The Unalome Breath

29/09/2025

So on a sunny, yet autumnal, Sunday morning of yesterday, I was trusted to guide and hold a safe space to some of you who donated to Sulala Animal Rescue and HEAL Palestine by purchasing the fundraiser raffle ticket to the breathwork session I offered.

Thank you, again, to everyone who donated, whether you were able to attend or not. To those who were able to, I thank you, again, from the bottom of my heart for trusting me to curate the experience and to hold the space for you while you were accessing spaces, sensations and feelings that we often don’t make time for due to life things.

It takes great courage to trust. And it takes even more courage to go to those spaces.

The donation receipts should, by now, be in your inboxes.

And thank you for, by trusting me, giving me an opportunity to continue learning about myself in this relational space.

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Have as gentle a week ahead as life things permit. And embrace, while looking after yourselves, the Universal chaos of which we are a part.

27/09/2025

I’m a strong believer in magic ✨ 🪄

One minute there isn’t; the next minute there is!

If that doesn’t fall within the definition of magic, I don’t know what does 🤷‍♀️

A huge shoutout to my friends, acquaintances and fellow wanderers who already know they do magic!

Even bigger shoutout - just so it’s audible everywhere and to everyone - who do magic but don’t YET know that they do magic! ✨

17/09/2025

12/09/2025

What are your first words when you hear/read the word 'breathwork'?

Unlike the *still* popular collective (in the so-called West) attitude, there is nothing woo about it (side note: why wouldn't you want to revel in some woo anyway?!).

Breathwork is very much a science-backed thing. It is a modality that allows to access information stored in our brains and bodies that we don't ordinarily have access to.

'Access information stored in our brains and bodies sounds woo, too', I head you think?

It does so by temporarily altering our brain activity, mostly due to different-than-that-of-the-everyday oxygen supply. It temporarily lessens the activity of the, among others, the executive function part of the brain (the one that just won't give us a break when we're trying to sleep), and, by doing so, enables us to access the information, mostly emotion-related, stored in the other parts of the brain that are usually overpowered and over-shouted by the activity of the always-busy executive part of the brain.

Of course, there's more to it, but that's the gist of it.

What's the point?

Well, this one is only for you to know, because 'the point' is very personal to us all.

Do you have reactive patterns that are interfering with your wellbeing? Your relationships, even? Do you experience underlying tensions and anxieties that are always with you, yet you don't know neither what's causing them nor how to resolve it? Are you experiencing prolonged, unexplained restlessness?

The general point is that breathwork, by the above-described mechanism, can help you access things that keep you in that suspended state of discomfort. Because we cannot resolve that which we don't consciously know what is.

Unlikely to do that in one single session (although, not unheard of), but if you have been curious but haven't yet satisfied your curiosity for various life reasons, this is a perfect opportunity to try it out while contributing towards something much bigger than yourself (however, inextricably connected).

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For the rest of it, see the reel. And help me, if your circumstances permit and you feel safe doing so, spread the word, as the visibility of my posts calling to meaningful action have been abysmal. Thank you.

Link to the thing I am talking about is in my Linktree in my profile: Breathing with the Olive Trees.

On Sunday, the 28th of September, at 10am BST for 2 hours via Zoom.

06/09/2025

RAFFLE FOR 🍉 🇵🇸 : Breathing with the Olive Trees

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Sunday, the 28th of September 2025, between 10am and 12pm BST (UK time)

I’d be very grateful if you could help me spread the word so, collectively, we can raise as much as possible.

Via the Watermelon Seed Collective (follow them on Instagram) initiative, I am offering a NeuroDynamic Breathwork session to 10 raffle ticket holders, each priced at £10. All of the raised funds (minus STRIPE fees) will be evenly split between two charitable organisations that do work on the ground: Sulala Animal Rescue (follow them on Instagram) – the only animal rescue organisation in Gaza – and HEAL Palestine.

We often breathe to journey inside.

Today, I invite you to breathe to journey inside for the purpose outside of ourselves (although, I'm not sure it is outside of ourselves).

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Breathwork, like many physical, physiological and psychological interventions, offer immense benefits, but also carries some risks.

Below is the link to information that you need to know about the breathwork session being raffled so you can make an informed decision whether you wish to enter into the raffle. Please read through and fill in the form confirming that you have read it before entering into the raffle.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdTQvqPP9p8AXQoa80gxLx5SQIdT3zopHIDAO6pj7Fu_l017Q/viewform?usp=header

Raffle tickets will be on sale (payment link in the form above) until 12pm on the 17th of September 2025.

Raffle winners will be announced via Instagram Live (I’ll do my best to figure out how that thing works) at 9am BST (UK time) on Thursday, the 18th of September.

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Let’s breathe together with the olive trees.

Let’s breathe together for humanity.

28/08/2025

Those of us who are lucky enough to age, will inevitably arrive at the point where no familiar reference point will do. At a point where pragmatism, efficiency or anything we know by that point will be of no consolation. We’ll arrive at the point beyond which we know not what lays. Not in the sense of events, but in the sense of how we feel when we wake up in the morning and when we go to bed at night.

It just is.

How well prepared we arrive at that point, is up to us.

How hard it hits us when we arrive there, is up to us today.

11/08/2025

Feeling is something that comes second - if that - to reason in our current world.

It is misguided, for our thoughts and ability to reason are very much subject to how we're feeling (and vice versa). We will have all observed how, depending on the day we're having, accidentally stepping on a Lego piece may send us laughing or into rage; a cheeky driver pulling in front of us can kick start a rage response or simply go over our heads.

We cultivate our reasoning skills, but neglect our feeling skills.

I invite you to stop and simply feel for a short while.

Below, is a short extract.

Full length can be accessed here: https://open.substack.com/pub/ljredrew/p/it-feels-vulnerable?r=2132ao&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web×tamp=53.1&showWelcomeOnShare=false

07/08/2025

‘The function of reason is to direct the passion in a more constructive direction.’ - P. Singer & Shih Chao-Hwei ‘The Buddhist and the Ethicist’, pg. 17

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What do you do with your reason?

Do you employ it to guide your passion?

Or do you let it dampen down your passion?

04/08/2025

Assuming that when we become aware, we are starting from ground zero.

09/07/2025

This was meant to be a post but, as I let my stream of consciousness flow, I remembered that trying to squeeze myself into a short form is k!ll!ng me inside. So it turned into a Substack.

'At first, it can come with feelings of confusion, of dumbfoundedness, of disbelief.

When acceptance finally comes, we may feel untethered.

Exhausted not only from having had to hold ourselves upright for so long already, but also from the realisation that there isn’t, in fact, anything to lean against. That there isn’t a prospect where we can give ourselves permission to slump down in safety and security.

That the world – and adulting in it – isn’t what we *knew* it to be.'

https://open.substack.com/pub/ljredrew/p/untethered?r=2132ao&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

02/07/2025

How mindful and deliberate are you when you softening your edges to fit in?