Samantha Skelly

The Journey by Pause Breathwork

Tell our readers about the journey that brought you here, to do this work.

I grew up as a child actress and a dancer I was always o stage or in front of the camera from a very young age I developed body disformya and I had a lot of anxiety as a child. That shifted to disorder eating, and body image issues. My first company was called Hungry for Happiness and it was really for women to get over emotional eating and body image issues after I healed myself from it - and the path of me healing it was through breath work. I was around 20 at this time reading Eat Pray Love. There’s a part where she says she went to Bali and met with the medicine man. That led me to go to Bali and figure out what was wrong with me. I had disorder eating and chronic anxiety I wold really swing between numbness and anxiety. I got to Bali, I found the

medicine man and I found breath work. It was insane. I ended up healing my body issues and all that stuff through breath work. That’s the work that I’ve been doing now for a decade. I felt called to teach people about their breath which led to Pause Breath work, and from that moment on I just knew - that’s it! That’s what I am here to do. We have a community now with thousands of people who join us in different ways to heal themselves through taking a breath.

I truly believe breath work is such a pathway for us whether you’re struggling with sleep, anxiety, disorder eating it helps us really get into our body so we can find deeper truth and when we land in deeper truth, I really believe that’s where life opens up.

Since we started we’ve certified thousands of coaches on our modality, we have thousands of people on our mobile app from all around the world, we have employees in eighteen different countries, it has skyrocketed.

Bringing people back home - that’s my big mission. When people come back home into their bodies and into their hearts, that’s when they can really expand from a place of alignment. When we’re out of alignment and we’re not connected to our hearts we just go go go and we don’t know why. We’re just re-acting and not acting f rom the best place of who we really are.

What inspires you to keep growing?

The transformations of my clients. My DMS on Instagram are always full of people saying : “Sam, I did your app!” Or “I did your training on breath work and OMG I’m amazed”. Getting hundreds of these a week inspires me to keep growing and keep sharing the medicine.

I believe when we have a more embodied world, we have a happier world and I have this vision of everyone fully in their power, speaking their truth, loving themselves fearlessly and being on this path together of continual growth and expansion. That to me, I could do that all day long.

What has been a reoccurring challenge that you’ve surmounted over the years?

I believe it’s that my vision is just so clear - when I first get a vision for the collective, it feels very lonely at times because people yet don’t feel what I’m feeling at that moment. It’s really about embodying the vision that comes to me, and then people will feel that and feel called to be led by it. Trusting in my vision.

What do you want to be remembered for?

Someone who was ruthlessly committed to the vision and constantly created new maps for humans to step into ; one of less suffering and more alignment, less pain more joy and doing it knowing that they are the medicine for their nervous system. We don’t need anything else outside of ourselves — the healing that we desire is within the breath.