How Soma Breathwork Unlocks Your Intuition at Nissa Retreats
Soma Breathwork at Nissa Retreats
At Nissa Retreats, transformation begins with something deceptively simple, your breath. And through SOMA breathwork, it becomes your most powerful guide.
What Is SOMA Breathwork?
SOMA Breathwork is a science-backed, rhythm-based form of breathing meditation rooted in pranayama, the ancient yogic system of breath control and studied by Cambridge University. But this isn’t traditional yogic breathing. SOMA has been modernized through neuroscience, music, and guided meditation to help you access heightened states of consciousness while calming your nervous system.
Developed by Niraj Naik, SOMA breathwork uses rhythmic breathing, breath retention, and brainwave entrainment music to guide participants into a deep meditative state, often unlocking insight, creative flow, and powerful emotional release. It's both deeply relaxing and quietly activating, creating the inner conditions for clarity to arise.
Why We Use SOMA at Nissa Retreats
When you’re learning to access your intuitive gifts, whether that’s clairvoyance, mediumship, or simply a clearer sense of self, you need two things: a calm nervous system and a quiet mind. SOMA helps create both.
SOMA gently escorts you into stillness. It regulates your breath, soothes your heart rate, and quiets the mental chatter that normally drowns out intuitive signals. It’s a bridge between the thinking mind and the sensing self.
How SOMA Prepares You for Intuitive Development
Most of us have spent our lives second-guessing the very sensations that make us psychic: the chills, the hunches, the sudden clarity. We’ve learned to dismiss them. SOMA breathwork clears the static. It helps you feel again, and trust what you feel.
In the soft silence after a SOMA session, many retreat guests find that their intuitive messages land more clearly. They describe sudden insight, a sense of being "tuned in”. This isn’t magic. It’s what happens when everything else quiets down and you finally hear yourself.
A Nervous System That Can Receive
When your body is stuck in fight-or-flight mode, it’s hard to feel anything subtle. But your intuition speaks in whispers. SOMA brings you into a state of deep parasympathetic calm, your rest-and-digest mode, so that your nervous system becomes a receptive vessel, not a reactive one. From this grounded place, you’re no longer bracing against the world. You’re able to listen. To notice. To receive.
Not Just a Technique, but a Practice of Remembering
At Nissa Retreats, SOMA isn’t just an exercise, it’s a practice of remembering who you really are. It helps strip away the mental debris that’s clouded your mind for years. It reconnects you with a rhythm deeper than thought.
When the Breath Is Steady, the Vision Clears
That’s why we use SOMA in tandem with our intuitive workshops and mediumship training. It prepares you. Softens you. Grounds you in your body so that the unseen becomes more visible.
It’s not about transcending your body. It’s about using it as a portal to access what’s already within.
Learn more about our upcoming Nissa Retreats at Broughton Sanctuary, August 18-23, 2025 and Punta Monterrey in Mexico, November 2-7, 2025 at nissaretreats.com
