sage + blush wellness presents
TRANSFORMATIONAL BREATHWORK
Experience the transformative power of Breathwork infused with Reiki in an in person or virtual session designed to elevate your mental, physical, and spiritual well-being.
Guided by the three-part technique—“Belly…Chest…Exhale”—you’ll learn to breathe consciously, calming your nervous system and releasing stress and blockages. Each session begins with grounding meditations and intention setting, allowing you to let go and nourish your mind and body.
Infused with the energy of unconditional love, this practice creates a safe space for healing, helping you release emotions and stored memories. You'll also engage in primal sounding, encouraging deep release, flow and catharsis.
Breathwork not only reduces stress but also fosters feelings of openness, peace, and clarity. Scientific research backs its benefits, showing positive effects on the heart, brain, and overall health.
Join me to discover the joy of conscious breathing and feel the waves of contentment and satisfaction wash over you.
How to Prepare for Your Session
Create Your Space: Ensure you’re free from parenting or work duties. Let others know you might make some sounds during the session.
Find a Quiet Spot: Choose a comfortable, distraction-free area—your bed or floor is perfect. A thin blanket for cushioning is great; keep a pillow nearby if you’d like to primal sound into it.
Tech Check: Make sure your device is charged and ready. A noise machine can help create a calming atmosphere outside the door of your room.
Trust the Journey: Breathe through your mouth, except at the end when you’ll switch to your nose. Trust that you’ll receive what you need.
Share Safely: At the end, feel free to share, but remember this is a space for you to simply be. What’s shared here stays here.
Thank you for your trust and presence.
Breathwork is completely safe, healthy + healing to practice everyday.
Breathwork is a safe and healing practice to incorporate into your daily routine! However, it’s best to avoid it if you have:
Pregnancy
Heart conditions
High blood pressure
Recent surgeries
Severe mental health concerns
If you have any doubts, please consult your healthcare provider. Your well-being is important to us!
Understanding Tetany in Breathwork
What is Tetany?
Tetany, or muscle stiffness, often occurs during breathwork and can affect your hands, feet, or other areas. It’s a natural response as your body releases tension from past traumas.
Why Does It Happen?
Mainstream views attribute tetany to deep breathing effects or mineral deficiencies. However, many who breathe experience it, suggesting a deeper healing process. As Dr. Stanislav Grof notes, it can signal your body’s readiness to release stuck emotional and physical energies.
Should You Worry?
Not at all! Tetany is harmless and usually leads to feelings of relaxation or significant release afterward.
How to Navigate Tetany:
Experience It: Allow the sensation without resistance; what you resist persists.
Trust Your Body: Slow down your breath if needed.
Breathe Softly: Focus on your in-breath and let the out-breath happen naturally.
Use Sound: Letting out a loud sound can help release tension.
Embrace these moments—they are opportunities for profound healing!
Transformational Breathwork Facilitator Certification + Mentorship
Learn to Hold Space That Changes Lives
Breathwork has the power to help people reconnect with themselves in profound ways. It invites the body to soften, the nervous system to regulate, and emotions, insights, and healing to unfold naturally.
This certification is designed for those who feel genuinely called to hold that kind of space for others.
Whether you hope to facilitate private sessions, group experiences, retreats, or weave breathwork into an existing practice, you'll receive personalized mentorship, practical tools, and hands-on experience to confidently begin leading others.
This is more than learning a breathing technique.
It's learning how to create extraordinary spaces where people feel deeply seen, tell the truth, and remember who they are.
That begins with your own relationship to the breath.
Throughout this mentorship, you'll continue deepening your own practice while learning how to compassionately guide others through theirs.
Why I Teach This Work
My relationship with breathwork has been unfolding for more than two decades.
It began in New York City with my first mentor, Janine Barris, where I experienced the profound combination of breathwork and Reiki. Those early experiences showed me what becomes possible when someone creates a space where you feel deeply seen, deeply supported, and safe enough to soften.
Since then, I've remained deeply committed to being both a facilitator and a lifelong student. I've spent two years immersed in ongoing breathwork training with one mentor, received private breathwork sessions for four years with another, and experienced sessions with more than a dozen additional breathwork facilitators representing a wide range of styles and approaches.
Rather than teaching a single method, this mentorship reflects the wisdom I've gathered from multiple mentors, decades of personal practice, thousands of facilitated sessions, and my own lived experience.
Alongside this work, I've spent more than 30 years practicing Reiki, over 24 years teaching Reiki, and thousands of hours guiding individuals and groups through transformational experiences.
When online breathwork became more widely available, I became fascinated by one simple question:
How do we create the same depth of safety, connection, and transformation through a screen?
