About Us
The Breath Knows was founded in 2008 by Suzanna Viney and Emma Skellern.
Leonard Orr suggested we work together and not long after we recreated the Glastonbury Rebirth Breathwork Group, which had been successful in the late 80′s early 90′s. Later our skills enabled us to teach workshops on Elemental Healing in 2009.
Emma returned to her native New Zealand in January 2010, where she is now developing the NZ branch. She continues to be a director of TBK UK.
Suzanna Viney was trained by Leonard Orr and is a member of the British Rebirth Society. She works with both individual clients and groups. She runs workshops on Rebirthing and Elemental Healing. Also a year long self-development course which connects different British teachers of Rebirthing: from David & Gilly Montgomery, Clare Gabriel and Jane Okondo to Andy Portman and Trance Dancer, Amoda Maa Jeevan. She is an advocate of music with breathwork, introducing different master musicians, such as Adrian Freedman and his Shakuhachi Flute to her work. Her background is in deep transformational shamanic work. She has worked with medicine teachers from Mexico and Africa and as guest shaman with Ya’Acov Darling Khan’s Movement Medicine. She has trained in Family Constellations, partly with Bert Hellinger. She also has foundation skills in Shiatsu, Counselling and a 3 year Healing training with The College of Psychic Studies in London. She is from a medical family and great grandaughter of an Irish animal healer.
The Elements
‘The Elements have always been my constant support and my greatest teachers. Thanks to my parents I developed this connection from an early age as I was blessed to live by a holy spring and wood; free to run with nature and explore my place within that. At home there was always an open fire with which to connect.
At 14 I left the spring and the open fires. The elemental connection was lost which I feel created deep consequences for my soul. At 23 I reached total disconnection and crisis point in the city when no one knew ‘the real me who ran free by the river in the valleys’. My desperate soul led me to India and then Mexico where I was re-initiated into relationship with the Elements. In 1997, I was buried in the Earth by my medicine teacher. I actually heard the voice of my soul again, as the chatter of the mind surrendered to the Earth.
After 3 years of living almost wild separated from my past I returned to live in England for another elemental initiation. I was instructed each morning to bathe in cold Water to strengthen this new resolve of Spirit and Will. It has been the most rewarding experience I know, making friends with cold water is a ritual I carry out daily.
Five years later, I encountered the wisdom of Air, and through the conscious connected breath, and together with Family Constellations began to heal my emotional wounds, the echos of my ancestors’.
Suzanna first experienced Rebirthing-Breathwork in 2005. In 2007 she completed her first ten sessions with Amoda Ma Jeevan. ‘I couldn’t believe it was possible to reach the shadows of our subconscious this way. In my shamanic experience only medicine plants had accessed such depths, but when I experienced that the breathe has an equaled ability it really made me smile. I love the body’s sacred intelligence, it really deepened my respect for its incredible nature.
I personally had come to a standpoint in my own work where every client mirrored my own unattended wounds. Through the breath I went through a series of transformations / initiations that rebirthed me into raw sobriety where I had to recognize I too was wounded. The only difference between a healer and not being one is that the healer often thinks its the outside that needs the healing, but in reality its just reflections of whats going on with us personally. Was this what my ancestors were trying to do? Heal, anaethetise and surgically remove all these reflections of their own emotional sadness? ‘Sobriety’ was a real humbling state for me. I put down my ‘healer’s’ cap and with the breath’s intelligence looked inside. I am still looking and experiencing. Life is a journey of experience and the richness for me has come by visiting my shadow with support and moving through it. The breath teaches we need to breathe through whatever comes up for us. We need to feel and we need to acknowledge. The best thing about the breath and in fact all the elements is that no matter what happens to us, how we feel about ourselves, we can just come back to the breath and we feel strong inside. It has been the most satisfying experience of my life to acknowledge these imperfections where I’ve felt scared shamed or vulnerable and then come back to the breath where I am strengthened and can acknowledge that they aren’t me. ..just places of experience and to learn from. In my experience this strength continues in daily life, where whatever comes up our core feels strong because of this clearing method. We can consciously breathe through everything. It is such a gift.
Suzanna is also an Artist and has a degree in Latin American Studies and MA in Visual Anthropology.
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Outside the Lark sings to me.
Be Your Nature
The Elements Know
Emma Skellern is a trained psychologist who previously specialised in assisting businesses to develop their people’s potential at work. Recently, she has switched to working with people in the community, using her psychology background to support people experiencing mental health crisis. Currently in New Zealand she is working with the Maori. While born in the UK, Emma was brought up in New Zealand. She then spent five years in Melbourne where she completed her Masters in Psychology and began working as a psychologist. She travelled for a year through Asia and America and then settled in Glastonbury, UK.
