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Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical, nursing, or mental health advice. While I am a former forensic nurse and nurse faculty, I am not practicing nursing or providing clinical care through this podcast or Aspasia. This content is not a substitute for professional medical or mental health treatment — please consult a licensed provider for your individual needs, and seek emergency care if you are in crisis.
In this episode of the Michiana Hivecast, we sit down with Leanna Alwine, founder of The Aspasia Connection, a somatic breathwork facilitator whose path into this work began in one of the most demanding corners of healthcare, forensic nursing. Leanna brings a rare combination of clinical training, deeply personal healing, and a gift for making the science of the nervous system feel accessible, human, and alive.
What You Will Learn in This Episode:
- From Forensic Nurse to Breathwork Facilitator: How years of working with people in crisis shaped Leanna’s understanding of how the body holds what the mind cannot always process.
- The Body Keeps Score: What her clinical background taught her about trauma, stress responses, and the body’s quiet wisdom.
- Doing Her Own Work: Why Leanna’s approach is grounded not just in study, but in her own lived experience with nervous system regulation.
- Creating Safe Containers: What actually goes into holding space for real rest, and what quietly breaks it.
- The Aspasia Connection: The story behind the name and the philosophy that anchors her entire practice.
- Breathe to Understand. Breathe to Restore: A look at her upcoming workshop, which pairs nervous system education with a guided yin restorative breath session so your body gets to feel what your mind just learned.
Why You Should Listen:
Whether you are curious about breathwork, navigating stress or burnout, or simply ready to understand your own nervous system a little better, this conversation meets you right where you are. Leanna has a way of making the science feel like a conversation and the experience feel like coming home.
Join Leanna This Saturday:
Breathe to Understand. Breathe to Restore. Workshop
July 11, 2026 | 11:00 am to 1:00 pm
A Healing Oasis, 714 E. Jefferson Blvd, South Bend
Connect with Leanna and The Aspasia Connection:
Email: LeAnna@theaspasiaconnection.com
Phone: (574) 532-7279
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🎶by Gary Cope
