BREATHWORK · MUSIC · MOVEMENT
A fusion of stillness and beat
I’m Naomi, and I’m passionate about using music, movement, and the breath to restore balance, release stress, and reconnect you to your natural rhythm.It’s about coming home to yourself; through vibration, stillness, and flow.
Discover the Power of Breathwork, Music, and Movement
Breath Beats is a space where breath, music and movement come together to support balance, release and joy.
Rooted in both calming, grounding practices and more energising, expressive experiences, the work bridges stillness and rhythm — helping you reconnect with your body, settle your nervous system, and rediscover your natural flow.Some sessions are soft and spacious. Others are alive with energy and movement. All are held with care, curiosity, and deep respect for each person’s experience.From regular group breathwork sessions, to immersive workshops and one-to-one work, Breath Beats offers a place to arrive, breathe, feel, move and return to yourself.
This is Breathwork with a Pulse
This is Movement with Meaning
This is Music for Your Soul
Breath Beats Believes
The breath is your most powerful medicine.
Movement creates freedom in the body and mind.
Music connects us to a greater universal rhythm making us feel alive
My Mission
To help you find harmony between stillness and sound, peace and power — so you can live more fully, freely, and in flow.
My Approach
My work moves through two powerful modalities. Breathwork and Movement Release. Both uniquely designed to help you reconnect to your body, energy, and flow.
Breathwork
This is deep work — a journey through breath and sound. Designed to connect to your subconscious and release emotional tensions.In each session, we use Conscious Connected Breathing to drop into an expanded state where energy moves, emotions release, and the mind quiets. The breath becomes the bridge between body and spirit, and the soundscapes (layered with rhythm, texture, and tone) carry you deeper into your own experience.
It’s immersive. Transformative. A reset for your system.Think of it as a breathwork journey with a soundtrack for the soul.
Music & Movement
My Movement & Music classes are about release, expression, and rhythm. Designed to provide a physical nervous reset, converting negative energy to joy though the body's intuitive connection to music.These sessions weave somatic movement, dance music, and mindful flow into one seamless experience where the dance floor becomes your healing space. We move intuitively, letting music guide the flow — from slow, grounded beats to euphoric highs.No choreography. No performance. Just raw, real, and alive.Music becoming Medicine.
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Testimonials
"These sessions are a really special thing to do for yourself! Accompanied by incredible music, Naomi takes you on a journey and the classes leave you feeling amazing. I always notice an increase in energy, better sleep and an overall sense of joy in the days after these sessions. At the very least these sessions provide space and time for yourself to have some peace & relaxation. I always look forward to them!"Rosie
"What an incredible start to my Tuesday! This morning, I took part in Music is Medicine with the amazing Naomi Upton @breathbeatsuk. We were guided to move, dance, tap, and feel into our bodies, not for anyone else, but for ourselves.I feel liberated, energized, and alive and I haven’t even left my house!Naomi, you are incredible!
Thank you for creating such a powerful space. I absolutely loved this session, and you can count me in for another!"
My Story
I’m Naomi — the heart behind Breath Beats.My work is rooted in a deep love for breath, music, and the body, and in a belief that when we’re given the space to slow down, feel, and move, something inside us begins to soften and come back into balance.
My Journey
My journey into this work began in my late thirties, during a time when I felt a quiet but steady shift happening inside me. Life was full and meaningful, and alongside it there was a growing curiosity about myself, my body, and the deeper layers of my inner world.What began as a personal journey slowly became something I felt called to share. I saw how these simple, powerful practices helped me feel more grounded, more open, more at ease in my body, and more connected to myself. And I started to recognise the same shifts in the people around me.
I didn’t want to ignore those signals or simply push them away. I wanted to understand what they were telling me.That desire led me into breath, energy work, yoga, time in nature, and eventually into breathwork itself. The very first breathwork session I attended was on the beach at 6am. I arrived bundled up in layers, unsure of what to expect, and left an hour later with tears in my eyes, watching the sun rise and feeling like something deep inside me had shifted. From that moment, I knew this was work I wanted to explore — and, in time, to share with others.
Why Breath Beats Exists
Breath Beats grew from my own lived experience — from discovering how deeply the breath, music and movement could support me through change, stress, and the natural ups and downs of life.What began as a personal journey slowly became something I felt called to share. I saw how these simple, powerful practices helped me feel more grounded, more open, more at ease in my body, and more connected to myself. And I started to recognise the same shifts in the people around me.Breath Beats exists to offer that space to others — a place to slow down, breathe, move, feel, and reconnect in a way that feels safe, natural, and nourishing.
How I Hold Space
When I hold a session, my intention is always to create a space that feels safe, grounded, and supportive — a space where people can arrive exactly as they are, without pressure or expectation.I believe the body holds its own wisdom, and that when we’re given the right environment, it naturally begins to soften, release, and restore itself. My role is not to fix or force, but to guide, listen, and support whatever wants to unfold.I bring curiosity, compassion, and steadiness into the room, holding each session with care, respect, and deep trust in the process.
