SOMATIC THERAPY, BREATHWORK & CEREMONY
OUR MISSION
Wilda exists to remember and restore our natural capacity for safety, connection, and wholeness. We hold spaces where breath, body, and ceremony come together to help release inherited patterns of pain and awaken new ways of being.
With a decolonial lens, we honour the roots of our practices and the diverse lineages of healing they draw from. Our mission is to support both personal and collective transformation — so that what heals within us ripples outward into our families, communities, and the wider world.
OUR APPROACH
We weave together Holosomatic Breathwork, embodiment practices, and ceremony to open a safe and sacred space for healing. In these altered states of awareness, the nervous system can soften, old patterns can release, and deeper truths can surface.
Every journey with Wilda is carefully held — from preparation to integration — so that the experience is not only profound in the moment but continues to ripple into daily life. Our circles and retreats are guided by trauma-informed practice, respect for lineage, and trust in the body’s innate wisdom to heal and remember.
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How would it be to feel deeply connected to yourself whilst still connected to all of life?
Join a Holosomatic Breathwork Ceremony in Devon or Bristol
Our Team
Kat and Lizzie have worked together for 25 years with a shared passion for liberation of the self and the collective. Together they weave their experience of psychology, ceremony, plant medicine, trauma, bodywork and transpersonal experience.
Kat Ballam
Psychologist, Breathworker and Ceremonialist
Kat has over 20 years experience as a psychologist, coach and teacher of the nature of mind. Trained by Gabor Maté, Kat combines her work as a Somatic Psychotherapist, Holosomatic Breathworker and ceremonialist with her passion for embodied decolonisation. The work uncovers and releases layers of childhood & ancestral trauma, societal conditioning, constriction and suppressed emotion embedded in the body.
Kat gently supports her clients to bring all aspects of experience into a place of wholeness and love, so that all of life can be related to with openness, empowerment and deep rooted kindness.
To work with Kat one to one for Somatic Psychotherapy or Breathwork, please book via katballam.com.
Lizzie Keates
Bodyworker, Somatic Therapist and Ceremonialist
Drawing on her training in emotional intelligence, nature of mind teachings, and somatic connection, Lizzie offers a holistic, trauma-informed approach to wellbeing that supports a return to wholeness and freedom. Her apprenticeship with medicine elders has shaped a profound reverence for the power of ceremony, inspiring her passion for creating and sharing ritual spaces.
As a practitioner of Holosomatic Bodywork Therapy, Lizzie is devoted to supporting others in reclaiming full, untethered embodiment—opening pathways for the raw beauty of eros, spirit, and authentic human expression to be fully felt and lived.
Upcoming Events
Totnes Closed Women’s Breathwork Group
Opening to our Heart-Power
First Sunday of Every Month October-March
7.30–9.30pm
The Forge Yoga Studio, Totnes
Join Kat for a monthly gathering to reconnect with the wisdom of your body and the healing power of your breath. These evenings weave Holosomatic Breathwork with space for intention, integration, and gentle restoration.
As a group we will journey through the winter using our breath to support our energy, vitality, healing and rootedness. We will explore various breathwork styles including a shamanic ceremony, tantric activations, and deep resourcing.
Your breath remembers the way home.
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Bristol Breathwork Ceremony
Breathwork for Ancestral Healing
Ashton Court Mansion, Bristol
Connect with the love, strength and wisdom of your lineage.
A sacred breathwork ceremony devoted to ancestral connection. Release what no longer serves and receive the gifts that flow from deep connection with yourself and your lineage.
With music and live cello, the ceremony will weave breathwork, ritual, bodywork, and gentle guidance to help you open to a space of profound healing and freedom.
No experience is needed—just a willingness to show up and surrender to the breath.
Facilitated by both Kat and Lizzie.
Deep Dive 3-day Ceremony
Healing Intergenerational Trauma
October 17-19 2025
Droridge, Totnes
As a group we will spend time moving into deep transformational space with our intentions and prayers, opening to healing trauma and patterns of disconnection that have passed down through generations. Each ceremony will facilitate deeper levels of consciousness and allow for rewriting and rewiring in the body and nervous system.
We will weave the Shamanic Breath Ceremony with Compassionate Inquiry, somatic bodywork and nature connection to create a truly kind, held and potent space of healing for each person.
If this calls to you, please book a call via the button below, and we can share more about what the retreat will entail and see if it will suit you.
“From the moment we arrived at the retreat, we were held with a beautiful warmth and spaciousness that made me feel incredibly safe and supported. Every element was thoughtfully and beautifully considered and Kat and Lizzie guided us with such grace, joy and wisdom. The result was a truly powerful ceremony that left me feeling as full-hearted, connected and enlivened as I’ve ever felt. Kat and Lizzie truely have a gift for this work, and I am so grateful they share it with us.”