Our New Year’s Gift to You: A Breathwork Reset

January 2, 2026

Happy New Year! Our gift to you is a free reset!

What are you still carrying from last year?

Not your goals.
Not your intentions.
I’m talking about what’s still living in your body.

The stress that’s been so constant you barely notice it anymore.
The disappointment you swallowed because you had to keep going.
The grief, frustration, and exhaustion from trying to figure yourself out.

So many people come to us saying, “I’ve done the work. I understand my patterns. Why do I still feel stuck?”

Because this isn’t a thinking problem.
It’s a nervous system problem.

It’s in your chest.
Your shoulders.
Your jaw.
Your breath.

Woman rubbing her shoulder/back pain

And here’s the truth most of us were never taught:
You cannot think your way out of what your nervous system is holding.

That’s why most New Year’s resolutions fail. Not because you’re lazy or undisciplined, but because you’re trying to force change from the mind while your body is still in survival mode. Real change doesn’t come from pushing harder. It comes from clearing what’s been blocking you – so your natural clarity and aliveness can come back online.

Man breathing with hands on chest and stomach

That’s what breathwork does.

I’ve worked with breathwork for over 25 years – through my own healing, my spiritual awakening, and with thousands of people at Sedona Soul Adventures.

I’ll say this plainly: breathwork is one of the most reliable ways I know to create real, felt change. It works where stress and unprocessed emotion actually live. And it works whether you “believe” in it or not.

So this is our New Year’s gift to you.

From January 4–8, our Master Practitioner Gwen Payne and I are teaming up to offer a free 5-Day Breathwork Reset. Just 30 minutes a day, live on Zoom. No fixing. No forcing. No pretending you’re fine. Just space for your body to finally exhale.

What we’ll focus on each day:

Day 1 – Calm Your Nervous System
Stress lives in the body. Breathwork helps your system shift out of fight-or-flight and into rest. Most people feel calmer and more grounded right away.

Day 2 – Clear Mental Noise
When your mind is spinning, it’s hard to trust yourself. Breathwork creates space so clarity can emerge – without forcing answers.

Day 3 – Release Emotional Weight
You’re carrying emotions you never fully had time to feel. Breathwork lets them move through instead of staying stuck.

Day 4 – Self-Awareness Without Beating Yourself Up
You’ll see patterns and triggers with compassion instead of judgment. No fixing. Just honest awareness.

Day 5 – Reconnect to Your Inner Knowing
Your intuition hasn’t gone anywhere – it’s just been drowned out. Breathwork helps you hear yourself again.

About Gwen Payne

Gwen has been facilitating breathwork for 25 years. She’s trained for over three and a half years with multiple master teachers and is certified in three distinct breathwork modalities – which is rare. She’s also a yoga teacher, birth doula, somatic relationship coach, Family Constellations facilitator, and she teaches our Breathwork Facilitator Training each year.

But what matters most isn’t her résumé.
It’s the way she meets people – right where they are.
No rushing. No bypassing. No judgment. 

Gwen Payne

She creates a space where your body feels safe enough to let go. I’ll be there too, holding space alongside her.

What people often experience

Woman laughing with joy

I can’t promise what your experience will be – breathwork is personal. But people often report a deep sense of relief, emotions finally moving after being stuck for years, clarity about something they’ve been avoiding, and a feeling of coming home to themselves.

Some people cry.
Some laugh.
Some feel energy moving in new ways.

There’s no right way to do this. Your body knows what it needs.

Why five days?

One session can open a door.
Five days lets your nervous system start to trust.

Each day builds on the last. Patterns soften. Space opens. This isn’t a magic fix – but it is a powerful reset.

And if breathwork speaks to you, we offer ongoing live breathwork sessions twice a month on Zoom (Thursday evenings and Sunday mornings). Real transformation happens with consistency, and we’ll share more about that during the challenge. For now, just show up for the five days.

Five days.
Thirty minutes a day.
To let your body do what it’s been trying to do all along.

Reset. Release. Come back to center.

