I’m Romy Limenes - a somatic and breathwork practitioner, educator, and author of Broken to Breathful.
I’m also a former registered nurse, a mother, and someone who has lived through a chapter of life that changed me in ways I never anticipated.
There was a time when my sense of safety, identity, certainty, and trust in my own life was profoundly disrupted.
Finding my way forward wasn't about simply understanding what had happened or trying to think my way through it.
I had to learn how to come back to myself.
Back into my body.
Back into my breath.
Back into feeling.
Back into my own knowing.
Back into the present moment.
And I discovered that returning wasn't something I could accomplish once and be done with.
It was a practice.
WHAT I DISCOVERED
Some of the things that helped me most were surprisingly simple.
Movement gave what I was carrying somewhere to go.
Breath gave me something to return to.
Sound gave me another language.
Nature gave me space.
Creativity gave me expression.
Connection reminded me that I didn't have to do everything alone.
And learning to stay present with what I actually felt began changing my relationship with myself.
Over time, these practices became more than things I did when I was struggling.
They became Lifelines.
Simple, accessible practices I could return to again and again - especially in the moments when life pulled me away from myself.
This became the foundation of the work I now share with others.
I didn’t create this work because I had figured it all out.
I created it because I needed it.
Meet Romy
Broken to Breathful
My book, Broken to Breathful, tells more of the story.
After surviving an assault and then finding myself arrested when I called for help, I experienced a profound loss of safety, identity, and voice.
Being disbelieved and unable to fully tell my story became its own kind of trauma.
Writing Broken to Breathful became an act of reclaiming that voice.
What began as a way to make sense of an unimaginable experience slowly became something larger: an exploration of the practices that helped me reconnect with myself and begin building a life from a different place.
The book weaves memoir with breathwork, daily rituals, and the Lifelines that emerged from my own experience.
It is deeply personal.
But it is also an invitation:
You don't have to wait for life to be fixed before you begin returning to yourself.
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WHY I BELIEVE IN SIMPLE
Simple is more than the name of my business.
It's a philosophy that has followed me for years.
When life became complicated, I knew I needed practices that were:
Simple.
Accessible.
Effective.
Not another complicated system to understand.
Not something that only worked when I had an hour of quiet and everything was going well.
Something I could actually reach for in the middle of real life.
But I've also learned that simple doesn't mean one-size-fits-all.
What is simple for one person may not be simple for another.
So we notice.
We experiment.
We personalize.
And we practice.
Because simple doesn't mean easy.
It means something you can return to again and again.
THE WORK TODAY
Today, I work with people who want to feel more connected to themselves - whether they're moving through a major life transition or simply realizing they've spent too much time living from the neck up.
Some arrive because life has cracked something open.
Others simply want to feel more present, more grounded, and more at home in their own lives.
I don't believe you need to be broken to practice returning.
And I don't believe there is one right way back.
That's why my work is built around practices rather than prescriptions.
We pay attention to what's here.
We explore what helps.
We discover what works for you.
And we practice coming back.
HOW I WORK
Across my work, you'll find the same foundation:
Attention.
Noticing what's actually here
Intention.
Choosing how you want to meet it.
Practice.
Returning again and again until these ways of being become resources you can actually draw on.
Sometimes that looks like movement, breath, and sound in Bend & Breathe.
Sometimes it means identifying and exploring what works for you, in your actual life, and creating a personalized practice through Bend & Breathe: Your Way.
Different doors.
Same invitation:
Return to yourself in real time.
I'M STILL PRACTICING, TOO
I don't stand outside this work as someone who has arrived.
I still have moments when I get pulled into the past.
I still have moments when I rush ahead.
I still have moments when I forget to listen.
The difference is that I know how to notice.
And I know I can return.
That, to me, is the heart of this work.
Not becoming someone who never gets lost.
Becoming someone who knows there is a way back.
YOU CAN RETURN.
You don't need to become someone new.
You don't need to have it all figured out.
You can begin with what is already here.
A breath.
A sensation.
A movement.
A moment of attention.
And then another.
That's where the practice begins.
