Rita’s Origin Story

My relationship with the breath began in 2014 through pranayama during Kundalini training. A few years later, I left a demanding corporate role to focus fully on the body and emotional healing. As a therapist, I saw where talk therapy reached its limits. Insight alone wasn’t always enough, and I believed we can’t use the mind to control the mind.

My first breathwork session was a turning point. I felt light, joyful and deeply alive. The next day I enrolled in training. Although I never identified with having “deep trauma,” growing up during the Lebanese civil war left unprocessed fear and a sense of disconnection.

Through breathwork and embodied practice, I softened, grounded and found peace with my history. I returned to Lebanon after ten years away, feeling gratitude instead of resistance. I teach now because this work brings clarity without force and connection without effort. Watching people arrive sceptical and leave present and open is what continues to guide me.