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Ash Ryzen Witham | Somatic Coach & Change Practitioner

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Your weird little idea deserves to exist in the desert. 🌵🎨

We’re looking for artists, makers, dreamers + beautiful weirdos to bring immersive art to KOF 2027.

Big idea? Tiny budget? Something you can’t stop thinking about making?

This might be the space.

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One of the most impactful weeks for @rewildbreathwork, our Advanced Breath, Somatics & Embodiment Training @cliffsofmoher.retreat in Ireland.

More than a retreat or training, it’s also an 8-week Business Mastermind where we land the teachings into unique offers.

This one is for the certified breathwork practitioners, those sharing this work, who are devoted to their craft, service and impact.

In this Advanced certification, we dig deeper into nervous system tracking & leadership, somatic unwinding, embodiment, Traditional Chinese Medicine & touch, advanced facilitation & energetics, hot/cold exposure, business development, corporate experiences, and so much more.

You can only reach as high as your roots run deep. And leadership isn’t about expanding the vision, it’s about expanding your capacity to hold it.

This is the path to mastery in this work.

To all our Advanced students, the shifts, opportunities, and businesses you’ve stepped deeper into post-training is BEYOND WORDS. It’s an honor to be on this path with you, remember “walk beside me, not behind me,” that’s our way.

And to Ireland, thank you for opening your arms to us, year after year. Thank you for allowing us to share this work, and for loving us as though we’re one of your own. I bow to the guardians of this land, its history, and its spirit, and will forever be in gratitude.

#breathwork #breathworktraining #breathworkfacilitator #somaticbreathwork

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You can't pour regulation into someone else's nervous system from an empty one.

Within the last year, I completed my Level 1 Trauma-Informed Somatic Breathwork training with Re Wild Breathwork. Within the last month, I built on it with Level 2 — Advanced Somatics & Embodiment — held at the Cliffs of Moher, an environment so tranquil it felt made for this kind of work.

Before anything else, I need to say this properly: none of this happens without Jamie Janko, founder of Re Wild Breathwork, and Sinéad.

The way they held that room — with skill, patience, and total authenticity — is the reason a group of near-strangers could go that deep, that fast. I came out with more than technique. I came out with people I'll call on for the rest of my career, and a facilitator standard I'll spend years trying to live up to. Forever grateful to Jamie & Sinéad. 🙏

What these photos capture is something words struggle to: the unity in that room. Strangers on day one, holding space for each other by the end — that kind of connection doesn't happen by accident. It happens when people show up willing to be seen.

Here's what most people get wrong about stress: it's not something you eliminate. It's something you build capacity for. Regulation isn't a mindset shift — it's a trainable skill, the same way strength or mobility is.

That's what this training sharpened in me: how to hold space for people processing real things, and give them tools that change their physiology, not just their mood for an hour.

Being trusted by practitioners further into this work than I am — hearing directly from them that I'm ready for where I'm heading — isn't validation I take lightly. It's confirmation the work I'm building is rigorous, not just well-intentioned.

And underneath all of it is the real reason: Josh, Molly, and Lisa. Every hour I put into getting better at this is an hour I can hand someone else the tools I didn't have when I needed them most.

Most people wait until they hit a wall before they deal with their stress. By then, you're not building capacity — you're in damage control.

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Some experiences stay with you forever

@rewildbreathwork advanced training is one of them.

I came to deepen my understanding of breathwork, the nervous system and somatics. But I left with so much more.

A deeper trust in myself. A bigger vision of spaces I want to create. A reminder that life is all about those belly laughs, the dancing, the tears, the deep (but also stupid conversations😉..) and the people who somehow feel like family after only a few days.

It’s expanded my capacity not only as a facilitator but as a human being.

Some snippets from my journal..

Life is for living.

Dream big because my god don’t you owe that to yourself?

Community is everything.

Stay open to the mystery of it all.

Play, laugh, move ... wear your heart on your sleeve.

People remember how you made them feel.

If I can create spaces where people feel safe enough to drop in, feel their breath, move freely, laugh until their cheeks hurt cry if they want to and ultimately connect with themselves I think that’s when I know I made it.

So to the ones who are a little like me..
I hope we never stop dreaming🦋
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To the 13 incredible humans I shared the week with:

Thank you. Thank you for your honesty, your openness, your tears, your hugs, your howls, your laughter (oh those belly laughs!!!) your wisdom and your hearts.

I’ll carry a little piece of each of you with me always

♥️

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You can only reach as high as your roots run deep. And leadership isn’t about expanding the vision, it’s about expanding your capacity to hold it.

These were the themes of our Advanced Breath, Somatics & Embodiment Training, our weeklong retreat at the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland.

This one is for the certified breathwork practitioners, those sharing this work, who are devoted to their craft, service and impact.

I witness again and again how they walk in as incredible facilitators, but leave as true leaders in this space.

In this Advanced certification, we dig deeper into nervous system tracking & leadership, somatic unwinding, embodiment, Traditional Chinese Medicine & touch, advanced facilitation & energetics, hot/cold exposure, business development, corporate experiences, and so much more.

