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Breathe Before You Speak: The Neuroscience of Mindful Communication

How we breathe directly impacts how we connect

Date: Monday, 8th December 2025

Time: 14:00 – 16:00 (120 min)

Manas Yoga, Yoga Room 1, Franz-Josefs-Kai 41/17, 1010 Vienna

Price: 40 Euros (booking and payment via Manas Yoga)

This innovative, science-based workshop bridges ancient breathwork wisdom with modern neuroscience and non-violent communication principles, offering you practical tools to transform difficult conversations from the inside out.

Whether you're navigating workplace tensions, family dynamics, or simply want to communicate with greater presence and authenticity, this workshop offers practical skills you can use immediately.

What You'll Learn in This Integrative Experience:
  • The Science of Stress: Understand what happens neurologically during difficult conversations and why our usual communication patterns often backfire
  • Breathwork for Regulation: Master evidence-based pranayama techniques that calm your nervous system in real-time, even mid-conversation
  • Non-Violent Communication: Learn the neuroscience behind compassionate communication and tools for expressing needs without triggering defensiveness
  • Moving Meditation: Experience gentle movement practices that release tension and create space for clearer thinking and feeling
  • Creative Integration: Use reflective writing exercises to process emotions and integrate new communication patterns
  • Real-Time Tools: Practice applying these techniques in simulated challenging conversations and everyday interactions
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Past Events

Our Journey So Far

Effective and Mindful Communication Workshop

How to connect with ourselves and others

16th and 23rd September 2025


Ever notice how the most important conversations can be the hardest ones? What if you could turn those challenging moments into opportunities for deeper connection?
This interactive workshop combines mindfulness practices with practical communication tools to help you listen more deeply, speak more thoughtfully, and navigate difficult conversations with mindfulness and compassion.

Format: 90-minute online sessions (via Zoom), offered in two parts

Language: English

Price: free

Part I Features:
  • Brief mindfulness arrival practice and breathing techniques
  • Real-life communication challenges
  • "I am here for you" presence-building techniques
  • WAIT & AWE communication strategies for everyday interactions
  • Active listening techniques with group feedback
  • Interactive discussions and breakout activities
Part II Features:
  • Centring practices and reflection on Part I insights
  • Building bridges through two-way communication foundations
  • Four elements of constructive dialogue for daily relationships
  • "You are partly right" technique for understanding different perspectives
  • Navigating difficult conversations
  • Practical perspective-taking exercises with supporting feedback

Connect: Pause & Reflect Retreat

Bánfalvi Kolostor, Sopron (Historic monastery setting)

Duration:

Focus: Connection through mindfulness, empathy, and self-awareness

Three-Pillar Approach:
  • Me & Environment: Building meaningful connections with nature
  • Me & You: Fostering empathy and emotional intelligence
  • Me & Me: Creating space for introspection and personal growth
Key Features:
  • Connection to nature and culture: mindful hill walks, historic monastery setting
  • Workshops on mindful communication and journalling
  • Daily yoga and mindfulness practice: Morning hatha, evening yin/restorative, and pranayama

Awareness and Sustainability Retreat

Lipót, Hungary (Szigetköz Island, sustainable place – Hotel Orchidea)

Duration:

Focus: Individual and collective awareness through sustainability and wellness

Key Features:
  • Structured progression: From individual awareness (Part 1) to collective responsibility (Part 2)
  • Neuroscience integration: "Neuroscience of breaks" and stress management with the neuroscientific basis
  • Sustainability: Practical tips for reducing environmental footprint, methods for working together on a common goal (team building activity)
  • Mindfulness and yoga: hatha yoga, yoga nidra, silent walks, guided meditations and breathing exercises, forest bathing (Shinrin yoku)