{"id":707569,"date":"2026-01-20T01:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T01:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/707569\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T01:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T01:21:10","slug":"breathwork-class-provides-tonic-for-blue-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/707569\/","title":{"rendered":"Breathwork class provides tonic for Blue Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Manchester-based breathwork coach has offered a remedy to the gloom associated with Blue Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matt Bromley holds an hour-long breathwork class every Monday at 7:30pm in Castlefield \u2013 Breathwork with Matt \u2013 which he said will help battle the winter blues.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Monday falls on the third Monday of January and is said to be the most depressing day of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Bromley said: \u201cA one-hour breathwork session, it\u2019s a gift to yourself to just to be with yourself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s completely non-competitive, non-judgmental.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blue Monday has been dismissed by many as unhelpful pseudoscience, a marketing gimmick created in 2005 by Sky Travel Shop to sell more trips abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Bromley said: \u201cIt [Blue Monday] can help to kind of normalize talking about\u00a0health and our well-being, which is a real positive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The breathwork class begins with ten minutes of functional breathing, followed by 50 minutes of conscious connected breathwork.<\/p>\n<p>Bromley\u2019s teaching is trauma informed.<\/p>\n<p>Bromley said: \u201cThe body will hold onto that trauma, and it usually does that through tension.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese emotions and traumas that are held in the body can be released.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bromley has begun teaching breathwork in schools.<\/p>\n<p>Bromley said: \u201c17-year-old lads, you know, tend to be about the most sceptical\u00a0with this sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, when you start getting good feedback from them, you know, you\u2019re onto something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The third Monday of January is also national hugging day in Finland.<\/p>\n<p>The suicide prevention charity Samaritans have created a fresh take on the day, rebranding it Brew Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers will hand out tea bags and offer to chat with people over a hot drink.<\/p>\n<p>The link for tickets: https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/breathwork-with-matt-tickets-1573714996919<\/p>\n<p>Featured Photo: Matt Bromley\u2019s breathwork class in action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Manchester-based breathwork coach has offered a remedy to the gloom associated with Blue Monday. Matt Bromley holds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[50008,748,393,4884,18799,105,2465,16,15,4950,5088],"class_list":{"0":"post-707569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-breathwork","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-greater-manchester","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-manchester","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wellbeing","18":"tag-yoga"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115924807404136340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}