Testimonials

 

Find out how people experience Inspirational Breathing for themselves. What is the reality? Much better to hear it from people who were willing to give it a go!

Foundationers

 

Sam Lane, Cats Protection

'I was part of the first Foundation course on Zoom in July and I can honestly say it blew me away, I loved every minute of it and didn't want it to end. Nicola creates such a loving and supported space to both bond as a group and to have your own individual adventure, all from the comfort of your own home. It really is the perfect way to immerse yourself and just focus on the breath. It felt like a very special treat to give myself’.


Sarah

Thank you so much for creating a space where I felt safe to let go. Thank you for your exquisite care to provide the necessary ingredients for a really heart-felt experience. Thank you for your great enthusiasm for and mastery of the powerful art of breathing. I feel as though my internal system has been upgraded. I feel more alive, and open to new possibilities.


James Shaw, Founder of weMove

This week has been an exploration into the power and potential of the breath. Breath and breathwork is the zeitgeist in health and performance at the minute and the week we have had has been all about performance but not in the way one might think. Breathing and integrating our breath into our natural rhythm transform us and our potential.

This week, we as weMove have been on a deep dive with Nicola Price the founder and supernatural force behind @inspirationalbreathing. In 5 days we learned how our beliefs including negative limiting ones are stored in the body, how to I breath, movement, mindset and more to release the old and upgrade the potential we have to realise our best Selves.

How profound can this be you may be wondering. The experiences I had from this week have released trauma and unproductive patterns held for over 23 years. I feel lighter, clearer and more assured in the connection between mind, body and absolutely spirit.

Coupled with the honour of spending 5 days being human with @husseinyperformance, adamcorbettphoto, @christopherbaker and of course @inspirationalbreathing.

Yes this will be incorporated into the CHE events because this is deep work that will unequivocally enhance every human.


Elisabetta Scantamburlo, Art and design curator

I was really taken over by the way you housed us, from the first tea in the morning to the last chocolate in the afternoon. Everything in the place and in the people was welcoming, creating a place where I could feel protected, safe to explore and let go. When I say people I mean you and Mel, but also my companions of course. I liked the way you brought us gently, but also resolutely and practically, to better understand and live the experience, your energy (and smile) was flowing and powering. Mel was a sweet and discreet presence, much effective when needed, without asking, she just knew when and where to come. I loved the work, the way it was structured during the week, exploring and integrating every day new tools and experiences, balancing serious work and fun. I loved how it built up during the week, in terms of the techniques and deep inside. You (and we together) managed to create a sacred space where time was suspended and we could just BE.


Solenn Moison, Aromatherapist and Marna specialist

The small group size, allowing for individual attention from Nicola as well as deep connection with every single other participant. The soul and body nourishing food, and lovely teas and infusions. The walks in nature, helping to feel the connection and wider meaning of the breathing practice. The spontaneity and flexibility of the programme, for example taking the opportunity to be outside when the weather was nice, and the ‘impromptu’ barbecue. The go with the flow approach. Nicola’s openness and authenticity. We had fun even in the most “difficult” times, Nicola is amazing at making the group feel supported and the space held. I felt very safe throughout.


Carl Faure, Yoga Teacher and Founder of Stretch

I have known Nicola as a friend for a few years now, and this year she managed to get me to stay still for 15 minutes so she could show me what she does. Lying on the floor of her yurt at the very end of my annual festival Exhale, I was exhausted and completely in tatters. 15 minutes later I was a believer!  I booked on to the men’s Foundation course there and then.  I think I was expecting to be better able to manage my nervous system, perhaps some kind of ‘advanced pranayama’ all wrapped up in her nurturing care.  I was right about the nurturing care, but what I did not expect was such incredible, tangible, long-held emotions shifting. It was truly tectonic!  I have been a yoga teacher for 12 years, practiced energy work for longer, studied many different healing modalities and worked through several rounds of talking therapy but to my surprise and delight I have found something that really works.

I have booked onto the Graduate program in May and I’m very keen to share this with my Stretch community in Hackney.  I couldn’t recommend this more to anyone. Thank you Nicola!


Lisa Pollitt, Child welfare officer

Dearest Nicola,

I don’t know where to begin to thank you! I have had the most amazing experience of my life (other than giving birth)! I feel free and open to loving myself, everyone and everything around me. How amazing is that? It is all so simple, just go back to the first breath from our birth. I owe the opening up of this knowledge and truth to you… and to me, of course (as you would make me say!). I am inspired above and beyond that which I have ever felt. I am filled with love, I can feel it in my heart, I have fallen in love with me, with everything. Like in the eyes of a baby, love shining out to everyone and everything around them and receiving love so easily.

