A live five-week cohort in embodied breathing: breath, mindfulness and movement trained as one practice. Calm your nervous system through deliberate breathing, and anchor your mind in your body, out of the loops of rumination. Built on twenty years of teaching traditional Kung Fu and Qigong, explained through modern nervous-system science.
Small group · Limited seats · Early-bird pricing open now
Kitaro walks you through the science and the practice, including a live breathing exercise you can feel in real time.
Most people approach breathwork the way they download a new app. They try it, feel something, then life gets busy and it fades into the background. That's not because the practices don't work. It's because nobody taught you why they work, or gave your body a reason to keep them.
Replaying this morning's meeting, rehearsing tomorrow's. Your mind spends much of the day in loops about the past or the future, and no amount of thinking gets you out of them.
Without understanding your nervous system, you can't choose the right tool, or trust the process.
Seated breathing alone rarely survives a stressful week. Practices anchored in posture and movement do. That's the missing half.
Follow the circle. Breathe in slowly through the nose for five as it grows, then out for five as it settles. Do it twice and feel the subtle loosening in your chest.
That's your parasympathetic nervous system switching on. You just trained a physiological response. The Lab teaches you to direct it. Up, down, inward, whenever you need it.
Embodied breathing is the somatic craft of integrating breath, mind and movement into a single practice. Deliberate breathing regulates your nervous system. Body sensing anchors your attention in the present moment, away from the brain's default mode network, the storytelling circuitry that runs rumination. Subtle movement is what binds the two together and makes them stick. The old traditions never separated them. Modern neuroscience is catching up to why.
Precise protocols for distinct outcomes. Calm before a presentation, sharp alertness for deep work, faster recovery. The right tool, at the right moment, on demand.
Interoception, the ability to feel what's happening inside your body in real time. Attention anchored in sensation can't ruminate. When you can sense stress before it overwhelms you, you have a choice.
The piece almost every breathwork program misses. Subtle movements, basic coordination and body-sensing principles from Qigong and martial arts that give you better access to your body, your breath and your mind.
You won't learn choreography tied to a mat, a cushion or a 45-minute time block. You'll learn principles. And principles transfer to any movement your day already contains.
Steps synchronised with breath, attention in the soles of your feet. A walk between meetings turns into five minutes of nervous-system regulation.
Weight settled, spine tall, breath slow and low. Two minutes at the sink become a daily check-in with your body instead of another rehearsal of your to-do list.
A short stretch before the workday, moved on the rhythm of the breath, sets your state for the hours ahead. No equipment, no extra time carved out.
"What I teach bridges ancient practice with modern neuroscience, because both point to the same thing. How to train your mind and body to stay regulated, clear and resilient."
Two decades of embodied practice, from martial arts foundations to breath science, collapsed into a framework that actually works in everyday life. Not just on the mat.
Each week adds one layer of embodied breathing and builds on the last, from the breath itself to a practice you carry into everything you do.
The foundation, deeper than before. How breath directly steers your autonomic nervous system, diaphragm mechanics, and the calming and activating pathways you'll use every single day of the course.
Mindfulness on a deeper level. Train interoception, the skill of feeling your body from the inside, and learn why attention anchored in sensation is the fastest exit from rumination and the default mode network.
The Qigong layer. Basic coordination and body-sensing principles through subtle, simple movements: standing, shifting weight, walking. You learn to access your body, feel your breath and settle your mind through motion.
The three skills merge into a single embodied practice: movement carried by breath, held by attention. This is where breathwork stops being an exercise you do and starts being a way you move.
Transfer the principles beyond specific exercises into everyday movement: a five-minute walk, standing at the sink, a morning stretch before the workday. You leave with a lifelong practice, not a routine that fades.
Every Friday, 3–4:30PM CET, starting August 21. Guided practice, theory, and live Q&A with Kitaro in real time.
Direct, real-time feedback from Kitaro. The group is kept small precisely so this is actually possible.
An embodied breathing and mindfulness protocol starting after session one. Minimum 15 minutes daily to build real habits.
A shared space to track progress, ask questions, and stay accountable through the five weeks.
"I find breath as a tool to change low states of energy really, incredibly valuable. I joined out of curiosity, and left with lasting focus and motivation."
"Even short breathwork and mindfulness practices can meaningfully shift my state during everyday activities. This isn't something I expected to say."
Five Fridays · Aug 21 – Sep 18 · Live sessions, personal coaching, community
Until the first live session, Friday, August 21
Seats are limited — the group is kept small so coaching stays personal.
Attend the live sessions, and if you don't find it beneficial you'll get a full refund within 30 days. No questions asked. Showing up live is the only real way to evaluate it.
Questions? Write to kitaro@kitarowaga.com — Kitaro responds personally.
Five Fridays, starting August 21. A live cohort in embodied breathing that turns scattered techniques into one practice you carry through your day. Small group, early-bird pricing open now.
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