What is Breathwork?
And how can it support me?
Breathwork is a transformational healing practice found in both ancient and modern traditions. Through intentional breathing techniques, it unlocks deeper awareness, releases stored tension, and catalyzes lasting change. By learning to receive and offer each breath with greater presence, you open the door to profound insight, emotional regulation, and personal expansion.
What is breathwork?
The Body of Breath Method
- Support you in navigating both light and shadow
- Cultivate self-acceptance and embodied awareness
- Restore empowered choice in every breath
Each session is rooted in clear intention and enriched with movement inquiry, energy medicine, and adaptive techniques that meet you exactly where you are. Using guided breathing, somatic awareness, and—when appropriate—intuitive or hands-on bodywork, the breath becomes a vehicle for nervous system regulation and deep repatterning.
The Benefits of Breathwork:
Breathwork has the potential to help you:
Release limiting beliefs and emotional patterns
Restore balance in the nervous system
Improve respiratory health, vitality, and energetic flow
Access clarity, insight, and embodied wisdom
Strengthen physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual resilience
In-person experiences designed to deepen your practice, reset your system, and reconnect you to what matters.
Retreats + Immersions
A structured, trauma-aware breathwork teacher training designed to support those seeking breathwork certification and the skills to guide others safely and effectively.
The leaders circle
Ongoing somatic and breathwork practices to support regulation, consistency, and real integration.
The Studio online
More than a
practice...
The breath is a gateway to the body’s innate intelligence. As you deepen your practice, breathwork becomes more than a healing modality—it becomes a way of living with purpose, sensitivity, and personal power.
Breathe now with Ashley Ludman's audio recording on Soundcloud
with Ashley
BreathTide
Kelly Berkley receiving her Body of Breath certificate.
"My breathwork mentor has been the kind of mentor and teacher I’ve always wanted but didn’t think existed. The kind I always imagined a real mentor was: someone that you really work alongside like an apprenticeship. Someone that knows you well and where your challenge areas are from the close contact and oversight that they have of you. Someone that cares about you and your growth. Someone that supports you when you need to be nudged or met where you’re at. Someone that really shows you the ropes in a way that you can’t get from a text book or lecture. You know, how mentorship’s and apprenticeships must have looked like in the old days and in tribes 🙂."
Marianna hildago
"In my search for eternal truth, she was the first to hold me with quiet power. In every session, her hands feel woven from threads of another dimension — light like breath, steady like earth. There is no fear in journeying through the breath with Ashley, because her presence invokes a deep-rooted safety, the kind that cannot be taught — only embodied."
Nosara, Costa Rica
Owner of Crown Hall
Sarah Clark
"My relationship to myself has shifted through my work with Ashley and that in turn has shifted other relationships in my life. I see things through a different lens. I'm able to not be so reactionary and if I am, I can sit and observe myself later. I've been able to access more forgiveness for myself and for others in that process. It's helped me move stagnant and unserving energy in my body that I might not have found the tools to deal with otherwise. The work gave me the tools to access these points, realizations, emotions, physical forms that I have built up externally and emotional walls that I have built internally that were keeping me from my highest potential. She taught me to teach myself through movement, breath, silence, reflection, slowing down......It's been life changing."