This four-part, virtual series provides you with the opportunity to experience how gentle breathwork can help you manage stress and remain resilient throughout the day. Each 15-minute breath break will teach you a specific breathing technique that you can put to use right away. Not only will you have a tool to destress during the ups-and-downs of your day but you will leave each breath break more calm and collected for the afternoon ahead.

You can attend all, one, or any in between. Registration is open through the last Breath Break.

Join us for a nurturing class to embrace the change of season, and flow into winter allowing you to surrender with more ease into what is unfolding in your life. Kristin and Sarah have integrated the benefits of relaxing breathwork and meditation with gentle bodywork to encourage the mind and body to fully relax and to invite in the calm and peace that winter represents.

In Classical Chinese Medicine and Yin Yoga, the winter season coincides with the element water, representing the basis for life. As winter approaches, our yang (active) begins to decline, yielding to the growth strength of yin (rest). Water element gives us our will to survive and provides our reservoir for energy. When imbalanced, however, feelings of fear and instability may arise.

Through gentle bodywork, meditation and breathing techniques, this class will work to process and let go of these emotions using the themes of the winter season – the water element acupressure points, yin, and the exhale hold. Rather than resisting change and uncertainty, we will practice yielding to the path of least resistance and to the downward quality of winter.

Our minds and bodies experience similar changes as we move through the seasons. This class will use meditation, pranayama (breathwork), and gentle hands on bodywork to align and balance both the mind and body with the season of nature. Specific meditation and breathwork techniques will be used to find grounding and healing energy within. Rather than resisting change and uncertainty, we practice yielding to the path of least resistance and to the downward quality of winter.

Come prepared to slow down, connect, and welcome the soothing energy of this serene season (once the holidays hurry on by). All levels are welcome!

This month, we will be exploring the 2:8 breath to celebrate the end of the season of the exhale. Every breath break consists of conscious breathing and breath awareness followed by a prompt to encourage mindful integration of slow breaths into the day-to-day for the rest of the month.

Join us at the Spa State Park to connect with nature through the practice Shinrin-Yoku and slow, seasonal breathwork.

Enjoy the complimentary combination of gentle breathwork and Shinrin-yoku (forest bathing) for increased peace of mind and relaxation. As we move through the season of the exhale, autumn, and our bodies prepare for winter's rest, the afternoon will include healthful forest "bathing" in the Spa State Park bookended with exhale-inducing breath flows - hence forest breathing.

This month, we will be exploring the two-part exhale to celebrate the season of the exhale in which we find ourselves. By taking a 20 minutes to inhale intentionally and exhale fully to relax, slow down the heart rate, and turn on the parasympathetic nervous system.

Begin your Saturday with a meditative and sensory breath walk. The 45 minutes center matching your strides with conscious, slow breaths to foster presence and restoration. Even if you've walked through Congress Park a hundreds of times, we pinky promise you will sense something you've never seen, smelt, or heard before by playing with mindful breaths.

We will breathe with a different part of the park and emphasize a specific breathing pattern inspired by that area's personality.

We will meet at Congress Spring for this breath walk.

Begin your Saturday with a meditative and sensory breath walk. The 45 minutes center matching your strides with conscious, slow breaths to foster presence and restoration. Even if you've walked through Congress Park a hundreds of times, we pinky promise you will sense something you've never seen, smelt, or heard before by playing with mindful breaths.

We will breathe with a different part of the park and emphasize a specific breathing pattern inspired by that area's personality.

We will meet at Spirit of Life for this breath walk.

Explore the garden with conscious breaths and slow strides to welcome in fall, the season of the exhale. As we say hello to this new season around us, by mindfully breathing, we will slow down and relax. The goal is for each attendee to leave feeling at peace, more connected with their individual body and the collective ecosystem. 

Begin Sunday with a breath walk through the upper pines in Saratoga Spa State Park to connect with new and old friends, with your best furry friend in tow. We will walk, talk, and consciously breathe. During the loop, we will stop at a couple of spots along the trail to practice some breathing techniques. Whether it is your first or fiftieth time meandering around Saratoga Spa State Park, you will gain a new perspective as you heighten your senses through conscious breathing and intentional strides.

We are excited to collaborate with Dog Bods on this! You can sign up below.

We are keeping the walk to ten humans and pups to allow for calm connection. The breathing techniques facilitated are suitable for all bodies. You can learn more about what a breath walk entails here. 

