Third Place Malaga

# 🌬️ Breathwork in Málaga: A Journey of Release, Relaxation & Vitality 🌬️

Welcome! ✨ Join us for a transformative one-hour breathwork session where you'll be gently guided into a profound connection with your body and the present moment.

### 📌 Important! Confirm Your Attendance

📲 Please message me on Whatsapp (number in event banner photo above the lotus flower... don't forget the +34 Spanish country code) to confirm your spot! This helps me plan the session properly & answer any questions you may have. If for some reason you can't reach me come anyway and we'll make space for you :)

Through intentional breathing techniques, you’ll embark on a journey to:
🌿 Release accumulated tension & life stressors
💛 Process difficult or stuck emotions
🧘 Unlock deep relaxation & appreciation for life
Many describe the experience as energizing, grounding, or even cathartic—every session is unique to your personal journey.

Theta State
Breathwork can gently guide you into a theta brainwave state — the “twilight zone” between wake and sleep 🌙✨. In this state, the busy mind quiets, and deeper layers of awareness open up.
Why it’s special:
🧠 Deeper access to the subconscious: Thoughts, emotions, and memories usually hidden can surface more easily.
💖 Emotional release & healing: Because the logical mind quiets, suppressed emotions or traumas can emerge and integrate.
🎨 Heightened creativity & intuition: Many people report insights, visions, or creative downloads.
🌊 State of deep relaxation: The body can release tension, and the nervous system shifts toward parasympathetic (rest & digest).
🔑 Reprogramming limiting beliefs: Since theta is the “language” of the subconscious, affirmations, visualization, or intention-setting can be more effective here.

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### 🔄 Session Breakdown

🔥 ACTIVATION – We begin with a central breathing exercise (which varies each time). Depending on the session, we may explore:

• Energizing techniques (e.g., hyperventilation-based methods)
• Vagus nerve activation for deep nervous system regulation
• Pelvic floor focused breathing
• Gentle, peaceful breathing for relaxation & clarity
• etc... sessions have a different focus each week

Some experience this phase as psychedelic, others as grounding or cathartic or relaxing. It depends on the participant and on the type of breathwork we practice.

🌿 GROUNDING – After activation, we ease into a gentle meditation drawing from techniques like Yoga Nidra & Vipassana body scans.

💨 RELEASE – The facilitator will guide you through affirmations or a meditation, helping you let go of stress, anxiety, and emotional baggage, leaving you feeling peaceful & restored.

💬 INTEGRATION – We close in a sharing circle, where you can reflect, connect, and integrate your experience with the group.

By the end, you’ll feel a deep sense of vitality & tranquility to carry into your daily life, relationships, and personal growth. 🌟

🔹How will you feel during a session? It's hard to say! While I may be facilitating the session, ultimately YOU are in driver's seat of how the experience feels (depending on your emotional state, predisposition to breathwork, capacity to surrender, physiological state that day, etc)

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### 📍 Practical Details

📍 Location – Cozy studio in Málaga Huelin area
🛏️ Comfort – We provide blankets, yoga mats, eye masks & cushions (but feel free to bring your own if you prefer!)
💰 Price – 10€ per session (Cash only!)
🕒 Arrival Time – Please arrive 10-15 minutes early to settle in.
✈️ Please set your phone to airplane mode so it doesn't disturb anyone during the session

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### 🚨 Important Considerations

⚠️ Not recommended if you are:
❌ Pregnant 🤰
❌ Have serious cardiovascular, respiratory, or spinal issues 🫁💓
(Small injuries or lower back pain are not a problem).
If you have any doubts get in touch with me and I'll answer your questions.

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### 🌍 Community & Attendance

📲 Join our active WhatsApp group with many members!
👥 The number of RSVPs on Meetup does not reflect real attendance—we promote across different platforms.
🔹 Most sessions have between 6–15 participants.

📸 Check out our community & past sessions here!

# The Space Between: A Community for Connection, Reflection & Self-Expression

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## What to Expect

✨ The Space Between is a space for authentic connection, deep conversation, self-awareness and meaningful human interaction.
We explore what happens when our inner worlds meet. Each of us brings our own thoughts, emotions, stories, fears, desires, boundaries and ways of seeing the world. When we connect with another person, something happens in the space between us.
How do I relate to you? What happens in me when you speak? How do I respond when I feel uncomfortable, seen, misunderstood, connected or vulnerable?
We use interactive exercises, guided discussions, partner work, group practices and embodiment to explore these questions together.

