Breathing Through Vulnerability

This workshop offers a gentle space to explore how paying attention—to breath, to sound, and to the subtle sensations of the body—can help us navigate moments of overwhelm and return to a grounded sense of presence.

The session opens with a live performance that traces the movement of breath as sound, inviting participants to notice how listening shapes awareness. Following this, you will be guided through a breathing and listening practice that encourages a slower pace of attention—one that brings the mind back into conversation with the body.

These simple gestures of noticing create a space where clarity can surface: the warmth of air moving through the chest, the vibrations of a distant sound, and the way stillness can soften tension.

We will close with a small-group reflection, offering a moment to speak from this quieter place and to recognize the shared experience of finding steadiness together.

No prior experience is needed—only a willingness to arrive as you are.

Image credit: Shengzi Hu

About the Workshop Facilitator

Shengzi Hu is a visual artist currently studying the MA Contemporary Photography: Practices and Philosophies program at Central Saint Martins. Her practice extends photographic thinking into sound, the body, and spatial experience, using these mediums to question how perception is structured and where its limits lie.

Guided by long-term Buddhist practice and shaped by her lived experience with ADHD, she approaches art as a way of illuminating what usually remains unseen. Her work investigates the blind spots embedded in perception—what exists beyond the reach of habitual attention or the constraints of the human senses—seeking truths that slip between image, space, and embodied presence.

Instagram: @shengzi.hu

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About this series of events

Flowing through: a workshop festival

Monday 01 & Tuesday 02 December 2025

‘Flowing through: a festival of workshops’ is a UAL-wide Academic Support project, co-ordinated by Adam Ramejkis and Natasha Sabatini and produced in partnership with Two Temple Place. All of the workshops respond to themes related to vulnerability, resilience, identity and emotional well-being - themes that form part of ‘The weight of being’, the next exhibition taking place at Two Temple Place from January 2026 .

Free and open to all. Booking essential.