Somatic Breathwork for Clarity & Insight
Gaining clarity and insight through breath and sound
Breathwork unveils incredible insights, inspiration, and a sense of peace and unity. We’ll explore what emerges when we can access new ways of seeing ourselves and our systems with greater clarity.
Guided by Mike Tsirakidis, a breathwork facilitator, sound therapist, and longtime health practitioner, you’ll be invited into a state of expanded awareness, where new perspectives and possibilities can arise. Breath becomes a powerful doorway: into a more relaxed state, greater creativity, and into deeper connection with self and others. This is a chance to release, restore, and access a level of clarity and insight that often gets clouded in the urgency of our daily work.
This session will be intimate, with limited space. No prior experience necessary.
Flow of the evening: We will gather for breathwork from 6 to ~7:30pm, and debrief afterwards at Impact Kitchen across the street which closes at 9pm (Note: this ticket does not include any food or drink you may want to order).
This gathering is part of Soma, Systems and Soul, a fall workshop series of embodied practices people transforming systems. These spaces invite us to explore what becomes possible when we shift into our bodies, intuition and collective wisdom - and how that shift expands the way we approach systems change.
The intention: when we bridge our strategic mind with embodied and intuitive wisdom, our work becomes exponentially more powerful, creative, and connected. This isn’t a retreat from the rational, but a strategic expansion of how we know, sense, and act together.
Who it’s for: Social and tech innovators, designers, entrepreneurs, policy makers, program leaders, researchers and all who are engaging with systems change. It’s for anyone seeking new ways of engaging in systems change practices: with more intuition, creativity, and collective wisdom.
This event is for you if you’re feeling tired, disenchanted or overwhelmed, and in need of a spark of joy and hope.
About the Organizer:
Claire Buré is a systemic designer, facilitator, and community-builder with 20 years’ experience bringing diverse groups together to co-create solutions to complex social and environmental challenges. She has worked across sectors — from housing affordability to energy transition, public education to regulatory innovation — with empathy, curiosity and inclusion.
Claire feels a deep calling to bridge the worlds of systems and soul — especially collectively. Her work explores how embodiment, intuition, and creativity can expand the practice of systems change, allowing us to imagine and build new realities that are more equitable, inclusive, and whole-hearted. Soma, Systems & Soul is an expression of this exploration.
Claire is also creating Soul Capsule, a growing community for people working in systems change who are curious about what becomes possible when we centre our bodies, intuition, and collective wisdom in how we work and live together.
About Mike Tsirakidis:
Hello, my name is Mike Tsirakidis. Health and wellness has been a passion of mine for as long as I can remember, particularly in terms of finding natural solutions for any health issues. I truly believe that nature is the most intelligent form of consciousness, and if we can connect to that, that natural order or intelligence can help to reorganize things and bring a sense of balance and homeostasis.
I became a Registered Massage Therapist nearly 20 years ago and still practice on a regular basis. In addition, I became a breathwork facilitator and sound therapist to bring harmonization to the mind, body and spirit for my clients. Twice a month, I bring the breathwork and sound therapy modalities together into an offering called The Inward Experience. I use instruments like antique Himalayan singing bowls and gongs to create balance using this ancient wisdom, among other things.
I’m also a full-time firefighter, and enjoy helping others however I can.
We gather for this series on the Treaty lands and territory of the Mississauga of the Credit, and on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Wendat, and the Haudenosaunee. We honour their living relationship with these lands, waters, and all Beings — and we invite this awareness into our own bodies, voices, and collective practice.