Winter Solstice Breathwork Ceremony with Benjamin Tree - Online
The Winter Solstice marks the longest night and shortest day of the year. This is when the cycle shifts, and the days begin to get longer until the Summer Solstice.
The Winter Solstice in 2026 falls on Monday 21 December 2026 in the Northern Hemisphere, and the exact moment is 8:50pm GMT
We meet a day before to gather together and prepare in a ceremonial space and be supported by music and the energy of natural cycles.
Connecting with this energy, we naturally align with our soul nature as part of nature. This is immensely healing, aligning, and empowering, and is the intention embedded in this Ceremony.
This work is particularly potent at these threshold times of the year when the energy of the earth and stars align to take you into a deeper relationship with yourself and the world around you.
The invitation for this Ceremony is to choose one ancestor to work with. Someone you knew, or someone you only know through family stories. Through conscious connected breathing, movement, music and a held space, you have the opportunity to release what’s been held in that relationship and allow it to heal, so that ancestor can become a benevolent force in your life and in the life of your family.
This ceremony comes to you wherever you are. All you need is a clear space, a speaker or headphones, and a genuine willingness to show up for yourself. A specially curated musical landscape will carry you throughout, making this a fully immersive experience from the comfort of your own home.
When we align our inner work with these outer cycles, change feels less like effort and more like flow.
The primary technique is conscious connected breathing the core practice at the heart of all transformational breathwork modalities worldwide. It is simple to learn and profound in effect. By breathing in a connected rhythm, you naturally move beyond the thinking mind, releasing the beliefs, emotions, and held energy that have been stored in the body often for many years.
This is not a practice to do alone in the beginning. A lot can come up and it can be intense as well as beautiful. Being supported is key to allowing this process to be safe and healing.
Alongside the breathwork, we will use embodiment practices drawn from Mindfulness, Yogic, and Shamanic traditions. Together, these build a living bridge between your breath, your body, and your awareness, a bridge that does not disappear when the session ends. The intention is always that this work is genuinely useful in daily life, not just a peak experience you return from and forget.
The fundamental premise is:
You already have access to a vast, intelligent wisdom, that is the intelligence of life itself. Everything we do in this space is in service of helping you reconnect with it.
These are the three principles that form the foundation of this unique way of working:
RESOURCE
Bring awareness into your body and reconnect with the innate healing intelligence within you, the aspect that already knows exactly what is ready to shift.
RELEASE
Anything that limits you and is ready to move on the mental, physical, energetic, and emotional levels of your being.
RENEW
Your connection to potent life force energy, insight, creativity, and power, that is available to you in every moment, in every breath.
How the Ceremony Unfolds
We open in circle. You will be introduced to the techniques, and there is space to ask any questions before we begin.
The breathwork itself is done sitting or lying down. You are supported verbally and energetically throughout, held by music, and guided to move, shake, sound, and release whatever is ready to move. As this happens, the familiar grip of the thinking mind loosens. The linear frontal cortex becomes less dominant. Insight, healing, and transformation become possible in ways that are difficult to access any other way.
This is also a space to send prayers and good energy to people you love, to the world, to whatever calls your heart and mind.
The final and most important part is integration. This is where everything lands. The spaces created by what has been released are filled with clear, fresh life force energy, renewing you from the inside out. We then close with a brief sharing circle, gathering everyone back together before completing the session.
Please give yourself at least an hour after the session to journal, rest, and integrate. If you need to rush straight back into doing, this is not the right time to join.
About your facilitator
Ben works with Breathwork and Embodiment practices to support you to breathe, move, and live into your full potential. In essence, his work is about holding space and providing guidance for you to connect with the innate intelligence and healing capacity of your breath and body. He is deeply committed to showing up and playing his part in these pivotal times we are living in, and his mission is to empower people to stand in their sovereignty and power so that they can move beyond any limitations and bring their full gifts alive in service of life.
He is a fully qualified Rebirthing Breathwork practitioner, Shamanic healer, Reiki Master, and dance facilitator. He has 25 years of experience in the field of health and wellbeing, having begun his journey as a healer when he became a Reiki practitioner at 19 years old. Since then, he has journeyed deeply with many healing and transformational modalities personally and professionally. He now focuses on working with the trinity of breath, body, and awareness to empower people to be their own healers as he feels this is what the world needs most in these times; for people to be empowered, centered, and able to navigate and respond to the challenges of life in simple, effective and powerful ways.