Meet the Founder
Quick Facts
Founder
Lena Marie
Founder of
Sirens Circle
Creator of
Siren Breathwork™
Focus Areas
Breathwork, Emotional Release, Embodiment, Women's Circles, Retreat Experiences, Relationship Transformation & Nervous System Regulation
Works With
Women seeking emotional freedom, self-trust, deeper relationships, embodiment, and authentic self-expression
Based Between
South Africa, Bali, Mexico & Europe
Known For
Creating immersive experiences that combine emotional release, embodiment, (water) ritual, community, breathwork, and transformation
Signature Offerings
The Sirens Circle • Siren Breathwork™ • Private Immersions • Bali Retreat Experiences
Mission
Helping women stop abandoning themselves and return to who they truly are.
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Water has always been at the center of my life - long before I consciously understood it. Ever since I was young, I felt deeply drawn to the ocean, to water in all its forms, and to the feeling of freedom, softness, surrender, and aliveness it awakens in the body.
For years, I lived in Berlin without realizing how disconnected I felt from that part of myself. I couldn’t fully understand why I felt restless, emotionally unfulfilled, and constantly pulled to leave again and again. Looking back now, I see that I wasn’t only craving travel or freedom - I was craving connection. To nature. To my body. To water. To myself.
The closer I moved toward the water, the more alive I began to feel.
Today, freediving and water dance have become some of my deepest passions - practices that taught me how to truly listen to the body, regulate the nervous system, trust the breath, and soften into presence. The water became my teacher long before I understood why.. -
Losing a parent to cancer as a young teenager forced me to grow up quickly. I became independent early and learned to suppress my emotions simply to keep moving forward. For years, I thought I was fine.
Until life cracked me open.
When COVID hit, the business I had built with my partner collapsed, our relationship ended, and everything I had buried inside began to rise to the surface. I fell into a deep depression and realized that talking about my pain through psychoanalysis was no longer enough - my body was holding emotions my mind could not process alone.
That was when I discovered Breathwork as a tool for emotional release and trauma healing.
What started as curiosity and honestly, the desire to “get high on my own supply” - quickly became transformation. Through the breath, I began reconnecting to myself emotionally, physically, spiritually, and sensually. For the first time, I felt what it meant to truly be in my body again.
My path later led me into Tantra and deeper embodiment work - practices that helped me unravel years of shame, suppression, and disconnection around sensuality, desire, and self-expression. Despite the stigma often surrounding this work, I discovered tools that profoundly changed my relationship to myself, my body, intimacy, love, and life.
My journey deepened even further through the VITA™ Method by Layla Martin, where modern science, nervous system work, sexuality, psychology, and ancient wisdom come together in a deeply transformative way.
Alongside this path, I also completed a degree in Tourism Economics - something that unexpectedly became the perfect foundation for creating immersive retreats and transformational experiences that go far beyond a vacation.
I first moved to Bali at 22 during my studies and instantly fell in love with the island. Years later, I returned and lived there throughout 2022 and 2023. Bali transformed me deeply and over time I discovered hidden places, rituals, restaurants, nature spots, and experiences that eventually became part of THE SIRENS CIRCLE.
I later returned to Berlin again, thinking I could make it work this time. But I found myself disconnected, emotionally unfulfilled, and far away from the life and environment my body truly longed for. I think healing often happens in spirals and I’m human too.
Today, alongside my lived experience, I’m certified in multiple Breathwork modalities and continue to devote my life to creating spaces where women can soften, feel deeply, reconnect to themselves, and transform from the inside out.
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Everything I create through THE SIRENS CIRCLE is inspired by this journey.
A space where women can soften.
Feel deeply.
Heal emotionally.
Reconnect to their bodies.
Awaken their sensuality.
And remember who they truly are beneath the conditioning, the heartbreak, and the self-abandonment.Because I believe feminine power is not found in perfection.
It’s found in emotional depth, authenticity, softness, truth, and the courage to fully express yourself.
I’m Lena
Learning to free myself from the emotional & sexual suppression and social norms, to love myself fully, was a true turning point.
Now, I’m here to guide others on their own journeys - to support you in healing, awakening, and stepping into the life you dream of.
MY MESSAGE
FLOWING BACK HOME
The body falls into dis-ease when flow is lost - when circulation, energy, and emotion stop moving.
We often try to hold on to happiness, wanting it to last forever. But when we cling to any state, even joy, we block the natural current of life.
It’s like a river that stops flowing - the water turns dark, stagnant, heavy. That’s when illness and pain begin to take root.
But when the body stays in flow, so does the psyche.
Happiness will come, and it will go. Suffering will come, and it will go. Both are part of the rhythm - like night turning into morning. When you find yourself in the darkness, remember: it’s only a passage. You will be born again.
Even in the dark, if you stay connected to life, the current never truly stops.
This is what trust means.
