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PHILIP PARKER
My breathwork journey
Philip Parker is a breathwork facilitator, somatic counsellor and breathwork facilitator trainer at Breathing Tree. But before he was sitting with others, he was the one searching.
From the outside, life looked successful and stable. On the inside, something felt off. Philip lived with high-functioning anxiety masked as ambition, patterns of co-dependency that kept him over-giving and unexplained physical symptoms his body couldn’t ignore. He was achieving, but not at ease.
Everything shifted when he discovered breathwork through Rebecca Dennis. In those early sessions, Philip experienced what true safety in the body felt like for the first time. Breathwork helped him regulate his nervous system, uncover buried emotions and open a door to understanding the patterns driving anxiety and relationships. It wasn’t a quick fix but it was a profound reconnection.
LIFE CHANGING
Philip went on to train, committing not just to learning techniques but to doing his own inner work. He came to understand that transformative breathwork requires more than skill and knowledge from the facilitator, it requires presence, self-awareness and the ability to create real relational safety. Healing happens in relationship and facilitation, therefore, carries deep responsibility.
Today, through Breathing Tree, Philip’s mission is clear: to train grounded, ethical and self-aware facilitators. He believes the most effective practitioners understand their own stories, nervous systems and relational dynamics so they can hold secure, attuned space for others. You cannot expect to hold clear space for someone else without the willingness to examine your inner landscape and commit to ongoing inner work.