Somatic Journeys for Emotional Healing with BreakThrough Circle

Somatic Journeys

for Emotional Healing

& Nervous System Integration

Facilitated 1-on-1 sessions

to help you shift stuck emotional patterns

with James Mayfield-Smith

Using breathwork, somatic awareness, parts dialogue & guided inner work, we help you return to clarity, connection & choice, from the inside out.

Cultivate YOUR BreakThrough Moment

Hello, I'm James Mayfield-Smith. I’m a Somatic BreakThrough Facilitator. I specialize in helping people work directly with emotional triggers, somatic blocks, and nervous system overwhelm—right in the moment when they arise.

This is not therapy. It’s deep, body-based inner work that helps you feel what your system is trying to tell you. We use breath-led altered states that make inner work easier, parts dialogue that surfaces core issues, and real-time somatic tracking to follow the thread from surface trigger to the deeper wisdom stored in the body.

When we listen with attuned ears, your system reveals what it’s ready to release. I can help you get unstuck fast. And I can teach you how to get unstuck on your own, too.

This work blends cutting-edge neuroscience, highly effective shamanic practices, psychedelic integration tools & the kind of inner work that our souls long for. It is trauma-informed without pathologizing, intuitive within a structured process, mystical and also practical...and radically effective for those ready to meet themselves at depth.

Meet the BreakThrough Circle Community

We’re honored to support healers, sensitives, seekers, intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and cultural pioneers—people who are ready to feel more whole, more alive, and more aligned with their true self.

James’ work has touched many lives—clients who continue to walk with us as cherished members of the BreakThrough Circle community. You can hear from a few of us by watching the 3 minute video below.

BreakThrough Circle 1-on-1, Group Programs & Retreats

James' current focus is on his 1-on-1 facilitation work and his special projects. He isn't offering public group programs at this time. To hire James for yourself, for your relationship, family or private group, virtually or at a privat retreat, contact James' assistant at [email protected].

Experience the Shift

Whether you're navigating anxiety, burnout, old trauma, or a sense of disconnection from your purpose—you don't have to stay stuck.

Through Somatic Journey sessions, you'll learn to:

Hear your body’s inner messages
Find clarity around stuck emotional patterns
Restore calm and alleviate anxiety
Build a grounded sense of inner safety
Ease physical tension through nervous system awareness
Break free from people-pleasing and over-giving
Strengthen your boundaries and confidence in relationships
Reclaim your authentic personal power
Gently heal old wounds without reliving the trauma
Begin resolving the effects of childhood emotional pain

These are not just outcomes—they're invitations. This work can open the door to a new way of being.

Who are you beyond the Emotional Loops?

If you’re like many people, you’ve made real progress. You’ve done the mindset work. You’ve learned to show up with courage. You may even understand what needs to change.

And yet, there’s that one persistent pattern that keeps resurfacing. The one that makes you question your growth, dulls your energy, or blocks your deeper fulfillment. You've likely tried strategies that offered temporary relief, but somehow, the cycle continues. Some contrasting energies within you just can't seem to align with what's best for your well-being, leaving you feeling afraid that you may never reach your full potential.

This isn't a failure of willpower. It's a result of trying to think your way through what lives deeper...in your body, your breath, your nervous system.

That’s where this work begins.

Somatic-based modalities are uniquely capable of reaching the unconscious patterns stored in the body. When we combine somatic awareness with breath-induced altered states, parts dialogue, and skillful facilitation, we create optimal conditions for emotional release and deep inner healing—without relying on plant medicine or overwhelming interventions.

This is precise, attuned work. And it changes lives.

It's not our fault!

We can't resolve our core life wounds through willpower alone. We're dealing with unconscious forces that reside within our nervous system. We need to get below our conscious awareness to reach them.

This is where somatic-based modalities come into play. Body-based tools are able to reach these emotional issues that live within the body and nervous system.

When we combine a somatic approach with natural altered states journey work (we use breathwork to get there), we create an optimal environment for emotional healing. We can unlock benefits similar to those offered by plant medicines, without subjecting ourselves to their potentially adverse effects.

Add some highly effective shadow work processes, structured BreakThrough tools, a shamanic initiatory lens and some skillful facilitation magic to the inquiry...and we find ourselves starting to feel very different...fast.

James is a seasoned Somatic BreakThrough Coach who has facilitated breakthroughs since 2006. His expertise lies in helping people FIND, FEEL & HEAL from a range of life struggles through somatic and emotional healing techniques.

Curious? To learn more or to experience the magic firsthand, come check out what we're up to!

What Happens in a Somatic Journey Session?

Each session is a carefully held container, structured to meet your nervous system with respect, curiosity & skill.

