THE UNFINISHED MAN

Series Two: THE ROOT

A 6-Week Online Breathwork Series for Men

• Format: Live, online, via Zoom
• Dates: Every Wednesday, July 15 – August 19, 2026
• Time: 6:30 – 9:00pm MDT (2.5 hours per session)
• Investment: $249 for the full 6-week series — payment plans available on request
• What you need: A mat or blanket to lie on, headphones, a private space
• No prior breathwork experience required

Most men left home years ago.
Yet the ghosts of all that was their childhood “home” never quite left the men.

They’re in the anticipations you carry into certain rooms. In the paradigms that quietly organize what love requires and what intimacy costs. In the body — in the particular quality of vigilance or ease, the breath pattern under pressure, the way you hold yourself when someone in authority is disappointed. The early years molded and marked all of it, before you had any conscious hand in the molding.

Most men know, in some part of themselves, that their parents shaped them in ways that go well beyond the stories they tell about their childhoods. What fewer men have had is a genuine container for that knowing — a place to bring the actual weight of the father wound and the mother wound and the grief that lives underneath both. Without needing to assign blame. Without arriving at forgiveness on a schedule. Without trying to resolve it before it’s been honestly met.

This series is that container. Six weeks of honest, embodied inquiry into where you came from, what you’re still carrying from it — and how you walk with the grief that comes with this not-what-I-expected human experience.

Over six weeks, we enter four territories that the parental inheritance opens in a man’s life: the mother as first world, the father as the shape that presence or absence carves, the grief that the parental territories inevitably surface, and the forward-facing question of what a man does with what he received — as a father, or as someone navigating that question in a different way.

We do this through honest conversations with other curious men and conscious connected breathwork — an extended, facilitated breath practice that accesses the body’s intelligence in ways conversation alone cannot.

We gather in a spacious container with other men, which turns out to matter more than most men expect.

Week 1: The Oldest Room

Building the container. An introduction to the territory, to each other, and to the practices. The parental inheritance as a somatic fact, not only a story. No prior experience required. Arrive as you are.

Week 2: The First World

The mother territory. The first environment a human ever knew — the template of connection, safety or danger, sufficiency or lack, that was established before language, before choice, before memory.

Week 3: The Father Shape

What was carved by the father’s presence or absence, silence or speech, steadiness or volatility. The particular shape he left in the space of a man’s life — and what a man does with a shape he didn’t choose.

Please Note: All birth and family stories belong here – if you happen to come from differently gendered parents, from adoption or foster families, or any other unstated early circumstances and experiences, you and your lived story are very welcome.

Week 4: What Was Never Mourned

The grief the parental territories open. For what was given, for what was withheld, for the childhood that was and the one that wasn’t. The losses that have no socially recognized name but live in the body anyway.

Week 5: The Passing Forward

The fatherhood territory. What a man does with what he received — whether he is a father, has chosen not to be, or carries grief around that question. What gets transmitted next, and whether it can be chosen with more clarity and agency rather than simply repeated.

Week 6: The Root

Integration, closing ceremony, and what it means to stand in honest relationship with where you came from — neither defined by it nor in resistance to or flight from it.

ABOUT THIS TYPE OF MEN’S WORK

It doesn’t ask you to forgive your parents before you’re ready, or to arrive at gratitude on a schedule, or to frame the wounds as gifts before they’ve been honestly grieved. It holds the complexity: that parents can have loved their children and also caused real harm. That the wound and the gift often arrive from the same source.

It doesn’t pathologize or assign blame. The work is not about arriving at a verdict about your parents — it’s about seeing clearly, and choosing with more agency, what you carry forward from what you received.

It approaches the territory somatically — through the body, through the breath — because the parental inheritance is not primarily stored as narrative. It’s stored as nervous system pattern, as somatic template, as the specific physiological shape of what connection, safety, love, and authority feel like. Talking about it reaches only so far. The breath is an additional step. Sometimes many steps beyond.

It holds what arises with spaciousness — the grief, the longing, the love, the loneliness, the gratitude, and the anger. All of it belongs. None of it is rushed toward resolution.

It is led by someone who has been in this territory himself — not from a curriculum downloaded, but from a lifetime genuinely lived in these questions, and years accompanying humans through them.

WHO IS THIS FOR

• Men who carry something about their father or mother that has never had a proper place to land
• Men who find themselves repeating patterns in relationships that trace back to what they learned at home
• Men who are fathers themselves and feel the weight of the inheritance alongside the responsibility of what they’re passing on
• Men navigating grief around fatherhood — childlessness, estrangement, or the specific loss of the parent they needed but didn’t have
• Men who have done therapy or self-development work that approached this intellectually, and feel something somatic is still missing
• Men who completed Series One: Arriving and are ready to go deeper
• Men who have never done any of this work — this is a complete and independent entry point

ABOUT NŪMA BREATHWORK

Nūma Breathwork is a trauma-informed breathwork practice and training organization founded by Trevor Wyllthawk, alongside the Nūma Mystery School. Nūma offers breathwork journeys, workshops, immersions, facilitator trainings, and retreats rooted in Hakomi Body-Centered Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems, transpersonal breathwork, and ceremonial medicine work. The Unfinished Man is Nūma’s new evolution on men’s curriculum — six online series, each one complete in itself, built from the direct experience working with men in rich somatic containers.

You don’t need to be ready. You just need to show up and be willing to do this humbling work with other men.