Breath+Oneness: A Healing Place

By Jondi Gumz

Breath+Oneness — sounds like a yoga studio, and it is, but it’s also a place for healing, offering classes such as crystal bowl sound bath, mushroom cultivation, qigong, emotional freedom technique, dance exercise, healing circles for women, and men’s groups. A few classes are online.

The location is 708 Capitola Ave., Capitola, in the shopping center just past Gayle’s Bakery & Rosticerria.

This enterprise is a mother-daughter venture launched by Carrie Burr, a vinyasa yoga instructor, and her mom, Leslie Warren, who has a business background working in Silicon Valley for 20-plus years.

In addition to the Capitola classes, Breath & Oneness is offering a summer retreat July 13-17 in Mount Shasta.

Want to treat your mom to a special experience? Try the Thai massage and sound bath workshop on May 14.

Capitola-Soquel Times asked Carrie and Leslie about how they got started and how the end of the Covid-19 pandemic emergency is affecting their business.

What gave you the vision to do what you are doing?

Originally we were looking for a classroom for Carrie to teach. As soon as we saw the building we both had a strong vision of what this place could be and were immediately inspired and our vision became that of a healing center.

We both had a very strong sensation, feeling of what the offerings would be and how it would benefit our community. Carrie had been doing healing work for many years and knew which offerings to bring to Breath+Oneness for maximum positive impact. And with Leslie’s business Background, we knew that we had what it would take to bring the vision into fruition.

This place knew what it wanted to be and it called to many people (we knew this because many people told us they had also inquired with the property owners about bringing healing arts/classes here). This healing center in Capitola wanted to be here. We said yes and Anna Marie Gotti said yes.

When did you open?

We opened Breath+Oneness in September 2017.

We were into our third year when Covid hit, and we were forced to be closed for an entire year. And the next year we might as well have been closed because of the fear still in the community.

It was through the gracious patience and generosity of Gotti Properties, the property owners, that we are still here. They are also a local business so I thought I’d give them a shout out. Several yoga studios and other healing centers in Santa Cruz were not so fortunate. How did you learn about EFT & Qigong?

For EFT & Qigong, Carrie who is our visionary leader, had known about for them for years before opening Breath+Oneness and knew she wanted to include them in our offerings because of their powerful abilities to support mind, body, heart and spirit wellness.

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