A Personal Invitation
If you’re feeling curious about this work, and something in these words resonates, I’d love to welcome you into the Breath Beats space.Whether you’re arriving for breathwork, music and movement, or simply for a moment of pause and connection, you’re very welcome here.
Breathwork Benefits
Breath - The Foundation
Breathwork sits at the heart of everything I offer.I have always loved working with the breath. For me, it is one of the most powerful and accessible tools we have — a direct pathway into the body, the nervous system, and the deeper layers of our emotional and energetic world. Over time, through my own journey and training, I’ve come to trust the intelligence of the breath and the way it supports us when we allow it to lead.Through breathwork, we create space for the body to gently open, soften, regulate and release — supporting both emotional and physical wellbeing in a deeply embodied way.
Breathe in rhythm. Live in flow.
How I Work With Breath
I don’t believe there’s one “right” way to breathe. Different bodies, moments and life experiences call for different approaches. My work with the breath is therefore responsive and intuitive, guided by what feels most supportive in the moment.The main style of breathwork I use — especially in my group sessions — is Conscious Connected Breathwork (CCB). Alongside this, I also work with functional breathing, pranayama, and slower, more meditative breathing practices. Together, they allow me to meet people where they are.
Conscious Connected Breathwork (CCB)
CCB forms the backbone of the Breath Beats experience.
In this style of breathwork, the breath flows in a continuous, connected rhythm, supported by music and a carefully held space. It invites the nervous system to soften and reset, allowing stored tension, emotion and energy to move through the body in a safe and supported way.People often experience emotional release, deep insight, and a profound sense of connection — both to themselves and to others. Every session is different, and each journey offers exactly what the system is ready for.
other breathing Practices
Alongside CCB, I regularly weave in other forms of breathwork.
Functional Breathing supports natural breathing patterns, physical health and nervous system regulation.
Pranayama and slower meditative breathing cultivate presence, clarity and inner steadiness.Gentler grounding techniques are often used to support integration and deep rest.
These practices are especially present within one-to-one work, where everything is tailored to the individual, and are also woven through group sessions.
How Sessions Work:
Every session is held as a steady, safe container. There’s no need to arrive in any particular way — just breathe and allow the process to unfold.Some sessions feel quiet and tender, others more alive and releasing — and all of it is welcome.People often leave feeling calmer, clearer, lighter, and more at home in their bodies. And that’s why I love this work so deeply.
Collaborations
From time to time, I run sessions with other facilitators whose work I truly admire, including Breath & Sound, which I run with the Sound Healing Sister — aka my good friend Liz — a truly gifted sound healer.Together, we weave conscious connected breathwork with sound healing to create a deeply immersive and restorative group journey.
🌿 A Gentle Invitation
If something in this has spoken to you, I’d love to welcome you into the Breath Beats space.
Whether you’re curious about group breathwork, one-to-one work, or simply wanting to explore what the breath might offer you, you’re very welcome here.
Movement & Music Benefits
Movement and Music
Music and movement are woven into the fabric of Breath Beats.
They carry us from stillness into rhythm, from quiet awareness into vibrant expression — allowing the body to release what’s been held and rediscover its natural flow.In these moments of rhythm and motion, we reconnect — with our breath, our body, and the shared energy of the space around us.
Where rhythm meets the body.
Music - The Beat & the Body
Music has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. Some of my happiest memories growing up are of dancing around the house with my dad — standing on his feet, giggling as we moved to whatever was playing. Our home was always full of sound: reggae, ska, soul, disco, house, techno… anything with a beat that made you want to move. That love of music has never left me.
In my early twenties, that passion took a new turn when my dad, my brother Jaime and I decided to throw our own party. With a sound system, a set of decks and very little clue what we were doing, Dad and I took ourselves off to a DJ course in Manchester. Something clicked almost instantly. Learning how dance music is built — the beats, bars, phrases and rhythms — felt like unlocking a language I already understood in my body. From that point on, I was completely hooked.
For the last twenty years, music has been a constant companion — DJing at parties, clubs and festivals, chasing that feeling of connection when the beat drops and a room of people start moving as one. Even now, in a quieter phase of life, that relationship with music remains just as strong. I still feel the beat in my body. I still feel how rhythm can lift me, steady me, open me.
Movement & Rhythm — How the Body Releases
Movement in Breath Beats is not about choreography or performance. It’s about giving the body permission to move in the way it naturally wants to — supported by rhythm, music and breath.For years, music and movement were always there for me, but they were tied up with late nights and partying. Then life shifted. I became a mum, my priorities changed, and without really realising it, I stopped dancing. I wasn’t listening to music as much either. And I didn’t notice what I’d lost until I felt it — that sense of freedom, release and collective energy that comes when bodies move together to a beat.Then, at forty, I found myself at a women’s sober wellness festival, standing in a field with the sun on my face, eyes closed, music pounding through my body. It was one of those moments where something just clicked. Dancing sober, feeling the beat in my bones, it felt unbelievably nourishing — like my body had been waiting for it. That experience reminded me how powerful movement can be when it’s not about looking a certain way, but simply about letting energy move.