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## Why "The Space Between"?

The name has a few layers.
There is the space between self and others: the relationship, interaction and communication that emerges when two inner worlds meet.
And there is the literal space between people in the circle. We aren't simply a collection of individuals doing personal work side by side. The relationships and dynamics that emerge between us become part of the exploration.
The group is therefore less about working on yourself in isolation, and more about discovering yourself through relationship.

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## Core Elements

Active Listening & Presence – Practice being fully present with yourself and others, listening beyond simply waiting for your turn to speak.
Expressive & Reflective Exercises – Explore different themes through prompts, questions and exercises that invite reflection, honesty and self-expression.
Body-Based Awareness – Notice what happens in the body during interaction and explore non-verbal forms of communication and connection. We also work with voice, sound and movement.
Empathy & Relating Dynamics – Practice seeing and being seen, expressing yourself honestly, and becoming more aware of how we affect one another.
Group & Partner Work – Move between one-on-one conversations, smaller exercises and full-group experiences, allowing different kinds of connection to emerge.

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## The Atmosphere & Our Vision

The Space Between draws inspiration from philosophy, psychology and conscious communication, as well as approaches such as Authentic Relating, Nonviolent Communication, circling, family constellations, embodiment practices and a wide range of books, workshops, conversations and life experience.
Our sessions are structured but playful. Rather than following one fixed format every time, we explore different themes and practices, giving each meetup its own character while contributing to a broader exploration of connection and self-awareness.
We aim to create a space that is consensual, respectful and non-judgmental, where people can experiment with different ways of relating while maintaining their own boundaries.

### Building Community

This is also about creating a strong and welcoming community in Málaga. Familiar faces, new connections, shared experiences and gradually developing trust are all part of what makes the space work.
You don't need to arrive with a particular worldview or philosophy. You don't need to be "spiritual," and spirituality isn't the focus of the group. The previous name, Sacred Connections, reflected one possible interpretation of this work, but we felt it placed too much emphasis on the spiritual side of things.
The Space Between is intended to be open to people with very different perspectives, whether spiritual, non-spiritual, somewhere in between, or simply uninterested in labels.

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## Our Sessions

Our meetups rotate through different themes and formats. Examples include:

1. Topic Exploration Circles – Explore a particular theme through facilitated questions, exercises and group sharing. Themes might include boundaries, expression, vulnerability, communication, relationships or identity.
2. Authentic Connections – Explore presence-based practices and Authentic Relating exercises that invite curiosity, openness and deeper human connection.
3. Voice & Creative Expression – Explore voice, sound, song and other forms of creative expression as ways of connecting with ourselves and others.
4. Honest Conversation – Slow down and make space for deeper or more vulnerable conversations, with an emphasis on listening rather than advice-giving or fixing.
5. Storytelling & Sharing – Use personal stories and creative formats to explore experiences, perspectives and the ways we make meaning of our lives.
6. Embodiment & Awareness – Explore the connection between our internal experience, our bodies and our interactions with others through movement, awareness and non-verbal practices.

The exact format changes from session to session, but the underlying thread remains the same: exploring ourselves and each other through the space we create together.

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## Language & Accessibility

🇬🇧 English is the main working language. Spanish speakers are very welcome, and many attendees are bilingual.
You don't need previous experience with any of the practices we explore. Each session is designed so that you can participate at your own level.

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## A Note on Vulnerability & Personal Growth

Some sessions involve personal sharing, emotional exploration or vulnerability. You are always free to choose your level of participation and to maintain your own boundaries.
This is a community and exploration space, not therapy or a substitute for professional mental health support. If you know that deep emotional work or certain forms of interpersonal exploration are likely to be triggering for you, please consider whether the format is appropriate for you at this time.

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## Practical Details

💸 Contribution: 10€ per session
⌚ When: Mondays, every two weeks, 20:30–22:30
📍 Where: Espacio Bohemia, Málaga

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## Join the Community

The Space Between is part of the wider Third Place Málaga community, where we bring together people interested in connection, movement, creativity, self-exploration and meaningful social experiences.
Join us for a session, meet some people, and see what happens in the space between. 🌿

🇬🇧 Welcome to the vibrant world of Improv Theatre in Málaga!
We focus mainly on short-form (game-based) improvisation—think Whose Line Is It Anyway?, where we create scenes, stories, and imagined worlds through a series of fun, fast-paced mini-games.