So I’ll come down to earth for awhile and sum up the different parts of the course!

YOU: Has to come first! Because without your energy, enthusiasm, care, kindness, knowledge, guidance, inspiration and courage I wouldn’t be on this new journey of discovery. You guided all 4 of us through our individual journeys carefully and with exactly the right touch, word, look, tea, food, blanket, tissue, timing and love so that we were safe, supported and able to fly. You shared exactly the right things at the right time. You knew when it was time to change what we were doing. You knew when it was time to start or stop. Your enthusiasm for breath work and what it can do to change lives, free people and open up consciousness is boundless and beautiful. You are the best advert there could ever be for opening up to the light, overcoming great difficulties and being totally open to sharing your love and changing the energy of the planet. You are doing it!!! Since being with you I have already touched people with my breath work story and they have all immediately started making changes to their lives so that they look after themselves better. It works on an energetic level so quickly and easily like you said. You really are wonderful and an inspiration. More people need to hear your great knowledge and I can see that your book will do that. Changing the world is really what you are doing.

THE COURSE ITSELF: The course was run at exactly the right level for me. I liked the structure to each day, starting with tea and dancing, breath work was incredible of course, time with my buddy so useful, time to reflect and write again so useful, delicious lunch that was so much fun to help prepare, walking together was lovely as was being by the sea, sleeping after lunch on our left side, more breath work, more reflection and finally saying goodbye. The movement part was great for me, dancing, moving my body upright and on the floor in different ways, getting the energy really moving. The touch was really good for me to reconnect with myself, I was surprised at how I found pain in different parts of my body and learning about to release it is such a precious gift. Sound, so key to everything was also so effective and such a useful tool to freeing my body. Learning to create and use more affirmations to be kind to myself and to get rid of the voices that are cruel is just priceless (Miss Price) and is something that I can do so easily and also share easily to help others. Triggers… wow, the signs to notice and learn about ourselves… a lot of work ahead for me around them but how useful to get to know them and use them to get rid of negative reactions and emotions through breath work. So you see I learnt some much in such a short time – although it did feel like we had a lot of time. I think the course slowed time down and let the air in.

THE UNIVERSE: So I have write about this. How I opened up to the Universe, to the fact that there is GOD/UNIVERSE…in me. That at any point if I step up to it and do the work that it is always there for me and will always guide me. What a blessing to learn that. Every one of my experiences was deeply spiritual and life affirming. The energy of the Universe was with us for those 5 days and was strong and beautiful.

THE GROUP: What a lovely group of 5 the Universe created! We were so connected and safe with each other. Such honesty and integrity between us all. Such love and support in abundance. The buddy idea was genius as we got to know each other on a different level each time. The walking together and going to the beach together was also a lovely way to share experiences. Sharing time was so precious and special. What an amazing time. With your tea and cake to comfort us after our changes. Writing about each other was such a beautiful experience. I have my feedback beside me now and have looked at it each morning. To have such lovely things said about me from people I’ve only spent 5 days with is so affirming and what I wrote about them was deeply heartfelt. Interesting the mix of male and female and that energy. Anwar was a lovely part of the group and I think he challenged mine and Kate’s issues around men and sharing with men and that was a good thing. When he wasn’t there the female energy was so strong and powerful and again showed us all that our energy and power when united is so important for changing this world.

THE FUNKY BUNGALOW: This was just gorgeous!!!I loved making the food with you, learning from you about healthy foods that go well together, that a mistake can turn into a success, that blessing food with your love makes it taste better and gives it more energy, that being organised or disorganised is ok… it all turns out wonderfully in the end!!  A big learning I’ve taken away with me is to look after myself and I’m doing it every day.

SETTING INTENTIONS: Such a great idea. I have stuck to mine, even if the timing has changed a little, the intention has stuck and I’m sleeping better, getting up earlier to do my dancing and breath work and I’m still eating really healthily with no wheat and sugar and very little dairy. Trying to keep up with the tea and water like at yours. I’ve not drunk alcohol even though I’ve been with friends who are. It’s just all so good! I don’t want to change how I feel by doing anything bad to myself.

So I’ll end this email with a quote from Maya Angelou that sums up the breath work really well I think…. “I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.”

Thank you, I am eternally grateful “Shine like diamonds in the sun, every one of us”

Graduates

 

Valerie Watkinson, Graduate 2024

From the moment I met Nicola at an inspirational breathwork workshop, my soul lit up, and I just knew this was a person I wanted to train with, and boy were my instincts on the money.

