Bring all aspects of yourself into connection and kindness with Compassionate Inquiry and breath therapy.
Compassionate Inquiry is a somatic-based psychotherapeutic approach that gently uncovers and releases layers of childhood trauma, constriction and suppressed emotion embedded in the body. The result is a greater capacity to stay open and connected in relationship with others, with ourselves, and with life.
Holosomatic Breath Therapy amplifies the healing process by supporting deeper levels of consciousness and altering brain waves. During breath therapy sessions we can reshape thought processes and nervous system responses that can may have previously felt stuck and irreversible.
Our Holosomatic Breath Ceremony Retreats always include private preparation and integration sessions to ensure your experience can be as deep and transformative as possible.
Meet Our Team
Kat Ballam
Psychologist and Breathworker
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.
Lizzie Keates
Holosomatic Bodyworker 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.
What we offer:
Private Compassionate Inquiry Sessions
One-to-one sessions where we will gently and potently release emotion and trauma, enabling you to respond to life with more openenss, wisdom and ease.
2-day Breathwork retreat
Integration sessions
Private integration sessions after the retreat to help you ground your experiences in positive transformation for your everyday life and for our world.
WHAT WE WILL COVER
Illuminating and embracing our shadows: so we can welcome all of life.
To ensure an intimate & safe space for your journey, enrollment is limited to
8 spaces, by application only.
To apply, please schedule Discovery Call to explore further.
The retreat with Kat and Lizzie was something else! It is hard to put words to the experiences and learning from my time with them both and the group that they so thoughtfully curated. But to say I learnt more about deep connection and compassion in these 2 precious days than I could have imagined possible. Kat, wise and attuned, helped me to review some challenges and my intentions for myself prior to our retreat. Then two days in a beautiful, peaceful space in the south Devon countryside, with Kat and Lizzie creating a nurturing environment in which exploration felt completely safe and i was able to entirely relax into the process. The process itself was a combination of movement, breathwork and embodied compassionate enquiry – All creatively woven into a journey that was deeply grounding at the same time as being full of metaphysical wonder! And the food and the group environment and the music and the ceremony too… Kat and Lizzie are truely magic weavers – they are the embodiment of compassion and wisdom, and always supportive and alongside. I was able to explore realms of mind and old unhelpful stories/ beliefs from a very different perspective (altered state of consciousness), and I left the weekend with a sense of deeper compassionate connectedness with my self and with others in my life. Also a peaceful understanding and acceptance in relation to old challenges. This embodied experience continues to support me in my work as a therapist.