Begin your Saturday with a meditative and sensory breath walk. The 45 minutes center matching your strides with conscious, slow breaths to foster presence and restoration. Even if you've walked through Congress Park a hundreds of times, we pinky promise you will sense something you've never seen, smelt, or heard before by playing with mindful breaths.

We will breathe with a different part of the park and emphasize a specific breathing pattern inspired by that area's personality.

We will meet at Spit and Spat for this breath walk.

Begin your day with grounded, soft focus by connecting with your breath in community. In 30 minutes, we will explore gentle breathwork, breath awareness, and meditation. Sarah facilitates each flow with lots of options and with playful curiosity. Come breathe, release, and restore.

Begin your day with grounded, soft focus by connecting with your breath in community. In 30 minutes, we will explore gentle breathwork, breath awareness, and meditation. Sarah facilitates each flow with lots of options and with playful curiosity. Come breathe, release, and restore.

Cool and slow down with 30 minutes of restorative yoga led by Kelsey Lynn followed by 30 minutes of gentle breathwork led by Sarah Hutcherson. Each participant will leave renewed ready for what the week brings. All levels welcome. Please bring a mat.

As the sun reaches its highest point in the sky and lends it light for the longest day of the year, come walk and breathe with intention in Pitney's gardens. The Summer Solstice welcomes the transition from growth-oriented action to nourishment and this walk will immerse your senses in how the abundant gardens are reaching their full shape, as summer arrives. 

We will move through the gardens following the four parts of the breath starting at the northmost part of the garden, to symbolize the season of breath (the transition between the inhale and inhale hold) that we find ourselves in. As we breathe into the garden and relish the sounds and smell of this celebratory transition, the intention is for each ambler to move away with a relaxed focus for summer and a newfound appreciation for slow breaths, especially for the transition between the inhale and the inhale hold. 

The monthly breath break is a free breathing class designed for anyone looking to try out gentle breathwork or continue to nourish their conscious breathing practice.

June’s centers breathing techniques that support relaxation and sleep.

Join us for a relaxing workshop where we'll sip on tea and learn how conscious breaths can help you de-stress and unwind.

Breath & Bitters is designed to help you slow down, play with herbs and your breath as you integrate what you’ve learned during the winter as you awaken to spring. We will dig deep into nettles, dandelion tea, and center inhales in honor of the spring. The intention for our time together is to help you drop in and witness the transition into Spring through plant medicine and slow breathwork.

Take 90 minutes to practice and learn more about mindful breathwork centered around the inhale to awaken to Spring. After moving through winter, the season of the exhale hold, your breath and body are ready to blossom.

We begin with a brief breath flow to slow down and connect with our bodies and each other, followed by a discussion about the physiological benefits of the inhale. We will continue into a slow, sweet inhale-centric breath flow to witness what is alive in the inhale, calling us forward this spring. We will finish with reflections and ideas to integrate slow breathing into this season.

No prior experience with breathwork is needed. While breathwork affects each nervous system differently, the intention for our time together is for you to release and reemerge with more clarity about what spring holds for you. We will explore different techniques, including but not limited to, the extended inhale and the interrupted breath through a gentle, therapeutic approach.

A breath walk is a restorative way to welcome the change in the seasons. The intention for each breath walk is to connect you with your senses, the land, and the amblers around you. During our hour together, you will mindfully explore Pitney's landscape as you bring attention to and play with your breath. 

You will bring attention to the transition into the inhale since Spring is the season of the inhale. The combination of intentional, slow inhales and meandering in the garden will help you slow down as you tune into what your body is bringing into this season. Remember to dress for the weather as we will be outside.

Begin your day with grounded, soft focus by connecting with your breath in community. In 30 minutes, we will explore gentle breathwork, breath awareness, and meditation. Sarah facilitates each flow with lots of options and with playful curiosity. Come breathe, release, and restore.

We will practice breathing techniques that center the exhale hold since winter is the season of the exhale hold. The exhale hold is sympathetic in nature, meaning it is activating, so expect to leave with a little more pep in your step.

This workshop will be a container to explore the connection between your breath and winter, dig into your relationship with your breath, and how it ebbs and flows with the tides of the seasons. You will be guided through slow breathwork and reflection prompts to unearth what percolates on your breath during this season. The breathing will center pauses after the exhales, allowing you to unearth what wintering means for you in 2024.  

