Known in yoga practice as pranayama (prana meaning “life force” and ayama meaning “to draw out”), breathwork underpins Asa Maia’s founding principles. Inhale, exhale and learn how to align your body, mind and spirit through the power of breath…
Engender personal empowerment
What is Breathwork
Begin your breathwork journey with us
The foundation of our health and life, each and every one of us takes around 25,000 breaths a day, without necessarily paying attention to it. Which is remarkable when you consider that how we breathe changes the way we think and feel. Long revered in countless cultures and practiced across different healing modalities across the world including here in Bali, ‘breathwork’ refers to conscious and controlled breathing. The intentional rather than passive use of breath transitions us out of our fight and flight and into the parasympathetic nervous system. A powerful tool for promoting psychological, physical, emotional, and even spiritual healing, breathwork can also engender personal empowerment.
Deep abdominal breathing
Benefits of Breathwork
A form of meditation, the power of breath is miraculous
From releasing tension and trauma held in the body to improving digestion, the proven health benefits of breathwork are broad reaching. Simply by bringing more oxygen into the body, our immune systems can be boosted. One of conscious breathing’s superpowers is its ability to reduce stress and calm the mind. It does this by dampening down our automatic stress responses: the part that’s responsible for involuntary functions. Deep abdominal breathing, in particular, can lower blood pressure and improve overall circulation. Flushing out toxins, alleviating fatigue, increasing our alertness and bringing us into our bodies to see our truth are just a few more of its extraordinary healing abilities.
Outperform yourself every day
Our Breathwork Practitioners
Techniques to take away beyond your stay in Uluwatu
Our resident breathwork practitioner Syddarta believes in using breathwork to achieve profound self-transformation on both physical and mental planes, “by simply practicing our most basic instinct to survive”. Trained and certified in multiple breathing disciplines, he’s able to customize each classbased on participants’ experience and personal needs. In his deeply cathartic sessions you will learn how to fast track yourself into a deep meditational state through your breath. The teachings and their transformative powers don’t stop at the shala. Sy’s breathwork toolkit can be applied to everyday life and integrated into your routine, “[enabling] you to outperform yourself every day.”
Elle Tait
BREATH FACILITATOR
Elle offers a holistic approach that uses the breath as a powerful tool to enhance both performance and overall well-being.
As a dedicated Breathwork Facilitator, she creates a safe and supportive space where individuals can explore the depth of their breath and unlock their full potential. Her sessions are thoughtfully tailored to meet each person’s unique needs, incorporating a range of techniques and practices to support their personal journey.
In one-on-one sessions, Elle works closely with guests to address specific concerns and intentions. Through personalized guidance, she helps individuals reconnect with their breath and experience its transformative effects—whether they are looking to manage stress, reduce anxiety, release past trauma, or simply cultivate a deeper sense of balance and wellbeing.
She also offers group classes for those who are drawn to a shared, community-based experience. These sessions provide an opportunity to connect with others, learn collectively, and benefit from the amplified energy and intention that arises within a group setting.
Throughout her work, Elle integrates a variety of breathwork techniques alongside intuitive energy and bodywork, supporting a deeply restorative and holistic experience.
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