Macedon Ranges Breathwork

Macedon Ranges Breathwork I support you through conscious breath training to strengthen your ability to respond to life.

06/06/2026

Feeling nervous before a breathwork session is more common than many people realise.

Sometimes people book in and then cancel, reschedule or don’t make it to the session and I don’t see this as failure. Often, it tells me there is already a lot moving internally.

In breathwork we often say the process begins when you book, because material, emotions, resistance, fear, excitement or uncertainty can start to arise before we even meet.

Learning more about yourself, sitting with yourself, and allowing yourself to be seen in vulnerability can feel big.

Sometimes support looks like breathing together.
Sometimes support looks like talking first.
Sometimes it looks like taking more time.

Wherever you’re at, there’s space for that 🤍

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28/05/2026

Children learn regulation in relationship.

We learnt, or didn’t learn, this ourselves as children too. Our parents were doing the best they could with the resources, awareness and support they had at the time.

Before children can fully regulate on their own, they co-regulate through us. Through our tone, rhythm, movement, presence, play and connection. They learn by mirroring the nervous systems around them.

Many of us are parenting while carrying our own stress patterns, overwhelm, activation, shutdown, people pleasing, rushing, pressure and survival responses.

Sometimes this can look like:
Yelling more than we want to.
Always hustling.
Feeling triggered constantly.
Feeling touched out.
Struggling to play.
Feeling disconnected from our partners, children or ourselves.

Nervous system work isn’t about becoming calm all the time.

It’s about creating enough safety in our bodies that we have more space to choose how we respond.

Because nervous systems don’t only learn through information.
They learn through repeated experiences.

Breathwork can support embodied learning — learning beyond cognition — giving the body opportunities for rest, awareness, connection and new experiences of safety.

Not perfection.
Not never being triggered.

But noticing when we are.
Finding space between the trigger and the reaction.
Creating more choice.

Slowly building more capacity for connection, repair, play and presence.

To find more joyful moments with our family 💛

19/05/2026

Today I missed an appointment for the second time.

And it activated me it brought up a lot.
Shame. Overwhelm. Self-doubt.
That spiral of questioning my character and wondering, “Who am I to hold space for others when I can’t even show up perfectly myself?”

But this is also the work.

In RBM theory, activation isn’t something “bad” happening to us.
Often it’s a stored pattern surfacing to be seen, felt, and integrated.
An old survival response.
A familiar nervous system pathway.
Something living in the body asking for awareness.

Breathwork hasn’t made me immune to being triggered or overwhelmed.
It’s given me the ability to recognise when I’m activated and stay present with myself through it.

To notice the sympathetic charge in my body.
To pause before turning it into a story about my worth or character.
To breathe.
To feel.
To ask for support.
To allow the emotions to move instead of suppressing or fighting them.

Today that looked like crying, reflecting, calling my stepmum to debrief, and giving myself compassion instead of punishment.

We are going to be activated in life.
As parents. As humans. As people carrying histories, stress, responsibility, and old patterns in our bodies.

Maybe healing isn’t becoming someone who never gets dysregulated again.
Maybe it’s building the capacity to meet ourselves there with awareness, honesty, and gentleness. 💛

17/05/2026

We hear a lot about the nervous system these days regulation, dysregulation, fight, flight, fawn or freeze…

But what is it actually?

Your central nervous system (CNS) is your body’s communication network between brain and body. It’s working all day, every day, quietly asking one question: am I safe right now?

It doesn’t do this to create fear it does this to protect you. It’s constantly reading your internal and external world and adjusting your breath, heart rate, emotions, stress response, and capacity for connection based on what it perceives.

When we’ve experienced stress, overwhelm, or prolonged pressure, the nervous system can stay in protective states longer than we need. This can feel like anxiety, shutdown, reactivity, fatigue, or feeling disconnected even when life is no longer in danger.

This is where understanding the nervous system becomes powerful.

Because we don’t heal it through force or pushing through we support it through experience.

Slowly. Gently. Repeatedly.

Tools like breathwork help create new signals of safety in the body. Not by talking the system out of its responses, but by giving it repeated lived experience of settling, softening, and returning to balance.

The nervous system learns through experience.

And that means change is possible not by doing more, but by relating differently to what’s already happening inside you. I’m here to support your CNS booking link in my bio

16/05/2026

Building a bike and a new nervous system on Christmas Eve.

Not everything feeling easy.
Not everything feeling certain.

There were moments of confusion, frustration, and the familiar pull to think “this is too hard.” I was facing an old pattern. I was tired from the stress that often comes around Christmas time, trying to hold everything right, the presents, the food, the gatherings. All lovely things, but a lot to carry as a single parent.