The Breathwork Reset | January 4–8 | Live on Zoom | Free
7 am Pacific • 8 am Mountain • 9 am Central • 10 am Eastern

It's our gift to you for New Year!

Your Next Year Is Being Run by Old Wounds – Unless You Do This

If you want 2026 to be genuinely different – not just hopeful but embodied – a Sedona Soul Adventures retreat is one of the most powerful things you can do for yourself.

This is not a break from your life; it’s a reset at the level where change actually happens. Our work is about clearing what’s been weighing you down for years so you can move forward lighter, clearer, and more aligned. Sedona provides a naturally potent container, but the real transformation happens through intentional, deeply personalized work.

At the heart of everything we do is clearing gunk. Gunk is the accumulation of what life leaves behind – core wounds, unresolved trauma, limiting beliefs, karma, energetic blocks, and emotional residue stored in the body and nervous system.

When gunk builds up, it distorts how you see yourself, how you make decisions, and how safe you feel in love and in life. We don’t label it as wrong or broken – we help you feel it, understand it, and release it so it no longer runs you from the background.

Woman looking at her flaws and insecurities

Our Individual retreats are completely private and custom designed around you. You work one-on-one with our Master Practitioners – highly trained, deeply intuitive professionals and we tailor each day to what’s present in your body, your nervous system, and your life.

People often arrive feeling stuck, depleted, or disconnected from their inner knowing. They leave grounded, clear, and reconnected to themselves in a way that feels steady and real – not fragile or forced.

Our Couples retreats are also fully private and custom built for the two of you. Most couples aren’t struggling because of communication skills or even something as huge as cheating – they’re struggling because unhealed gunk is getting triggered between them. Old core wounds, unresolved trauma, and protection patterns collide, creating distance and reactivity.

Couples therapy

In a couples retreat, we clear each partner’s gunk while also working together to restore emotional safety, trust, and connection. The result is not just fewer arguments, but a deeper felt sense of closeness and understanding.

Every Sedona Soul Adventures retreat is intimate, private, and intentionally crafted, held in the powerful, mystical landscape of Sedona. Nothing is generic. Nothing is rushed.

If something in you knows it’s time to stop carrying old weight into a new year, we invite you to speak with a Soul Guide. They’ll help you explore whether an individual or couples retreat is the right next step – and how to make 2026 a year of true transformation.

Call us at (928) 204-5988 or request a call and one of our Soul Guides will call you. They’ll connect with you and custom design a retreat that will take you from where you are to where you want to be.

What Our Clients Say...

Dea & Kirby say their Couples Retreat was “the best thing we could have done for our relationship!”

Dea & Kirby say their Couples Retreat was “the best thing we could have done for our relationship!”

Jennifer says, "Invest in yourself, it's worth it!"

Jennifer says, "Invest in yourself, it's worth it!"

If you feel broken, scattered, or unsure of who you truly are, give us a call. Sedona Soul Adventures might just be the beginning of your plan to heal and transform yourself into living as the divine being you truly are.

Did you know Sedona Soul Adventures was named
“Best of Sedona” for Retreats for 2020-2024,
“Best Marriage Retreats in the US” 2015-2025 and
one of the "11 Best Couples Retreats Around the World"
by Bride's Magazine in 2022? Plus we were named one of
Global Radiance Review's "20 Most Trustworthy Companies of 2023"
and “Ten Best Companies of the Year for 2024” by CEO Views.

It’s because what we do gets results - call us now, let us help. As I always say, if you knew what could happen, you’d be calling right now.

What area of your life do you need help with most right now…

Your relationship?
Finding your life purpose?
Loss of a loved one?
Healing & pampering?
Or is it something else?

Because we’re here for you - and we’re even open on Sunday!

Remember, there's no cost or obligation to speak with a Soul Guide and have them custom-design the perfect retreat just for you in Sedona or At Home.

Call us at (928) 204-5988 or request a call from one of our
Soul Guides and they will call you.

Wishing you a week filled with mystery and transformation!

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