Lana PoRTer is a neuroscientist, educator, researcher, and facilitator. HER MISSION IS MAKING NEUROSCIENCE RELEVANT TO THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE. She researches altered states of consciousness, teaches professionals about the nervous system & guides science-based EVOLUTIONARY breathwork sessions for groups and 1:1 clients.
Brain & Breath
a LECTURE on the neurobiology of
BREATH & CONSCIOUSNESS
OCTOBER 1, 2026
7:00-9:00 PM UK TIME
$44
The breath is the pacemaker of experience, the pattern generator of our perceptual awareness and consciousness.
When I say consciousness, I’m not talking about a floaty abstract of elusive intelligence, I’m speaking specifically to the brains state of perceptual awareness and cognition that generates our experience of being alive; our experience of ourselves, of our memories, our experience of others and the world around us.
This rendition of Brain & Breath, I will specifically cover the neurobiology of using the breath as a tool to access transformative states of conscoiusness, and the healing capacity of these states when accessed through intentional self regulation of the body.
This session will have a particular focus on how high ventilation breathwork, volitionally increasing the respiratory rate, can open up altered states of consciousness and allow us plasticity in renegotiating our relationship to agency, self regulation, and emotional processing.
This session is for anyone who practices, facilitates, or has ever experienced transformative states of consciousness with breathwork who would like to deepen their understanding of their own bodies capacity to be in an intentional relationship to consciousness.
BREATHE WITH ME
NOW BOOKING 1:1 PRIVATE breathwork sessions in london
UPCOMING workshops
Breath Lab
OCTOBER 11; 2:30-4:30pm
Learn how to use your breath as your secret weapon for self regulation and to go deep into the truth of your experience. 75 minute guided Conscious Connected Breathwork Session
The Life Centre, Notting Hill, London
con.spire
sundays; 6-8pm
Conspire(v): con (with, together) + spirare (to breathe), breathing together. Weekly breathwork session for community building and psyop deprogramming.
K5 Studios, Manor House, London
dying breath
August 6; 7-9PM
How we live is how we prepare for our final liberation, death. This workshop with explore the neuroscience of the relationship between life, breath, death, and consciousness.
Stueck, London
WHAT IS THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM?
This short lecture clip provides a general overview of the functions of the nervous system, particularly the autonomic nervous system & its evolutionary origins. .
about
I’m Lana Porter, I am a neuroscientist, educator, researcher, and breath-worker based in London, England.
I am currently a PhD student researching the mechanisms of altered states of consciousness accessed through high ventilation breathing practices at the Max Planck Institute and University College London (UCL). My current research focuses on the physiological and embodied dimensions of consciousness, trauma, and resiliency, as well as psychopharmacological mechanisms of circular breathing.
My mission is the sacred marriage work of the scientist and the mystic; building the bridge between modern neuroscience research and mystical practices for the integration of the impulses of life and death.
In December 2011, I had a near death experience which opened a perceptual veil between the realms of life and death; since then, I discovered that my experiences with circular breathwork have kept me in connection with this portal. I’m motivated to understand the relationship between respiration, metabolism, consciousness, life, and death.
I am a lifelong student of systems, with a BA in History and Gender Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and an MSc Neuroscience from Kings College London, where I specialized in developmental and evolutionary neurobiology. I trained as a breathwork facilitator with Alchemy of Breath, and Systemic Constellations with the Centre for Systemic Constellations in London.
