Nathalia Westmacott

About Nathalia

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    Nathalia Westmacott has spent more than two decades exploring what it takes to create meaningful, lasting change.

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    Her work began with her own experience of burnout and a search for something that reached beyond intellectual understanding. That search led her to breathwork, and eventually to an intensive apprenticeship with some of the field’s most experienced practitioners.

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    Since founding First Breath in 2004, Nathalia has worked extensively one-to-one, trained and mentored practitioners, and developed a particular depth of expertise in the earliest layers of human experience — from conception, pregnancy and birth through infancy and childhood — and the unconscious patterns that can continue to shape us throughout adult life.

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    Her approach draws not only on breathwork, but on decades of therapeutic enquiry, Jungian and shadow work, and the accumulated wisdom that comes from accompanying people through thousands of hours of real process.

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    Nathalia is the author of Breathwork: A Little Book of Self-Care, published by Penguin/DK, and has spent much of her career teaching practitioners how to work with greater depth, sensitivity and confidence.

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    Today, her focus is increasingly on one-to-one work, professional mentoring and continuing professional development — offering experienced practitioners, therapists and facilitators a place to explore the complexities of their work, deepen their understanding and continue developing their own distinctive practice.

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    Her work isn’t about creating practitioners who work like Nathalia. It’s about helping practitioners become more fully themselves.