Nicola is an exceptional spirit, full to the brim with deep lived knowledge and overflowing with love and inspiration.

The Graduate Breathwork programme, not only gives you an enormous tool kit to work with, an incredible reading list as long as your arm, and in-depth support through regular breathwork sessions and group meetings over the year, it's even more than that. It's being taken care of, creating community, chanting, dancing, discussing case studies, the list goes on.

I feel part of something truly special, and I feel that the love, support and deep listening that Nicola gives to us, not only as a group, but also as an individual is priceless. I will certainly take this forward into my life, and working as an Inspirational Breathwork Facilitator, I couldn't be more proud to fly the Inspirational Breathing training flag.


Catherine Higgs, Graduate 2024

Firstly, a huge thank you to you for all your work and your commitment to the breath, you are truly inspiring.

I had no idea what I was walking into when I signed up for the training. I just knew it was something I had to do.

The last 6months have been the most incredible journey. The breathwork has changed my life. I feel like I’m in a new body and showing up in the world in a completely different way. I’ve shed so many layers just through the breath and I’m excited to see what comes next. I’ve still got so much work to do on my own breath practice and I’m excited about that and where it will take me. I love sharing what I have learnt in the training with others and applying it in a way which is unique to me. It is a honour to hold space for others and watch the ripple effect of breathwork play out in different ways.

The training has felt like such a gift and something which I will treasure for the rest of my life.


Helen Bradley, Breath Coach, Hampshire. Graduate 2023

Breathwork changes lives, it did mine and it continues to ... I met the amazing Nicola Price in summer 2019, I'd had a serious illness 9 years earlier and no matter how much curly kale I ate and how often I ran 5K, I still felt broken.  She placed her hands on my belly and showed me how to breathe ... BOOM ... emotion flooded through my body and the tears came.  I had no idea what had happened but did know that this was how I was going to fix, to heal, to feel 'me' again.  I trained with Nicola that year and went on to her truly inspirational Graduate programme, where I have met the most wonderful community of people, such genuine, kind, open, honest people that I now get to call my closest friends. 

I'm still learning and growing, peeling back the layers, experiencing more joy, being more true to myself and caring for this beautiful body I am so grateful to be reconnected with.

Breathwork has taken me away from classroom teaching, out into the community supporting patients referred through NHS social prescriptions, out even further with online clients from around the world and in the last few years back into schools, sharing this powerful tool for Resilience with children, parents, carers and educators.  I am absolutely passionate about what I do, I love this work, it energises me, inspires me, I'm in awe of it.

If you're intrigued, looking for something that you can't quite put your finger on, then open up to Breathwork and see where it takes you. 


Daisy Ellison, Breath Coach, Somatic Therapist and Yin Yoga Teacher

Nicola’s absolute dedication to the breath-work, and mission in sharing it as widely as possible, is infectious and overwhelmingly refreshing. Too often I’ve found myself on a course where the teacher or facilitator lacked the enthusiasm or expertise I had anticipated. To learn from the source of a subject is both rare and inimitable. During the Graduate Program Nicola had us facilitating breath sessions for one another from day one. Whilst challenging, this allowed the course content to be experienced on a far deeper felt sense, gave us ample opportunity to share and work through the various fears we faced as they arose, and resulted in a far more confident attitude to being able to take forward the learning with our case studies at the end of the course.

With the course being limited to four students at a time this allowed for deep learning, unrestricted sharing and close bonds being formed with one another. I felt like we formed a little family for our time together, in full support of one another as we encountered the highs and lows that such self discovery inevitably brings with it.

Nicola’s passion for food and nature is evident throughout, resulting in nourishment on every level. The views from our lunch time bbq on the South Downs and the taste of Goan figs coated in bergamot raw chocolate will remain with me for a long long time! When doing this deep inner work to know that you are nurtured and held in such a beautiful way really makes all the difference.

It’s been reassuring to know that the support and sense of community remains strong once the course is over, with Nicola being easily reached for feedback, further learning resources being readily available via inspirationalbreathing.com, a graduate Facebook group and Nicola offering up plentiful opportunities to shadow her, be that assisting on future workshops or courses, or pitching up a tent together at festivals as Inspirational Breathing tours the UK.

For anyone feeling the call to sign up for the Graduate Program I wholeheartedly recommend it. The word that continually comes up from those I now facilitate breath work sessions for is ‘profound’; and having experienced many times over the simple magic that is Inspirational Breath, as both receiver and facilitator, I can assure you that it remains as such, no matter which role you play, and no matter how many times over you choose to consciously breath together.


