Breathwork in Stockholm & Online - Experience the transformative benefits
A grounded, trauma-informed space to regulate the nervous system, release what’s stored, and come home to yourself. Use your breath as a tool to support mental, physical, emotional and spiritual health — with science-backed guidance and intuitive depth
What is Breathwork?
Breathwork is a guided practice that uses conscious breathing to support your nervous system, emotional health, and inner clarity. In my sessions (Stockholm & online), we use the breath to release stress, shift stuck patterns, and reconnect you with the wisdom of your body.
In busy lives, it’s easy to slip into shallow, automatic breathing — which can leave you tense, disconnected, or overwhelmed. Breathwork is an intentional return: a way to calm the nervous system, move what’s been stored, and invite more presence, energy, and ease.
What you may experience:
Calmer nervous system and less stress reactivity
Emotional release and more inner space
Clearer mind, more energy, and a deeper sense of connection
A session includes intention-setting, guided breathing, and integration time so your system can land safely.
Breathwork for Emotional Health
Emotions are energy in motion, yet so often, we suppress, store, or resist them—leading to tension, anxiety, and even physical discomfort. Intentional breathing is a powerful tool for emotional regulation, helping you process, release, and integrate emotions in a safe and transformative way.
In these sessions, we work with the breath to clear emotional blockages, ease stress, and cultivate a deeper sense of balance. Whether you're experiencing overwhelm, frustration, grief, or simply feeling stuck, breathwork can help you shift your energy and reconnect with your true self.
Through intentional breathing, you engage both your nervous system and subconscious mind, creating space to move through emotions rather than being controlled by them. My approach blends somatic awareness, energy work, and deep emotional release—because healing isn’t just about the mind, it’s about the whole self.
👉 Curious about how The Power of Breath can transform emotions such as Anger, Frustration & Grief?
Can breathwork improve mental health?
Breathwork — sometimes searched as Conscious Breath Work —can help you release stress, worry, anxiety, and experiences that may have felt beyond your control. While it may sound simple, breathwork (and other breathing exercises) are highly effective for this purpose. Certain techniques can also create clarity, balance, and help release inner limiting (often subconscious) patterns.
Practicing breathwork over time allows you to feel grounded and safe in your body, teaching you how to navigate life’s challenges with greater inner calm.
“Softening the grip of stress, one breath at a time.
In my work, technique is never used in isolation. The breath is guided in relationship with the nervous system, emotional readiness, and what’s present in the body - not to force release, but to allow integration.
How to Shift Your Energy
Your energy doesn’t just “happen”—it’s shaped by breath, boundaries, and the stories we tell ourselves. In this post, I share how your inner saboteur shows up and how to soften its grip using simple tools.
👉 Read more on how you can transform your energy
What Science Tells Us About Our Working with our Breath
Your breath is one of the most powerful tools you have for self-regulation. With every inhale and exhale, you influence your nervous system, your brain, and even your emotional state. Stress often causes shallow, chest-based breathing, which can keep the body in a heightened state of alertness. Breathwork interrupts this cycle, inviting balance and restoration.
The nervous system plays a central role here:
The Sympathetic Nervous System fuels energy, action, and response.
The Parasympathetic Nervous System supports rest, recovery, and relaxation.
Both systems are essential, and they both need regulation from time to other. Prolonged stress can keep the sympathetic system overactive, but working consciously in the sympathetic nervous system can help the body manage stress in a better way. It is important to work with the switch in between, learning the body to activate the parasympathetic system when in need, allowing your body and mind to reset and repair.
👉 Read more about what Breathwork Really can do from a Nervous System Perspective
Common Breathwork Styles - And What Actually Makes the Difference
Breathwork exists in many forms — and this page explores how they differ, and why technique alone isn’t the point.
Some breathing techniques are gentle and regulating. Others are more activating, emotionally releasing, or consciousness-expanding. The method does matter — and you’ll often see breathwork styles named or compared online — but transformation doesn’t come from the pattern alone.
What creates real change is context: intention, pacing, safety, and nervous system readiness. These factors shape the experience far more than the breathing rhythm itself.
Breathwork Healing / Circular, Conscious Connected Breathing / Transformational Breathwork
This powerful active meditation goes beyond relaxation—guiding you deep into your subconscious mind. As you breathe, you unlock access to the hidden layers of old emotions, limiting beliefs, and patterns stored within your body. With each breath, you’re not only clearing stagnant energy and releasing stress, but also creating space to rewrite those narratives that no longer serve you.
Under this you also find guided somatic and trauma-informed breathwork that works with pacing, consent, and nervous system awareness - supporting integration rather than catharsis alone.
These techniques empowers you to reconnect with your inner power, transform blocks into breakthroughs, and align with your most authentic self. It’s more than a practice- it’s a gateway to profound healing and self-discovery. Upcoming Breathwork sessions in group or 1:1 here
Wim Hof Method
A well-known, high-intensity method combining breathwork with cold exposure. It can increase resilience and focus, it is activating by nature and not suited for everyone - especially without proper guidance or nervous system awareness. Can improve your ability to remain calm and focused under extreme conditions.