Sessions can take the form of:

A focused 85-minute virtual session (Zoom or phone)
A 6-hour personal retreat session (remote or in-person)

Session Flow:

Orientation & Intention Setting (20 min)
You’ll share what’s present, where you feel stuck, and what you’re longing for. Together, we co-create a journey arc aligned with your goals.
Preparation for Altered States Work (10 min)
James introduces breathwork safety, guidance, and the tools we’ll use for navigating inner experience.
Guided Movement & Breathwork (10 min)
The movement & breath patterns amplify your interoception—your ability to feel what’s happening in your body—and supports a natural, gentle altered state which makes inner work easier to feel. This is your entry point to the deeper somatic journey.
Somatic Tracking & Body Mapping (10 min)
We map the sensations that emerge and identify which thoughts or triggers activate them. These patterns—tight throat, heavy chest, frozen belly—become doorways to the deeper wisdom of your system.
Parts Dialogue & Emotional Processing (20 min)
We engage in a structured inner dialogue with the voices, parts, or energies that surface: the critic, the protector, the child, the exile, the survivor. These dialogues often bring clarity, release, or profound insight.
Integration & Reflection (10-20 min)
We close with integration—tracking how the journey shifted you, what you discovered, and how it applies to your life. Sometimes, we enter a second refined round of the journey to go even deeper.

Safety & Personalized Adaptation

If you have a history of heart conditions or traumatic overwhelm, we’ll adapt the breathwork protocol to support your system. This work is never forced—it’s collaborative, respectful, and paced with care. It's designed to give you the level of intensity that you desire and that you are ready for.

What’s Possible in These Journeys?

Find clarity from your unconscious in surprising and grounded ways
Release long-held emotions stored in the body
Dialogue with inner voices in a safe, structured way
Reclaim energy and personal power that’s been blocked or splintered
Shift deep emotional narratives at the nervous system level
Exit the freeze, the fawn, the shutdown—and return to embodied choice

If you’re ready to explore, we’re here to guide you.

[Schedule your first session →]

Somatic work

Once in the journey space, you and James will map out your somatic landscape with a Vipassana body scan...noting all the sensations you can sense and feel. These become very important as the journey progresses.

Once you've mapped the sensations of your internal landscape, we "activate" your nervous system with thoughts on topics that are core to your goals, especially your fears & frustrations. These thoughts tend to cause a cascade of sensations to arise in you, correlated to each issue:

You ponder that one problem and you feel a literal pain in your neck or a heaviness in your shoulders
You think about your boss & immediately you feel frozen, with a block in your throat and a fear of being unable to speak clearly
You dwell on that embarassing moment & feel heat arising in your chest and a feeling of wanting to hide
You consider your next career move & feel a cold, heavy dread in your lower belly

The breathwork & body scan literally supercharge your interoceptive skills, making it much easier to FEEL the subtle wisdom of your nervous system.

Most humans carry our unresolved distress & our deep wisdom in our nervous system...in our BODY.

Once you find the specific body parts & sensations that arise from certain thoughts, then we can attune to the sensations & use this channel for inner dialogue.

We can literally chat with the inner parts of you that think & feel in certain ways relevant to your issue.

Much can be accomplished in this empowered space

It's a potent crossroads where magic can happen on the emotional plane:

You can find deep wisdom & clarity from your unconscious. It shows up often during journeys.
You can feel the hurts & stresses held in the body in ways that release them. These commonly avoided sensations contain messages of wisdom that we can integrate, which helps release the tension and promote emotional flow.
You can somatically explore the mind-emotion-body connection in real time.
You can listen to & dialogue with a variety of powerful energies (critical voice, hurt child, angry teen, hurt lover) in surprisingly effective and healing ways.
You can release stuck, stagnant energy. You will literally move energy in your body in somatically more intelligent ways that are deeply nourishing and healthy.
You can release old stories and affirm new ways of seeing and being in the world.

We conclude the guided journey and move into a phase of integration of the journey, where you can process and understand your experiences and what you encountered.

Somatic facilitation deep dive

Sometimes you may do a second, more precisely attuned journey (30 minutes)

Using the clarity gained from the first journey, we refine our focus and our questioning during a second round of the journey. Typically, this second round is more powerful than the first, because it's far more attuned.

We follow up with a discussion, allowing opportunity again to share experiences and insights.

Explore impact of the work, immediate applications, and next steps.
Discuss the work's impact and share how we can immediately incorporate it into your life.
We end with closing the journey session container.

We heal at depth from the inside out. These sessions go profound & deep, while also keeping a spirit of playful fun & caring encouragement. If you're looking for a life-affirming facilitation and coaching for your journey, you've found it.

Schedule now for an exploration of self-discovery and growth!

Have you experienced the rapid results that are possible with somatic journey sessions?

Facilitated Somatic Journey: $100 intro session

Introductory Somatic BreakThrough Session

$100

PRECISE, TAILORED FACILITATION FOR YOUR SPECIFIC NEEDS

James' clients benefit from a private and focused environment for their inner work.

