Bree VanZutphen

EMBODIMENT MENTOR • WOMEN'S GUIDE

Bree & The Work

Hi, I'm Bree.

I'm an embodiment mentor and women's guide, and for more than 13 years I've been teaching and holding space for people coming home to themselves.

I didn't come to this work because I had it all figured out. I came to it because I had to learn, slowly and through my own body, how to stop abandoning myself. I spent my early life as a ballet dancer, chasing perfection and holding everything together. When that identity fell away, I had to discover who I was underneath it. That search led me through yoga, breathwork, women's circles, womb work and earth-based ritual, and it is the ground everything I offer now grows from.

My work tends to the whole of you: physical, mental, emotional, energetic and spiritual. I don't see these as separate parts to fix, but as one integrated, living whole. I weave somatic and embodiment practices into everything I offer, alongside earth-based ritual and sacred practice.

At the heart of it, I hold space for you to unravel the conditioning and subconscious programming shaped by your upbringing, society and collective consciousness: the patterns that quietly restrict authentic expression and embodied truth. Through womb-centered spirituality, shadow work, subconscious reprogramming and ritualized practice, I support you in reclaiming the parts of yourself that have been fragmented, suppressed or forgotten along the way.

My own healing has taught me that the path from unconscious to conscious asks us to release what does not truly belong to us. As we let go of inherited density and internalized narratives, we make space to remember who we are on a soul level. That remembering brings mind, body and spirit back together, not only in practice or ceremony, but in the way we live, relate and make choices each day.

I value freedom, truth, authenticity, conscious choice, community, and a deep connection to both Self and the divine. I see life as a continual unfolding, an invitation to actively participate in how we inhabit each moment. I believe individual healing ripples outward into collective healing, and that embodiment is a living practice of devotion, integrity and presence.

Above all, I'm here to walk this path alongside you, with reverence for the ever-present process of healing, embodiment, remembrance and evolution. We are all walking it together.

“Protect what is sacred by becoming the living breathing embodiment of it through daily action. Protect the heart by moving from it.” 

• NOTES FROM BREE

Modalities

SELF INQUIRY (INFORMED BY DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY)

JOURNALING

SOMATIC PRACTICE

BREATHWORK

FREE FORM MOVEMENT/CATHARSIS

VOCAL RELEASE

LIFE FORCE ACTIVATION

RELATIONAL HEALING IN GROUPS

FOUNDATION SETTING THROUGH YOGA PHILOSOPHY

NATURE/ELEMENTAL STUDY

SACRED RITUAL  

Elements Of The Work

SHADOW WORK

SUBCONSCIOUS REPROGRAMMING

SELF OWNERSHIP

BODY LIBERATION

INTEGRATION

EMBODIMENT

SOUL ALIGNMENT

RELATIONAL ALCHEMY

Experiences |Offerings

WOMEN’S PROGRAMS

TRAININGS

MENTORSHIP

ONLINE CLASSES & GROUP WORKSHOPS

1-1 SESSIONS

IMMERSIONS

HEALING RETREATS 

Testimonials

  • “In a way I find it difficult to summarize the impact of Bree’s teaching on my life. She is a woman that lives in the total embodiment of strength and curiosity. She is a woman that prioritizes movement and expression into alchemy. She has helped me to reframe the culture of my darkest thoughts and showed me that to be a vessel of total embodiment means a kind yet active pursuit for truth. And the human application of those truths. In general working with Bree and her modalities have shifted my perspective on traditional therapy and approaches to mental health. It is without a doubt I say that her teachings have left my inner programming forever changed for the better. Allowing me to lead my life with less stress and more joy. I tell most people I meet of the impact she has made on me. Bree creates a safe space to explore our deepest discomforts, in her light she helps us feel less afraid.”

    -ISABELLA M.

  • “Bree has a unique capacity for holding space that feels intentional and genuine. It felt as though vulnerability and connection happened with ease as Bree guided us deep into our inner worlds and yet provided such a sense of safety that all experiences were not only welcomed but encouraged. My experience in this course was so far from spiritual white-washing or virtue signaling, this was some down-to-earth, gritty, grimey real, real of the feminine experience. What I left with was an incredible tool in my "mental health toolbox" that I know will evolve with me. I have tangible, integrative, and customizable tools or practices that can route me back towards the balance I need to start feeling fully myself once again. For me, while it can be important to understand the theory or concept behind my behavior, that alone will never take me very far. What Bree provided were concrete things to do, and ways to really make it your own, that can be applied based on any given season of your life unfolding. Thank you, Bree, as this will be material I know I will continue to revisit time and time again.”

