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I’m Kim. I didn’t create VANTA because I wanted to add another breathwork method to an already very noisy wellness industry. I created it because I knew how powerful breathwork could be, but I also knew there was a massive gap between the way it was often taught and the way I believed people deserved to experience it.

My own relationship with breathwork came through real life, not from a place of having everything figured out. I’ve lived through some incredibly difficult periods of my life, experienced a breakdown, rebuilt myself more than once, and I also live with epilepsy. I know what it feels like when your own mind and body don’t always feel like the safest place to be. Breathwork became one of the tools that genuinely helped me.

But the deeper I went into this work, the more interested I became in why it worked. What was actually happening in the body? Why could changing the way we breathe change how we feel, think and respond? Why could one experience feel incredibly powerful for one person but overwhelming for another? And, most importantly, how could we facilitate breathwork in a way that was powerful without believing that powerful had to mean pushing somebody to their absolute limit?

Those questions became the foundations of VANTA.

I wanted to create something grounded. Something people could understand. Something that respected both the power of the breath and the person lying in front of you. No performance. No pressure to have a breakthrough. No belief that somebody needs to fall apart in order for something meaningful to happen.

Because sometimes the most powerful thing we can offer another human being is a space where they don’t have to perform, explain themselves, fix themselves or become anything else. They can just be.

Over the years I’ve worked with hundreds of people and trained hundreds of facilitators, and that experience has shaped VANTA just as much as any textbook or training ever could. I’ve seen what happens when people feel genuinely safe enough to experience themselves, and I’ve also seen why good facilitation requires far more than learning a breathing pattern and putting on a playlist. That’s why VANTA is about more than breathwork.

It’s about understanding people. It’s about presence, restraint, emotional safety and knowing when not to intervene. It’s understanding that your job as a facilitator isn’t to create somebody’s experience for them, but to have the skill and confidence to hold the space while they have their own.

I’ve never wanted VANTA to feel exclusive, overly spiritual or like you need to speak the language of the wellness world to belong here. I want ordinary people to be able to experience breathwork and think, why the hell have I never been taught this before?

And I want the people I train to leave knowing they can facilitate it with confidence, integrity and a genuine understanding of the responsibility that comes with holding space for another human being.

Ultimately, my vision has always been pretty simple.

I want breathwork to become as normal as going to the gym.

Something we understand. Something we have access to. Something we can use throughout our lives.

VANTA is my contribution to making that happen.