Melanie, UK

It was rather a “kismet”. I first met Nicola as I was giving her a lift to a breathwork retreat one of best friend’s was running, I had not considered breathwork as a career and I was just supporting my friends retreat at this time.

I then replied to a Facebook post, Nicola had asked about someone doing some admin and support work for her, which I did and have done for over a year now. I learned more about her training and teachings and I was intrigued about her courses and how different they were to other breathwork I had experienced. So I went to the Foundation course and on day 2, I realised I had found my calling, I felt incredible!!!!! More than I had felt on any retreat.

I have various autoimmune illnesses which I have learnt have appeared physically in my body because of suppressed anger and an inability to speak up and to hide my true self. I had a difficult upbringing and I was abandoned at a young age so all of these added up in Nicola’s training.

I had tried many other alternative therapies to help in personal development in the past including various talk therapies and nothing had touched the sides compared to Nicola’s training. I released more than I ever thought possible and I know I still have a long way to go and that it is all a work in progress but I am so glad that I am on this journey with Nicola and the IB tribe. The support Nicola gives and from the IB tribe has become so important for me they feel like my family.

I feel privileged to part of the IB tribe and to represent Nicola. She is an inspiration, has changed my life and I will be eternally grateful. I know that now I will be a breathworker until the last breath I am lucky to breathe! and my life’s work will now be dedicated to passing on Nicola’s teachings, continually learning and sharing the magic of the breath with anyone that I am fortunate to share this work with.

Workshops

 

Veronika, UK Online Introductory Workshop, April 2024

Today I took part in the Online Introductory Workshop, which I thought was absolutely fantastic.
I felt so blessed with the group of people that took part. It was a small group of just four people and everyone was so lovely, open, honest and most importantly - I felt safe with all of them to just be myself.

Nicola is a very knowledgable, passionate, kind, trustworthy and inspirational teacher. I felt she "got" each and everyone in our group and made us all feel welcome and at ease. There was no judgment, we all got individual attention throughout the course (which I didn't think was really possible over Zoom) - at the same time we all felt part of this amazing group. We all went on our individual journeys and came back together at the end. It was just wonderful!


I would recommend this course to anyone who wants to learn more about themselves, the power of breathing and the impact it can have on emotions, your mental health and well-being. I liked that this course enabled us to be in our own home environment, as it made me feel safe in a place that I knew well.

I am still processing everything that I've learnt today and how best to incorporate all of the skills into my day-to-day life. It won't be something that will come over night, but with time and practise, which I am eager to do.


I feel so blessed to have come across Nicola and her wonderful breathwork. I will treasure today's session for a long time. My journey was unique to myself and I know it will have an impact on how I focus on my life, my family, friends and general surroundings.


Thank you for giving me the opportunity to learn more about a skill we were all born with, but somehow managed not to utilise fully. This is just the beginning - and I cannot wait to unlock the potential for what lies ahead.

Tricia, Ireland
From Fear To Love Workshop

Whilst wandering around Trew Fields Holistic Cancer Festival in search of my cancer cure I was drawn to a tent that had a lot of laughter coming from it. This was my first experience of Inspirational Breathing and Nicola Price. The following day I tried breath pattern analysis and was hooked. I went home did some research and signed up for the Foundation Course in Rottingdean, for my own health, I thought.

For 30 years I have immersed myself in complimentary therapies, I am qualified in reiki, reflexology, Japanese facials and shiatsu and have done many other courses, brain respiration, kinesiology, counselling, co-counselling. I love them all especially shiatsu but none got the body mind contact and trauma release as quickly as the breathwork. I just couldn’t walk away so off I went to Goa, India to do the Graduate Course.

I am very excited to add Inspirational Breathing as a therapy to my business. 


L, UK
From Fear To Love Workshop

My Fears — at the beginning were about my children and family and friends getting the virus. Since then that fear has gone and my deep rooted fears have surfaced to show me what still needs attention. I have breathed a lot on these which include separation anxiety, self doubt, rejection and fear of criticism.

I have suffered PTSD from childhood but breathwork has allowed me to connect and love my body and allow my feelings. I have found huge joy through opening my heart through the breath. My first breathwork session with Nicola was so powerful, I had a vision that I was on my life’s path and I was hooked! The Foundation Course allowed me to shift deep rooted pain, I went back to times in childhood and held myself during times of great fear. It had a profound effect on me. I’ve been able to grow so much, to let go and feel happiness on a level that I’d never felt before. I would describe it in one word as FREEDOM. I’ll always breathe and I hope I’m lucky enough to always have people ask me to breathe them. I’ve found my purpose in life and I’m forever grateful for that.