And still… I kept going.

Because the nervous system learns through experience. 

Every time I stay with discomfort and continue anyway, something new is being carved:
a different response,
a new pathway,
a wider capacity to meet life as it is.

Not forcing positivity.
Not bypassing the harder thoughts.

Just allowing:
“This is hard… and I can do hard things.”

Maybe this is what change really looks like.
Not a big transformation in a moment
but small, steady rewiring through lived experience.

And maybe we are always building more than we think we are. Because now we ride baby!! 
I am here to support you booking link in bio

14/05/2026

Today I noticed jealousy arise in me.
I noticed the familiar tightening in my chest, the subtle urge to compare, protect, withdraw.

Years ago I may have reacted from that feeling automatically.
Closed myself off.
Made the feeling mean something about my worth… or something about the other person.

But through breathwork and learning to listen to my body, I’ve realised emotions are not failures.
They are information.
Protection.
Parts of ourselves asking to be witnessed, held, remembered.

So instead of judging myself or falling into an old pattern, I paused.

I held my chest.
I breathed.
I reminded myself:
you are safe, I am here with you. I got you.

Not every uncomfortable feeling needs to become behaviour.

Sometimes healing looks less like “never feeling jealousy again” and more like staying connected to yourself while difficult emotions are releasing, moving through.

As a busy mum, I don’t always have hours to process in the moment. Sometimes the practice is simply noticing. Softening. And allowing the feeling to guide me toward an intention for how I would prefer to feel.

Then, when there is space, I can return to myself and breathe more deeply with that intention.

I’m deeply grateful for the tools that allow me to move through life with more awareness, compassion and choice, even when what arises feels messy, human, or uncomfortable.

There is room for all of it 🤍 Here to support you link in bio.

I’m so excited to be offering my first group session as a qualified Rebirthing Breathwork Practitioner 🌿A space to slow ...
13/05/2026

I’m so excited to be offering my first group session as a qualified Rebirthing Breathwork Practitioner 🌿
A space to slow down, breathe, and reconnect with yourself.
This intimate breathwork session is limited to 6 participants, creating a safe and supportive environment to unwind deeply, release stress, and reconnect beneath the busyness of daily life.
Using conscious connected breathing, this gentle yet powerful practice can support nervous system regulation, emotional release, clarity, self-awareness, and deeper inner connection.
✨ Guided intention setting
✨ 60-minute Breathwork journey
✨ Integration and debrief
📍 Bodyfit by Holly May, Gisborne
🗓 Saturday 4th July
⏰ 10:30am – 1:30pm
💫 $150 | $100 concession
🌿 Payment plans available
Facilitated by Jess from Macedon Ranges Breathwork -breathwork practitioner, nurse, and mother.
Bookings via the QR code or DM to reserve your place 🤍

I’m so excited to be offering my first group session as a qualified Rebirthing Breathwork Practitioner 🌿A space to slow ...
13/05/2026

I’m so excited to be offering my first group session as a qualified Rebirthing Breathwork Practitioner 🌿

A space to slow down, breathe, and reconnect with yourself.

This intimate breathwork session is limited to 6 participants, creating a safe and supportive environment to unwind deeply, release stress, and reconnect beneath the busyness of daily life.

Using conscious connected breathing, this gentle yet powerful practice can support nervous system regulation, emotional release, clarity, self-awareness, and deeper inner connection.

✨ Guided intention setting
✨ 60-minute Breathwork journey
✨ Integration and debrief

📍 Bodyfit by Holly May, Gisborne
🗓 Saturday 4th July
⏰ 10:30am – 1:30pm
💫 $150 | $100 concession
🌿 Payment plans available

Facilitated by Jess from Macedon Ranges Breathwork --trauma-informed breathwork practitioner, nurse, and mother.

Bookings via the QR code or DM to reserve your place 🤍

04/05/2026

We move through different nervous system states all day often without even realising it.

Through the lens of Polyvagal Theory, our body is always responding to cues of safety or stress.

Slow, steady breath supports a sense of safety and connection.
Fast, shallow breathing reflects stress or activation.
And even unconscious breath-holding can signal overwhelm, withdrawal, or shutdown.

We don’t regulate alone our nervous system is constantly shaped by tone of voice, presence, breath, and the people around us. This is why co-regulation is so powerful, especially for children.

Our breath is always giving us information.
And it’s always a way back to ourselves and each-other. I’m always here for supportive breathwork sessions. Link in Bio

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