Breathwork soundscape

Breathwork Soundscape is a guided meditative sound journey, inviting you to surrender, reflect, and simply Be. Composer and musician Nat Grant will lead a journey into deep rest through minimal sound. Interdisciplinary artist and facilitator, Dina Smirnova, will use her voice to further invite release into a hypnagogic state. Join in a moment of silence: a moment of release. This inclusive journey is intended for all bodies, abilities, and levels of experience.

Providing repose and deep stillness, the intention is to utilise sound as a healing, therapeutic mechanism whilst activating outdoor spaces in nature. Participants are encouraged to connect to a deep space of meditation through ancient breathwork techniques whilst using the backdrop of the sound world created by Nat Grant. With more than 15 years of performance experience, Nat Grant is a well-known composer and musician in the Melbourne music scene. She creates texturally focused and minimal sound works using experimental methods to tell emotive stories - and brings this experience to the forefront of the Breathwork Soundscape collaboration. International facilitator and end-of-life doula, Dina Smirnova, uses her voice to further invite deep listening, where the interior worlds meet the exterior collective awareness.

Given the dramatic changes the world has experienced due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is an understatement to say that the stillness and rest provided in this journey would do wonders for most people. We aim for all participants to experience a rejuvenated sense of community, as we believe there is a unification that naturally occurs when consciously allowing sound and breath to be connected.

Breathwork Soundscape is a collaboration between Victoria-based artists Dina Smirnova (facilitation + voice) and Nat Grant (sound designer + live musician) who have been collaborating professionally since 2015 on similar projects.

Videography by Yunis Tmeizeh. Event in partnership with City of Melbourne & MPavilion.