Sunday Reset: The Brighton Breathwork Experience Taking Over The Lanes
A Sunday morning breathwork experience in the heart of Brighton designed to slow you down, release tension and reset before the week ahead
Sunday mornings in Brighton have a particular quality to them. The city is quieter. The seafront has space. The cafes are warm. And now, tucked inside the heart of The Lanes at Yoga in the Lanes on Middle Street, there is something else worth knowing about. A three-hour Sunday morning experience that combines conscious breathwork, immersive sound healing, sauna and ice bath into something that is genuinely unlike anything else on offer in the city.
It is called the Sunday Reset. It is run by Darren Swann of Pathways of Being, a Brighton-based wellness practitioner who has built the sessions around a single intention: to give people a space to actually stop. Not to perform wellness. Not to push through. Just to breathe, release and arrive at Sunday afternoon feeling like a different version of themselves than the one that walked in.
The sessions run every Sunday from 9am to 12pm at Yoga in the Lanes, 67 Middle Street, Brighton BN1 1AL. Spaces are limited to ten people per session. No experience is needed. Everyone is welcome.
What is breathwork and why does it matter?
Breathwork is a broad term for a range of practices that use intentional breathing patterns to influence the body and mind. The type used in the Sunday Reset sessions is conscious connected breathwork, sometimes called holotropic breathwork, which involves sustained rhythmic breathing that activates the body's nervous system in a way that can produce profound physical, emotional and psychological effects.
The science behind it is straightforward. The way you breathe directly influences your nervous system. Most people, most of the time, breathe in a way that keeps them in a low-level state of stress. Short, shallow breaths signal to the body that it needs to stay alert, stay ready, stay tense. Conscious connected breathwork deliberately interrupts that pattern. Sustained, deep, rhythmic breathing activates the parasympathetic nervous system, the part responsible for rest, recovery and regulation. The body begins to release tension it has been holding, sometimes for years.
People who practise breathwork regularly report significant improvements in sleep quality, stress levels, emotional resilience and overall sense of wellbeing. A single session can produce noticeable effects. Multiple sessions, attended consistently over weeks and months, allow the body to deepen trust, integration and emotional release in ways that build cumulatively.
Brighton has a strong wellness community and breathwork has been growing steadily in the city over the past several years. The Sunday Reset sessions at Yoga in the Lanes represent some of the most thoughtfully constructed breathwork experiences available in the city, combining the breathwork itself with soundbath integration, sauna and ice bath in a format specifically designed for weekly attendance.
The Sunday Reset: what to expect
Each session runs for three hours. The format combines five elements: guided holotropic breathwork, an immersive headphone sound experience, soundbath integration, sauna and ice bath recovery, and reflection and integration time.
What makes these sessions distinctive is the use of wireless headphones throughout the breathwork journey. Every participant wears headphones, receiving the music, breath cues, meditation guidance and sound healing directly and personally. The headphones block out external distraction and create a safe internal space where you can fully drop into the experience without needing to think about what others around you are doing. The effect is significantly more immersive than a standard group breathwork class, where sound fills the room and the experience is inherently shared and external.
The headphones allow for deeper focus during the breathwork, clearer guidance throughout the journey, enhanced nervous system regulation, a more immersive emotional release process, a stronger personal connection to the music and sound healing and a deeply restorative meditative state.
After the breathwork, the session moves into soundbath integration, where the body has time to settle, absorb and process what has happened during the breathing. This is followed by sauna and ice bath recovery, which completes the nervous system reset by moving the body through a cycle of heat and cold that has its own significant physiological benefits for stress regulation, circulation and mood.
The session closes with reflection and integration time, giving participants space to sit with the experience before re-entering the day.
The immersive headphone experience
The decision to use wireless headphones throughout the Sunday Reset sessions is not a gimmick. It fundamentally changes the nature of the experience in ways that matter to anyone who has tried breathwork before and found the group setting difficult, or anyone who is coming to breathwork for the first time and worried about feeling self-conscious.
In a conventional group breathwork class, the facilitator's voice and the music fill the room. You are aware of other people around you. You can hear them breathing. You might find yourself comparing your experience to what you imagine theirs to be. The external environment remains present throughout.
With the wireless headphones, that changes entirely. The music, the guidance and the breath cues arrive directly and only to you. The room disappears. Other people disappear. What remains is just you, the breath and the sound. Participants describe the effect as being able to go significantly deeper than they expected, releasing things they had not realised they were carrying, and feeling a level of safety and privacy within the group setting that made the whole experience more personal and more profound.
