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Deep Space Breathwork and Sound Experience: Journey Within - The Art of Conscious Breathing & Sound Healing

Name: Deep Space Breathwork and Sound Experience: Journey Within - The Art of Conscious Breathing & Sound Healing
Start: 2025-05-16
End: 2025-05-18
Location: Menla
Rating: 4.5

4.502 reviews

375 Panterkill Road PO Box 70 Phoenicia, NY 12464 United States

May 16 - 18, 2025

About this Retreat

Your Guides

John

Billy

John Minks

John Minks is a seasoned sound therapist with over 17 years of experience in exploring the profound healing powers of sound. His journey began in 2007 when he traveled to the Amazon to study the didgeridoo, an experience that ignited his passion for sound healing. Over the years, John has honed his skills under the tutelage of renowned sound healers such as Mitch Nur, Don Conreaux, Madhava Carrara, and John Beaulieu, among others. John's expertise extends across a variety of sound healing instruments, but in the past four years, he has concentrated on mastering the gong and handpan. His deep understanding of music allows him to create harmonized soundscapes, blending traditional sound healing instruments with digital synthesizers to craft immersive, cosmic sound journeys. As the founder of Deep Space Mallets, John creates custom mallets for gongs, singing bowls, and frame drums, ensuring each piece contributes to the therapeutic sound experience. He regularly conducts sound, yoga, and meditation retreats and travels across the United States offering transformative sound therapy sessions. Through his work, John Minks continues to expand the boundaries of sound healing, providing profound experiences for those seeking relaxation, mental clarity, and inner peace. John is a firm believer of using breathwork in his sound sessions. He uses both activating and relaxing breathwork techniques in combination with sound therapy to amplify their healing potential. His study of Wim Hoff’s and Andrew Huberman’s breathing techniques allows him to incorporate proven breathwork practices into his sound sessions. John incorporates gongs, handpan, and other instruments to help direct the intention of each breathwork session he offers.

Billy Pinkerton

Billy Pinkerton has been practicing, studying, and teaching vinyasa and restorative yoga for nearly a decade in studios, corporate offices, retreats and private sessions. His background as a yoga teacher, athlete and businessman gives him a unique perspective on how to make yoga relatable and experiential to all audiences. Billy has experienced firsthand the healing power of yoga within his body. Working with his many injuries, surgeries, and pain points, he has been able to align his body into a more optimal position for overall health and wellness which means less pain. By working with the breath and moving slowly, he believes, we can use the body to heal the body. When the body is engaged in the physical practice, and the mind is relaxed on the breath a unique experience emerges that is personal to each person. New sensations are discovered and the healing we didn’t know we needed begins to happen naturally.

Sound plays a crucial role for a deeper yoga practice as the combination of yoga and sound make it easier to release the mind from habitual thinking to be comfortable in stillness. With this understanding, Billy has been working with instruments like the gong, handpan, didgeridoo, tuning forks, and bowls to evoke new sensations, mental experiences, and relaxation, that enhance his yoga students’ experiences in practice.

Billy is also an accomplished meditator. He has developed a daily practice over the years and has done intensive work on his mind, having spent 6 months working with an authorized Buddhist meditation teacher in the Kagyu Lineage. He has practiced at Karme Choling, a Shambala Meditation Center in Vermont. There he took part in traditional meditation practice and received instruction on various meditative techniques. He loves sharing the practice of meditation as much as he loves the physical practice of yoga. His goal is to mix the physical practice of yoga and meditation so that a powerful personal practice can be born. Billy is a dedicated breathwork guide and sound healer with a wealth of experience helping individuals connect deeply with their breath. Billy has coached thousands of people through transformative breathwork sessions resulting in a greater sense of inner peace and freedom. Trained by renowned breathwork pioneers Dan Brule and Wim Hof, Billy integrates modern techniques with a yogic approach to create transformative experiences. As an experienced didgeridoo player, Billy has honed his mastery of breath, bridging ancient practices with modern breathwork methods. His expertise in teaching breathwork to groups and integrating it into sound baths creates a transformative retreat experience. Join Billy to explore the power of breath and sound as tools for balance, healing, and self-discovery.

Details of this retreat

“Breathwork is not just about breathing; it’s about awakening. Through conscious breathing, you break free from old patterns, releasing limitations and awakening to new possibilities.” Dan Brule

Join us for a transformative journey as we explore the art of conscious breathing. Conscious breathing is an empowering practice that allows for self exploration and healing. This retreat is designed to help you discover the profound effects of breathwork and sound healing and how these practices can transform your life. The main breathwork technique that will be used is the connected breath.

