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Candy Dowson is a Functional Breath Coach and Teacher, Rebirth Breathworker, Somatic Practitioner, and Independent Consultant. She works with clients, groups and organisations through Arras Healing since 2021. She previously worked in the public sector, NHS, and voluntary sector in transformational programmes as well as in equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives. She has served as a tutor in breathwork for the Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body (CPCAB), supporting new breath coaches and breathworkers UK and internationally to train and develop their practice.

Candy’s approach is grounded in trauma-informed leadership and somatic-based theory and practice. She offers a unique, personalised and holistic approach to trauma healing, empowering clients to befriend their bodies, their breath, and their nervous systems. A long-time student of international trauma facilitator Thomas Hübl PhD, Candy is a professional member of the International Breathwork Foundation and well-respected amongst her peers in the field. 

 
As part of her long-standing commitment to a trauma-informed world, Candy facilitates numerous peer groups for coaches, therapists, teachers, breathworkers, somatic practitioners and counsellors, some of which have a global membership. These cover themes such as feminine/women's trauma, war trauma, masculinity, decolonisation, identity, spirituality, and breathwork. 

Since February 2024 she has led a new peer group in the exploration of cultural and collective trauma held in European, British and Irish identities, supporting a community of peers from healing professions to form around this. Most recently, Candy is setting up ancestral healing spaces across her home county of Yorkshire, UK. This is to explore the collective healing potential of such spaces across local communities.