Dear BREATHE Community,
It is with heavy hearts that we notify you of the cancellation of Breathe 2025, scheduled to take place July 10-13.
The Jelly will rise again.
Earlier this morning our team issued full refunds from Eventbrite. Those refunds should be hitting your bank accounts within 3-5 business days. Please keep us informed with any hiccups so we can address immediately.
Our organization has suffered a major shock. About two weeks ago, we directors and festival organizers learned that the individual who had been entrusted with Breathe’s financial assets broke our trust. We didn’t have the checks and balances within the organization to make this discovery until now. The funds we counted on to host Breathe 2025 are not yet accounted for. We are still uncovering the facts of what happened and how we will respond.
We are feeling all the emotions that accompany this sort of discovery: shock, anger, disappointment, confusion, betrayal, and a deep sense of loss. We have gone back and forth over the past two weeks about how we could overcome this setback and bring the larger community together for our annual gathering. But to host the Breathe festival under these circumstances with all that we are still trying to process and untangle feels disingenuous, and so we are pausing to regroup and rebuild. To breathe.
We are heartbroken. We know you love Breathe and are heartbroken too. We will do our best to make things right. We are starting with this statement.
The individual who broke our trust is no longer part of the organization, but we as directors and festival leads will continue to examine what happened. We will consider what we could have done–and will do in the future–to hold every individual who is serving the Breathe community to our community’s principles. Then we will do the work to rebuild a Breathe organization with stronger oversight, transparency, and accountability to the Breathe community. These commitments will take us time, and we ask for your patience and understanding as we clean up this mess.
Breathe is not gone. The jelly will rise again. We hope you will stay close as we rebuild.
The Breathe Team
questions/concerns: info@discoverbreathe.com
Our Mission
Discover your purpose.
Awaken our world.
We as the BREATHE Community believe every individual has a higher purpose. Alongside Mother Nature we manifest an environment for each individual to discover that higher purpose, write their own story, and achieve their highest potential.