Holotropic Breathwork
This immersive practice uses rapid and rhythmic breathing to reach altered states of consciousness. Often practiced in a group setting, it facilitates emotional release, deep healing, and connection to the subconscious, traditionally paired with creative expression like drawing mandalas.
Pranayama-based Practices
Shorter breathing exercises rooted in ancient yogic practices that balance body and mind like Nadi Shodana (alternate nostril breathing), box breathing, 4-7-8 breath, Equal Breathing, Breath Focus, Kapalbhati (Skull Shining Breath)) and many more. You find videos and suggestions gathered here
These methods can all be useful — but breathwork is not about collecting techniques.
Real change happens when breath is guided in relationship with the nervous system, emotional readiness, and the body’s signals. The same technique can calm one person and overwhelm another.
This is why guidance, pacing, and presence matter more than the method itself.
Want to understand breathwork beyond techniques?
Explore what breathwork really is — and how it works with the nervous system → read more about what Breathwork is here
Why Thinking Can’t Set You Free?
You can’t think your way out of stress or anxiety. True change happens when the body is involved. In this post, I explore how nervous system awareness opens the door to real transformation.
Why Breath Work Matters for Mind, Body, and Spirit
Your body stores and holds onto everything—stress, emotions, memories, even trauma, and we do so mainly subconsciously. Over time, these can manifest as tension, fatigue, or emotional overwhelm. Our breath works directly with our nervous system and the parts of our brain that manage the subconscious programming and emotions. Breathwork works therapeutically on a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual level and bridges the divide between your conscious and subconscious realities.
Physical Benefits
Breathing deeply engages the diaphragm, improving oxygen flow, circulation, and energy production. Studies show that diaphragmatic breathing enhances your body’s ability to switch from stress mode to relaxation mode, benefiting digestion, sleep, and overall vitality.
Mental Clarity
Focusing on your breath creates space in your mind. It’s like hitting pause on racing thoughts, helping you think more clearly and stay grounded.
Emotional Release
Breathwork allows you to tap into emotions stored in your body, helping you release anger, sadness, or fear in a safe and supportive way.
Spiritual Connection
For those seeking deeper meaning or alignment, breath work can open the door to self-discovery. It’s a way to listen to your inner voice and connect with the world around you in a meaningful way.
17 benefits of Breathwork - read here
Breathwork in Stockholm
– A Way to Come Home
Breathwork isn’t just a tool—it’s a way back to you. In my sessions here in Stockholm (or Breathwork Online), we work with breath as a path to clarity, release, and create new space and reconnection.
It’s about coming home to your body, your truth, your rhythm.
👉 Learn more about the power of breath
The sessions at Hember is more than breathwork. It is a held return to you. A space where your energy is met, not pushed. Where the breath is just one key- but the real medicine is the way you remember yourself.
I work with energy, breath, the elements, the moon and deep listening. We move through realms- the garden of your heart, the underworld of old pain, the upper light of clarity.
You will feel held. And something inside you will remember what you came here to be.This is energetic integration. Soul remembrance. Inner alchemy.
You might call it breathwork. But maybe its also a remembering. A reclamation. This is a space to come home
Want to experience this? See upcoming sessions at Studio Hember with Kia
Join for magic sessions with Kia at Studio Hember. Breathwork combined with Reiki and Tarot.
Is Breathwork for You?
Whether you’re looking to manage stress, enhance your performance, or deepen your self-awareness, breathwork offers tools to support your journey. From beginners to seasoned practitioners, anyone can benefit from this versatile practice.
At Shape Your Vibe, Kia Agerhem—a trusted Breathwork guide, meditation teacher, and coach—helps individuals and groups explore the transformative power of breath. With a unique blend of science and holistic practices, Kia creates safe spaces for growth, healing, and empowerment.
Are you ready to experience the impact of breathwork for yourself?
Breathwork Sessions
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Connect, explore and find your flow
Experience a deep and profound breathwork session in a supportive group setting to release stress, anxiety, and nervous system blockages.
Give yourself time to connect with your body, breath in a transformative breathwork session where we'll explore what awaits us.
The best way to discover its power is to come and experience it for yourself. It can be somewhat of a ride - leaving you feeling lighter and empowered.
Breathwork Group sessions are available in Stockholm (Döbelnsgatan 12) & Online. Kia also holds classes regularly at Moumo & YogaYama.
The online sessions are via Zoom and are just as powerful, and for some, even easier than in-person Breathwork sessions. You can relax in the comfort of your home, enjoy a longer integration phase, and have me guiding you through headphones or speakers.
Plus, there's no need to drive or go anywhere after the session, making it harder to find excuses not to breathe. This also includes a non-downloadable replay of the Breathwork class to be revisited afterwards for 7 days.
