Upcoming Events

A Mini-Retreat

Saturday, November 1 - 1:30–5:30 pm

Join us for an afternoon designed to restore your body, calm your mind, and be nurtured by community connection.

Sweetbay instructor Rocky Delaplaine and Vitality Breath Founder Lauren Chelec Cafritz will guide you through restorative yoga and a full therapeutic breath session. These powerful practices will help you release stress, replenish your energy, and find greater balance. We’ll close with sharing and a community tea.

Come gather with a group of beautiful souls: in-person and online. Everyone is welcome.

Sweetbay Yoga | 4853 Cordell Ave, PH-11 (Triangle Towers, 16th floor), Bethesda, MD

Workshop fee: $125

Spaces are limited—save your spot today.

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Blissful Breathing

First Friday of Every Month at 6:15pm

Come experience Blissful Breathing in-person and online on the first Friday of every month.

You’ll experience a conscious connected breath session using sound and gentle movement to create ease and flow in the body and mind.

Next class: Friday, November 7 at 6:15pm. Register at: ​​simonsaysyoga.com

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Vitality Breath Breathwork Retreat

2026 Dates Coming Soon

With all the noise and uncertainty in the world, it’s easy to feel anxious or overwhelmed. During these times, it’s even more important to care for our mind, body, and spirit.

Come experience our rejuvenating and fun Annual Retreat. From the minute you arrive to the moment you leave, you’re celebrated and supported.

Our 5-day retreat focuses on deep personal transformation and includes:

  • Daily breath sessions

  • Water breathe

  • Individual, partner, and group experiential work

  • Crystal bowl sound healing

  • Daily movement

  • Integration in nature

  • Take-home practice

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Facilitator Training

2026 Dates Coming Soon

Our Facilitator Training is designed for anyone looking to become a Vitality Breath Facilitator or deepen your personal practice. This 200-hour program will take your training to the next level.

You will learn to:

  • Identify ineffective breathing patterns

  • Use conscious connected breathing practices to help clients explore, release, and integrate mentally, emotionally and physically

  • Teach healthy breathing skills to individuals and groups

  • Examine issues of trauma recovery, depression, anxiety and addictions through breathwork

  • Use breathwork to enhance your personal growth and development

  • Release core traumas that interfere with your effectiveness as a practitioner

  • Integrate breathwork into your present work

  • Facilitate full breathwork sessions

We will meet once a month for 12 months in both virtual and in-person sessions. Upon completion, you will become a Vitality Breath Apprentice and can start offering breathwork sessions while completing the rest of your training.

More information about our 2026 Level Two and tuition coming soon!

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