Room to Breathe Psychotherapy & Yoga

Room to Breathe Psychotherapy & Yoga Room to Breathe is an integrative healing space offering psychotherapy and yoga practices. Join us fo

08/25/2026

Sunday afternoon plans 🤝 you

Yoga Nidra for Deep Rest, Laure’s special monthly practice, is back this Sunday, August 30th in our virtual studio. Expect a low-key practice, with gentle movement to ease you into a longer meditative practice, themed around your connection with the earth. Recording will be sent to all registrants, so you can revisit your practice (and your state of deep rest) again and again. 🫶

Link in bio to register!

Rocking, pacing, knee jiggling - these examples of stimming (self-stimulatory behavior) are more than just habits or beh...
08/18/2026

Rocking, pacing, knee jiggling - these examples of stimming (self-stimulatory behavior) are more than just habits or behaviors. They're strategies that help the nervous system navigate a world that can feel unpredictable, intense, or overwhelming. (Take a moment with us to marvel at how cool our bodies are for taking care of us!)

Framed by her own experience as a person with autism, our newest therapist Darcey explores the science behind why autistic people stim in her article for our blog. Check it out here: https://www.roomtobreathechicago.com/blog/why-do-autistic-people-stim-understanding-the-science-behind-self-regulation

✨️WE'RE MOVING✨️After many months of searching for new space, we have signed the lease for our new space at 2834 N. Hals...
08/17/2026

✨️WE'RE MOVING✨️

After many months of searching for new space, we have signed the lease for our new space at 2834 N. Halsted!!!

There are walls to build and paint, furniture to move, construction of all sorts to do. We hope to be open at the beginning of September to welcome therapy and yoga community alike for in-person offerings. We're staying flexible amidst change as best we can (it's moving in Chicago, after all, *laughs hysterically*) and we have our yoga + therapy practices to thank for helping us build the skills to be psychologically flexible through it all. We'll continue to keep you updated, and we'd LOVEEE to hear from you what hopes, dreams, and excitements you have for our new space.

While we're busy building out our space, know that our virtual classes are still here for you. We'd love to have you join us for an online practice. Whether you'd like to connect with community, build your own skill toolbox, or just feel a little more at ease in your body/mind, our yoga guides are here to hold space for you - feel free to check out our virtual studio schedule via link in bio!

Finally, if you're a business/practice/person/friend around our new neighborhood, please reach out to connect! We'd love to partner, play, create, and build together with our new neighbors.

08/13/2026

If you’ve ever found yourself….

🤝 staying up too late to get every detail *exactly* right
🤝 saying yes to too many things for fear of punishment or not doing “enough”
🤝 avoiding assignments because you don’t know how to do it perfectly
🤝 constantly worried whether you are feeling, thinking, or saying the right thing to coworkers, classmates, or intimate partners….

This workshop might be for you!

Led by our therapist Em, this workshop will provide you tools to help understand, process, and navigate performance anxiety, so that you can ultimately learn how to live with and move through anxiety when it arises. Em will offer psycho education on performance anxiety along with somatic and mindfulness practices, partnered with written and verbal guided reflection alongside community. You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of your own patterns, multiple tools in your toolbox, and a feeling of connectedness to others experiencing something similar.

Link in bio to register - sliding scale available!

📍Living With Good Enough:
A Workshop on Performance Anxiety
Sunday, August 16th from 2-4 pm
Online

Therapy is more than just feeling better - therapy, as Em describes here, can be a place to learn how to be with big, un...
08/09/2026

Therapy is more than just feeling better - therapy, as Em describes here, can be a place to learn how to be with big, uncomfortable, or challenging emotions. Learning to accept that those feelings are there is a courageous step to figuring out how to work with them.

