Cait Lane shares how breathwork and other mind-body practices can play a role in supporting emotional regulation, reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression, improving sleep quality and enhancing overall well-being.
As mental health challenges continue to rise across Canada, local healing arts therapist Cait Lane is helping people reconnect with one of the body’s most powerful yet underutilized resources: breath.
Lane builds a rare, deeply grounded bridge between two distinct worlds — expansive energetic medicine and gritty, real world trauma care — believing that from both personal and witnessed experiences that “our breath is key to massive transformation and we all have access to it.”
For Lane, this work that she shares is a culmination of extensive education in traditional and non-traditional spaces, front-line experience in the depths of trauma and group care, a deep embodiment of the lessons that she teaches and the belief in our human potential.
“These pathways that are offered can support anybody, regardless of situation, and that’s important to me,” said Lane in a press release, adding, as studies continue to evolve in the work of the mind and body, it’s important to also become aware of the impact your breath can have. “Good things take time, and my individual impact has been growing and building for years. I am so thrilled to get to offer this work, it is a big part of my purpose and my heart.”
Lane notes, according to research, rates of stress, anxiety and depression continue to exceed pre-pandemic norms, while demand for mental health services has created increasingly lengthy wait times.
Just breathe
Emerging evidence suggests that breathwork (a form of guided breathing therapy) and other mind-body practices can play an important role in supporting emotional regulation, reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression, improving sleep quality and enhancing overall well-being.
With more than 15 years of experience in the social work sector, Lane combines evidence-based therapeutic approaches with somatic and energetic practices to help people regulate their nervous systems and reconnect with themselves. Her work integrates somatics, psychodynamic theory, mindfulness, conscious breathwork and embodiment practices within a collaborative, client-centred approach.
In the social work sector, Lane worked primarily with children working through traumas at organizations such as Enterphase Child and Family Services and Mon Ami Children Services. Having garnered an array of continued learning, certificates and trainings, these collective experiences alongside her own personal growth journey and embodiment, prompted Lane to offer things in a different way. Starting her own business seemed both the most logical and illogical next step.
Lane believes that lasting healing begins by bringing the body into the conversation.
“When we learn to regulate our nervous systems and reconnect with ourselves through conscious breath and embodied awareness, we create the foundation for meaningful and sustainable change,” she said.
A suite place to connect
Through her signature offering suite The Rhythms of Bergamot Queen — an online healing space that blends evidence-based therapeutic approaches with somatic healing, mindfulness, breathwork embodiment practices and community — Lane offers a range of resources designed to make healing more accessible, ranging from complimentary educational resources and low-cost workshops, to more in-depth programs such as her immersive members space, The Depths of Bergamot Queen.
People interested in learning more are invited to visit www.caitlane.com or email connect@caitlane.com
