath practices to regulate your nervous system, release tension, and reconnect with your body. Guided by Wendy Matthews, trauma-informed therapist and breathwork practitioner.
Discover Transformation Through Pranayama Practices
I don’t just teach pranayama/breathwork — I’ve lived the journey that shows how it works. From surviving a high-pressure career as a criminal barrister, navigating early motherhood, and facing personal crisis, I discovered how breath, therapy, and mindfulness can reshape your nervous system and restore balance. My online and in-person courses are designed to guide you safely through this transformation, whether you’re dealing with anxiety, trauma, or overwhelm.
What Is Pranayama?
Pranayama Breathwork is not just a technique. It’s a doorway to feel, release, and integrate emotions safely, and to reconnect with your body in a world that often pulls us into disconnection and stress.
Pranayama, or yogic breathwork, (#NB this is different from the Breathwork I offer with counselling) is an ancient practice of breath control designed to calm the nervous system, expand life force (prana), and support emotional clarity and physical vitality. Through intentional breathing techniques, such as Ujjayi, Bhastrika, Nadi Shodhana, and more, you learn to tap into deeper states of presence and integration.
Why Pranayama Matters
Many of us carry stress, anxiety, or unresolved emotional patterns within the body. Talk therapy helps, but pranayama offers a direct, somatic pathway. When fused with counselling, breathwork becomes a powerful catalyst for healing by:
Regulating the nervous system and calming anxiety
Clearing emotional blocks, tension, and internal “armoring”
Cultivating clarity, self-awareness, and emotional resilience
Increasing oxygen flow, grounding presence, and intuitive insight
This isn't about suppressing emotions, it’s about creating space to feel, understand, and gently release what no longer serves your well-being.
Who Will Benefit
Whether you're dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, or burnout, or simply feel disconnected from yourself, this breathwork practice offers a different entry point into transformation. Clients often seek pranayama to:
Restore balance when talk therapy alone feels too rigid
Access calm in moments of overwhelm or transition
Support ongoing healing from emotional wounds
Deepen embodiment and self-trust
What You’ll Learn
Foundational to advanced pranayama techniques (Ujjayi, Bhastrika, Nadi Shodhana)
Nervous system regulation and stress relief
Emotional integration and release of body tension
Cultivation of clarity, presence, and resilience
9-Week Pranayama Course (Online)
Duration: 9 weeks | Frequency: Weekly, 60 min live via Zoom NZT 6.30-7.30am every Wednesday | Investment: US$225
Includes: Guided breathwork/pranayama, mindful movement, recordings available for a week
Outcomes: Reduce anxiety, enhance emotional resilience, deepen embodiment, increase clarity
How Working Together Helps You
When you work with me, you’re gaining both breathwork depth, pranayama knowledge and practice and therapeutic support. It’s not just about “doing exercises”, it’s about guiding you through experiences that create inner alignment and lasting change.
Benefits clients report include:
Feeling lighter, more grounded, and emotionally present
Gaining tools for self-regulation in daily life
Noticing greater mental clarity, intuition, and capacity for joy
Breaking repetitive emotional patterns held in the body
Aligning with a deeper sense of self, peace, and purpose
About Me
With over 15 years of experience and facilitation of more than 3,000 breathwork and countless pranayama sessions, my approach is trauma-informed, personalized, and rooted in deep embodiment. My training spans traditional yogic Pranayama and I have spent the past 14 years travelling to India annually to train with a traditional Yogi (I am also a senior Yoga Teacher), psychosynthesis counselling, mindfulness, and spiritual inquiry, offering a truly integrated path for transformation.
Ready To Transform?
If you’re ready to breathe differently, feel differently, and live more aligned, this program is for you.
PRANAYAMA COURSE:
Deepen self-awareness and restore inner harmony. Explore transformative healing through intentional breathing.
Upcoming Dates:
6.30-7.30am NZT Wednesday 14th January- Wednesday 11th March 2026
Cost: US$225 for the 9-week package. Includes weekly zoom recordings which will be available for 1-week following each session.