The Power Within You To Go BE Great
I believe the breath is one of the most powerful tools we have to transform our lives. Throughout my career, I’ve taught individuals and organizations how to live with breath—using it as medicine to enhance health, performance, and well-being. Breath is not just something we do without thinking. It is a dynamic, conscious practice that, when harnessed, can improve our mental clarity, physical resilience, and emotional balance—across every aspect of life.
Through my work, I teach people to apply breath as medicine throughout the entire 24-hour cycle. Whether it’s optimizing health and wellness, improving work performance, enhancing fitness routines, or creating more effective organizational dynamics, breath is the key to unlocking peak performance and true well-being. I integrate three central themes into all my programming: resilience, the breath-emotion connection, and meaningful connection. Resilience helps us stay grounded in the face of stress; understanding the breath-emotion connection allows us to manage our feelings more effectively; and meaningful connection—both with ourselves and others—forms the foundation of lasting, transformative change.
In my programs, you’ll learn how to work with your breath to create balance, focus, and energy. By tapping into the rhythm of your breath, you’ll discover how to navigate life's challenges with greater ease, and move through your days with clarity and purpose. Through mindful breathing, we tap into the true power of our bodies, minds, and hearts. Join me on this journey of self-mastery, and together, we’ll harness the healing power of the breath to create lasting, positive change.
Central Themes In Breath AS Medicine
1. Resilience as the Foundation
Resilience isn't just about recovery—it's also about dynamic adaptation. It involves the ability to shift mental, emotional, and physiological states in response to changing conditions.
Micro-Practices: Incorporate interoceptive awareness exercises like body scans to monitor internal states and build emotional regulation.
Macro-Structures: Build long-term habits such as adaptive routines (e.g., waking and sleeping with natural light) to condition a resilient nervous system.
Stress-Positive Reframing: Learn to reframe stress as fuel for growth. For example, view challenges as puzzles rather than threats.
2. Breath-Emotion Connection
Breathwork is not just about managing emotions; it's also a tool for modulating attention and entering specific states of consciousness.
Biofeedback Integration: Use tools like heart rate variability (HRV) monitors to understand how your breathing impacts your mental states.
State-Specific Breathing: Different breathing patterns induce different states:
Slow nasal breathing: Activates calm and focus.
Rhythmic energizing breaths: Enhances alertness.
Exhalation-focused breathing: Clears emotional blockages.
Somatic Awareness: Breath also links directly to posture and movement. By aligning your physical body with deep diaphragmatic breathing, you enhance physical-mental coherence.
3. Connection as a Multilayered Practice
Connection involves both external relationships and internal coherence. A state-of-BE’ing emerges when all aspects of an individual's being are in harmony with their environment.
Vertical Alignment: Align purpose (spiritual), emotions (mental), and actions (physical) to ensure you're operating from a place of integrity.
Horizontal Integration: Cultivate meaningful relationships with people who share your values and amplify your energy. This involves fostering trust and vulnerability in group dynamics, which enables collective flow.
Nature and Circadian Biology: Synchronize your internal rhythms with natural cycles (e.g., light, temperature, and seasonality) to maintain connection with the broader ecosystem.
Subscription Benefits
We offer three levels of subscription:
Free.
Paid Member.
Foundering Member.
Free Subscription:
A great place to start
Full access to one of three+ posts a week (Only paid subscribers have access to the breath, mindfulness and video activities).
Full access to previous podcasts
Paid Member:
Access to education and daily practices to incorporate as your regular self-care.
Three posts per week including education and activity
Podcast interviews
Personal access for Q & A
Breath-based practices and exercises
Access to the comments section (gotta love group wisdom)
Cost: $13.99/month or $149.00/year
Founding Member:
Everything in the “Paid” subscription above
4 60-minute coaching sessions per year (sessions recorded)
1 Monthly workshop via zoom
Personal access Q & A (Access to me with pressing questions)
Cost: $800/year