This is the path to mastery in this work.

To all our Advanced students, thank you, we honestly became family. You inspire me beyond words, and I can’t wait to see you continue to RIPPLE this work around the world. It’s an honor to be on this path with you, remember “walk beside me, not behind me,” that’s our way.

And to Ireland, thank you for opening your arms to us, year after year. Thank you for allowing us to share this work, and for loving us as though we’re one of your own. I bow to the guardians of this land, its history, and its spirit, and will forever be in gratitude.

This work is my heart, and this week is my why.

#breathworktraining #somaticbreathwork #transformation #breathworkfacilitator #breathwork

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Some weeks change you, and this one feels like one of them 🤍

In the beauty of The Cliffs of Moher, surrounded by the most incredible people, I was reminded that life has a beautiful way of bringing the right souls together at exactly the right time.

Every conversation, every shared moment, every laugh and every lesson became part of something much bigger. Thank you for being part of a journey I’ll carry in my heart forever and to the beautiful @jamiejanko and @sinead_tormey for facilitating the magic. ✨🌿

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If you’ve ever felt swept up in a conversation or relational dynamic moving faster than you actually wanted, not speaking up didn’t protect that connection.

It likely weakened the basis of it.

It can feel like asking for this might push someone away, so a lot of people don’t say anything. Instead, they quietly pull back from contact altogether. The slow-down still happens, it’s just done by leaving…

But slowing down isn’t shutting things down.
It can be exactly what helps people stay in.

Real connection happens when you haven’t left yourself to get there.
Inviting someone into the pace that’s right for you is showing them more of who you are, and letting them in on what it’s really like to know you, and how to be with you.

You might just find that the other person is not only grateful for you knowing yourself and letting them know you better - but also appreciates the opportunity to slow down themselves.

How have you usually handled these moments?

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Video shot by @thebalanced_dad and collab on this epic song by another homie @scottnice 🙌🏼
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#authenticrelating #selfawarenessjourney #consciousrelationships #slowingdown #communicationskill

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You've been breathing your whole life. Likely, no one ever taught you how.

Most of our breath runs on autopilot. Shallow. High in the chest. Unconscious. This keeps us dysregulated, stressed, disconnected, and we often don't know there's any other option.

But there is...

Breath used with intention does the opposite:
It can calm us. Energize us. Crack us open. Expand our awareness. It can support regulation, creativity, connection, even transformation, all depending on how we use it.

I’m fresh from a weeklong intensive with @rewildbreathwork in Ireland at the @cliffsofmoher.retreat for the in-person portion of a months-long, Advanced Breath, Somatics, and Embodiment Training — deepening into functional and conscious connected breathwork, exploring breath in combination with other modalities, and sharpening how to bring breath into everything from 1:1 coaching to group containers to deep dive retreats, from the corporate to the ceremonial 🌬️

Excited to continue sharing more with you all about this powerful, free, ever-present tool we can all access 🙌🏼

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#breathworkfacilitator #somaticcoaching #nervoussystemsupport #consciousconnectedbreathing #breathworktraining

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@rewildbreathwork Advanced Breath, Somatics & Embodiment Training Retreat at the @cliffsofmoher.retreat 🦋

I’ll be integrating this one for a while. But I’ll leave you with this..

I hope one day you’ll find the courage to listen to the pull of your heart
To trust yourself enough to take that leap
& to always follow what lights you up

We only get one go at life so I hope you choose one that feels like yours ♥️

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It’s the last day of Pride. Join me in honoring why it exists~

This was an installation I brought to @knowotherfestival in Joshua Tree this past April: A mural for letters to be written to our community. And a “tower of reflection” covered in mirrors with an invitation to write a letter to your future self. (I’m mailing them to everyone 6 months later😍)

✍️ Join me in these same invitations here:
Leave a note to our queer community, or to yourself, in the comments. Someone will be very grateful to receive your words 🫂

Because this year, we’ve been reminded WHY Pride exists…

Did you know: before Pride was a celebratory month in the US, it was an acronym. Three years before Stonewall, a Los Angeles group called PRIDE (Personal Rights in Defense and Education) became one of the earliest organized LGBTQ+ rights groups in the country. Then came June 28, 1969, when police raided the Stonewall Inn in New York City. This was a routine harassment… but this time, patrons fought back. What followed is widely credited as the spark that ignited the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, with vital leadership from Black and brown trans women, specifically Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.

This year we’ve watched protections roll back, legal setbacks, rights challenged court by court, daily social safety threatened, and more - with trans folks carrying the heaviest weight of it…

Our spirit has always been rooted in courageous commitment to authenticity. To human equality. All through the power of the collective, of community.

So with sadness and grief, but much more awe and truly, pride: happy pride y’all.

#pridemonth🌈 #fightforrights #queercommunity #queerpride #lgbtqia

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A very gay reel full of very real pride touched by the realest angels I get to call friends. Also, Knicks and birds because there’s room on our queer stage for all bringers of joy. Turns out there’s a kind of joy you don’t know to look for til you find it. And places that will feel like home once you stop waiting at the door. #happypridemonth🌈 #reelsarehard

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