For more thoughts on being with your emotions and accepting challenging emotions, check out Em's blog, Learning How To Be Anxious, on the blog now here: https://www.roomtobreathechicago.com/blog/learning-how-to-be-anxious

📍Want more on this topic? Join Em's workshop, Living With Good Enough: A Workshop on Performance Anxiety, next Sunday at 2 pm. Registration + details at https://momence.com/Room-to-Breathe-Psychotherapy-and-Yoga/Living-With-Good-Enough%3A-A-Workshop-on-Performance-Anxiety/138793218

Animal coregulation1 - Luna2 - Walter and Leroy3 - Bmo4 - Dante
08/01/2026

Animal coregulation

1 - Luna
2 - Walter and Leroy
3 - Bmo
4 - Dante

Doing anything in times of environmental turmoil can feel hard. Practicing yoga during climate crisis might feel even ha...
07/24/2026

Doing anything in times of environmental turmoil can feel hard. Practicing yoga during climate crisis might feel even harder, particularly if you're someone dealing with climate anxiety, immunocompromised, or hey, just a human dealing with the awareness of the world being on fire and the impact of that.

When we practice psych-sensitive, trauma-informed yoga, we practice with all of that in mind - we acknowledge that we are in crisis. We work with the awareness that we all have different needs, capacities, and abilities to show up day to day. And while it can be challenging to show up for your practice in these times, it can be a helpful reminder to hear that you are not alone - and that your practice can support your ability to show up for these challenging times, to build capacity to move through them or act as a respite from them, and ultimately, to connect: both to yourself, your motivations, intentions, and that truest part of you, as well as to others, your community, your natural world, and beyond. If there's one thing climate crisis shows us, it's that we are all interconnected.

Reconnection - remembering that inherent connection that we already have - with the earth is the theme of Laure's monthly yoga nidra offering, happening this Sunday, July 26th at 2 pm. In this class, we dedicate our practice to reconnecting with the Earth and the natural world, inviting you to sense yourself as part of our surrounding environment through embodied awareness, breath, and guided visualization. Yoga nidra is a practice that can bring both rest and ease while connecting your unconscious mind to a greater intention - a meaningful practice to support you during this time.

Reconnecting with the Earth: A Yoga Nidra Practice for Deep Rest is this Sunday at 2 pm. Register to join here: https://momence.com/l/P0h8Om4a

You might be familiar with a similar experience: the way your mind starts auditioning the worst version of how something...
07/22/2026

You might be familiar with a similar experience: the way your mind starts auditioning the worst version of how something could go, the work you know how to do but can't make yourself start, the way even love can start to feel like something to optimize or get exactly right. Performance anxiety, often born from the desire to be “good enough,” isn't a problem in itself — it's often a sign that something matters to you. The trouble starts when it begins to shrink your life: the opportunities you don't take, the things left unsaid, the self you don't quite let anyone else see.

In this gentle, supportive, and direct 2-hour workshop, you're invited to join Em, a behavioral therapist at Room to Breathe to:

✨️normalize, validate, and deepen your understanding of performance anxiety
✨️engage in somatic and mindfulness practices to increase your capacity to stay present in the face of pressure
✨️learn about orientations to live with and move through anxiety
✨️be in community with other who know what it's like to feel like they're always being watched, measured, or judged.
..all through a combination of psychoeducation, somatic + mindfulness exercises, and individual + group reflection.

📍Living With Good Enough: A Workshop on Performance Anxiety happens Sunday, August 16th from 2pm - 4pm.

Register to attend here: https://momence.com/l/8MhL8WVW

Our incredible guides for our upcoming Psych-Sensitive Yoga Teacher Training, starting this September! Thinking about jo...
07/15/2026

Our incredible guides for our upcoming Psych-Sensitive Yoga Teacher Training, starting this September!

Thinking about joining or applying? Join our FREE info session tonight to meet our lead guide/trainer Whitney (pictured top row, left) and learn more about the training. Link to register to attend - registration is required so we know how many folks to expect! https://momence.com/l/79herZZD

Ready to apply? We gotchu. Fill out your application here:

Somatic inquiries our therapists use in sessions that you can utilize any time you need a wellbeing check-in 💕 Intereste...
07/09/2026

Somatic inquiries our therapists use in sessions that you can utilize any time you need a wellbeing check-in 💕

Interested in seeing how this approach works for you in therapy? Connect with our therapists on our website here: https://www.roomtobreathechicago.com/contact-therapists

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25 E Washington, Suite 1025a
Chicago, IL
60602

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Monday 7am - 9pm
Tuesday 7am - 9pm
Wednesday 7am - 9pm
Thursday 7am - 9pm
Friday 7am - 9pm
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