Breathwork in Portland
Guided Breathwork may just be the most powerful wellness tool for healing and clearing stuck emotions, and as a support to nervous system repair, and overall embodiment. Here is our full list of recommended breathwork practitioners located across North America but if you’re looking to experience a breathwork session in Portland, we’ve heard good things about the following:
Rising Fire
The Rising Fire Shamanic Wellness Center provides the tools, teachings and support to guide students and clients to Radical Aliveness. This is the ability to return to balance after any storm … and to have the experience to “do it scared” when necessary. This approach heightens personal work with a skillful, strong, practical awareness – an emotional intelligence – for daily life. On Tuesdays, Rising Fire offers a guided breathwork circle.
Pause Meditation
Pause is a downtown Portland meditation studio offering science-based mindfulness classes, courses, and workshops in a welcoming community setting. Their Guided Pauses include breathwork alongside body awareness and relaxation techniques, and they also offer regular sound bath sessions using crystal singing bowls for nervous system support.
Freedom Rising Community
At Freedom Rising Spiritual Community in Portland, Oregon, their mission is changing the world one person at a time. Their approach is to bring passion, compassion, love, mindfulness, balance and integrity back into our every day lives – to teach people to live not as victims of our circumstances, but allies with the teachers and lessons that are presented to us in our daily lives. They offer shamanic teachings to support this mission and vision. All are welcome to explore the teachings and offerings. Breathwork is offered regularly. Learn more.
Wild Hearts Wellness Center
Wild Hearts Wellness is a community wellness space in NE Portland offering acupuncture, massage, naturopathic care, yoga, breathwork, and gong meditation workshops. Whether you are looking for support to help relax your nervous system or seeking a tool for deeper physical or emotional healing, somatic breathwork is a powerful modality worth exploring. Learn more.
Briana Lynn Cerezo
Briana Lynn Cerezo is a trauma-informed breathwork guide and embodiment coach based in Portland. Her sessions focus on helping people reconnect with the body’s signals to develop self-trust and emotional clarity. She offers private in-person and online sessions as well as group breathwork ceremonies, each including a 60-minute conscious connected breathing journey with curated music.
Rise From Within
Miyae Marie brings over 18 years of experience as a licensed bodyworker and certified breathwork facilitator in Portland. Her signature approach combines therapeutic bodywork with Transformative Psychedelic Breath — a conscious breathing technique designed to access the subconscious and release stuck emotions, mental blocks, and limiting beliefs.
Breathe Flow Shine
Maree at Breathe Flow Shine offers Conscious Connected Breathwork in Portland, with a particular focus on women in mid-life navigating burnout, fatigue, and emotional overload. Her programs blend breathwork with coaching to support lasting change.
RespirePDX
Aaron Overstreet is a certified Rebirthing Breathwork practitioner based in Portland with a deep background in the practice. He offers both individual and group sessions, working with clients to release stored emotions and limiting beliefs. His approach draws on spiritual purification practices alongside breathwork.
How to start a breathwork practice
If you’ve never tried breathwork, it’s important to know there are many different modalities, teachers and philosophies out there – from Holotropic Breathwork to Conscious Connected Breathwork, to Rebirthing Breathwork to Shamanic Breathwork. This article on how to start a breathwork practice is a great place to start. If you know or recommend more places to try breathwork in Portland, please let us know!