I'm Amanda Wright — a breathwork facilitator and Qi Gong teacher based in Aotearoa New Zealand. I work 1:1, in small groups through the Breathe Wright Collective, and at workshops and retreats, helping people build steadier nervous systems.


I didn't start here. In my twenties I was DJing through Goa's music scene, and an early participant in Burning Man in the late 1990s — years spent chasing altered states and big, collective experience. In 1998 I co-founded Splore Festival and spent the next 16 years leading its creative direction: building spaces for thousands of people to gather, move, and feel something together.
Somewhere in those years, the same question kept surfacing — not how to create a peak experience, but how to come back down from one, steadily, again and again. That question is what led me to breathwork and Qi Gong. I trained in functional breathwork, Qi Gong, and somatic sequencing under Tom Granger, Peter Caughey, and Steph Magenta, and I've spent the years since teaching what I learned — grounded in the science of the nervous system, and in practices that are genuinely old.


What I do now isn't so different from what I did then. It's still about building a space where people can arrive as they are and leave a little steadier. It's just smaller, quieter, and built for the everyday rather than the festival weekend — which, it turns out, is where most of us actually live.
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