With eyes closed and comfortably lying on a mat, each participant is guided to use their breath to enter a state of expanded consciousness and deep relaxation. Billy is an expert at guiding people into a deep connection to the breath and John will be creating the soundscape and also guiding breathwork sessions.

This synergy of breath and sound facilitates expanded consciousness and a profound connection to self, enabling healing and psychedelic experiences. Each session will be a journey inward, exploring your own inner landscapes through powerful breath techniques and the resonance of sound healing instruments.

Our goal is to create a safe, supportive environment where you can experience the power of breath and sound as tools for healing and self-discovery.

Contraindications: pregnancy, serious heart conditions, epilepsy, glaucoma, retinal detachment, history of severe mental or emotional disorders, acute infectious disease, and recent injury or surgery.

Schedule

Friday, May 16

3 - 6 pm Arrival and Check-in
6 - 7 pm Dinner
7:30 - 9 pm Introduction, Breathwork Session & Sound Healing

Saturday, May 17

8 - 9 am Breakfast
9:30 am - 12 pm Pranayama Techniques & Gentle Breathwork Session
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 3:30 pm Free Time
4 - 5:30 pm Psychedelic Breathwork & Sound Healing Session
6 - 7 pm Dinner
7:30 - 9 pm Science of Breathing, Breathwork & Yoga Nidra

Sunday, May 18

7 - 11 am Check-out of Rooms
8 - 9 am Breakfast
9:30 am - 12 pm Breathwork Session, Sound Healing and Share
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch & Departure

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Getting Here

Menla, 375 Panterkill Road PO Box 70 Phoenicia, NY 12464 United States

Accommodation

Deluxe King

Deluxe King Room with King Bed and Private Bathroom Free Phone and Hi-Speed Wifi Internet Access Available Air Conditioning This Space is not ADA compliant. Deluxe King Rooms are Available only in Kathmandu House * Please note that rates include meals and accommodations Read More

Deluxe Double (Shared Room)

Deluxe Double Room with Two Full Size Beds and Private Bathroom Free Phone and Hi-Speed Wifi Internet Access Available Air Conditioning All Rooms in Lhasa are Handicap-Accessible, Including Four Rooms with Wheelchair Accessible Showers. Deluxe Double Rooms with Private Bathrooms are Located in the Lhasa Inn * Please note rates include meals and accommodations. This booking is for one bed in a double shared room: We May Assign You a Roommate if You Do Not Register with One. Read More

Standard Single - Shared Bath

Menla Private Queen Room with Queen Bed and Shared Bathroom Public Phone and Hi-Speed Wifi Internet Access Available This lodging type is not ADA Compliant Private Queen Rooms with Shared Bathroom are Available in Thimpu House, Panther Cottage and Potala House * Please note that rates include meals and accommodations Read More

Economy Premium Single - Shared Bath

Standard Premium Single Room with a Queen or Full Bed and Shared Bathroom Up to 10 guests share two large bathrooms. Each bathroom has two shower stalls and two toilets. A phone is not available but high-speed WiFi is available in the room Phone Access Available in Upper Level Of Conference Center. All calls are free of charge This Lodging Type is not ADA Compliant. * Please note rates include meals and accommodations. Read More

Economy Single - Shared Bath

Standard Single Room with a Twin Bed and Shared Bathroom Bathroom is Shared with One to Six Other Guests on Your Floor. A phone is not available but high-speed WiFi is available in the room Phone Access Available in Nearby Conference Center and also Lhasa in Business Center. All calls are free of charge. This Lodging Type is not ADA Compliant. * Please note rates include meals and accommodations. Read More

Economy Triple - Shared Bath (Shared Room)

Standard Triple Room with Three Twin Beds and Shared Bathroom Accommodations Fee Includes All Meals. High speed Wi-Fi is available in the room. Phone Access Available in Nearby Conference Center and also Lhasa in Business Center. All calls are free of charge. This Lodging Type is not ADA Compliant. * Please note that rates include meals and accommodations * Please note: this is an open door policy room, meaning there are no keys to lock the door (we have lockers you can use at Lhasa if needed) * This booking is for one bed in a triple shared room: We May Assign You Roommates if You Do Not Register with others. Read More

Customer Reviews

4.50 out of 5.0 average rating

Anonymous • Oct 03, 2023

4.0

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Weekend retreat stay

The property is on a beautiful, peaceful location.
Nature is all around and sometimes a little too close but you are literally surrounded by woods.

The food was really good and I liked the buffet style and fruit basket.

The gift shop although small had a nice selection of items and I purchased a few fun items.

Since the dining area was on the opposite side of the site from the convention center, a lot of students drove back and forth on the property. I chose the walking paths to get around.

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Marie • Apr 18, 2022

5.0