Over the years, I've developed the sage + blush wellness approach to Transformational Breathwork facilitation—an approach that brings warmth, presence, and genuine human connection into virtual spaces without losing the intimacy that makes this work so powerful.
While we'll explore both online and in-person facilitation, you'll receive specialized mentorship in the unique art of creating transformational experiences online, while also learning how those principles naturally translate into in-person experiences.
Today, my greatest joy is mentoring facilitators to discover their own authentic way of holding space.
Rather than teaching you to become me, I'll help you become more fully yourself.
My Philosophy
Healing isn't something we make happen.
It happens when we create enough safety for it to unfold.
We'll move at the pace of the nervous system, not the pace of the mind.
The breath is the vehicle.
Presence is the medicine.
Everything you'll learn throughout this mentorship grows from that foundation.
The Art of Facilitation
Together we'll explore not only what to do, but who you're becoming as a facilitator.
Holding Space
• Creating emotionally safe, trauma-informed containers
• Reading the nervous system with presence and discernment
• Becoming less scripted and more present
• Trusting your intuition without making assumptions
• Using tone of voice, pacing, silence, and language to create safety
• Supporting emotional release without rushing, rescuing, or fixing
• Holding compassionate boundaries
• Facilitator ethics and self-care
Breathwork Facilitation
• The physiology of Transformational Breathwork and nervous system regulation
• Guiding conscious connected breathing
• Working with primal sounding and somatic expression
• Designing intentional themes for private sessions, groups, retreats, and workshops
• Integration practices and meaningful sharing circles
Music as Medicine
• Curating music that supports the emotional arc of every experience
• Building playlists that encourage regulation, expansion, emotional release, and integration
• Creating themed journeys that support the intention of each session
Online & In-Person Facilitation
• Understanding the unique strengths of both environments
• Creating warmth, intimacy, and connection through Zoom
• Reading both the room and the Zoom room
• Creating beautiful, welcoming environments
• Technical setup and best practices
Professional Practice
• Client preparation
• Contraindications and safety
• Intake forms and informed consent
• Building confidence as a facilitator
• Developing your own authentic facilitation style rather than copying someone else's
Reiki Integration
One of the elements that makes my approach unique is the integration of Reiki throughout the breathwork experience.
For more than three decades, Reiki has been woven into the way I hold space. Whether facilitating online or in person, I use Reiki to support nervous system regulation, create a greater sense of safety, and deepen the experience of being compassionately witnessed.
When facilitating in person, Reiki also allows for intentional, consent-based supportive touch when appropriate.
If you wish to facilitate breathwork using Reiki in the way I teach, First and Second Degree Reiki Certification are an essential part of your training pathway.
If you're already a Second Degree Reiki practitioner, we'll build upon your existing foundation. If you're new to Reiki, we'll create a personalized pathway that includes both Reiki and breathwork certification.
Your Mentorship Journey
Certification is based on demonstrated readiness rather than simply completing a checklist.
Every facilitator develops at a different pace, and your mentorship will be personalized to support your growth.
Step One • Experience the Work
Receive at least 10 Transformational Breathwork sessions through a combination of group and private experiences.
Before holding space for others, it's essential to experience the work yourself.
These sessions allow you to deepen your relationship with your own breath, develop greater self-awareness, and experience what it feels like to be lovingly held before becoming the one offering that support.
You cannot authentically hold someone somewhere you haven't been willing to go yourself.
Step Two • Observe
Observe me facilitating 5–8 complete breathwork experiences.
Notice not only what I do, but what I don't do.
We'll explore pacing, timing, nervous system regulation, language, silence, compassionate witnessing, music curation, themed experiences, and the subtle art of knowing when less is more.
Step Three • Practice
Begin facilitating your own breathwork experiences while receiving personalized mentorship and feedback.
We'll refine your confidence, presence, pacing, nervous system awareness, music curation, language, and facilitation style.
Step Four • Demonstrate Readiness
Lead at least three complete breathwork experiences while I observe.
Following each session, we'll debrief together, celebrate your strengths, identify opportunities for growth, and continue refining your skills.
You'll never be encouraged to facilitate beyond your readiness.
Certification is awarded when you've demonstrated the presence, discernment, confidence, and safety required to guide others with integrity.
Who This Is For
This mentorship is for coaches, therapists, healthcare professionals, yoga teachers, Reiki practitioners, retreat leaders, bodyworkers, and anyone who feels genuinely called to create extraordinary spaces where people can reconnect with themselves.
You don't need to have all the answers.
