YUNA LEE. WELLNESS
Breathwork • Sound • Tea
About Yuna
I offer breathwork, sound healing, and tea practices that support deep rest, emotional release, and reconnection in Santa Barbara, online, and the Joshua Tree area. I create space for the body to soften, regulate, and respond in its own time.
Before this work, I spent many years teaching and researching trauma, literature, and culture. This path gave me a deep understanding of how experience lives in stories, identities, and systems, but also showed me that understanding alone does not always create change.
Approch
My work is rooted in embodiment and mindfulness, supporting a gentle return to the body for those who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or quietly disconnected, especially when thinking, talking, or pushing forward no longer creates change.
Through presence, pacing, and choice, you will be able to reconnect with your body and your feelings and to gently honor what arises.
In each session, you are invited into a space of deep listening. You share, I listen, and I gently guide you to feel and honor what is present in your body.
From Holding Pain to Holding Space
Before I began guiding breathwork, I spent years studying trauma: how it moves through stories, cultures, and generations. I came to understand that while the mind can make meaning, the body often continues to carry what has not yet been felt.
Like many I now work with, I was living a life that appeared whole from the outside, while quietly moving through patterns shaped by earlier experiences. I explored different paths - yoga, meditation, therapy - all of which offered support. And still, something deeper remained.
Breathwork opened a different doorway.
Not through effort, but through allowing.
A way for the body to release what it had been holding, and to return gently to itself.
Sound became part of my integration.
A language beyond words, where care could be expressed through vibration, and the body could settle into a quieter rhythm.
Over time, I felt called back to my roots.
Honoring lineage and tending to what is carried across generations became an essential part of my path. Korean tea ceremony emerged as a practice of discipline and devotion: an embodied way of remembering, of presence, of quiet connection.
This is the foundation of my work.
Each session is guided with care for the nervous system, with attention to pacing, safety, and what is ready to unfold. Nothing is forced. There is no need to push. Healing is allowed to happen in its own time.
I offer breathwork and sound healing for those seeking a deeper kind of clarity. One that is felt, not just understood.
A return to self that is both grounded and gentle.
A space where transformation can happen without losing tenderness
Education & Credentials
Pranayama Breathwork Facilitator
Certification,
San Diego & Joshua Tree, California
Pranayama Breathwork certified & trained by David Elliott and Danielle Herring
Vinyasa Yoga Teacher
Certification,
Yoga Six,
Online
Ph.D. in English,
Michigan State University,
East Lansing, Michigan
B.A. in Eastern and Western Philosophy and English
Ewha Women's University, Seoul, South Korea.
Teaching methodology, asana alignment, pranayama techniques, meditation, anatomy & physiology, assisting, yogic lifestyle, professional ethics, intelligent class design, classical & tantric philosophy, vinyasa, flow sequencing, & teaching practicum.
Specializing in representations of trauma and childhood in culture and literature: trauma theories, diaspora theories, and issues around global capitalism and children.
Worked as a researcher and instructor, and later as an assistant professor at Michigan State Univ.
Focusing on comparative studies of Buddhist and Daoist philosophies & German Idealism.
Exploring Woman's Studies and Feminist Theories with Contemporary American Literature