My name itself carries my message -
Lena Marie: the light that shines through sorrow.
Your Questions, Answered
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The truth is, I never planned to create Sirens Circle.
It began during one of the most difficult periods of my life.
During COVID, I found myself moving through depression and facing emotions I could no longer outrun. At the time, I had only started to explore personal development, ceremonial work, retreats, and various spiritual practices. But for the first time, I found myself needing something much simpler.
I needed a way to be with myself.
Without fixing.
Without escaping.
Without numbing.
I began creating small rituals around the new moon and full moon as a way of checking in with myself and holding space for whatever I was feeling.
What started as a personal practice quickly became something shared.
I told a few friends what I was doing for myself.
And they wanted to join.
And before I knew it, a small circle of women had formed.
A modern coven of sorts.
A space where we could gather, reflect, feel, and support one another.
I never intended to become the person holding the space.
It simply happened.
Eventually, life took me on a deeper journey.
I moved abroad, explored different cultures, continued my personal growth, and spent years learning about emotional release, embodiment, relationships, nervous system work, and transformation.
Then something unexpected happened.
While attending a freediving retreat in Mexico, I was introduced to the cenotes, lagoons, and underwater world that would ultimately inspire the next chapter of my work.
Being immersed in water felt like remembering something I had always known.
I realised that water had been present throughout my entire life.
It was where I felt most connected to myself.
Most alive.
Most free.
That experience became the inspiration for Sirens Circle as it exists today.
A space where emotional depth, embodiment, self-expression, ritual, community, and the wisdom of water come together.
Not because women need to become someone else.
But because they deserve spaces where they can return to who they already are.
Sirens Circle is my way of creating those spaces..
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I believe transformation should be both deep and alive.
Many spaces lean heavily toward psychology or heavily toward spirituality.
I find myself somewhere in the middle.
I am deeply connected to ritual, symbolism, embodiment, emotional release, and energetic work, but I also value practicality, honesty, humour, and real-world integration.
I won't speak in language that feels disconnected from real life.
I won't pretend that transformation only happens on a meditation cushion.
Life happens in relationships.
In difficult conversations.
In heartbreak.
In joy.
In intimacy.
In everyday moments.
My work is about helping women bring everything they learn into the reality of their lives.
I also believe growth gets to include laughter.
Not everything needs to be heavy in order to be meaningful.
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Probably different than you expect.
The work we do together is often deep, emotional, and transformative, but it is also playful, honest, and deeply human.
I am known for being direct.
If I see you abandoning yourself, hiding from yourself, or repeating a story that is keeping you stuck, I will lovingly challenge you.
Not because I want to push you.
Because I care about your growth.
At the same time, I believe people change when they feel safe enough to tell the truth.
So my role is never to judge, fix, or rescue.
My role is to help you see what may no longer be visible from inside your own patterns.
Women often tell me they leave sessions feeling lighter, clearer, and more connected to themselves.
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Because depth requires presence.
I intentionally keep my private client capacity small because I want every woman I work with to receive my full attention, energy, and care.
This work is deeply personal.
It requires listening carefully, noticing subtle shifts, remembering details, and creating a space where women feel genuinely seen.
Working with fewer women allows me to maintain the quality, depth, and level of support that I believe this work deserves.
I would rather serve a small number of women exceptionally well than work with large numbers and lose the intimacy that makes this work so powerful.
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Water has always felt like home to me.
Long before Sirens Circle existed, I found myself drawn to oceans, lakes, cenotes, rivers, waterfalls, and any place where water invited me to slow down and reconnect.
Water teaches us something powerful.
It moves.
It adapts.
It softens.
It surrenders.
And yet it is incredibly powerful.
Many of the women I work with have spent years trying to control their emotions.
Water reminds us that emotions are not meant to be controlled.
They are meant to be felt, moved, and expressed.
For me, water is both a symbol and a teacher.
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Very personal.
My relationship with emotional release began because I didn't have a choice.
During the depression, I found myself crying for months.
At first, I wanted the emotions to stop.
Eventually, I realised they were trying to help me.
They were asking to be felt.
To be witnessed.
To move.
That experience completely changed the way I relate to emotions.
Today, I no longer see emotions as problems to solve.
I see them as messengers.
Embodiment has become one of the ways I listen.
Through movement, breath, awareness, sensation, and presence, I have learned to create a relationship with myself that feels more honest, compassionate, and alive.
And like everyone else, I am still learning.
I am not interested in pretending to be perfect.
I am simply committed to continuing the journey.
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More than anything, I hope they remember themselves.
Not the version shaped by expectations, performance, people-pleasing, or survival.
The version underneath all of that.
The woman who is already whole.
Already worthy.
Already enough.
The woman who no longer has to abandon herself in order to belong.
If a woman leaves feeling more connected to herself than when she arrived, then the work has done exactly what it was meant to do.