Toronto Breathwork / Studio / About
A studio built
by breath, water,
and time.
FOUNDED
Toronto · 2020
FOUNDER
Jeyda Deyna
LANGUAGES
English · Français
— The Founder
Sailor. Designer.
Breath practitioner.
Toronto Breathwork is led by Jeyda Deyna — a multidisciplinary practitioner whose work draws on twenty years across professional sailing, communication design, visual art, and the science of breath.
Jeyda began sailing in 2008 as an instructor and quickly moved into competition — racing internationally and training with the all-women's Canadian Olympic Match Race team. The decade on the water taught her, before any breathwork certification did, what calm under pressure actually looks like.
A graduate with honours from the RTA School of Media at Toronto Metropolitan University, she moved through architecture and design collaboration in Toronto, then spent three years in France — painting, selling artwork, and reconnecting to making things by hand. That arc — from race tactician to designer to artist — is the studio's spine.
"I connect with breathwork through my inner wisdom and physical experience first — and then I make sense of it with my mind."
In 2020 she integrated breathwork into her creative practice and the project that became Calliope Journey — earning recognition from CBC Radio-Canada for the approach. She subsequently completed YOGABODY®'s science-based breathwork certification in the United States, and has been guiding individuals, teams, and brands ever since.
Multilingual and fluent in French, Jeyda works with leaders, athletes, artists, and entire teams — and is the founder of Creative Clarity Convos, a podcast on flow, breath, and the long arc of a creative life. The studio is small and deliberate, and the work is held close.
A short history.
2008
2014
2020
Sailing instructor. Then sailor.
Jeyda begins teaching sailing, competing internationally, and training with the all-women's Canadian Olympic Match Race team. Two decades of on-water work begins here.
Two years working with architects and designers across the city, developing the spatial sensibility that would later define the studio's aesthetic and corporate program design.
Breathwork joins the creative practice as the project that would become Calliope Journey. Recognized by CBC Radio-Canada — twice — for the integrative approach to flow, breath, and creative practice on the Toronto Islands.
Completes the science-based breathwork certification with YOGABODY® in the United States. Toronto Breathwork takes its current shape — creative, embodied, evidence-informed.
Programming with Massive Music, Andreu World Toronto, Carrot Common, and Arterial Toronto. Corporate sessions and creative team activations move from word-of-mouth to a deliberate practice.
Three pillars, international retreats, corporate programs, a podcast, and a small community of practitioners across art, design, music, sailing, and film. Still answering most emails personally.
— 02 / Offerings
2022
2026
Toronto design collaborations.
2023
Where you find us today.
Breathwork integrates. CBC takes notice.
YOGABODY® certification.
Brand collaborations begin.
— 03 / In The World
Press &
recognition.
—RADIO · FRENCH
—RADIO · FRENCH
Creative Clarity Convos
LISTEN →
CBC Radio-Canada
Featured twice in interviews en français on the integrative approach to creative retreats and breath practice on the Toronto Islands.
Jeyda's podcast on flow, breath, and the long arc of a creative life. Conversations with artists, athletes, founders, and the people who shape how we think.
LISTEN ON SPOTIFY →
—TRAINING · OLYMPIC
Olympic Match Race Team
Trained with the all-women's Canadian Olympic Match Race team. The performance-under-pressure work that became the spine of every program
SAILING SINCE 2008
—CERTIFICATION
YOGABODY® Certified
Science-based breathwork certification, completed in the United States. Honours graduate of the RTA School of Media, Toronto Metropolitan University.
EVIDENCE-INFORMED PRACTICE
What we hold to, quietly and consistently.
i.
Functional before theatrical.
If we can't tell you why a practice works, we don't run it. The work is grounded in physiology, real coaching, and lived experience — not in atmospherics.
iii.
Access is a design problem.
Pay-what-you-can community sessions every month — never marketed as charity, never gated. The premium programs fund the open ones, by design.
v.
The boat is real.
When the practice goes on water, it's with certified charter partners — Transport Canada inspected vessels, licensed skippers, real seamanship. The standards on the water are not adjacent to the wellness work — they are the wellness work.
ii.
iv.
Small, on purpose.
This could be larger. By design, it isn't. Smaller groups, fewer events, a calendar held close — so the work stays close to the person doing it.
Slow partnerships, always.
We work with brands rarely and only when the values align. We have turned down more partnerships than we have accepted. We will keep doing this.
vi.
I answer my own emails.
You almost always reach Jeyda directly. That is, and intends to remain, the through-line of how this studio operates — at every stage of growth.
"Jeyda is so full of good vibes and positivity — such an enlightened soul. She is definitely making this world better."
— Davide Chicco, Community session
— Continue reading
The journal: Field Notes.
A periodic record of writing, photographs, and reflections from the practice — published as we go.
— Begin
Come find the practice.
A public session, a private enquiry, or just a hello from across the lake. Jeyda is, mostly, easy to reach.