WNC Healing: Community Breathwork at The Restoration AVL

During these challenging times globally and as a region, join us at The Restoration Asheville for healing and rejuvenation through the power of breathwork.

This in-person event is the perfect opportunity to destress, unwind, process/grieve/heal, and connect in community. Come experience the healing benefits of conscious breathing in a welcoming, safe, and supportive environment where you'll nourish your mind, body, and spirit using your breath to tap into your innate resilience. Together we will breathe and heal as a community while honoring the past, present, and future.

Please note: This is a donation-based community event. You may donate upon registering or donate via cash or Venmo at the event on an honor system. Suggested donation: $20-30+, but any donation amount is appreciated ♥️

A collaboration with The Restoration Hotel and The Breath Nurse.

Here's what to expect:

• The opportunity to socialize with others before we get started
• A short intro of The Breath Nurse with a brief talk around healing
• Learn how to do the breathwork breathing pattern and what to expect during breathwork, including potential “side effects”.
• Be guided through breathwork with music while laying down
• Q&A and voluntary sharing time
• The opportunity to connect more deeply with others as we wrap up
• Experience the benefits!

How to prepare:

• Each attendee must register individually.
• Dress comfortably.
• Have a mostly empty stomach (no big meals/heavy food or drink at least 30 min prior to arrival- light snacks and drinks are okay).
• Arrive at least five minutes early to settle into the space.
• Use the restroom prior to the start of the event.
• Ensure your cell phone is silenced.
• **No experience is necessary. Must be 18+. A participation waiver is required and must be agreed to upon registering. No experience is necessary. Must be 18+. If you are/think you may be pregnant or have a severe/serious, uncontrolled physical or mental health condition, this practice is strongly not recommended. By participating, you are acknowledging that your are in good health to do so. Please read the About Breathwork: Contraindications section to learn more. If you have questions or concerns about your ability to participate in breathwork, please reach out via email- [email protected].

What to bring:

• A Yoga mat
• Water
• If you have asthma, please bring your inhaler with you in case you need it.
• A blanket to cover yourself in case you get cold during breathwork/for comfort. You are welcome to bring a pillow for comfort as well. Anything to help you feel comfortable!
• An open mind and a willingness to try something new
• If you'd like to bring a journal to jot down anything, feel free to.

Where to park + How to access The Solarium

• The Solarium is located on the 6th floor of The Restoration Hotel Asheville with epic city and mountain views!
• Free street parking is available throughout the downtown area (metered to free after 6 pm)
• Paid parking lots and garages are available within a short walking distance (we recommend the Coxe Avenue Garage located at 52 Coxe Ave just behind the back entrance to the hotel)

Questions?

Please refer to the FAQ section towards the bottom of this event page.

By actively participating in this event, you are contributing to a collective sense of harmony and improvement in WNC and the world as a whole. As author Mark Nepo put it: "When we heal ourselves, we heal the world. For as the body is only as healthy as its individual cells, the world is only as healthy as its individual souls". And there's no better time or way to heal than in community!

During this event, you'll reduce stress and enhance your overall well-being for greater resilience using your breath. Breathwork is an easy-to-learn, simple yet highly effective tool you can use to change how you feel and show up in the world: a way to access the full potential of your respiratory (breathing) system and yourself to tranform your life and energy. At its core, breathwork is a self-care tool with many benefits and can have profound, positive effects on your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health.

As human beings, we hold onto trauma, tension, stress, and past experiences within our bodies that effect our wellness. The saying "breath is medicine" reflects the concept that consciously breathing with intention (noticing your breath and purposely changing how you're breathing for a period of time- aka breathwork) can have profound, positive effects on your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health.

The style of breathwork you'll be guided through uses a circular, conscious-connected three part breathing pattern that will leave you feeling lighter, calmer, more at peace, energized, and grounded. There are many similar, but different styles of this particular type of breathwork.

To experience it is to believe it. Many describe their experience as mind-blowing, life-altering (in a good way!), or better than therapy. Potential benefits include:

• Stress and anxiety relief
• Better sleep and mood
• Increased energy and stamina
• Improved concentration and thinking
• Decreased burnout, frustration, and overwhelm
• Increased optimism, compassion, and joy
• Decreased pain and inflammation
• Found clarity, meaning, and purpose
• Improved overall well-being and peace of mind
• A deepened connection with yourself and others
• Strengthened immune system functioning
• Let go of habits and percieved negative patterns/thoughts
• And so much more...

This won't be your typical meditation, yoga, or breathing class. We'll be doing deep, transformational breathing that will get you out of your head and reconnected with yourself and your body to heal and breathe out stress, anxiety, overwhelm, self-criticism and whatever else might be weighing you down (ie: sadness, anger, grief, disappointment, doubt, stuckness) and make room for more peace, calm, clarity, and joy within.

The Breath Nurse, Rachele Scevola, is a Registered Nurse turned Certified Master Breathwork Facilitator. Her passion and mission lie in empowering others to return to their true nature through the healing, growth, transformation, and life activation that occurs through the medicine of our breath. To date, she has guided over 2500 people from around the world through breathwork.

With over a decade of bedside nursing experience in critical care, Rachele's journey through serious chronic health issues, PTSD, anxiety, depression, and extreme burnout led her out of her hospital nursing career and into the healing art of breathwork.

She credits breathwork as being the most influential, life-changing wellness practice in her life and has adopted the belief that our lives and breath are medicine based on her lived experience. Now, with close to seven years of breathwork experience, Rachele guides others to rediscover themselves and live a more joyful, happy, and healthy life through this incredible and often mind-blowing tool.

Rachele lives in the mountains local to Asheville, NC.

**Although Rachele Scevola, aka The Breath Nurse, is a licensed healthcare professional, The Breath Nurse (Company) is not acting in the capacity of physicians, psychologists, or healthcare professionals. This event is NOT intended to treat or diagnose, and does not include treatment for or diagnosis of any illnesses, disease or disorders, whether physical, mental, psychological or emotional. **

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