You simply need curiosity, humility, a commitment to your own growth, and a genuine desire to serve.
Your Mentorship Includes
• Personalized one-on-one mentorship
• Observation and individualized feedback
• Guided facilitation practice
• Transformational Breathwork Facilitator Manual
• Reiki attunement (if applicable)
• sage + blush wellness Transformational Breathwork Facilitator Certification
About Your Guide
Siri Baruc Thornton is the founder of sage + blush wellness, a Transformational Breathwork facilitator, Reiki Master of Masters, actor, director, and teacher who has been practicing Reiki for more than 30 years and teaching it for over 24.
Drawing from multiple breathwork lineages, decades of personal practice, thousands of facilitated sessions, and a lifelong commitment to learning, Siri has developed the sage + blush wellness approach to Transformational Breathwork facilitation—blending nervous system science, Reiki, carefully curated music, intuition, poetry, trauma-informed principles, and compassionate presence.
She believes exceptional facilitators aren't created through memorizing scripts.
They are cultivated through practice, presence, humility, discernment, and heart.
Her greatest joy is mentoring facilitators to create extraordinary spaces where people feel deeply seen, tell the truth, and remember who they are.
Investment
$3,333
Payment plans are available.
Let's Begin with a Conversation
If this work is calling you, I'd love to begin with a conversation.
Because this mentorship is intentionally personalized, we'll begin by exploring your experience, your goals, and the training pathway that will best support your growth.
To learn more or schedule a conversation, please email:
siri@sageandblushwellness.com
Artists and entrepreneurs share authentically their experiences of Transformational Breathwork infused with Reiki with Siri.
Artists and entrepreneurs share authentically their experiences of Transformational Breathwork infused with Reiki with Siri.
Artists and entrepreneurs share authentically their experiences of Transformational Breathwork infused with Reiki with Siri.
Musicians, Chefs, Managers, Actors, Astrologists, Nervous System Teachers, Coaches, Mothers, share authentically their experiences of Transformational Breathwork infused with Reiki with Siri.
Coach, Anna K. Morris shares after Siri’s Goddess of Light retreat and had a fresh experience of transformational breathwork with Siri.
Founder of Sound Mind, Dana Schmit, shares after Siri’s Goddess of Light retreat, about her experience with Transformational Breathwork.
Holistic coach, Linda, Brand, shares her deep shift after experiencing Transformational Breathwork with Siri before the Spring Equinox + International Day of Happiness Panel on The Authentic Creative podcast.
Brenda Rigney, Business Coach for mid-life entrepreneurs, shares about her breathwork experience with Siri after having Siri facilitate for her Aligned AF community.
What People Are Saying about Breathwork with Siri
“I cannot tell you how much I have been moved and changed by this work!”
- EH
"I’ve done a lot of healing work, but nothing has moved energy the way this breathwork and Reiki session did. I felt safe, seen, and completely transformed. It was like coming home to myself." -ED
“Last night’s clearing was massive for me on every level.”
-JB
“I arrived feeling overwhelmed, confused and heavy in my heart but after Siri’s Breathwork, I felt like the best version of me; relaxed, hopeful, open-hearted and light.” -AB
"I came in feeling heavy, anxious, and disconnected. After one session with Siri, I felt like I had shed layers of emotional weight I didn’t even realize I was carrying. It was like breathing my soul back to life." -JA
"This session was life-changing. I experienced a release I didn’t think was possible, decades of stored emotions just lifted. I’ve never felt lighter or more aligned." -SB
"I didn’t expect to feel so much in just one session. The combination of breathwork and Reiki was pure magic, like unlocking a part of me I had forgotten." -DF
"I came in with doubts and left with a sense of purpose. This wasn’t just breathwork. It was a profound awakening." -ES
"I had no idea how much I was holding onto until the breathwork took me there. With Siri’s guidance, I released so much emotional weight and felt an overwhelming sense of peace. It was like being reborn." -AP
"Siri’s presence is healing in itself. I felt completely safe to let go, release my fears, and embrace a new level of clarity and self-love. This experience changed me." -TS
"As someone who has struggled with anxiety for years, I can’t put into words how profound this session was. For the first time in a long time, I felt my body fully relax, my breath deepen, and my mind quiet. I left feeling empowered, calm, and deeply connected." -MK
"The Reiki infused breathwork was like a spiritual detox. I let go of old pain, welcomed in a new energy, and felt completely renewed. It was beyond powerful." -DJ
"I walked in overwhelmed and left feeling like I could breathe again, like I had been given a fresh start. The shift was immediate, and I still feel the effects days later." -IH
"This experience cracked my heart wide open. The love, the release, the transformation. I feel like a new person." -DC
"This was a journey. I faced emotions I had buried for years, and with Siri’s guidance, I released them with love. I feel transformed." -DT
"Siri’s breathwork and Reiki session shifted something inside me that I thought was stuck forever. I can’t explain it, but I know I am different now. Lighter. Freer. Ready." -QE
"Breath by breath, I felt the weight of my past melt away. Siri holds such a sacred, powerful space for transformation. I will forever be grateful." -RA
"I had no expectations, but what I experienced was beyond words. The energy, the deep healing, the freedom I felt afterward. It was like a lifetime of tension leaving my body in just one session." -TJ
"I never realized how much my breath could be a portal to healing. Siri’s guidance allowed me to unlock something deep within me, and I left feeling more aligned and alive than I ever have." -VB
"I healed deeply. This session with Siri was a profound release, like shedding years of emotional weight I didn’t even realize I was carrying. I left feeling renewed, lighter, and deeply at peace." -FG
"I came in feeling blocked and disconnected, but by the end of the session, something had shifted. My heart felt open, my mind clear, and for the first time in a long time, I felt truly present in my own body." -JB
“You are changing my life, Siri! I see everything played out in front of me now and it’s so beautiful! I’m going to bring this work to prisons. I was also able to fully forgive someone I’ve not been able to forgive most of my life.”
