Ben Bidwell - Human Potential Coach

Most of us get plenty of practice in thinking.
We regularly activate the neural pathways that have us planning, analysing, figuring things out.

It’s important - we need to think.
Try doing your job without thinking, or crossing the road…

But quietly, without realising, we’ve drifted further and further from activating the neural pathways responsible for feeling, our interoceptive networks, the ones that connect us to internal sensation, pleasure, even the experience of being alive in our own body. Use them less, and they weaken. This is a common human experience in today’s world.

The good news is that neuroplasticity works both ways. What’s been neglected can be reawakened.

Sensual Breathwork is a breath-led experience back into internal pleasure.

In this in-person experience we’ll create the somatic conditions to awaken the body, for sensation to return, and to be present with the sensation of your body again.

This will be a deeply immersive evening. Something to feel, experience and express. A chance to reconnect and reactivate with what is innately human.
Thursday 23rd April, 6.30pm .

I’d love to see you and share this with you.

Link in bio to book your ticket ❤️

Breathwork has added depth, presence, opportunity and real transformation to my work, and to the work of those I now teach.

It shifted conversations into experiences,
insight into embodiment,
and opened doors I never imagined when I first began.

This training is about far more than techniques.
It’s about creating experiences that truly land.

The next journey begins next week.
Last year we had psychotherapists, energy healers, career coaches, life purpose coaches and current breathworkers amongst many other wellness professionals.

It’s not too late to join ❤️

I know how hard change is.
I could apply much of the story above about my own journey. It’s easy to have an intention, much harder to embody it…

Many of us have have git good intention to become someone different, better partners, more present, less reactive versions of ourselves.

But more often than not, it doesn’t happen.
The message society gives us doesn’t help; set the goal, make the plan, create motivation and do the thing.

But research is telling us it doesn’t work.

We now know willpower and motivation aren’t infinite, they run out. 
And when they do, we return to who we’ve previously been.

Because real change doesn’t happen at the level of behaviour. It happens at the level of identity.

We don’t perform to our potential,
we perform to who we believe we are.

And until that shifts at a subconscious level, it’s very hard to make new behaviours stick. It requires force, and force doesn’t last. It drains us.

My own experiences and modern research tell us that Identity-level change requires consistent practice and positive emotional connection to our vision - only then does it become safe and acceptable to our nervous system.

This is where my work has got to.
Breathwork combined with deep alignment, practised over time, to create subconscious reprogramming that rewrites who you believe you are, not just what you’re trying to do.

Until we get to that point, change will be a hope rather than a reality 🙏🏼❤️

Guiding a deep group breathwork session is one of the most beautiful and impactful experiences of my life.

It’s an honour and a privilege, something I usually share with everyone in the room.

To those of you I’ve guided who didn’t hear those words, it has absolutely been my honour! Thank you for trusting me 🙏🏼.

To sit with people as the breath softens the mind, opens the heart, and carries them somewhere deeper than thought is something I will never take lightly.

Witnessing what rises when people feel safe enough to let go, to feel, to remember, is something words can never quite do justice.

There’s a magic in those moments.
A deep intimacy.
A shared stillness and connection that feels rare in the world we live in.

Breathwork creates a doorway into truth that doesn’t need forcing or fixing. It invites people into connection with themselves, with their bodies, with something honest and alive beneath the noise.

When I reflect on my own journey, I’m not sure where my coaching work would be without breathwork. I’m sure I would have found a path, but I don’t believe anything would have taken me this deep, or opened the same possibilities, personally or professionally.

Being able to now share this work, not just through sessions, but through Heart-Opening Breathwork Training, feels like a real privilege. Passing on a way of working that is lived, refined, and genuinely unique, so others can bring this depth to their clients and communities, is something I don’t take lightly.

If you feel the pull, trust it.
Our next cohort begins February 2026 ❤️

I’m one of the lucky ones when it comes to Christmas.

