breathwork for muslims · surrey · london · online
Your breath is an amanah.
Learn how to use it well.
No music
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No mantras
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Nothing borrowed
It's a fair question. Most breathwork you'll find comes wrapped in music, mantras and language borrowed from other religions — and if that's put you off, I understand completely. It put me off too.
I'm a revert. When I came to Islam I had to stop teaching for a while — I needed time to sit with it honestly, to work out what belonged in my practice and what didn't, and to come back to this work in a way that felt right. What I teach now has been through that filter.
What's left is quiet, and it's enough. We're not adding anything to you — we're clearing what's been piled on top, so you can come back to the state you were made in: the fitrah, our natural state, still there underneath it all.
There's a serenity our tradition speaks of that descends and settles — not something you manufacture, but something you become quiet enough to receive.
Most of us were never taught how to be still. We know how to keep going, and how to distract ourselves — but sitting quietly in our own body feels foreign. It's a skill, and it can be learned.
I help you put down some of the noise you're carrying — the shallow breathing, the braced shoulders, the mind running three steps ahead — so that stillness has somewhere to land.
Most of us breathe shallow and fast without knowing it. You'll learn what good breathing actually feels like, and how to return to it.
A way to come down from anger, stress or anxiety in a couple of minutes — no props, no phone, wherever you are.
More awareness of what you're carrying and where you hold it — and gentle, practical movement to release it.
Getting down more easily at night, waking with something in the tank — including for fajr.
A quieter body and a slower mind. Many clients find that stillness carries into everything else they do.
Nothing to subscribe to and nobody to depend on. Simple practices you'll still benefitting from in thirty years.
The breath was given to us. Learning to use it well feels to me like caring for something entrusted to us — the same way we look after our health, our strength or our time.
This is physical training, not worship. It doesn't replace salah or dhikr and I'd never suggest it could. What I've found, and what clients tell me, is that a settled body makes stillness easier to find — and that stillness tends to show up in everything, including how present we are when we stand to pray.
I'm not a scholar and I don't give rulings. If you have doubts, ask someone qualified — I'd rather you did. All I'll tell you is exactly what happens in a session, plainly, so you can decide for yourself.
Message me with whatever's on your mind — including the questions you'd feel awkward asking. I'll answer honestly.
Feel a difference from your first session — or your money back.
I'm not a scholar and I don't give rulings — ask someone qualified if you have doubts. What I can tell you is what my sessions actually are: learning to breathe properly and settle your own nervous system. No music, no mantras, no chanting, nothing borrowed from another religion. Breathing well is a physical skill, like learning to sit or walk well.
No. Sessions run in silence — no music, no mantras, no visualisations drawn from other traditions. Just the breath, the body and clear instruction.
They're close cousins. Meditation and mindfulness train the attention; breathwork works through the body — using the breath to settle the nervous system directly, which many people find easier. If you've been searching for Islamic meditation, Muslim meditation or a halal alternative to the mindfulness apps, this is that ground: quiet, practical, and free of anything that conflicts with your deen.
Humming is one physical technique I sometimes use — the vibration slows the exhale and helps the body settle. It's a sound, not a word: no mantra, no name, nothing being invoked. If you'd rather leave it out entirely, say so and we will.
No. There's no yoga, no postures named after deities and no spiritual framework attached. Where we use movement, it's slow, practical work to release tension in the body so the breath can move freely.
No, and it isn't meant to. This is physical training — how to breathe, how to come out of a stress response. Nothing here substitutes for worship, and I'd never present it that way.
Yes, but I prefer to keep it appropriate: group settings, public spaces, online, or with someone else present. If you'd rather work with a woman, tell me and I'll be honest about it.
Of course. Tell me your timings and we'll book around them. I pray too, so it's never awkward.
1-1 at home, outdoors or online, across the Surrey Hills and London — and groups, where a few of you together often works well.
Yes — gentler practices while fasting.
That describes most people who get in touch. You are guided the whole way and nothing is expected of you beforehand.