The sound itself is carefully curated. Each journey is designed to move through different phases, building intensity during the active breathwork and softening into the soundbath integration that follows. The combination of conscious breathing and immersive sound healing creates a state that practitioners describe as deeply restorative and unlike ordinary sleep or meditation.
Sauna and ice bath
The inclusion of sauna and ice bath in the Sunday Reset is deliberate and significant. The breathwork itself activates and regulates the nervous system. The sauna and cold immersion that follows completes that process through a different but complementary physiological mechanism.
Heat exposure in the sauna raises core body temperature, increases heart rate and stimulates the release of heat shock proteins and endorphins. It is deeply relaxing in a physical way that is distinct from the mental and emotional relaxation produced by the breathwork. Cold immersion in the ice bath immediately following activates the vagus nerve, produces a significant release of noradrenaline and dopamine, reduces inflammation and creates a powerful sense of alertness and wellbeing that many people describe as one of the best feelings they have ever experienced.
Together, the breathwork and the sauna and ice bath create a full nervous system reset. The kind that most people never experience in ordinary daily life, no matter how much they exercise, meditate or sleep. It is one of the reasons that attending multiple Sunday Reset sessions consistently produces cumulative benefits that go beyond what a single session can achieve.
Who is it for?
The Sunday Reset sessions are genuinely designed for everyone. No experience of breathwork, yoga, meditation or any other wellness practice is required or assumed. The facilitator, Darren Swann of Pathways of Being, has structured the sessions to be accessible to complete beginners while remaining deep and meaningful for people who have practised breathwork extensively.
People come to the Sunday Reset for all sorts of reasons. Some are dealing with stress, anxiety or burnout and looking for something that actually works rather than something that feels like it should work. Some are curious about breathwork and want to try it in a safe, well-structured environment. Some are regular attendees who have found the weekly reset genuinely transformative for their nervous system, their sleep, their emotional health and their sense of connection to themselves.
Many people leave feeling calmer, lighter, emotionally released, deeply rested and more connected to themselves. Those are the words that come up consistently from people who attend regularly. Not vague promises of wellness, but specific, tangible shifts in how they feel in their body and their day.
Brighton is a city that takes wellbeing seriously and has a genuine, thriving community of people who explore practices like breathwork, cold water swimming, sound healing and somatic therapy as part of how they live. The Sunday Reset sits squarely within that community and has quickly become one of the most talked-about regular wellness experiences in the city.
About Pathways of Being
Pathways of Being is a Brighton-based wellness practice run by Darren Swann. The Sunday Reset sessions at Yoga in the Lanes are part of a wider programme of breathwork and wellness experiences that Darren has developed with the intention of making transformative practices genuinely accessible to people in the city.
The name Pathways of Being reflects the core philosophy behind the work: that there are many routes toward a more regulated, connected and present way of living, and that breathwork, sound and somatic practices offer some of the most direct and effective ones available. The sessions are not positioned as spiritual or esoteric, though they can produce experiences that feel that way. They are grounded in the physiology of the nervous system and the very real, very measurable effects that conscious breathing, sound and temperature exposure have on the body and mind.
You can follow Pathways of Being on Instagram at @pathwaysofbeing for updates on sessions, new offerings and the ongoing conversation around breathwork and wellbeing in Brighton.
About Yoga in the Lanes
Yoga in the Lanes at 67 Middle Street in the heart of Brighton's Lanes is one of the city's most established and well-regarded yoga and wellness studios. It sits in the middle of one of the most distinctive areas in Brighton, close to the seafront, The Lanes shopping area and the North Laine, and is easily accessible on foot from Brighton Station in around ten minutes.
The studio has a sauna and ice bath on site, which is what makes the Sunday Reset format possible. Having the sauna and cold immersion available as part of the same space and the same session is what allows the three-hour format to flow naturally from breathwork to sound integration to thermal recovery without disruption.
Practical information
The Sunday Reset sessions run every Sunday from 9am to 12pm at Yoga in the Lanes, 67 Middle Street, Brighton BN1 1AL.
Spaces are strictly limited to ten people per session to ensure the intimacy and quality of the experience.
A single session costs £40. Conscious Connected Breathwork sessions are also available from £20 per session. Multiple session options may be available through the booking page.
What to bring: comfortable clothing and a water bottle. Everything else is provided.
No experience of breathwork, yoga or any other wellness practice is needed. Everyone is welcome exactly as they are.
To book your place, visit the Pathways of Being Eventbrite page or follow @pathwaysofbeing on Instagram and click the link in bio. Spaces go quickly so booking in advance is strongly recommended.
Upcoming Sunday Reset dates include 7 June, 14 June, 21 June and 28 June 2026. Book early to secure your space.
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