What This Space Is About
These group journeys are an invitation to slow down, feel, and reconnect with yourself.
Through conscious connected breath, movement, and presence, we create a grounded space where emotions can move, clarity can arise, and your nervous system can soften.
Each session unfolds naturally — without pressure, without expectation — guided by your breath and held by a small, supportive group.
The 4 Pillars of a Session
1. Conscious Connected Breathwork
A powerful breathing practice that opens deeper layers of your inner world.
2. A Safe, Trauma-Informed Container
You choose your pace. Your boundaries and experience are respected fully.
3. Movement, Sound & Grounding
Gentle elements woven into the session to support presence, release and integration.
4. Integration & Closing Circle
Space to land, share, or simply be - no pressure to speak.
Practical Information
✨ Duration 2 to 2.5 hours
✨ Location: Aljezur, Lagos or your specific venue
✨ Group Size Small, intimate groups (max 8-10)
✨ Exchange 20–35€ (sliding scale)
✨ What to Bring:
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Comfortable clothes
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Water bottle
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A warm layer or blanket
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Eye mask (optional)
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Journal (optional)
Location
Respira is based in the Aljezur region - a place of wild coastlines, soft mountains, and a growing conscious community. Whether you're visiting or living here, you're invited to breathe with us.
Address
5min drive from
Aljezur, Algarve, Portugal
Next dates
Currently there are no future dates planned.
To be first to find out join Telegram group: https://t.me/respira_breathwork
Or send me an email: breathimmersiondays@gmail.com
This is for you if...
Benefits of Breathwork
Stress Relief and Relaxation
Breathwork lowers stress, calms the mind, and relaxes the body, fostering a sense of peace and balance.
Emotional Healing
It helps release trauma, negative emotions, and limiting beliefs, unlocking emotional freedom and lightness.
Improved Sleep and Vitality
Breathwork enhances sleep quality, boosts energy, and increases clarity, joy, and overall vitality.
Enhanced Mind-Body Connection
Strengthens the bond between mind and body, promoting presence, self-awareness, and emotional grounding.
Personal Growth and Creativity
Facilitates self-discovery, new perspectives, and authentic self-expression, igniting creativity and growth.
What Participants Say
❝ Transformational experience ❞
True transformational experience. I had a break through after a long time, in each of my goals. Everything from program, awareness to participants, holding space, bonding and creating safe space was done with attention to details and mainly a full heart.
Ori Meroz
🇮🇱 Algarve
Immersion Sep 2024
❝ Open up and express ❞
I found this a really inspiring space, and the facilitators were amazing at allowing everyone to open up and express their true selves. Would highly recommend!
Ben
🇬🇧 UK
Immersion Sep 2024
❝ Deep breathwork ❞
10 out of 10! Incredible experience - especially the depth of the breathwork. Thank you so much. I was able to disconnect but also 100% connect with myself. Beautiful program, people and place.
Dominik
🇩🇪 Stuttgart
Immersion Apr 2024
❝ Beyond expectations ❞
It was beyond my expectations, LOVED IT. Every activity had a meaning. Loved my group with so many nationalities that made it even more special. I recommend this with all my heart!
Pily
🇲🇽 Mexico City
Immersion Sep 2024
❝ Speaking from the heart ❞
This was a profound experience - from the moment I arrived I felt included. The sharing circles were very special as was the 1-1 part halfway through.
Even the way you dealt with tricky moments was so inspiring.
Rosanne
🇬🇧 London
Immersion Apr 2024
❝ Safe space ❞
I encourage everyone to take a leap of faith and join Breath Immersion. It's really a sacred journey. And a safe space where I can do my inner work of healing and discovery. Mucho amor in these 6 days.
Ale
🇷🇴 Zurich
Immersion Sep 22, Apr 23 & 24
❝ Tools for relationships ❞
I’m feeling reenergised and with more tools to improve my relations with myself and with others.
Susana
🇵🇹 Lagos
Immersion Apr 2023 & Sep 2024
❝ More than breathwork ❞
I benefited immensely from the experience. This immersion is much more than breathwork. The programme is very rich, thoughtfully designed and well facilitated by Dom & Dina with a lot of love and care. I felt safe, open and receptive very soon to drop out of my mind, let things go and most importantly, SURRENDER.
Thea
🇭🇰 London
Immersion Sep 2024
❝ Practice authenticity ❞
Dom and Dina created a very sacred space where i could totally be myself. This is the best gift you can give yourself. I can't wait to join again!
