Safety
How we hold the room
Read this once before your first Experience. Then set it down. Holding the room is our job; yours is to breathe.
Screening as care
We ask a few honest questions because active breathing changes the body for a while. Faster breathing can shift blood chemistry, heart rate, and pressure, and can bring emotion up quickly. Most people meet that well. For some conditions the softer door is the right one, and we would rather know before you are lying in the dark.
When we ask. For Level 2, explore and Level 3, deep, a short wellbeing form arrives with your reservation, and your seat is confirmed once it is in. For Level 1, restore there is no form; you sign the waiver at the door and the team asks how you are. Level 2, explore and Level 3, deep are for adults, 18 and over.
If something applies to you. It is the right door in, never a closed one. You are welcome at RESET, the softest door, or you bring a physician's note and keep your seat. For a few conditions the note comes from the clinician who treats you. Honesty never costs you money: you choose a full refund or a gentler session. Your answers are read by the facilitation and operations team and nobody else, and if you were flagged and cleared, you get a quiet word at the door, never a callout.
What we ask about, and what each answer means
- Heart or blood pressure
- Active breathing can raise heart rate and move blood pressure for a while. RESET is open to you; Level 2, explore and Level 3, deep with a physician's note.
- Stroke or aneurysm history
- The same shifts in pressure are the reason we ask. RESET is open to you; Level 2, explore and Level 3, deep with a physician's note.
- Pregnancy
- Faster breathing changes blood chemistry, and we want your physician in the conversation. RESET is open to you; Level 2, explore and Level 3, deep with a note.
- Epilepsy or seizures
- Changes in blood chemistry and in light can matter here, and we would rather ask than guess. RESET is open to you; Level 2, explore and Level 3, deep with a physician's note.
- Eyes
- A detached retina, glaucoma, or recent eye surgery: active breathing can change the pressure in and around the eyes. RESET is open to you; Level 2, explore and Level 3, deep with a physician's note.
- Recent surgery or injury
- Active breathing is physical, and what is still healing should finish healing first. RESET is open to you; Level 2, explore and Level 3, deep once your physician agrees.
- Asthma or breathing conditions
- Faster breathing asks a lot of the lungs. With a physician's note you are welcome at Level 2, explore and Level 3, deep, with your inhaler beside your mat, and the Facilitator knows where you are lying.
- Panic disorder, psychosis, bipolar I, severe PTSD
- Active breathing can bring strong feeling up fast, and that deserves more care than a dark room and a score can give on their own. RESET is open to you; Level 2, explore and Level 3, deep with written approval from the clinician who treats you.
- Severe dissociative episodes
- Deep breath states and a near-dark room can loosen the sense of where you are, and we want that held by someone who knows you. RESET is open to you; Level 2, explore and Level 3, deep with your clinician's approval.
- Medications
- Some medications that affect consciousness or blood pressure change how breathing lands in the body. Tell us what you take. The Facilitator reads it before your seat is confirmed and may check in with you quietly at the door.
Every answer has a door.
In the room
Before any active breath begins, the room learns how to stop. Everything below is in place before doors open, and the Facilitator says the important parts out loud so nobody has to remember this page.
- Rest
- The rest position is taught before any active breathing begins: lying still, breathing slowly through the nose. Choosing it is treated as a success. Nothing in the room asks you to push through anything.
- The cue
- There is a cue that brings you down to rest. The Facilitator teaches it before the breath begins and repeats it, out loud, every few minutes of active breathing. It is never skipped. You will hear it before you need it.
- Position
- Seated or lying on a mat, from ARRIVE to RETURN.
- Touch
- The default is none. Nobody touches you unless you say yes at that session, and you can take the yes back at any moment.
- Ratio
- One Facilitator for every twelve people at Level 2, explore. One for every ten at Level 3, deep, with a second support person in the room.
- The Facilitator
- Named on each session, and holds a recognized breathwork training credential. The Facilitator never diagnoses, treats, or interprets what you experienced. What it meant is yours. At least one person in the room holds current CPR and first-aid certification.
- Referrals
- A list of licensed professionals, therapists and physicians, is at the desk at every session. Take one whether or not tonight moved you.
- The room
- A first-aid kit in the room. Water in the lobby. Exits clear and shown to you before we begin. The nearest emergency room is posted at the desk. If anything happens, the lights come up first and the music stops.
- Light
- Light is programmed and moves in slow fades. Nothing strobes, nothing flickers. The room goes near-dark for a few minutes of Silence in Level 3, deep. If changes in light affect you, tell us on the form or at the door and we will seat you where the light is lowest.