- LE
"I didn’t know how much I needed this until I felt the shift. Tears flowed, my heart opened, and for the first time in a long time, I felt truly free." -MG
"Siri’s breathwork and Reiki session was beyond powerful. I walked in with stress and tension, and I walked out with clarity, deep peace, and an unshakable sense of calm." -RG
“I showed up to my first breath work session feeling scattered and lost, and finished with the most incredible feeling of wholeness and love - both for myself and others. And it still happens every time! I can’t find the words to describe the bliss I feel after a session with Siri.” -BT
"It was like my entire being was realigned. I felt energy moving, emotions clearing, and a deep connection to something greater. The shift was undeniable." -DB
"Siri holds such a powerful, loving space. I felt completely supported to go deep, release, and truly heal. It’s an experience I will never forget." -HF
"After my session, I felt like I had pressed the reset button on my life. My mind was clear, my heart was open, and I felt a level of peace I hadn’t touched in years." -PA
"I’ve tried meditation, therapy, and so many healing modalities, but nothing compared to this. Breathwork with Siri unlocked something deep inside me. I left feeling lighter, clearer, and more connected to myself than ever before." -RB
"Tears, laughter, release, and revelation. This session was everything I didn’t even know I needed. Siri is a masterful guide in the healing process." -HM
"Breathwork with Siri felt like unlocking a door I didn’t even know existed inside me. The clarity, the healing, the peace. It’s hard to explain, but I will never forget this experience and can’t wait to have another 9 sessions!" -VS
"I had no idea how disconnected I was from my body and breath until this session. Siri guided me with such care, and by the end, I felt whole, deeply grounded, and fully alive." -GG
"I never thought I could feel so much in one session. I cried, I released, I healed, and I left feeling lighter than I ever have. Siri’s gift is undeniable." -SA
"I walked in carrying grief, stress, and exhaustion. I walked out with a sense of deep peace, clarity, and an open heart. This work is truly magical." -AM
"I came for stress relief but walked away with a spiritual awakening. This work is life-changing, and Siri is a masterful guide." -KO
"I never thought I could feel so safe in my own body. This breathwork session gave me a new relationship with myself, one of love, trust, and deep peace." -LB
"I had no idea how much was stored in my body until the breathwork took me there. With Siri’s guidance, I released years of tension, grief, and fear and in its place, I found lightness, clarity, and deep peace." -CF
"This session was nothing short of miraculous. I felt years of stuck energy move through me, leaving me feeling more open, free, and aligned than I ever thought possible. Siri holds the most powerful, nurturing space for transformation." -SF
“Working with Siri was a homecoming to myself. Siri’s breathwork and Reiki guided me through a release so deep and beautiful, I left feeling like a completely new version of me." -KT
"I walked in with doubt, but I walked out with trust. Trust in my path, in my breath, in my ability to let go and receive. The healing that happened in that session was beyond words." -DT
Akashic + Breathwork + Reiki Combo
“I really appreciate the way you held the healing space. I felt so supported the whole time, not only by the information received but also by your energy and presence!
Integrating the reading with breathwork was amazing because I felt like my somatic system could tap into and start to process energies that my spirit was already moving. I'm already feeling more aligned between body and spirit and am excited to keep integrating our session with breathwork!” -NJ
