SOMATIC THERAPY, BREATHWORK & CEREMONY
OUR MISSION
We guide individuals through transformative healing experiences – helping them to release trauma responses and rediscover safety, connection, and wholeness.
Our mission is to potently use embodiment practices, breathwork, ceremony, and a decolonial lens to heal the personal, intergenerational and intercultural trauma that is at the root of suffering and disconnection in today’s world.
OUR APPROACH
Bring all aspects of yourself into connection and kindness with Compassionate Inquiry and breath therapy.
Compassionate Inquiry is a somatic-based psychotherapeutic approach that gently uncovers and releases layers of childhood trauma, constriction and suppressed emotion embedded in the body. The result is a greater capacity to stay open and connected in relationship with others, with ourselves, and with life.
Holosomatic Breath Therapy amplifies the healing process by supporting deeper levels of consciousness and altering brain waves. During breath therapy sessions we can reshape thought processes and nervous system responses that can may have previously felt stuck and irreversible. Our Holosomatic Breath Ceremony Retreats always include private preparation and integration sessions to ensure your experience can be as deep and transformative as possible.
be curious
How would it be to feel deeply connected to yourself whilst still connected to all of life?
Join a Holosomatic Breathwork Ceremony in Devon or Bristol
Our Team
Kat and Lizzie have worked together for 25 years with a shared passion for liberation of the self and the collective. Together they weave their experience of psychology, ceremony, plant medicine, trauma, bodywork and transpersonal experience.
Kat Ballam
Psychologist, Breathworker and Ceremonialist
Kat has over 20 years experience as a psychologist, coach and teacher of the nature of mind. Trained by Gabor Maté, Kat combines her work as a Somatic Psychotherapist, Holosomatic Breathworker and ceremonialist with her passion for embodied decolonisation. The work uncovers and releases layers of childhood & ancestral trauma, societal conditioning, constriction and suppressed emotion embedded in the body.
Kat gently supports her clients to bring all aspects of experience into a place of wholeness and love, so that all of life can be related to with openness, empowerment and deep rooted kindness.
Lizzie Keates
Bodyworker, Somatic Therapist and Ceremonialist
Drawing on her training in emotional intelligence, nature of mind teachings, and somatic connection, Lizzie offers a holistic, trauma-informed approach to wellbeing that supports a return to wholeness and freedom. Her apprenticeship with medicine elders has shaped a profound reverence for the power of ceremony, inspiring her passion for creating and sharing ritual spaces.
As a practitioner of Holosomatic Bodywork Therapy, Lizzie is devoted to supporting others in reclaiming full, untethered embodiment—opening pathways for the raw beauty of eros, spirit, and authentic human expression to be fully felt and lived.
Upcoming Events
Totnes Breathwork Evenings
The Remembering Breath
Friday 16th May, 6th June & 4th July
7.30–9.30pm
The Angel Room, Bowden House, Totnes
Join Kat for a monthly gathering to reconnect with the wisdom of your body and the healing power of your breath. These evenings weave Holosomatic Breathwork with space for intention, integration, and gentle restoration.
This is a space to soften, release, and return to the deeper truth of who you are—through embodied, conscious breath.
Lizzie will join on 4th July with Live Cello.
Your breath remembers the way home.
Bristol Breathwork Ceremony
Breathe into Freedom
Sunday 7th July – Bristol
4.00-6.30pm
The Hideout, White St, Bristol
Step into a powerful ceremonial space to awaken, release, and transform. This breathwork ceremony invites you to journey inward, guided by experienced facilitators, Kat Ballam and Lizzie Keates, who create a deeply held, sacred container for your healing and liberation.
Through the power of Conscious Connected Breath, you will be supported to safely release emotional and energetic blocks that may be holding you back—clearing the way for profound peace, clarity, and a renewed sense of wholeness. The ceremony weaves together breathwork, bodywork, somatic practices, intention, music, and gentle guidance to help you drop beneath the noise of everyday life and reconnect with your true self.
Deep Dive 2-day Ceremony
Reclaiming our Connection
September 2025
Droridge, Totnes
As a group we will spend time moving into deep transformational space with our intentions and prayers, opening to healing with Shamanic Breath Ceremony. Each ceremony will facilitate deeper levels of consciousness and allow for rewriting of held patterns in the body and nervous system.
We will weave the breath with Compassionate Inquiry, somatic bodywork and nature connection to create a truly kind, held and potent space of healing for each person.
“From the moment we arrived at the retreat, we were held with a beautiful warmth and spaciousness that made me feel incredibly safe and supported. Every element was thoughtfully and beautifully considered and Kat and Lizzie guided us with such grace, joy and wisdom. The result was a truly powerful ceremony that left me feeling as full-hearted, connected and enlivened as I’ve ever felt. Kat and Lizzie truely have a gift for this work, and I am so grateful they share it with us.”