- Sound
- The score plays at a considered level, immersive rather than loud. Silence needs headroom, so the room never runs at full.
Sharing and after
Integration is the part most experiences skip. Ours is protected in every format, and every part of it is your choice.
- Four layers
- Private: reflect alone. Paired: one other person. Circle: a small group. Community: the whole room. The Facilitator announces all four every time. You choose the layer, and private is always one of them.
- Your voice
- Speaking is an offer, never a request. Nobody in the room is called on.
- Confidentiality
- What is shared in the room stays in the room. The team signs to it, and we ask you to hold it for everyone else: no naming, no quoting, no describing anyone from the room.
- Landing
- Nobody who is still landing leaves alone. A team member stays with you, in the room or the lobby, for as long as it takes.
- The next day
- If the team asked to check in with you, you hear from us within a day.
- Driving
- After Level 3, deep, give yourself ten unhurried minutes before driving. The lobby is open for exactly that, and the support person will suggest a ride if you want one.
Policies
Written so you can read them before you reserve. We are new; when it is a close call, we would rather be kind than right.
- Changed plans
- Move your seat to any future session, or pass it to someone else, free. Tell us before doors. A seat that goes unused was held for you, so it is not refunded; the first time, we move it anyway.
- Feeling sick
- Stay home. Message us any time before start and we move you to another session at no charge.
- Screening outcomes
- If the screening, or your physician, means the session you reserved is the wrong fit, you choose: a full refund, or a seat at a gentler session. Being honest on the form never costs you money.
- Arrive clear
- Come without alcohol or other substances the day of a session. Active breathing and an altered state do not mix. If someone arrives impaired, the team can decline entry and rebook them free. That is a safety call, never a judgment.
- Weather
- Central Florida. We watch the sky. If we cancel, your seat moves to the new date on its own, or you take a full refund. Your choice, with no deadline.
- Doors
- Doors open 15 minutes before and close at start time, because the room starts quiet and stays that way. Arrive after they close and we move you to another session, the first time free.
- If we cancel
- For any other reason, the venue or a Facilitator emergency: full refund or transfer, your choice, plus first pick of the next date.
Photo and video
A separate choice, and the default is no. It is never bundled with anything else you agree to.
A camera-free zone exists at every session, and cameras never cover it. Nothing identifiable is published without your consent on file.
Emotional moments get a second, specific ask before any use, even when consent is already on file.
Your data
What we collect and why: your name and contact to manage your reservation, a short wellbeing form (Level 2, explore and Level 3, deep sessions) to keep the room safe, and a brief before and after check-in that shapes how we build this.
It stays on our own equipment, is never sold or shared, and is deleted on request. Health answers never touch marketing tools.
Your written journal is yours. It is never collected.
On every page
Experiences are not medical or psychological treatment and do not replace care from a licensed professional. Participants are responsible for reviewing contraindications and consulting their physician where indicated.
Sources
The research on the home page cites the studies below. Every citation and DOI here is copied from our verified source list, never invented.
Fincham, G. W., Strauss, C., Montero-Marin, J., & Cavanagh, K. (2023). Effect of breathwork on stress and mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised-controlled trials. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 432.
Zaccaro, A., Piarulli, A., Laurino, M., Garbella, E., Menicucci, D., Neri, B., & Gemignani, A. (2018). How breath-control can change your life: A systematic review on psycho-physiological correlates of slow breathing. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12, 353.
Russo, M. A., Santarelli, D. M., & O’Rourke, D. (2017). The physiological effects of slow breathing in the healthy human. Breathe, 13(4), 298–309.
Balban, M. Y., Neri, E., Kogon, M. M., Weed, L., Nouriani, B., Jo, B., Holl, G., Zeitzer, J. M., Spiegel, D., & Huberman, A. D. (2023). Brief structured respiration practices enhance mood and reduce physiological arousal. Cell Reports Medicine, 4(1), 100895.
Ma, X., Yue, Z.-Q., Gong, Z.-Q., Zhang, H., Duan, N.-Y., Shi, Y.-T., Wei, G.-X., & Li, Y.-F. (2017). The effect of diaphragmatic breathing on attention, negative affect and stress in healthy adults. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 874.
What we don't claim
This research does not show that breathwork heals or releases stored trauma. None of the studies above measure trauma resolution or any trauma-specific outcome.
It also does not show that breathing exercises treat, cure, or replace medication or therapy for anxiety, depression, or other diagnosed conditions. These studies measure short-term, self-reported stress, mood, and heart-rate changes in general or healthy adult populations, not clinical treatment efficacy.