Anxiety running high, or a nervous system locked on even when nothing is technically wrong. Breath is part of every session at our studio off Melrose, and formal breathwork comes in when it is what will help.
Part of every session · Studio off Melrose, Los Angeles
Breathwork is the practice of consciously directing the breath to support nervous-system regulation, emotional release, and somatic change, building on foundational techniques like the diaphragmatic breathing described by the Cleveland Clinic. Different techniques use the rhythm, depth, and pace of breathing to shift the body out of chronic stress activation and create room for clarity, release, and grounded calm. It works in the sense that people consistently report real, felt shifts after a session.
Breathwork is not a medical treatment. It works alongside mental-health and medical care, not instead of it. It does not diagnose or treat any condition, and it works best as part of an ongoing practice.
We do not sell breathwork as a standalone appointment. Breath is part of every session here, whatever you book, and formal breathwork comes in when it is the thing that will help.
The way in is a Reiki session. We start with a conversation about how you actually are, and the session goes where it needs to, breath included. If you would rather work over a longer arc, that is one-on-one coaching.
Grounded, body-based support for what the nervous system is carrying, as a complement to medical or mental-health care.
Conscious breathing can interrupt the chronic activation that keeps the body in fight-or-flight. For high-achievers, caregivers, and anyone in LA running at a pace their nervous system cannot sustain, a session can feel like the first full exhale in months.
Breathwork for stress →The breath gives the nervous system a direct input. When the body learns to breathe through activation rather than away from it, anxiety has less physical fuel. This is a practice that supports how your body responds to stress over time, not a cure.
Breathwork for anxiety →The breath is the first thing to go when we are holding a strong emotion. A session creates the conditions for what has been held to move. Many clients describe it not as crying or drama, but as a quiet settling, a release without a story attached to it.
Breathwork supports clients moving through stress, overwhelm, and emotional difficulty as a complement to medical or mental-health care. It is not a substitute for professional treatment.
Private, one-on-one, and shaped entirely to you. No workshop model, no room of fifteen people on a mat. Sixty to seventy-five minutes, paced to your nervous system.
A short intake shapes the session: what you are carrying, what you want to move, any physical or emotional history we should know about. This is also where we decide whether today calls for a breathwork-led session or one where breath layers into reiki and Pilates grounding.
We start gently, with conscious breathing at a pace your nervous system can work with. Not a high-arousal workshop technique. Paced to you, with pause signals built in from the start.
As the breath deepens, the body often releases what it has been holding, physically, emotionally, or both. Your practitioner stays present and responsive throughout. Many clients feel warmth, tingling, a pressure-valve release, or emotional movement they have not been able to access in talk therapy.
Breathwork without integration is incomplete. We close with quiet, a check-in, and time to let the session land before you re-enter the day. Tea is available. You are not rushed out.
Trauma-informed is a phrase many practitioners use. Fewer specify what it means in practice. At Word of Mouth, it means the session is paced to your nervous system, not to a protocol, and that the room stays gentle from start to finish.
We work at a pace your body can meet, not a fixed technique everyone follows. We do not push for cathartic release.
You can slow down or stop at any point. The signals are set up before we begin, so you are never guessing.
Any hands-on support is agreed before it happens. Hands-off work is equally available and just as effective.
Time to land is part of the session, not an afterthought. If talk therapy has given you insight but the body still feels stuck, breathwork can reach where conversation has not.
Jaime is a Certified Breathwork Facilitator, Certified Reiki Master Teacher, Energy Medicine Practitioner, with six years working with clients across Los Angeles in breathwork, somatic support, and coaching. Yonatan is a Certified Breathwork Facilitator, Certified Reiki Master Teacher, and Classical Pilates Instructor, whose 30 years of musical and vibrational study inform how he works with breath, rhythm, and grounding.
They are married, and you work one-on-one with one of them.
Learn more about usI had never done exercise as a complement to emotional therapy. That worked really well for me, and it was cool to feel strong, warmed up, and grounded in my body before tackling some bigger emotional issues.
By combining a mix of breath, body, mind and energy work all under one roof, in a single session, I am able to take care of myself as a whole being rather than doing maintenance on each of the parts individually.
The biggest lessons I have learned are that play and joy can be the foundation that supports us through the hard stuff, and that personal development and growth do not have to be painful.
Honest answers about how sessions work, who breathwork suits, and what it is and is not.
Our private Melrose studio in West Hollywood is home base. We see clients from Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Silver Lake, Los Feliz, Studio City, Culver City, Brentwood, Sherman Oaks, Hancock Park, Larchmont Village, Miracle Mile, Mar Vista, Echo Park, Laurel Canyon, Hollywood Hills, Beverly Grove, Koreatown, Westwood, and across the LA metro.
Sessions at our Melrose studio. One-on-one, trauma-informed, and paced to your nervous system. New client bookings take two minutes online.
Hands-on and hands-off reiki with Certified Reiki Master Teachers in a private Melrose loft.
Reiki healing →Singing bowls, gongs, chimes and drums for deep nervous-system rest. Private sessions.
Sound healing →Mind, body, and energy coaching for clients who have hit the talk-therapy plateau.
Holistic coaching →Become a Certified Reiki practitioner. Level 1 starts at $550.
Reiki certification →Every session type, guide, and answer in this part of the studio, in one place.
