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Ava Johanna • Breathwork & Meditation Trainer

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On a Mission to Get Breathwork into 1M Lives 🧬
Founder 👉🏼 @academyofbreath
Next In-Person Certification: Mexico Feb 6-13, 2027 🌴

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So…we’re going to Mexico and I heard through the grapevine you’ve been eyeing this retreat. 👀

Let’s yap a bit about why this week-long certification is top tier and exactly where you need to be next February 👉🏼

You’re in a season where you know your next level is calling 📞 and rather than swim against the current of every day life, you’re craving a specialized environment that is meant to crack open your soul to your next level as a wellness & spiritual leader.

But you don’t just want a retreat - you want a space where you get to develop your skillset, learn new modalities, and build a healthier, more successful and more impactful business with somatic tools for yourself and your clients.

And what better way to do that then at @playaviva - a Michelin Key retreat center where every detail is taken care of for you to receive for 7 days straight from our team and theirs?

Daily breath.
Daily teacher training.
Daily movement & meditation.
Dips in the ocean.
Cacao ceremony led by the locals.
Temescal (if youre feeling adventurous!)
Baby sea turtles and nature all around you.

Paradise tends to bring out the best in us and help us see ourselves in ways we never have before. YES PLEASE.

Did I mention this isn’t just a week long certification retreat? You get access to me and @alexis.rodriguez.smith for 6 months before the retreat in our online sessions + 2 months after the retreat.

If you’re thinking to yourself, “I’ve never seen this included in a retreat before!!!” It’s because you haven’t - we’re not just going to firehose you with information for 7 days straight and send you on your way.

We’re here to create the best facilitators in the world and that means support extends beyond the week.

& trust me, you’re not just going to learn information to go an regurgitate in your community. This experience is your own transformation first and foremost. You embody it, learn through it, heal and evolve, so that you can be the most confident and convicted leader possible.

You will not be the same person by the end of the week. 😮‍💨

And we say all of this from a DECADE + of hosting retreats & seeing countless women call this week the most healing, life-changing taken in Playa Viva by @avajohanna

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2 months ago

Being a stepping stone in your journey of self discovery, personal power, impact and success as leaders within your own communities is one of the greatest gifts that came from us initially saying “yes” to this work ourselves.

We didn’t know what our initial yes would lead to…

For our team, the first yes was for our own personal transformation.

How could we let more love in? How could we heal the wounded parts of ourselves to bring forward more joy?

The more we said yes, the more we realized that this world needs to say yes.

So we’ve held a collective prayer…

“Show us how good it can be so we can teach others to do the same. We are ready and available to be used as an instrument of good for this planet.”

This is the ripple effect.

This is The Academy of Breath.

#breathworkhealing #breathworkfacilitator #breathworktraining by @avajohanna

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3 months ago

I think it’s about time we introduce you to @erathemethod

Coming to a screen near you January 2027 🔥 taken in Austin, Texas by @avajohanna

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I told Matt at the beginning of the year the only “bucket list” item I wanted to check off before we become parents is a music festival to full send it.

@aclfestival couldn’t have brought me a more perfect lineup with nostalgia from @thechainsmokers to *feeling* the perfection of @rufusdusol and ending the weekend dancing it out to my girl crush @sophiehawleyweld @sofitukker

I’ve been going to festivals and raves since 2009 - music has been such a big part of my life and these weekends have held me through incredibly hard times and although I know we can still go after we have kids (and can even take them!!), it will be different so I am so grateful we got one more silly weekend in being kids ourselves. 🥹

Feeling so complete, so happy, so energized (my tootsies hurt a lil) and SO SO excited for this upcoming week - we’re filming for the app & welcoming 17 women in for our Advanced Practitioner Training weekend immersion on 11 acres of land out here in Austin.

LIFE IS DELISH!!! taken in Austin City Limits Music Festival (ACL) by @avajohanna

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Finally got to belt out every @rufusdusol song with my love 👼 taken in Austin City Limits Music Festival (ACL) by @avajohanna

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5 days ago

@aclfestival with no trending audio just day one silliness with the loves of my life 👯‍♀️ taken in Austin City Limits Music Festival (ACL) by @avajohanna

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6 days ago

SAY IT WITH YA CHEST BABY 👏🏼

I’m writing a full blog on this for my Substack (out tomorrow) bcz I’m fired up.

I’m done allowing my fear of being disliked or having judgement cast my way stop me from letting myself really be seen.

I’m done making myself sick from bending over backwards for people who never deserved my support to begin with and attempting to be more palatable for the sake of “not rocking the social media boat.”

Bcz even in our attempts to be kind, give in overflow, share our hearts with the world and go above and beyond for others…

There will always be people hell bent on putting you in a box.