    - CASSIE S

  • “Bree is an insightful and compassionate teacher and guide. She holds a safe space for others to explore core emotions on both the subconscious and physical levels. Bree really helped our group share space and relate to each other by leading with vulnerability and curiosity in all sessions. I felt like I met so many different versions of myself throughout this experience, and was able to safely and mindfully do so in a way that allowed me to grow a lot in a short period of time.”

    - MALIA E.

  • “This work is life-changing and it’s ripple effects have the potential to be world-changing––building toward a world where the emotional realm is acknowledged as a natural response to being human and emotions are welcomed and released as they arise. The process was deep and vulnerable in the truest sense and Bree’s incredible facilitation and space holding guided the container with so much warmth, wisdom, understanding, and humor. She is clearly doing exactly what she was born to do in this lifetime and I’m so grateful to be learning from the courageous work she’s done on her own journey.”

    - NICO F.

  • “Bree is a wonderfully open and receptive human. She loves to explore and encourages others to go as far as they wish with their own exploration. How effortlessly everyone came together is a testament to Bree’s ability to create a space for authentic expression.”

    - SHELBY COLLINS

  • “To be in a safe container with a group of powerful and conscious individuals, and to be led by Bree's expansive love and kindness truly felt so freeing. Bree has an innate gift in how she cultivates spaces like these, for us to venture deeper into our interpersonal healing and processing. She truly emits love, safety, and compassion - and inspires us to do the same for ourselves, holding ourselves gently, as we move through our own pain, wounding, and learned programming.”

    - ANITA F.

  • “Healing work takes great courage and vulnerability to endeavor. Through this truth, I have found just how important it is to align yourself with a provider of a sacred space. Bree has not only helped me to meet myself in ways that felt frightening without the safety of support from another… but she has held so much space for processing and releasing all that comes forward. Her gift is her ability to be present with you in your own deepest vulnerability. Coming to terms with the effects of PTSD, anxiety and depression, my work with Bree has given way to so much desired transformation. I truly feel humbled, grounded and energized after each session. She has helped me heal and build a new capacity of trust within this process. These practices are simple, yet so profound at their core; it is truly a gift to work with someone who recognizes that and wants to share their knowledge with you.”

    - FRANKIE T.

  • “The work she facilitates is an investment in one’s self. She curates a safe space, a lovely group of thoughtful and dedicated humans and sets the stage for a new chapter in life to emerge”

    - ASHLEE BROOKE GONZALEZ

  • "What Bree really brings back is our wilderness - that wild, untamed knowing that so many of us, especially women, were taught to quiet, tidy, and hide before we ever knew it was ours. She doesn’t just teach how to let go of the grip toward perfection; she lives it in front of us, showing us what it looks like to meet ourselves exactly as we are, wild parts and all, even in the hard, unfinished places. That is a rare kind of teacher. I am so grateful I found her and even more grateful for who I continue becoming because of this work."

    -AURORA B.

ONLINE CLASSES WITH BREE

PROCESS
CHILDHOOD SELF

Explore repressed aspects from childhood that want to be brought forward through self inquiry, journal prompts, breath, and somatic movement. When we integrate and say hello to our inner child we are able to navigate denied aspects into mature adult self in current time.

Cost: $44

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PARADIGM SHIFT
ASCENDING & DESCENDING ENERGIES

Learn to mediate your connection to source and your connection to the earth. You are the bridge between the two. Use different breathwork techniques to clear the interference in your channel. Leave with a grounded sense of clarity, connected to all that you are a part of. 

Cost: $33

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SUBCONSCIOUS REPROGRAMMING AND ACTIVE BREATHWORK
FREEING THE VOICE

Join Bree in this somatic 3 part breath technique to clear false imprinting around the voice. Use this strong session of active breath to deprogram the body of holding patterns related to the throat chakra. 

Cost: $33

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Book a Virtual + In Person Session

Heal, Transmute, Evolve, and Expand with 1-1 sessions with Bree in person in the Joshua Tree area or online from the sanctuary of your own home.

Reiki Session
Subconscious Reprogramming Session
Maya Abdominal Bodywork/Womb Massage
Ritualize & Sacred Space
Grounding, Guidance, and Integrative Practice

“Our body is earth, the great teacher and reminder that we are organic matter. Our life is not a dialogue of immediacy - it is an organic evolution of our innermost mattering.” 

• NOTES FROM BREE

“True liberation is a freedom of the heart. Here's to all the seekers and visionaries who remember that love and courage go hand in hand. That truth and love have the same root. I am grateful for every day as an invitation to humbly embody my own heart - I know this to be the work of my lifetime. It is an honor to show up to that daily work.” 

• NOTES FROM BREE