Nicolas Bal
Breath begins before words.
Before the mind can name experience,
the body speaks in sensation and rhythm.
We listen beyond words.
Breathwork?
Breathwork is like aspirin for the nervous system.
Through conscious connected breathing, the body is given time and space to speak in its own ways. Sensation, emotion, memory, and insight may surface — not to be analysed, but to be felt and integrated.
Sometimes there’s barely any movement. Sometimes much more than expected. The body speaks, and something beyond language responds.
How I work
Sessions are guided with close attention to pace, presence, and the body’s own intelligence. My role is to stay with you — steady and attuned — offering support and gentle direction when needed. I don’t interpret or fix. We listen together. The work is shaped by the breath itself, in that unique time and space.
Your system already knows the way.
What may move
Each session is different. What arises moves through the whole system—shaped by the body, the breath, and the timing beneath conscious control.
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People often experience:
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releases of held tensions
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emotional movement without narrative
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moments of intense clarity or deep stillness
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a renewed sense of contact with themselves
There is no goal state.
Movement arrives when it is ready.
Stillness, too, has its own intelligence.
A path into the work
My path into breathwork grew from a long fascination with altered states and what they reveal beneath habitual patterns. Discovering breathwork as a legal and embodied doorway into non-ordinary states, I felt called to explore this work more deeply. In 2022, I completed my training as a Core Healing Breathwork facilitator, informed by rebirthing and holotropic principles.
Over time, my focus has shifted from intensity toward integration. While breathwork can open profound inner landscapes, I have found that softness, humour, and grounded presence are often what allow trust to form and deeper material to be met.
For me, altered states are not an escape, but a way of listening to lived experience, and the hidden currents that bind us.
Frequency, Resonance and Presence
​​​Music is part of the container—holding, guiding, and yielding to the breath itself. Playfulness and precision move side by side, shaped by a deep engagement with sound. I draw from contemporary electronic and ritual music traditions, exploring their meeting points and edges, always in service of the process.
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Whether working one-to-one or in groups, the space is held in a clear, relational, and non-judgemental way.
Whatever needs to arise is welcome.