Mandy
🇳🇱 Andalusia
Immersion Apr & Sep 2024
❝ Nourishing deep dive ❞
This retreat is a nourishing deep dive into self. Dina and Dominik guided us through movement, sharing circles, playful exercises and very supported breathwork sessions. It was my first time exploring breathwork and it brought me to a very deep space. It was a truly beautiful experience.
Charlotte
🇬🇧 Ericeira
Immersion Sep 2024
Meet your guides
Both Dina and Dominik love to hold space for others and have been doing it individually and together for years. They are also a couple and their unique gifts are very complementary. Kindness, Safety and Presence. Empathy, Wisdom and Joyfulness is what you can expect from them.
Frequently asked questions
Do you need any previous experience to participate?
No, you don't. We have participants that had never done breathwork before and had a very deep and meaningful experience.
What is conscious connected breathwork (CCB)?
Breathwork is a therapeutic technique that uses simple breathing practices to lead people into a non-ordinary state of consciousness where unconscious and previously repressed thoughts, sensations, energies and emotions, that are held in the body, can more easily rise to the surface for integration.
CCB is a breathing technique in which the breather intentionally connects the inhale with the exhale without any pauses, commonly practiced through the mouth. During a breathwork session, the facilitator guides the breather through a journey, accompanied by music, guidance and touch (if wished).
What are the contraindications for this type of breathwork?
This work is powerful and will move things within you - physiologically, emotionally and energetically. Therefore it is not advised for people with any of these contraindications.
If any of these health conditions apply to you, you should speak with your doctor prior to practicing:
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Cardiovascular or heart disease
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Detached retina or glaucoma
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Diagnosed brain or abdomen aneurysm
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Epilepsy
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Diagnosed mental healt issues (e.g. bipolar or schizophrenia)
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Uncontrolled diabetes or thyroid conditions
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High blood pressure
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Recent surgeries
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Pregnancy - especially 1st and 3rd trimester
If in doubt, please get in touch with us.
Why is it called an immersion?
We call this offering an immersion not a retreat and here is why:
The word to “retreat” literally means to withdraw, to go away, to not do something.
And what we offer is the opposite.
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We dont go away, we come towards.
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We dont withdraw, we take full responsibility.
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We dont escape life, we face life.
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We dont relax, we work.
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We dont retreat, we immerse.
The overall promise is not to get away from your life, find a peaceful time in nature for yourself and come back rejuvenated.
The invitation is to come if you hear the call to meet yourself in a safe yet intense container where everyday you have an opportunity to challenge and meet another part of yourself and continue to deepen the connection. Once it is done, you will probably need a day or two to integrate and rest.
It is a special blend of ancient and modern rituals & practices, inspired by different traditions from east to west that come to support the work and to feed the daily themes of connection to self, to others, to nature and to all that is. All on the solid foundation and strong potency of conscious connected breathwork as a tool for self liberation and growth.
Let's immerse in the beauty of life together.
What are the benefits of breathwork?
Breathwork offers many benefits. It can nurture the ability to manage stress, improve sleep, relieve physical discomforts, increase self-compassion, release limiting beliefs, access inner wisdom, make new connections, gain new perspectives and reach clarity. Main benefits can include:
🎈 reduce stress, worry and mental rumination
🎈 alleviate anxiety, insomnia and depression
🎈 support the resolution and integration of traumatic energy and fear
🎈 reduce self sabotage, brain fog, lethargy
🎈 support emotional release
🌱 balance energy and enhance vitality
🌱 support nervous system regulation and the resilience to meet the experiences of life
🌱 promote mental clarity
🌱 expand awareness and open new pathways of seeing and understanding
🌱 connect us to our intuition, our wisdom and our peace
It can bring significant improvements in mood, anxiety, sleep, and dysfunctional thought and behavior patterns. In the context of grief, trauma, and PTSD, Breathwork offers a safe container in which to experience, process, and ultimately release traumatic or difficult memories stuck in the body, through the body. Increased level of presence, shifts in perspective and release of trapped memories and emotions, all lead to a dramatic reduction of stress and anxiety levels.
Breathwork help develop neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to develop new neural pathways to reorganise itself. By changing the way we breathe, we can change the way we think, act and behave through strengthening a new pathway.
Finally, Breathwork helps is by toning the vagus nerve. With repeated practice, your parasympathetic system becomes strengthened and sympathetic activation becomes less frequent, leading to an inner calm and increased resilience. Every breathwork widens our window of tolerance for our nervous system to gradually hold more and more charge.