As part of a two-day goal-setting retreat at Saratoga Arms, Slo Breathworks will facilitate a workshop to help leaders explore how slow breaths can help them focus and step into resilience in their 2024 selves. Attendees will learn about the four parts of the breath and their physiological ties. Plus, breathing techniques to play with to regulate their emotions. This workshop is a brilliant space to breathe and pay attention to what you already know.

Tune into the darkest week of the year and winter’s arrival with a refreshing, slow walk through the gardens. The winter solstice is a brilliant moment to tune into the ritual of your inhale, the exhale, and the pauses in between. As we breathe and walk about, witness how the gardens rest during winter’s bite, after the abundance of fall, and in anticipation for the sprouting of spring. 

The combination of conscious breathing and walking in the garden will help your nervous system slow down and relax. We'll begin with a brief explanation about slow breathing, then explore the garden using multiple senses with cues to breathe, and finish with warm tea and a reflection in the greenhouse. 

Remember to dress for the weather as we will be outside for some of the walk. 

Reimagine your Sunday morning beverage with slow breaths in community. The intention for our time together is to discover how conscious, slow breathing with your morning beverage, not only during the workshop but each morning, can reset your mind-body connection so you move into your day with more presence and ease. During this workshop, we will explore a few different breathing techniques to see how they feel to your nervous system.

The workshop includes:

• A coffee, tea, and cocoa beverage bar for attendees to sip and sample

• Overview of the basics of conscious breathing with some fun breathing trivia

• A 30-minute breathing flow to settle in and savor the morning beverages

• Reflection prompts to dig into your relationship with the breath

• A 15% Discount to DB Trends Boutique

Conscious, slow breathing is a wonderful vehicle to move you through a stuck emotion, energy, or mood. 31% of Americans anticipate being more stressed during this 2023 holiday season, according to the American Psychiatric Association. Acquire a beautiful tool rooted in your humanity that you always have access to to help navigate the season.

When you slow down your breathing, you elicit the rest-and-digest response in your body and become open to the vastness of experience. To regulate the nervous system, studies show it takes about a month of regular conscious breathing. That’s why exploring a breathing practice with your coffee or morning beverage is a great way to begin to build breathwork into your life.

If you are a parent, you can drop your child off at Play Hallow for an ornament crafting class, which is a couple of doors down from DB Trends, while you enjoy a beautiful morning of breathwork and morning sips. Plus, some extra time for holiday shopping and other errands. The cost is $40 . You can sign up here.

Or once you sign up for the workshop, you can receive a discount code

Think of this as a coffee break with a breathgiving edge! Take 15 minutes to play with your breath to reset for the rest of the work day.

We will practice the 4:7 humming breath during November's breath break. The 4:7 humming breath helps to release those excessive thoughts and to ground into the present moment.

When was the last time you breathed and asked your exhale: What are you holding?

During our hour together, we will practice and play with down-regulating breathing techniques that center long, slow exhales. We will also hold space through writing or doodling (or anything in between, choice is beautiful) to notice what is moving with our exhales.

The intentions for the Evening Exhale are for our nervous systems and bodies to pause, rest and digest, while we celebrate the innate beauty of Fall in and around us.

During our two hours together, we will imbibe four, alluring elixirs crafted by Ambrosia Elixirs in their brilliant wholeness as you breathe into your exhale to expand your mind-body connection - all within the wondrous walls of Refuge Event Space. We will also witness the reciprocity between the elixirs and their accompanying exhale techniques, which are crafted to elevate the elixirs' textures, tastes, and aromas. The two hours will include audio-guided explorations and a collective breath flow.

Reemerge grounded in the breadth and depth of your exhales with a new perspective after being transported into the elixirs' herbaceous and sweet hues, radically ready for the rest of the weekend. 

This is not a holotropic or cyclical breathwork class. All you need to bring is your curious mind and your lungs. 

Take sixty minutes to consider what you are ready to shed and surrender as we move through the season of the exhale. Immerse your senses in Pitney Meadows's serene space while practicing restorative yoga and conscious breathing. The intention is that each attendee slows down just enough to experience their emotions, body, and mind in the company of other humans as they are in that moment.

$20 per person | All abilities welcome | Bring your own mat or blanket