meet michael

Why Breathe?


Drop in. Deepen.

Nothing Complicated.

Pilgrim Breath makes learning to consciously breathe easy for everyone. No textbooks. No math. No dramatic revelations. Just you, and your unique map of life. If you’re seeking spiritual connection, or methods to deepen your breathing practice, or you are looking to overcome resistance to breaking free, Pilgrim Breath breathes life into your intentions. No matter your quest, you’ll be welcomed and guided and breathed back to life.

Come breathe.

Drop in. Deepen.

Nothing Complicated.

Pilgrim Breath makes learning to consciously breathe easy for everyone. No textbooks. No math. No dramatic revelations. Just you, and your unique map of life. If you’re seeking spiritual connection, or methods to deepen your breathing practice, or you are looking to overcome resistance to breaking free, Pilgrim Breath breathes life into your intentions. No matter your quest, you’ll be welcomed and guided and breathed back to life.

Come breathe.

What is Breathing, exactly?

Neuroscience teaches us that we are able to shift through our daily brainwave activity at a more intentional pace through corrective conscious breathing. We are able to dip between beta, alpha and theta states, if we give our brains and lungs permission. This improves our clarity, our energy and our ability to perform, with a sense of peace and aliveness.

Benefits of Breathwork Practice:

  • Increased energy levels
  • Reduces blood pressure
  • Improves digestion
  • Improves sleep
  • Ignites a sense of self-love
  • Cultivates human awareness
  • Eases physical ailments
  • Releases trauma and fear inside the pain body
  • Upgrades consciousness

What is Breathing, exactly?

Neuroscience teaches us that we are able to shift through our daily brainwave activity at a more intentional pace through corrective conscious breathing. We are able to dip between beta, alpha and theta states, if we give our brains and lungs permission. This improves our clarity, our energy and our ability to perform, with a sense of peace and aliveness.

Benefits of Breathwork Practice:

  • Increased energy levels
  • Reduces blood pressure
  • Improves digestion
  • Improves sleep
  • Ignites a sense of self-love
  • Cultivates human awareness
  • Eases physical ailments
  • Releases trauma and fear inside the pain body
  • Upgrades consciousness

Meet Michael


A spiritual companion, teacher of presence, and qualified breathwork practitioner (Transformations USA), Michael Wood is the founder and pioneer behind Pilgrim Breath. As the great-grandson of Chief Druid, Bertie Buckland - one of the last Druids to celebrate the summer solstice at Stonehenge (1925) - Michael has not only inherited the gift of gateways, but has for many years walked his own difficult journey of the human experience. Through his seeking for more, Michael’s quest demanded a spiritual embodiment of a realistic kind, one which he found to be more practical, more patient with the layman mind. This inspired Michael to seek guidance directly from Echart Tolle, and ultimately to open his first Pilgrim Breath practice. Here, Michael leads meditation retreats and in Ireland and the USA.

Michael is the acclaimed author of Just One Conscious Breath – the everyday breathing companion for everyday stuff. Through his previous life’s work of 30 years, as a school principal for children with autism and special needs, Michael passed through his own dark night of the soul. He knows that what is simple is true and has spent time debunking the frills and hashtags of spirituality and found purpose in a humble resource far greater than the sum of its parts: breathing.

Today, Michael wants to share his knowledge with you. Through his community hub of breathers, Michael reaches to all students of the great Breath Mystery (young and wise, broken and built) who wish to expand the capacity of their lives at a conscious and practical level; those that wish to find more in the mundane; those that long to return home to themselves. Simply.

Qualifications: BSc, MSc, Advanced Dip Special Education, M.Ed. Breathworker, Transformations (USA). Qualified Spiritual Companion (Anamcharadas); Teacher of Presence (Eckhart Tolle School of Awakening). Find Michael here (LinkedIn)

A spiritual companion, teacher of presence, and qualified breathwork practitioner (Transformations USA), Michael Wood is the founder and pioneer behind Pilgrim Breath. As the great-grandson of Chief Druid, Bertie Buckland - one of the last Druids to celebrate the summer solstice at Stonehenge (1925) - Michael has not only inherited the gift of gateways, but has for many years walked his own difficult journey of the human experience. Through his seeking for more, Michael’s quest demanded a spiritual embodiment of a realistic kind, one which he found to be more practical, more patient with the layman mind. This inspired Michael to seek guidance directly from Echart Tolle, and ultimately to open his first Pilgrim Breath practice. Here, Michael leads meditation retreats and in Ireland and the USA.

Michael is the acclaimed author of Just One Conscious Breath – the everyday breathing companion for everyday stuff. Through his previous life’s work of 30 years, as a school principal for children with autism and special needs, Michael passed through his own dark night of the soul. He knows that what is simple is true and has spent time debunking the frills and hashtags of spirituality and found purpose in a humble resource far greater than the sum of its parts: breathing.

Today, Michael wants to share his knowledge with you. Through his community hub of breathers, Michael reaches to all students of the great Breath Mystery (young and wise, broken and built) who wish to expand the capacity of their lives at a conscious and practical level; those that wish to find more in the mundane; those that long to return home to themselves. Simply.

Qualifications: BSc, MSc, Advanced Dip Special Education, M.Ed. Breathworker, Transformations (USA). Qualified Spiritual Companion (Anamcharadas); Teacher of Presence (Eckhart Tolle School of Awakening). Find Michael here (LinkedIn)

Like a brain app for your lungs, corrective conscious breathing can fast track your nervous system to its most dynamic natural state; the power of an inhale and exhale can take you places you never thought you'd go, and relish. With Pilgrim Breath, you’ll discover this opening to your own natural healing ability and transcend your limiting beliefs.