Breathwork & Somatic Education
The body has been
trying to tell you.
This is where you learn
to listen.
I work with the nervous system, not around it. Through breathwork sessions and the Human, Slowly publication, I help people find their way back to the intelligence their bodies have always carried.
About
I am not a wellness practitioner.
I am a translator.
The body speaks constantly. It speaks in the jaw you clench before you check your bank balance, in the breath that shortens before you have consciously registered that anything is wrong, in the sigh that arrives without asking. Most of us were never taught to read it.
I trained as a breathwork facilitator and somatic educator because I kept noticing that the most important conversations were happening below the level of language. In the nervous system. In the tissue. In the pattern of holding that predates any story you have ever told about yourself.
My work draws on breathwork science, classical Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, and philosophy. Not as a credential stack, but because the body was being read long before any of us arrived and it helps to know what others saw.
Sessions
Movement, breath,
and the body's own intelligence.
A gentle, somatic practice that interweaves breathwork with movement, self-touch, and body awareness. We use one continuous breath pattern, and within it I guide you to listen to what your body is already doing: how it wants to move, where it holds, what it needs to release through breath, sound, and touch.
No experience needed. No performance required. Suitable for everyone. This is the practice I return to most, and the one I find does the deepest work.
Book this sessionFor when the breath
has learned the wrong patterns.
Dysfunctional breathing is more common than most people realise, and more disruptive. Chronic mouth breathing, over-breathing, breath-holding under stress: these are learned patterns, and they can be unlearned.
These sessions are more instructional and more diagnostic. We assess how you breathe, identify what has shifted, and build a practice to restore functional nasal breathing from the ground up.
Book this sessionThe 5-session series.
A complete arc.
For those who want to work with both practices in depth. We begin with the Embodied Breath to establish trust and meet your system where it is. From there we move into Functional Breathing to address any dysfunctional patterns, then return to embodied work to give those changes space to settle. The final session brings it together: a full Embodied Breath practice with time to review what has shifted in the functional work. Additional sessions remain available when the work asks for more.
Embodied Breath
We meet your system as it is. Build trust, establish the practice.
Functional Breathing
Assess and address dysfunctional patterns. Introduce nasal re-training.
Embodied Breath
Return to somatic practice. Give the functional work space to settle.
Functional Breathing
Return to functional work. Review progress, refine patterns, address what is still asking for attention.
Embodied + Review
Full embodied session with time to review the functional breathing progress together.
€110
Embodied Breath or Functional Breathing€500
Embodied Breath + Functional Breathing arc Save €50Sessions are online and run 60 minutes. Booking requires at least 24 hours advance notice. Single sessions can be cancelled up to 48 hours before the session for a full refund. Cancellations within 48 hours are non-refundable. The 5-session series is non-cancellable but individual sessions within it can be rescheduled up to 48 hours in advance. By booking you confirm you have read and agree to this policy.
Group sessions.
The breath, shared.
The embodied breath practice was always meant to be done in company. There is something that happens in a group that a 1:1 session cannot fully replicate: the field of shared attention, the permission that comes from not being alone in the listening.
Group sessions are in development. Join the waitlist and you will be the first to know when they open.
Breathe
together.
Human, Slowly — The Publication
A language class for the body.
One essay a week.
The body has its own language and most of us have forgotten how to read it. Human, Slowly is where I practice translating. Breath, fascia, sleep, hormones, the nervous system, and what happens when you stop treating the body as a machine to be optimised. One long essay every Tuesday. One shorter thing on Fridays: a question, a practice, something to notice.
Essay · The Science Lab
Before You Knew the Word for It
On living things that don't survive translation. The moment before language is where the body lives.
Read →Essay · The Science Lab
The Uninvited Breath
On the body's oldest reset. You just sighed. The body took it without asking. What that means.
Read →Coming Soon · The Science Lab
What the Connective Tissue Remembers
On fascia as an interoceptive organ, and what happens when that sense gets numbed.
Subscribe to receive it →One essay a week.
One shorter thing on Fridays.
Always free. Always the body first.
Shut
Your
Mouth
Tina Verstraeten
The Ebook
You breathe 20,000 times a day.
But are you doing it right?
Shut Your Mouth is a compact, science-grounded guide to functional breathing: what nasal breathing actually does at the cellular level, why we stopped doing it, and the practice of returning.
€15 · PDFGet the ebook
The body keeps the
financial score too.
The Money Mindset program is returning. A somatic approach to the patterns we carry around giving, receiving, earning, and worth. Built on the same body-first premise as everything else here. Coming in 2026.