Alongside her professional path, personally Emma has been on a path of self development for the past 12 years. Having embraced meditation, yoga and explored many eastern philosophies, she came across rebirthing breathwork in 2006. Intuitively she knew this was a technique that could release the subconscious patterns that were holding her back, but were so difficult to access using conventional healing processes. Straightaway she had amazing experiences with the breath, and her life began to change quickly.
She went to India to complete breathwork training with Sondra Ray and there she met Babaji, Leonard Orr’s guru and the yogi who gifted this breathwork technique to the world. She then completed a series of trainings with Leonard Orr in Poland and at his home in Virginia, America. It was through Leonard, rebirthing breathwork’s founder, that she realised the profound healing potential of the elements and her work began to unfold.
MUSICIANS & Collaborators
Adrian Freedman is a composer, performer and teacher with 32 years experience and a very diverse range 
of musical skills. He studied shakuhachi flute in Japan for 7 years in the tradition of Zen Buddhism and has also spent much time in the Brazilian Amazon forest immersed in musical healing practices.
Adrian is a classically trained musician who has performed in various bands and orchestras around the world.
Veli Martin Keitel studied music in Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, in late
80′s. His instruments were piano, classical guitar and singing. His expertise have developed from crop circles, sacred geometry, Kabbalah, Flower of Life & Tree of Life teachings to the ancient creation mythologies. He is co-organiser of the Finnish International 2012 Conference. His interest in Rebirthing was in 2008 when he met Suzanna in her Glastonbury Rebirthing Circle. Currently he runs Consciousness workshops in Finland, Greece and the UK in their SoulTree work.
Free Love Cannabis is a cult hero in the Hemp Consciousness Revolution. He runs Hemp in Avalon in 
Glastonbury which is the longest running Hemp shop in England. He is also one of the leaders of the British Living / Raw food revolution and has been following this path for 10 years. He is a yogi and practices elemental purification religiously – chanting and bathing in spring water and saunas are part of his daily practices.
Russell Stone fuses music yoga and psychotherapy. He has been a professional singer for 30 years, is a grandfather and rock in the current spiritual shift in consciousness. He is a colourful and inspiring guide who works with the practices of Yoga Nidra and Nada yoga to bring presence and authenticity into our daily lives.
Prema Love plays devotional harp and sings, focusing on world sacred music. She has developed a deeper understanding of the spirit of music and travels around the world using music and sound as a form of healing. The sound waves of the harp travel effortlessly through the body helping to reduce stress, alter consciousness and create a deep sense of peace, well being and better health as well as helping with pain management. This takes place in circle gatherings as well as taking the healing music into children’s centres and hospitals, or in a one on one session. She is also part of Universal Symphonies, Forest Jewel and the Anjali Orchestra.
Hans Schuldheis plays the Didgeridoo which he made himself from a tree in India. His deep intuition guided him to connect with the Spirit of the tree and the Earth. Since then he has played mainly with Trance Dancer Zelia Pye and lived close to the earth in Tipi Village in Devon. Hans brings a deep shamanic medicine to the work with Suzanna. This is base chakra, elemental earth work. He is also a trained in Shiatsu massage bringing an intelligence and hands on connection to the Breathe.
Sophie Pullinger carries an abundance of sacred sounds to touch every part of your Soul. From a family of healers and musicians healing is second nature, she is a highly sensitive shamanka who understands the call of Spirit and the acute needs of the human body & psyche. She co-runs a transformational psychic development course in Glastonbury and works between the worlds with a rare depth and humility, meeting you exactly as you are. Once the healing vibration of her sacred instruments enter – there is nowhere else to go!
ASSISTANTS
Grace Kovida Duarte trained in Rebirthing in 2010 in Mount Shasta, USA. She has been running groups ever since, working closely with Osho’s Shaking Meditation and other energy shifting work. She is a shamanic practitioner and works closely with Dolphin medicine – playful sensitivity and consciousness.
Valentina Mayer is a trained nurse and has been working with assisting the breathes since the first in London last year. She is a yoga teacher and is currently training to be a certified Rebirther. In her native country of Austria she is developing her individual experience and group breathes.
Anja Ahola (Finland) is assisting Suzanna in Finland where she is supporting the Group Breathes. She is also training to be a Rebirther. Her background is in film and documentary film making. She practices Buddhist meditation and the healing energy of Tara. Her presence is supportive compassionate and nurturing.
Tuuli Nenonen (Finland) is from Lapland, in the North of Finland. Her medicine is one of loving kindness and joy wherever she goes. She is an accomplished singer and artist and is currently studying Chinese Medicine in Tampere.