RETREATS & WorksHOPS

Immersive experiences to awaken lifeforce, deepen presence, and reconnect you to your natural rhythm.

Amanda facilitates workshops and retreats throughout New Zealand and around the world — immersive, lifeforce-led experiences for individuals, groups, organisations, and corporate teams. Whether in studios, workplaces, private homes, retreat spaces, festivals, events, or online, her sessions invite transformation through breath, movement, and embodied presence.

She also collaborates and co-creates with other world-class facilitators whose modalities complement her own — deepening the learning, broadening the experience, and amplifying the transformation for all participants.

Workshops, Festivals & Events

Experiential, embodied learning for groups of all sizes.

Amanda offers immersive workshops and event and festival sessions weaving breathwork, Qi Gong, somatic sequencing, creativity, nervous system science, and nature-based awareness. These can be tailored for studios, organisations, events, retreats, corporate teams, and private groups.

Workshop Themes

  • Creative Calm (Draw Breath + Qi Gong fusion)

  • Draw Breath (visual, grounding, breath-led creativity)

  • Balanced Body & Breath (functional breath + somatic movement)

  • Breath & Beats (music-led somatic journeys)

  • Resilience Works (workplace breathwork + Qi Gong)

  • Lifeforce Somatics (Qi Gong and Breath & Beats)

Workshop Themes

  • Creative Calm (Draw Breath + Qi Gong fusion)

  • Draw Breath (visual, grounding, breath-led creativity)

  • Balanced Body & Breath (functional breath + somatic movement)

  • Breath & Beats (music-led somatic journeys)

  • Resilience Works (workplace breathwork + Qi Gong)

  • Lifeforce Somatics (Qi Gong and Breath & Beats)

Coming Up

Splore Festival —
20–22 February 2026

Breath & Beats at Wendy’s Wellness and Lucky Star

Breath & Beats blends guided breathwork, movement, and music into a playful, liberating, deeply connecting journey. Breath leads the movement, the music follows the rhythm of inhale and exhale, and participants shift into joy, presence, and freedom.

As co-founder and former Festival Director of Splore, and as a DJ, breathwork facilitator, and Qi Gong teacher, Amanda weaves rhythm, embodiment, and science-backed practice into a transformative festival experience that is deeply rooted in Splore’s creative and community-focused ethos

experiences.

Splore Festival —
20–22 February 2026

Breath & Beats at Wendy’s Wellness and Lucky Star

Breath & Beats blends guided breathwork, movement, and music into a playful, liberating, deeply connecting journey. Breath leads the movement, the music follows the rhythm of inhale and exhale, and participants shift into joy, presence, and freedom.

As co-founder and former Festival Director of Splore, and as a DJ, breathwork facilitator, and Qi Gong teacher, Amanda weaves rhythm, embodiment, and science-backed practice into a transformative festival experience that is deeply rooted in Splore’s creative and community-focused ethos

experiences.

Retreats

Deep, embodied, life-enhancing immersions.

Elemental retreats that weave breathwork, Qi Gong, somatic science, and nature into transformative, lifeforce-led experiences.

Forest Rock Qi Gong — Level 1 Teacher Training - 1 - 24 July

Amanda teaches breathwork and Qi Gong modules within this 200-hour program led by Master Peter Caughey. This is the training where she first fell in love with the depth and philosophy of Qi Gong — a life-changing course foundational to Breathe Wright and anyone who participates.

Forest Rock Qi Gong — Level 1 Teacher Training - 1 - 24 July

Amanda teaches breathwork and Qi Gong modules within this 200-hour program led by Master Peter Caughey. This is the training where she first fell in love with the depth and philosophy of Qi Gong — a life-changing course foundational to Breathe Wright.

Sacred Synergy Retreat — 31 July - 1 August Bali, 2026

Sacred Synergy blends ancient Qi Gong, modern breathwork science, and sound healing into a powerful, embodied journey. Over three immersive days at Bali Purnati, you’ll regulate your breath, release emotional tension, and reconnect to your natural rhythm.

A transformational 3-day retreat with Qi Gong Master Peter Caughey and sound alchemist Josephine Costain, where Amanda leads breathwork and Breath & Beats experiences

Ready to bring a workshop or retreat to your community, team, event, or studio?

Amanda creates tailored experiences for studios, workplaces, retreats and events worldwide.

Ready to bring a workshop or retreat to your community, team, event, or studio?

Amanda creates tailored experiences for studios, workplaces, retreats and events worldwide.