This 85 min full session offers a powerful BreakThrough Facilitation session via zoom or phone. James is a skilled Somatic BreakThrough Facilitator who will support you with precise facilitation focused on your specific needs.

Any stress & trauma held in your body takes up space and narrows the channel that allows your full expression to shine forth. Precise somatic facilitation gets to the root of these stresses, traumas and places where you tense up from life. Good facilitation engages these stress points in ways that cultivate deep healing. When you do this work, you leave feeling lighter, more free & more like the YOU that you know is possible.

Limit one reduced-price “Somatic BreakThrough Dialogue Journey” intro per person. If you've already had an intro session, please see the options below.

I'm in for the intro journey

Ongoing Facilitation

FOUR SESSIONS via Zoom

$997

DEEP EMOTIONAL HEALING & LIFE INTEGRATION

FOUR 85 min sessions with a master facilitator can bring big results.

This is the package that most of James' clients choose. You can cancel anytime and it includes a Money-Back Guarantee. If you aren't happy with the results by the end of your second session, you can request a refund.

You get FOUR Powerful 85-min BreakThrough Journey sessions (one session per week, which is $175 per hour...standard for highly trained somatic coaches). BONUS: When you are a weekly client, you get real-time text support at no additional charge. This is a game-changer for those triggered moments. Progress speeds up a lot when you have a BreakThrough Coach on speed dial.

FOUR One-on-One journeys

SIX HOUR Deep Dive Virtual Personal Retreat Journey

$997

PRECISE, TAILORED FACILITATION FOR YOUR SPECIFIC NEEDS

If you feel overwhelmed, stuck, or at a crossroads, this is the catalyst and sacred container you need to break through to a different state of being. In this six hour somatic personal retreat, you will experience a powerfully faciltated BreakThrough session.

Sessions feature guided journey work, nervous system integration, inner child healing, mother wound/father wound healing, core wound work, emotional healing of fear, anger, grief & shame, inner safety cultivation (to reduce anxiety & overwhelm), inner power development, deep insight training, authentic relating tools and conflict resolution for relationships & navigating life transitions gracefully...All gently facilitated to your specific needs.

Individual journey

Want help choosing the right option for you?

Schedule a free 25 min zoom conversation

You can reach out to James or Elena for assistance making the best choice for you and your situation.

Elena Lake

@relic_radiation on Twitter

James Mayfield Smith

Somatic BreakThrough Coach

@JamesMayfield on Twitter

James@BreakThroughCircle.com

Text: 816. 645. 2600

www.BreakThroughCircle.com

Meet James

James' extensive training, caring heart, curious mind, deep creativity, and playful spirit enable him to facilitate deep and lasting change in people's lives.

James' early life experiences of physical abuse, emotional neglect, social anxiety, experiences with bullies, teen pregnancy, and relational trauma...and his journey of healing...make him ideally suited for this work. An early mid-life crisis (17 years ago, in his early thirties) and a year of deep grief & healing required him to seek out support to go deep to resolve his unmet emotional needs. Somatic work changed him at depth. At 50, he's now living his purpose offering these tools to others seeking emotional healing so that they, too, can offer their gifts to the world in a way that's aligned to their inner wisdom.

Meet Elena

Elena is our social media strategist and community member. Elena has used somatic nervous system regulation tools for the past 2 1/2 years to transform her own nervous system regulation and attachment patterns. She's an MIT-grad turned Esalen-trained bodyworker who understands the heavy toll that stress takes on bodies and spirits. Encouraged by the success she's found with these tools, she is an advocate for this work. Elena offers massage, nervous system support & emotional replenishment for clients in the SF Bay area (and occasionally in Asheville & NYC). Learn more about Elena at www.elenalakebodywork.com

Meet Amy

Amy is our FB Platform Manager, community member & enthusiastic evangelist. Amy has used Somatic Breathwork Dialogue, Inner Child Work & other BreakThrough tools for the past 5 years. Her soul journey has led her to service as a life guide & coach, as a sound healer and facilitator of journeys & retreats, as the podcast co-host of Magical Mystical Journeys & most recently, as co-author of Find Your Wings, a book of inspirational stories to uncover your calling. live your purpose & share your light with the world. Find her at communityasmedicine.com

Meet Song

As an energy healing facilitator, healing vocalist, and voice activation guide, Song brings a grounded, radiant presence to her role as Creative Assistant to the team. She weaves Earth-based ritual, somatic voice healing, nervous system awareness, and energetic attunement into powerful pathways of reconnection with voice and the reclamation of pleasure and wholeness. Through one-on-one and group work in vocal activation, self-healing, sacred ritual, and communion, she serves the remembrance of our innate aliveness and the embodiment of the soul’s truth.