“Other people’s opinions of me is none of my business” landed a whole lot deeper over this past week and I am excited to see what comes through when I stop giving a 😬 about trying to control the whole worlds perception of me.

Live your life babes and say what you wanna say, be who you want to be, and do what you wanna do. Your only priority in this season should be taking care of you, your people and saying yes to designing your life to the tune of your souls deepest desires. 🩷 taken in Austin, Texas by @avajohanna

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9 days ago

Okkkkk so I wrote a blog yesterday on how most of society is just numbed out lil babes who haven’t learned how to tolerate discomfort & would reach for a medication before actually feeling pain 👀

And I do believe it is quite the important read, bcz not only am I sharing my unfiltered opinion on why I believe we’ve taken convenience too far, but I share w you how I’ve actually learned how to navigate the seasons where pain isn’t optional and come out the other side stronger, hotter and wiser.

There’s also a free breathwork practice in there for ya.

Comment ANXIETY below and I’ll send it to your DMs 🤟🏻 taken in Austin, Texas by @avajohanna

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10 days ago

“What if saying yes to this path means relationships change or fade?”

Oh, but what if saying yes positions you to find the most nourishing, expansive, and love-centered relationships that never would have existed had you not chosen greater for yourself?

#breathworktraining #breathworkfacilitator #breathworkhealing #teachertraining #meditationpractice by @avajohanna

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Breathwork does the work that talk therapy can’t access on its own - but not in the intense way you’ve probably seen portrayed in ads for breathwork.

I’ve healed my relationship with my parents.
Control.
Success.
Fear.
What’s required to care for another life.

All through accessing such a deep state of bliss through breath that didn’t require “looking at” any single traumatic experience and talking about it in extent.

The tears I’ve cried during breath have been tears of love, joy, and ecstasy.

The messages I’ve received have cast all my anxiety, doubt and fear around becoming a mom away.

Everyone talks about preparing the body, and with breathwork we don’t just prepare the body by working with the nervous system…

We prepare the heart, the mind, the whole individual.

If there is one thing I’d recommend most for the person who’s preparing to become a parent (before conception) - it’s therapeutic breathwork.

I know my breathwork mamas feel me on this. 🔥🤌🏼 by @avajohanna

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14 days ago

It’s actually CRAZY how much your appearance changes by the end of a breathwork & meditation retreat…but I’m also not surprised at all.

Eyes are the window to the soul and if you’ve been going through life picking up everyone’s junk, opinions, carrying stress and never giving yourself a break to step away and breathe…

You’re going to see it in your face.

This is why I always take before and after pictures when we host @academyofbreath retreats 👀

You can feel and SEE the changes in your field.

But honestly, how you look is just the tip of the iceberg with all of the value & profound shifts you’ll experience with us on retreat. 😉

Our next retreat is February 6-13th in Mexico at @playaviva and we’ve only got 6 spots left - DM me RETREAT for the details 🌴 by @avajohanna

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17 days ago

I was not expecting all the transitions that came this summer and how tightly I was holding on to who I *thought* I was and honestly, it wasn’t until I accepted these 5 lessons (and so many more 🤭) that I started feeling light in my body & heart again. HERE WE GO 👉🏼

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Being a human means we will have moments or seasons in life that inevitably hit us hard. Suffering isn’t optional because it is part of the full spectrum of being a human… it’s that we start to SUFFER over the SUFFERING.

Meaning, we act completely shocked that a hard thing happened. We pout, we stomp our feet, we ask “Why me?”

And all that does is layer on unnecessary suffering to make things 100x worse than they would be if we just accepted: This is a hard season, it’s not permanent, and I will get through it.

What you resist, persists. So when you stop resisting, the energy (and the opportunity) can actually flow.

This was a wild one, expect that it will come in an unexpected package. You think you know the exact orchestration of how the things you pray for are meant to arrive but, my girl, you do not. Limited sight will give you a limited imagination.

When God comes knocking with a path to everything you desire, answer the door. We miss most of the opportunities placed in front of us because we were expecting God to send the yacht, but what if God was always meant to send you a private jet? Destination the same, path… a little different. 😉

I wrote a whole post on this but please remember to take care of yourself - even if it feels like the things you use to pour into yourself don’t “work” like they used to. They are working, the outcome is just a little different because you’re holding more than usual.

It is safe for you to unravel into those that love you the most - they have been waiting for the opportunity to hold you at the same depth that you hold them.

PULL THE THREAD!

Without needing an instant outcome.
Without needing it to turn into anything at all.

Just because you simply want to.

That inspiration might lead to clarity or it might lead to the exact emotional shift you’ve been praying for. Inspiration leads to energy in motion and a force in motion cannot NO taken in Austin, Texas by @avajohanna

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