Inner Child Healing: An Essence Breathwork Journey

Reconnect with your inner child through Essence Breathwork. Release what you still carry, heal old wounds and create safety within. Some parts of us grow up. Others are still waiting to feel safe. Maybe you learned to be strong too early. Maybe you learned to please, perform, stay quiet or hide what you felt. Maybe you were loved, but didn't always receive the safety, attention, affection or reassurance you needed. And years later, those experiences can still show up in the way we relate to ourselves and others. In our relationships. In the fear of rejection. In perfectionism. In people-pleasing. In the voice inside that tells us we're not enough. Or simply in that feeling that, despite everything you've done to grow, there is still something inside asking to be seen. This workshop is an invitation to come back for that younger version of you. Not to fix them. Not to spend hours analysing your childhood. But to begin creating a different relationship with yourself: one rooted in compassion, presence and safety. Because you cannot change what happened to the child you once were. But you can change the relationship you have with them today. 🌬️ An Essence Breathwork Journey Essence Breathwork is my experiential approach to conscious breathwork, emotional release and inner reconnection. Rather than spending the workshop trying to understand everything intellectually, we use the breath, the body, music, guided inner work and moments of stillness to create space for something deeper to emerge. A space where you don't have to perform. Where you don't have to have the answers. Where you can simply breathe, feel and listen. Breathe. Release. Reconnect with your essence. ✨ Your Journey For 2.5 hours, you'll step away from everyday life and enter a carefully held space dedicated entirely to you. Through Essence Breathwork, music and guided inner work, you'll be invited to move beyond the constant thinking and reconnect with the parts of yourself that may have been waiting for your attention. A space to breathe. A space to feel. A space to release what no longer needs to be carried. A space to reconnect with yourself with greater compassion, tenderness and understanding. You'll also be invited to bring a photograph of yourself as a child, helping create a simple but meaningful connection with the younger version of you. You don't need to have experienced a traumatic childhood. You don't need to have done inner-child work before. You don't need to arrive knowing exactly what you need to heal. You simply need to come willing to breathe, feel and listen. Towards the end of our journey, we'll slow everything down and close the experience together with ceremonial cacao and a gentle space for reflection and integration. I intend that you leave feeling lighter, softer and more connected to yourself — with a deeper understanding that today, you can become the safe and loving presence you once needed. 🌱 This experience may be for you if… You recognise yourself in any of these: • You learned to be strong before you felt ready. • You often give others the compassion you struggle to give yourself. • You notice people-pleasing, perfectionism or fear of rejection in your life. • You have a strong inner critic or find it difficult to feel that you're enough. • Certain situations trigger emotions that seem much bigger than what's happening in the present. • You've done personal development or therapy, yet feel there are still things that cannot be understood only through the mind. • You want to reconnect with the person you were before you learned who you thought you had to become. Or perhaps none of those words describes you perfectly. Perhaps something inside you simply read Inner Child Healing and said: I need this. That's enough. 🫶 What you may take away Every experience is different, and there is no particular emotion or outcome you need to achieve. You may leave with: • A greater sense of emotional release and lightness • More compassion towards yourself and your story • A deeper connection with your emotions and needs • Greater inner calm and presence • New awareness around patterns that still affect your life today • A stronger sense of safety within yourself • A renewed relationship with the younger parts of you And sometimes, the most important part of these experiences isn't what happens in the room. It's what begins to change afterwards. 📍 Event Details Sunday 11 October 2026 11:00 am – 1:30 pm Art and Spirituality, Edinburgh This will be an intimate group experience with limited spaces so that the workshop can remain personal and carefully held. Please bring Comfortable clothes, water and a photograph of yourself as a child, ideally somewhere between approximately 3 and 10 years old. You may also wish to bring a journal. Everything else will be waiting for you. 👋 Meet your facilitator Hi, I'm David Palacios, founder of Essence Scotland and creator of the Essence Breathwork approach. My background spans social work, coaching, emotional intelligence, personal development and breathwork, with almost 20 years of experience supporting people through processes of change and personal growth. Since 2023, I've facilitated breathwork experiences and transformational workshops for more than 200 participants. But for me, this work isn't about creating another technique. It's about creating spaces where people can stop performing for a moment, reconnect with themselves and allow something real to happen. I believe some things need to be understood. Others need to be felt. And sometimes the breath allows us to reach places that words alone cannot. 💙 Why this workshop exists Because many of the ways we protect ourselves today were once ways of surviving emotionally. Being strong. Staying quiet. Being perfect. Keeping everyone happy. Avoiding rejection. Not asking for too much. Those strategies may once have helped us. But we don't necessarily need to carry all of them forever. Inner-child work isn't about blaming our parents or living in the past. It's about recognising that the adult you are today can offer yourself something that perhaps wasn't always available then: presence. compassion. protection. acceptance. love. We are not coming together to fix your inner child. We are learning to become the adult that child needed. ⚠️ Breathwork & Safety Essence Breathwork may involve periods of active conscious breathing and can create strong physical or emotional sensations. For this reason, this particular practice may not be appropriate for everyone. Please contact me before booking if you are pregnant or if you have significant cardiovascular or respiratory conditions, uncontrolled high blood pressure, epilepsy, a history of aneurysm, recent major surgery, or a serious mental-health condition that could be affected by an intensive breathwork practice. If you're unsure whether breathwork is appropriate for you because of a medical condition or medication, please seek advice from an appropriate healthcare professional before participating. You will always remain in control of your own experience and can slow down or stop the breathing practice at any point. Perhaps it's time to come back for yourself. Not to become somebody new. But to reconnect with the parts of you that have been there all along. Breathe. Release. Reconnect with your essence.