Gauteng, South Africa
TARA CABION
Craighall Park
Tara is an Executive at one of South Africa's leading banks, a qualified Executive and Life Coach, a certified Breathwork Practitioner and Kahuna Body Worker. She is also a mother, wife, friend and walker of the crossroads. "I’m all about the real... real life, real shifts and the real work we need to do to access our best yet."
Tara believes that getting into the body and connecting is where the real sustainable transition takes place and that Breathwork enables us to break through a debilitating, often narrowed perspective and supports all disciplines and allows for a fuller life.
+27 83 645 7544
DR JESSIE TURTON
Florida Glen
Jessie has a background in social work and is a senior lecturer at a university in Johannesburg. Her doctoral thesis explored the effects of complementary practices, including Breathwork, with a group of caregivers in a poor community on the outskirts of Pretoria.
Jessie is passionate about continuing this work and using Breathwork as an empowering tool with communities living with the traumatic effects of poverty.
Jessie runs group and one-on-one sessions.
+27 83 271 3469
BHASHNI NANA
Honeydew
Bhashni's coaching and Breathwork sessions are centred on building a strong foundation for her client’s personal growth, enabling them to become clear about their purpose, guiding them to unlock their true potential, and actualise the visions and goals they have for themselves. She aims to inspire, empower and guide her clients to bring clarity and well-being to their mind, body and spirit.
Her many years of experience as a Pre-school Principal and teacher has given her the opportunity of working with young children. She is an internationally certified Heal Your Life Workshop leader, Study Course Teacher, Life Coach, and Mentor with Heal Your Life South Africa.
+27 82 211 1959
SIMON KEHAGIAS
Randburg
Simon is a partner at Breathwork Africa and a Certified Breathwork Practitioner. Having experienced his first conscious breathing experience in 2017, Simon realised that he wanted to be more involved in breathwork and so began his journey with Breathwork Africa. He has been instrumental in Breathwork Africa’s digital presence, from a creative and operational perspective.
Simon’s passion around the science of breathwork allows him to bring a pragmatic and grounded approach to his breathwork practice, opening a spectrum of opportunity from focussing on physical performance to guiding one through stressful and anxious moments in life.
+27 82 547 8817
JULIE ROBINSON
Saxonwold
Julie has intimately experienced the tangible benefit of conscious breathwork as part of her own healing journey through chronic illness over several years.
Introduced to breathwork three years ago, Julie committed to integrating conscious breathing into her personal life and vocation through the creation of Inventure, an inward human adventure, exploring the uncharted spaces within our inner most being.
Julie’s passion is to be in a space with others where they are empowered to shift their personal and professional paradigms in ways that can lead to sustainable forward motion and the achievement of their deepest desires and goals.
+27 72 245 6178
PRIYAL MODI
Parkview
Dr Priyal Modi qualified as a medical doctor from the University of Witwatersrand.
Upon completion of her internship and community service years, she stepped away from medical practice to gain a deeper understanding of life, health and wellbeing through her travels and by studying and practicing yoga, breathwork, philosophy and an integrative approach to health.
She is now practicing as an Integrative medical doctor using breathwork as a tool for healing, transformation and empowerment.
+27 64 504 3134
WASEEMA KHAN
Tshwane
Waseema is a certified Breathwork Practitioner, who is currently developing a keen interest in working with Pregnant moms and newborns.
Waseema is a mom of two boys for whom she facilitates a natural learning environment. In her life’s quest, searching for meaning and purpose, she was exposed to various ‘alternate’ healing modalities, where the whole being is taken into consideration. This sparked the beginning of her journey in seeing the interconnected nature of our mind, body and spirit, as well as to all of life itself. Breath was the golden thread that weaved together the understanding of everything she was exposed to prior to it, and continues to be that thread in her every day life.
+27 76 651 0777
NATALIE DE GOUVEIA
Greenstone Hill
With over a decade of experience in counselling and working therapeutically with traumatized children and adults, Natalie has a passion for creating therapeutic experiences that are playful, but embodied and impactful.
After attaining a master’s degree, she utilized her knowledge in psychology and her training in play therapy to create dynamic therapy experiences. Furthering her education by certifying as a hypnotherapist with the IMDHA, Natalie begun to understand the importance of embodied practices in healing trauma. In February 2022, she was certified as an Advanced Breathwork Practitioner. Now, with new-found zest, Natalie is weaving the powerful impact of breathwork with her training in psychology, hypnosis and play therapy to create safe spaces and therapeutic experiences.
+27 83 357 7660
HEATHER PRIOR
Lonehill
Heather is an Advanced Breathwork Practitioner who empowers her clients to recover from adversity. People who are experiencing loss or who are feeling tired and wired, are offered the confidence to tap into their own inner wisdom. In opening to a calmer state of health and wellness, they regain greater strength and activity.
Besides a wealth of life experiences and studies in the Science of Happiness, Stress Mastery, and Recovery Coaching, Heather holds an Advanced Breathwork Certification and is a Master Neurolinguistics Practitioner. This coaching is both an informative and collaborative breathing journey, encompassing an intimate holistic approach, delving deeply into a person’s innermost world, offering physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional support, transformation, and healing.
+27 73 100 1941
LESA BURGER
KEMPTON PARK
Lesa has a Masters Degree in Transpersonal Psychology and is a lecturer and coach at two leading business schools. After going paralysed at 18 months of age, and 3 major surgeries to correct the problem, Lesa has spent much of her life discovering and learning strategies to overcome her physical limitations, building emotional resilience, exploring spiritual truths and building mental strength, along with finding meaning in her journey. Hence, Lesa’s philosophy is focussed on helping her clients to examine, explore and discover their unique ways to integrate their body, heart, mind and spirit, to enable them to show up in the world with whole- hearted being that makes the world a better place.
In the last five years Lesa has discovered that Breathwork offers simple yet powerful techniques to reduce stress and anxiety, enhance focus and concentration as well as increase energy levels which all enable the body to restore its natural balance and ability to heal itself. Breathwork also enables us to access our innate wisdom and insight to make wiser decisions and better choices for our highest good.
Lesa facilitates both group and one-on-one sessions.
+27 82 782 1856