You find upcoming sessions under “book a session”
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Breathwork and support in a personalized 1:1 session
NEW!! 6 weeks Breathwork Immersion
This session combines an active Breathwork technique that will connect you with your body to consciously move through and release energetic or physical blockages, creating an emotional detox, promoting clarity, creativity and a greater sense of self. A supportive, coaching conversation will enfold our session together.
Available Online under “book a session”
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You set the intention, and then we breathe
A Breathwork duo session together with your partner, friend, parent/child has the power to deepen your connection, move through a conflict, reignite that flame, heal old wounds or simply just create a tighter bond. We breathe and have a conversation together according to your needs, intention or purpose.
Available in Stockholm or Online - both options available under “book a session”
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Unlock Your Inner Power: Private Breathwork Sessions with Personalized Conversations
In these private sessions, we can plan thematic inquiries or group settings to make the most of your session tailored to your specific needs.
It's an amazing experience to share with friends, family, book clubs, networks… Let us unlock your inner power together.
To book this service, enquire here
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If you are interested in Breathwork and Corporate Wellness, read under the tab Corporate Breathwork
These sessions come highly recommended!!
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - for the curious mind and tender heart
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Well, the breathwork meant here is a different technique from the pranayama (breath control) one might experience in for example a yoga class. Both are highly beneficial practices, but this potent method allows one to do deep healing work. The best way to discover its power is to come and experience it for yourself. It can be somewhat of a ride.
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This style of Breathwork is a very active one. Sometimes referred to as 2-part breath, trauma releasing Breathwork, Breathwork Healing, Transformational Breathwork but sometimes I just call it Breakthrough Breathwork or Barrier Breaking Breathwork. We breathe into our sympathetic nervous system, and it actually enables us to tap into the subconscious, creating possibilities for the release of energetic blockages and creating an emotional detox of body, mind and soul.
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Each session is different, but the style Kia guides is a releasing form of Breathwork - for physical tension, stored stess or emotions, mental clarity or spiritual journeys.
It includes guided breathing, music, and time for integration. You'll be supported throughout. Expect a safe space to feel, release, and reconnect. -
Breathwork is accessible to most people. Some intense styles can be modified pregnancy or with certain health conditions (e.g. cardiovascular issues, epilepsy). Physically, it is about the same heart rate as a light workout or run. Consult with your doctor or guide beforehand (kia@shapeyourvibe.com)
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Each session is unique but typically includes gentle grounding, guided breathwork, and integration. You’ll be lying down, with music and prompts to support your journey. Group and 1:1 sessions with Kia are available both online and in Stockholm
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Wear comfortable clothes - that’s it 🤗.
For online sessions, I recommend to use headphones and lie on a mat, couch or bed. You may want a blanket and journal nearby for integration afterward.
Might be nice to not have eaten a very big meal just before. -
The group sessions for Breathwork are recorded and you have access to a replay för 7 days.
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Consistency matters more than intensity. Just to practice breathing Even 5–10 minutes a few times per week can create noticeable change. One Breathwork Session will create effect - more will change your life.
You can read more about benefits of Breathwork here -
f you’re seeking emotional release, stress relief, or a deeper connection to your body and inner world - breathwork with Kia may be exactly what you need. Sessions are guided, intuitive, and the words most frequently used is: Safe, Magic and Transforming. Read more here
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If you experience cramping, curling, or stiffness in your hands or around your mouth during active breathwork, this is known as tetany or "lobster claw" hands. This is a common occurrence in styles of breathwork such as holotropic, rebirthing, transformational, Wim Hof Method, and 2-part breathwork. The causes of tetany can be related to holding onto emotional or mental tension, as well as a scientific imbalance between oxygen and carbon dioxide in the body. During breathwork, hyperventilation or forceful breathing can eliminate more CO2 than the body can produce, causing involuntary muscle contractions. If you have underlying mineral imbalances, you may be more prone to tetany. To release the tension, it is recommended to slow down your breathing, move lightly, tap your body, or breathe softly through your nose. The final integration phase of breathwork can also help to release any remaining tension.
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Well, Breathwork can as well as plant medicine and psychedelics alter states of consciousness. With Breathwork you surrender to your breath, but you are in full control of the length of the experience, and you actively produce the benefits by sustaining the breath pattern. You can gain Therapeutic benefits, Induce synesthesia, and experience a feeling of wholeness, oneness and clarity. It can help to relieve anxiety, stress, depression and PTSD.
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The parasympathetic and the sympathetic nervous system are both part of our autonomic nervous system. The parasympathetic is meant to calm and restore, and the sympathetic is our more fight & flight mode. Both are necessary, but if we get caught in our sympathetic mode over time it can affect our overall well-being. However, when we are working consciously in our sympathetic nervous system, for a shorter time, we can create a release and almost build up resilience.
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Yes, when guided properly and by educated guides. I always adapt sessions to your needs and energy. If you’re pregnant, have epilepsy, or certain conditions, let me know - we can tailor accordingly.
You can read more about safe breathwork here -
Breathwork can support emotional release, reduce stress, regulate your nervous system, and bring clarity. It’s not about “fixing” - it’s about feeling, being present and coming home to yourself.