Over time, stress, emotion and life experiences get stored in the body. This can show up as tightness, restlessness, fatigue, emotional heaviness, or a sense of disconnection. The body is designed to release — but in modern life we don’t always give it the space or permission to do so.
Beat-driven music offers that doorway. Rhythm speaks directly to the nervous system. As the tempo builds, the body responds instinctively: muscles soften, breath deepens, energy starts to move. When we allow gentle movement — often starting from the feet and travelling upward — tension and emotion can begin to shift in a way that feels both grounding and uplifting.This isn’t something we think our way through. It’s something the body already knows how to do.In my sessions, movement is woven in as a natural extension of the breathwork. Sometimes it’s slow and subtle, sometimes playful and expressive — but it’s always optional, always invitational, and always guided by what the body needs in that moment.
Your invited
This work is about reconnecting — with your body, your breath, and your natural rhythm.If any of this has sparked your curiosity, come and see what’s coming up — I’d love to welcome you into a session.
book a session
This is where you can find upcoming Breath Beats sessions and choose the experience that feels right for you.
Whether you’re joining for group breathwork, a longer Signature session, or exploring one-to-one work, you’re very welcome here.
Upcoming Group Sessions
My regular group breathwork sessions are held twice a month and form the foundation of my work. Each session is thoughtfully created around a theme, offering a unique focus and emotional landscape for the journey.
Past and present themes have included:
New Year Release & Reset · Inner Child · Chakras · Breathe to Soothe the Soul · the Seasons · the Elements · Inner Listening · Body Awareness
Aislaby Group Breathwork
Aislaby Village Hall
Every 3rd Tuesday of the month
7:30 – 8:45pmCome and join me once a month in Aislaby for this immersive breathwork session. I guide you through conscious connected breathwork to gently awaken the body, soften the tension you’ve been holding, and reset the nervous system.
Through the combined power of breath and music, the session supports you in moving into a deeply regulated, calm and resilient state. Many people experience a profound sense of release, connection and emotional clarity — both with themselves and with the group.
Sandsend Group Breathwork
St Mary’s Church, Sandsend
Usually every 3rd or 4th Saturday of the month
1:30 – 3:30pmThese monthly sessions at Sandsend offer a longer, more expansive journey. Alongside a full conscious connected breathwork session, we often include gentle movement to bring you out of the thinking mind and into the body, followed by deep relaxation to support full integration. On some Saturdays, we also open the space with ceremonial cacao, creating an extra layer of connection and intention for the session.
As always, breath and music work together to support nervous system regulation, release stored tension and emotion, and cultivate a calm, resilient state — with many participants describing the experience as deeply grounding, healing and connective.
Signature Sessions & Special Events
Next Workshop:
Sunday 19th April, 1–4pm
Aislaby Village HallAlongside my regular group sessions, I also offer my signature Breath Beats 3-Hour Workshop — a deeper, more expansive experience that brings together all the elements I’m most passionate about.Breath Beats — 3 Hour Signature WorkshopThis extended workshop is designed as a full journey through the body and nervous system, offering space to arrive, release, expand, and deeply rest.
Across the three hours, we move through:
gentle arrival and breath awareness
slow, rhythmic movement to ground and settle
beat-driven music and expressive movement to wake the body and release held tension
a long, embodied conscious connected breathwork journey
and a closing phase of Yoga Nidra and integration, with time for reflection and connection
These workshops are designed to run every two months.
One-to-One Sessions
Alongside group work and workshops, I also offer one-to-one sessions for those who would like a more personal, tailored experience.These sessions are shaped around your individual needs and intentions. We always work with the breath — which may include functional breathing, meditative breath practices, or conscious connected breathwork — alongside energy work, nervous system support, and deep rest practices such as Yoga Nidra.Some people come during times of stress, emotional release, or life transition. Others simply want space to slow down and reconnect with themselves.
Practical Details
All sessions are open to beginners.Wear comfortable clothing and bring a mat, blanket and water.Is This Workshop Right for You?Due to the nature of conscious connected breathwork, this experience may not be suitable for those with certain medical or psychological conditions. If any apply to you, you will be guided into an alternative breathing approach.Conscious connected breathwork is a deeply personal self-exploratory practice. Every session is unique and your breath becomes your guide.If you’re unsure whether a session is suitable for you, you’re always welcome to get in touch before booking.
Explore
A space to wander a little deeper into the world of Breath Beats.Here you’ll find playlists, mixes, free breathwork practices, and personal reflections — a place to explore, listen, feel and return to whenever you need.
Past and present themes have included:
New Year Release & Reset · Inner Child · Chakras · Breathe to Soothe the Soul · the Seasons · the Elements · Inner Listening · Body Awareness
get in touch
If you have any questions about the sessions, workshops, or whether this work is right for you, I’d love to hear from you.You’re very welcome to reach out — whether you’re ready to book, feeling curious, or simply want to connect.I do my best to reply within 24–48 hours.