Anonymous
From Fear To Love Workshop

Great session incorporating forgiveness and connection with our ancestors, a huge release for me with feelings of great sorrow, grief and for me and a strong feeling of resistance to forgiveness for my immediate family (mother). It felt like I had touched the tip of the iceberg and something I have not explored in my regular daily self practice as yet. There was also a beautiful visualisation about sitting round a camp fire with my ancestors and with the group that had joined the session, which was really needed. Wonderful creativity and insight from Nicola, as always.

Breathcamp

 

Marie, Germany

I was suddenly seeing myself – as the mother within myself and I let her in. ‘I am letting the mother within myself into my heart’. And I started opening my heart. It still hurts, there is still a long way to go and I started opening it again – what a freeing and beautiful feeling! I kept holding my throat, holding my heart at the same time, nurturing, crying, letting go and welcoming.

I‘ve found The breath is without judgement, especially judgement of self.


Suzie

Thank you so much for inviting me to that session. I was a little trepidatious about doing a 1.5hr session having only done 15 minutes before, but it was really incredible. So nourishing.

I feel so spacious and light! A lovely feeling of wholehearted joy.

One-to-One

 

Jayne, From a festival visitor to private session booker

Wow!!! When I met you Nicola at the Greenman festival I couldn’t breathe properly. I had been breathing with my chest muscles for as long as I can remember. You massaged all the tension away to help with the breathing. What amazing often painful hands you have! The breathing sessions were difficult at first and no way could I get it right… but low and behold… patience, determination and tears all paid off! I can now breathe with my diaphragm!!! Yippee!!! No-one would understand what a HUGE thing this is. All of my worries, stress etc had been carried around in my chest and shoulders.

A new life has begun, purely by coming on retreat!! Nicola, you are an angel. You gave your all to me and for that I will be eternally grateful. You made me feel so welcome in your beautiful home (quirky and fun). I’m going to ‘start’ all over again with my ‘eating’ after sampling such amazing food made with love and passion. To you I owe so much. Thank you.


Jane Dunford, Yoga Teacher and Freelance Journalist

It’s a bit of a paradox that something as soft and natural as our breath can trigger seismic healing. But that’s the premise underlying breathwork therapy – all we need to tap into transformation and even treat trauma is right here under our nose (and rib cage).

“It’s the simplest thing that can bring about the biggest shifts,” says Nicola Price, founder of Inspirational Breathing. “There’s nothing I’ve come across that reaches the level of exactness and release.”

A session with Nicola starts with her analysing how you breathe – almost everyone has dysfunctional breath, she says. Many of us shallow breathe into the chest, use the shoulder muscles to lift the ribs and hold tension in the stomach. Nicola teaches belly breathing, taking air through the mouth into the tummy, using all of the lungs and allowing the exhale to happen naturally as the diaphragm releases back.

At first it feels a little strange, but then as the rhythm takes over my breath becomes expansive and I sink into an almost hypnotic state. What happens over the next hour is hard to explain.

Nicola creates a space that feels cocoon like – a place where you can allow things to happen and just let go. As I focus on breathing she works on areas of my body, releasing tightness around the neck (a site that holds resentment and frustration) and repeating mantras that come to her (I accept my perfection).

I lie on my front as she releases stiffness along the spine and move through the ‘cat-cow’ yoga asana, freeing the throat as I stick out my tongue – focusing on the breath the whole time. I feel sensations of tingling, like energy moving up from my lower back and dissipating; there are tears, there is retching (a deep release of old stuff, she says).

And afterwards, in the ‘receiving’ part of the session, my head feels full of bright light and I’ve a sense of being totally held, lying back in a giant pair of hands.

Breathwork works on many levels, releasing tension and blocked energy, and also old trauma stored in the body, Nicola tells me.

“It can help people let go of the emotional charge attached to old trauma, the charge that runs their beliefs and behaviours, and this can lead to genuine change,” she says. And she should know. Having survived abuse as a child and adult, and breast cancer twice, breathwork is what eventually helped her heal. Since attending her first ‘conscious connected breath’ workshop, she’s dedicated her life to training and learning as much as she can about her subject. In short, she’s the real deal and now spends her time in Goa and the UK running workshops and training other practitioners.

After just one session I notice I’m feeling lighter, open and more willing to surrender my need to control. I notice my breath more and start to practice belly breathing at different moments during the day. It’s hard to fathom that something so simple is so powerful. But, as Nicola says, ‘When it comes to healing our breath is our greatest tool’.