I have a beautiful family to spend time with, and I love this season, the slowing down, the connection, the fire, the games.

But I’m also aware that this period can amplify what’s missing for others.

The grief for who should be there. The weight of needing to return back to being someone you’ve outgrown, just to fit in and keep the peace. The loneliness of carrying heaviness when we’re told it’s meant to be a time for joy.

If that’s you this year, sending you love, you are in my thoughts. Or if you see that in someone, perhaps you can be the one who lets them be?

You don’t have to perform joy you don’t feel. You don’t have to explain yourself to anyone. It’s enough to just get through it.

Wishing you all a good Christmas, wherever you are at. I hope you find moments of peace, connection, and presence, around the challenge of whatever you’re carrying ❤️

Many people still seem to think healing is something to figure out...

If we just read enough books, or talk it through in coaching or therapy, then we’ll finally feel better.

But the truth is…
we can’t think our way out of something that lives in our body.

Some things need to be felt.
Breathed.
Moved.
Held with presence.
Met with compassion.

Deep emotional maturity and growth doesn’t come from trying harder, but in softening into what’s already here.

That’s why Ive been such a huge fan of breathwork as a tool, and now created Heart-Opening Breathwork, a 4-month facilitator training for coaches, therapists, and wellness professionals who are ready to:
* Deepen their own healing
* Guide emotional transformation safely
* And lead from embodied, heart-led presence

This is about learning to hold and guide a space to reveal, feel, and begin to heal.

Through the power of the breath, deep presence, and transformational tools that work alongside the breath, even the most closed hearts can open again.

To make sure this is a no-brainer for you, you’ll also be given and taken through a done-for-you 12-week process to deepen your own presence and for you to have to offer in your practice. (This is a process that is being bought for £3,000 by my clients now).

Training kicks off April 30th.
Spaces are limited for the founding cohort.

DM me “TRAINING” or tap the link in bio to apply.

Most of us grow up in a world that hasn’t taught us how to feel. Me included!

Instead, we learned to suppress, ignore, or judge our emotions, believing they’re potentially a hindrance.

I learned the hard way - numbing myself to such a degree I felt like I lived in a box, neither happy nor sad, but often as though something was missing.

Burying my anger didn’t make me calm - it made me lack boundaries and be more reactive, often in ways that left me out of alignment in who I really was.

Burying my sadness didn’t make me happy - it left me numb, cutting me off from my capacity to connect deeply with myself and others.

When led safely and powerfully, breathwork creates a space to feel what’s been stored in the body. This is why I’ve learned to utilise it as a central tool within my work.

Through my 3-month ‘Becoming Present’ process, I guide you to reconnect with yourself using the daily practice of breathwork as your gateway, alongside weekly exercises and introspective coaching to allow you to expand beyond your limitations. I currently have 3 spots available for a short period.

DM me ‘PRESENT’ to learn more about starting your journey.

Or, if you want to learn to use breathwork as a powerful too then my breathwork training facilitation begin in April this year, early bird price is currently running for a short period. DM me “TRAINING” for further info 🙏🏼❤️

Change isn’t shallow work - it can’t be forced through willpower, pushed through motivation, or thought into existence.

We can set all the ambitious and non-ambitious goals, convinced that this time would be different. But if beneath your determination is an identity that doesn’t match your aspirations, then change / success in your resolutions will only ever be short-lived.

How do I know? Join me tomorrow for my “New year, New me?” Workshop, where we’ll use breathwork to connect you to your true values and align you into an epic 2025.

Or keep doing it your way, but just know your willpower will eventually break - exactly why research tells us 80-90% of new year resolutions are done by February!

My breathwork-led workshop will explore this deeper approach to transformation. We’ll move beyond surface-level resolutions to actually set you up to create change that lasts.

Limited spots remaining for tomorrow’s ‘New Year, New Me?’ Workshop - link in bio or check my stories to secure yours (or check out my stories) ❤️