Breathwork
Stillness Guided throughout Gentle
60–90 min $$
The long conscious-connected format; the short functional style is gentler again.
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Pick two to four and see them side by side — how hard the body works, what happens in the room, who else is there, and what it costs. Facts about the session, not promises about you.
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Meditation
Gentle Stillness Quiet
30–60 min $
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Where these differ most. Everything is a description of the session, never a promise about you.
| Attribute | Breathwork | Meditation |
|---|---|---|
| Quietness | ●●●●● 2/5 Low | ●●●●● 5/5 Very high |
| Spoken guidance | ●●●●● 5/5 Very high | ●●●●● 3/5 Moderate |
| Physical intensity | ●●●●● 2/5 Low | ●●●●● 1/5 Very low |
| You are mostly | Lying down | Seated |
| Hands-on | None, or light consented touch from a facilitator | None |
| Typical group | 6–30 | 5–30 |
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Oria Haven insight
- Breathwork asks the most of the body here; Meditation the least.
- Meditation is the quietest room of the set.
- Meditation is usually the cheapest way in; Breathwork sits at the top of the range.
Scores describe a typical Perth session — what the hour is like, not what it will do for you. Individual studios vary; their listings carry the specifics.
What is it like?
| Attribute | Breathwork | Meditation |
|---|---|---|
| Physical intensity How hard the body works in a typical session | ●●●●● 2/5 Low | ●●●●● 1/5 Very low |
| Movement Still and lying down (1) to constantly moving (5) | ●●●●● 1/5 Very low | ●●●●● 1/5 Very low |
| Stretching & mobility work How much of the session is spent on it | ●●●●● 1/5 Very low | ●●●●● 1/5 Very low |
| Strength work Resistance, load or bodyweight effort | ●●●●● 1/5 Very low | ●●●●● 1/5 Very low |
When you are actually there
| Attribute | Breathwork | Meditation |
|---|---|---|
| Spoken guidance Silent (1) to continuously instructed (5) | ●●●●● 5/5 Very high | ●●●●● 3/5 Moderate |
| You are mostly | Lying down | Seated |
| Quietness Loud or music-led (1) to near silence (5) | ●●●●● 2/5 Low | ●●●●● 5/5 Very high |
| Hands-on Whether a practitioner touches you | None, or light consented touch from a facilitator | None |
Who is it like being with?
| Attribute | Breathwork | Meditation |
|---|---|---|
| Typical group | 6–30 | 5–30 |
| Interaction with others | ●●●●● 2/5 Low | ●●●●● 2/5 Low |
| One-on-one available | Yes, common | Sometimes |
| Experience needed | None — facilitators screen beforehand | None |
Before you go
| Attribute | Breathwork | Meditation |
|---|---|---|
| Typical price | $$ | $ |
| Typical session | 60–90 min | 30–60 min |
| Can be practised at home | Short practices yes; long formats are run guided | Yes |
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A few places from the categories you compared — somewhere to start, not a shortlist.
2 of these are in Perth CBD — transport, nearby options and ways to make a day of it.
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A yoga and Pilates studio on Scarborough Beach Road, upstairs from Jetts Gym with entry from the car park. It runs more than 60 classes a week across yoga, mat and reformer Pilates, breathwork, meditation and sound bath sessions, plus family-friendly yoga classes. A casual yoga class is $29 and a casual reformer class is $37, with class packs, weekly memberships and intro passes also available. Bookings are made through Mindbody.
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Fremantle's Spanda School runs structured silent retreats built on non-dual meditation, gentle movement and rest — one-day sittings at the school itself, and three- and seven-day residentials at Donnelly Lakes near Pemberton. Two formats serve different depths of practice: a guided version for those newer to silence, and longer unguided sits for experienced meditators. Around a hundred students come through each year, some from interstate and overseas.
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Annelise coaches movement one-on-one using the Anatomy in Motion approach — assessing how someone actually moves, then building take-home movement strategies and personal programming — with bodywork, breath training and pregnancy movement coaching alongside, plus on-demand classes online.
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Karen Haddon teaches the full eight-week MBSR program — weekly 2.5-hour classes plus a seven-hour retreat day — in person and online, alongside Mindful Self-Compassion, workplace and schools programs, and one-to-one coaching. The course runs $695 with payment plans and hardship rates offered without fuss, and a free fifteen-minute consult settles whether it's the right fit.
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