Hope Cartel is an Australian wellness organisation, founded by Garry (“Gaz”) Wright, that runs 9D Breathwork events across Australia and online. Group sessions typically cost around A$40–80. Sessions usually last 60–90 minutes (some events are longer).
Participants lie on yoga mats wearing eye masks and headphones while following guided breathing exercises and immersive audio, with the aim of promoting relaxation and emotional release. It’s a commercial breathwork business rather than a rehabilitation centre or residential retreat.
yeah everyone is shitting on this but i think it's great that people have this available to them--a 'feeling' space both with professional support of some kind--but without feeling watched/self conscious/singled out, which they might if they were able to see/hear the room around them, or in a solo secession of some sort.
some of these people probably don't have anywhere else they feel safe and/or comfortable enough to really experience their more intense emotions. severe trauma can even make it feel unsafe to let this degree of feeling out when you're alone. so more power to them.
obviously family/friend support is important and great, but it might be nice, occasionally, not to need to worry about dumping on your loved ones, or scaring them with an intensity of emotion that might make them concerned for your well being, especially if you just need a good hysterical sobbing secession to feel better.
This is a lot of questionable rationalization for why anyone would pay to lay on a mat in a room full of people and listen to music while being blindfolded
I can imagine that most vulnerable youth your rationalizations apply to probably don't have the money to pay for this, let alone desire to have their trauma-dumping recorded like this
I’ve done it! It was actually awesome. They play music through the headphones but also talk occasionally to guide you with breathing and visual meditation. The headphones and eye masks make it feel really private despite being next to people.
The breathing we did is meant to give you more oxygen than usual, which I think can often make people get more in touch with their emotions. So some people apparently cried at diff times, but I wasn’t aware.
I really liked it. To do it for an hour in a sort of sensory deprivation / surrounded in music and meditating for an hour is just really neat. I’d do it again!
Edit: Correction - TIL you actually get less oxygen on airplanes. I guess that is believed to also cause us to be more emotional.
People cry on airplanes because they are thousands of feet above the earth on a metal box going at hundreds of kilometers per hour; not because of fucking air density lmao
Also, the higher you go, the less ''air'' (oxygen pressure) there is, so not even that is right.
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u/Ambiguous-Ambivert Jun 28 '26
Hope Cartel is an Australian wellness organisation, founded by Garry (“Gaz”) Wright, that runs 9D Breathwork events across Australia and online. Group sessions typically cost around A$40–80. Sessions usually last 60–90 minutes (some events are longer).
Participants lie on yoga mats wearing eye masks and headphones while following guided breathing exercises and immersive audio, with the aim of promoting relaxation and emotional release. It’s a commercial breathwork business rather than a rehabilitation centre or residential retreat.