Gina Kennedy

I’m Gina Kennedy, founder of Mariposa Healing & Wellness, a trauma-informed Conscious Connected Breathwork facilitator.

After more than 20 years in the corporate world, I transitioned into healing work following my own profound awakening. For over 30 years I lived in survival mode — smiling on the outside while carrying deep pain within. The sudden loss of my beautiful mother to suicide in 2009 shattered my world. She was my best friend: glamorous, funny, intelligent, and full of life. Her passing left me in prolonged grief, which I buried beneath relentless work and people-pleasing patterns.

Years later, in 2021, my body finally said “No.” After pushing myself beyond my limits, I experienced a complete breakdown — heart racing, placed on beta blockers — and was forced to stop. This became my wake-up call. With the support of counselling at Pieta House, transformative teachings, and various healing practices including yoga, meditation, Reiki, and intuitive healing, I slowly unravelled years of conditioning, emotional suppression, and complex trauma.

Through this journey, I learned how unexpressed emotions and old survival patterns become stored in the body, creating stress and dis-ease. I discovered the courage to slow down, listen deeply, and come home to my true self.

In today’s world, so many of us are living busy, highly stressful lives. Some are carrying chronic stress and operating in survival mode without even realising it. Conscious Connected Breathwork is a powerful way to gently release the stress and tension we’re holding in the body, creating more capacity, ease, and resilience in daily life.

My own journey to healing was guided by the butterfly. From the two white butterflies dancing at my best friend’s wedding on the day of my mother’s passing, to repeated synchronicities at pivotal moments — including before my very first conscious connected breathwork session — I felt my mother’s loving presence encouraging me forward. These gentle signs guided me from grief and survival, into awakening and purpose.

Today, I am passionate about supporting others on their healing journeys. As a trained trauma-informed Conscious Connected Breathwork facilitator, I guide people to safely release stored emotions, regulate their nervous system, drop out of constant “doing” mode, and reconnect with their bodies and inner wisdom.

Through 1:1 sessions and group breathwork circles, clients often experience profound release, lightness, clarity, and a renewed sense of inner peace. Many describe finally feeling at home in themselves again.

My own path has taught me that we are not here to endlessly repeat old cycles. We are here to understand them, heal them, and evolve. Conscious Connected Breathwork is a powerful, gentle tool that helps us do exactly that — moving stuck energy, softening armour, and creating space for authentic living.

If you feel ready to slow down, release what no longer serves you and reconnect with your true self, I would be honoured to support you.

With love, light and deep respect for your journey, Gina xox