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Breathwork Helped Me Regulate My Nervous System

Rupi Sagoo

September 21, 2026
5 min read

Breathwork Helped Me Regulate My Nervous System

There was a time in my life when a job I really loved became stressful, and where I’d previously skipped into the office with a slightly mad smile taking up most of my face, I’d started to feel a sense of dread in the pit of my stomach every morning as I wondered what the day ahead would hold.

To this day I’m not sure when it started, but I found myself driving along the M4 taking six deep breaths to calm myself down, almost preparing myself for what might lie ahead, as a kind of protective armour. Little did I know what it really meant for my body back then. I just knew it took away that feeling of not looking forward to going to work.

What I now know is that I was regulating my nervous system, and doing a whole lot of good to keep myself balanced and grounded. I feel like I ought to thank someone here for their guidance; I just don’t know who.

Fast forward to today and breathwork is a thing. A great thing, out there for all in the same vein as other types of self-care. You’d think it was an obvious thing, but it turns out most of us, breathwork practitioners excluded here, don’t breathe deeply enough. We tend to engage in shallow breathing and through the chest rather than the diaphragm, which does not serve us as well as breathing potentially can. The majority of us coast through life not really knowing we have this incredibly powerful tool at our fingertips, with unlimited access whenever needed, to keep us well.

A friend shared her story of turning to breathwork during a tumultuous period of her life when she was carrying varying shades of grief. She’d built an extremely successful TV industry career that spanned over two decades, and in midlife she found herself burnt out, on the receiving end of redundancy and grieving the death of her mum. With these major life events swirling around her, structure and certainty around who she was fell away. None of this was part of any plan, but here it all was, and she became acutely aware that she needed to find her way back to herself.

The magic of Kasia.

Breathwork brought my friend Kasia back into her body. That alone gives me goosebumps. This profound experience has led to her studying and qualifying to become a breathwork and body work practitioner earlier this year. It’s a pivot, yes, that dirty word, only the best kind in Kasia’s case. This new direction, perhaps a calling is very fitting, and I know for sure it comes from a very pure place.

As a big advocate of self-care myself and having been through my own version of what Kasia experienced, I’ve been lucky enough to do a 1:1 online session with her recently.

And WOW. Where to start? I went into it with an open heart and no expectations, albeit not new to breathwork. To say the session was powerful feels much like an understatement. It was emotional too. I cried and allowed the tears to flow, in truth, I don’t think I could have stopped them, and it felt like a huge release and relief all at once. Inner me appeared in support. It felt like a shedding took place. I’d been really worked up; the tension was acute and painfully so in my left shoulder and arm. During the session I felt the pain move through and out of my body. A calmness descended over me, and unbeknownst to me in that moment, it was everything I needed. I felt so grounded, and that feeling stayed with me for a number of days alongside the calmness. The weight I’d been carrying just fell away. This was all beyond anything I could have imagined, and it brought me such peace, a stillness.

Kasia felt the power of breathwork on a transcendent level through her own experience, and part of the outcome has been this beautiful drive to retrain and help other people who resonate, to give something back to themselves, to heal. She embodies the work. Her playlist is curated with real care and intention. The safe space she creates with language, her aura and a deep warmth has stayed with me. I think she was born to do this work. She genuinely cares and wants to be of service in the best possible way. In Sikhism we call that “Sevva”, selfless service. No judgement, just a deep desire to help others heal with a deep respect for the intelligence of the human body.

If, according to Mark Twain, “we regret the things we don’t do more than the things we do”, I urge you to try one of Kasia’s sessions. You can find her at herwildernature for zero regrets sessions of love and care.

EyeOnLondon rarely hears a wellness testimonial this specific and this raw, so if a stressful week has you gripping the steering wheel on the way into town, Kasia’s sessions are worth the hour.

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