J A M E S I S L A N D · C H A R L E S T O N
Welcome to
Spaces for Presence
We're Hampus and Samantha. From our home on James Island and around Charleston — and online — we offer breath journeys, coaching, and facilitation, for people, couples, and organizations.
Most of our work begins organically: a conversation, a meeting.
Welcome to reach out, or simply start below.
Guided Breath
A guided breathwork journey — to release, unwind, and come home.
Breath is the most direct mirror we have — the way we breathe reflects the way we think, feel, and act.
Tension held in the body-mind prevents breath from moving freely — and this is precisely what we work with. In this journey we work with clearing that tension, and reconnecting with the spacious, free way of relating with ourselves and life that is already here.
Whether you're searching for more aliveness, releasing what's been weighing on you, or drawn to something deeper than you can yet name — this is for you. Not to be fixed or healed, but to be met. And through that meeting, to remember what has always been here underneath.
Breathwork is as direct a method as there is — working at the level of body, mind, and subtle energy simultaneously. Guided breathing allows stress to release, deeply rooted patterns to unwind, and a connection with your own inner aliveness to open.
We begin by connecting with where you are and what's alive right now. You are then guided through a journey of connected breathing — alive and unhurried, following the rhythm your body and breath are calling for.
Emotions, memories, or simply deep relaxation may surface. All of it is welcome. None of it is required. We end in stillness, with a short conversation to let what happened settle.
Come comfortable, and avoid a heavy meal beforehand. No experience needed — the breath knows what to do.
Deeper breathing is welcoming for most people, but not for every body in every season. If you're pregnant, or living with a heart condition, epilepsy, or certain other conditions, please read our contraindications before booking — in many cases we can simply adapt the session to fit you.
Also for couples, groups, and organizations — connect here.
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A Pause
Many who find their way here are carrying more than they let on. A season of too much. A question that won't go away. A sense that something needs to shift but isn't yet clear. Or simply the need for a real pause — not a productive one.
This is a space to set down the shoulds, the have-tos, and the musts for a moment and listen to what's actually alive in you. You'll be met and gently guided by someone equally at home in the practical and the depth — whether what's present is stress, a life question, grief, awakening, or something harder to name.
There's no fixed format. Each session moves with where you are today — slowing down, breathing, letting what wants to surface come. Everything is welcome. Nothing is required.
You leave lighter and clearer — not because anything was fixed, but because something was finally met.
Also for couples, groups, and organizations — connect here.
An unhurried space with room to land.
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Coaching Partnership
A partner for the inner and outer work.
For you called to work with an experienced coach who moves between the personal, professional, and spiritual — not as separate tracks, but as one integrated life.
We work toward what matters: clarity on a decision, momentum through a transition, or simply releasing what has been quietly holding things back. Sometimes we arrive with a clear goal. Sometimes the work is more open — listening for what wants to move. Both are welcome.
We meet every one to four weeks, 60-75 minutes at a time, for as long as it serves. Some partnerships run three months. Some run years.
Conversation is at the center — with breath, reflection, and inner work woven in when useful. The pace is unhurried. The depth is real.
The free exploration session is exactly that: we meet, we talk, and we both sense whether it fits.
For events, talks, or consulting — connect here.
About us
In our view, what we're all seeking, underneath it all, is to come back to ourselves — at peace with the moment, at home in the body. We live in a world that rewards moving fast and looking forward, and somewhere in the hurry we lose touch with the one place life actually happens: here.
What we feel called to offer through Spaces for Presence are moments of connection and simple authenticity — meeting ourselves, one another, and the breath. When that happens, balance, transformation, well-being, and even wisdom tend to follow on their own. They were never missing; they were waiting.
We've come to this view after years of exploring far more elaborate practices. What remains is the simplest thing there is: the direct, felt experience of this moment. There's an old Swedish saying about going across the river to fetch water. Our work is the other way — going straight to the water by entering the present moment together.
Hampus has spent about a decade in what's sometimes called inner work — mindfulness, breathwork, coaching, yoga, plant medicine, non-duality — alongside a career in organizations working with transformational leadership, facilitation, and design. He is a certified transformational coach and faculty at the Center for Transformational Coaching, integrative breathwork facilitator, and a 500-hour yoga teacher.
Samantha is currently spending most of her days caring for our daughter — its own practice of presence. When the moment allows, she joins sessions and experiences to facilitate and assist.
