Breathwork & Recovery
Where breath becomes a bridge from overwhelm to ease.
Why it Matters
Recovery is not just abstinence—it’s learning how to be present with life. Breathwork is a supportive, body-based practice that helps clients regulate their nervous systems, build resilience, and reconnect with themselves.
Like yoga or meditation, Breathwork is not a replacement for 12-Step or therapy, but a complementary tool that strengthens the recovery journey.
How Breathwork Supports Recovery
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Nervous System and Emotional Regulation
Breathwork helps clients shift from stress into grounded presence while building the capacity to feel and process emotions without overwhelm. This balance supports recovery by reducing reactivity and strengthening inner stability.
Inner Resourcing, Felt Sensing and Self Agency
Encouraging clients to connect with their felt sense — the body’s subtle sensations and signals — so they can discover stability, confidence, and clarity within themselves. Inner resourcing helps clients cultivate a sense of safety, respect, trust and love for themselves that they can return to, even in moments of difficulty.
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Resilience and Window of Tolerance
Breathwork expands the capacity to stay present through emotional highs and lows, helping clients move beyond black-and-white thinking. By widening the window of tolerance, clients build resilience and discover greater choice in how they respond to life.
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"Coming Home to Myself, One Breath at a Time."
Austin's Story
“Before Breathwork, I lived in survival mode—reactive, restless, and disconnected.”
Before Breathwork
When I first stepped onto my path of recovery, I often felt trapped in my mind—overwhelmed by emotions I couldn’t process and disconnected from my body. I coped by numbing out, but deep down I longed for another way.
The Turning Point
My first Breathwork session was life-changing. With each inhale and exhale, I felt a release and an anchoring in the present moment that I hadn’t experienced in years. Breathwork gave me a glimpse of what it meant to feel at home in myself again.
Through consistent practice, Breathwork began to reshape me in profound ways:
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I learned to hold emotions without being overtaken by them.
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My nervous system expanded its capacity beyond old patterns of reactivity.
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I began to feel safe enough in my body to trust my own inner wisdom.
"These shifts built a resilience that continues to carry me forward and transformed how I relate to others. Instead of reacting from chaos, I now meet life with more compassion, steadiness, and presence."
Answering the Call
Because of this profound shift, I felt called to share this work with others. I trained and became accredited through One Breath Institute, one of the leading trauma-informed Breathwork schools in the world. This training gave me not only the professional skills to guide sessions safely and ethically, but also deepened my ability to hold compassionate space.
“My role is to create a safe and supportive space where you can reconnect with yourself and discover the freedom that lives within your breath.”
When I guide Breathwork, my intention is simple: to help the client come back to themselves. Sometimes the body and its feelings can feel overwhelming or hard to reach. My role is to offer a safe space where the client can meet what arises with curiosity and care—and leave feeling more connected, more spacious, and more at home within themselves.
“Supporting therapy and 12-step programs by offering clients body-based tools for regulation and resilience”
The Role of Breathwork in Treatment
Breathwork works best when it works alongside
When Integrating Breathwork into Your Program of Recovery, Clients can expect the following
Safe, Trauma Informed Facilitation
Sessions are guided with safe, trauma-informed facilitation through the One Breath Method — a training from One Breath Institute, an accredited school specializing in mental health and recovery. Each session honors pacing, consent, and individual readiness, ensuring clients feel supported and empowered throughout their experience.
Integration with Existing Modailites of Recovery
Breathwork is not a replacement for 12-step work or other recovery models. Instead, it serves as a supportive companion — a body-based practice that helps clients regulate, resource, and stay present as they move through their program.
Structured Sessions with Grounding and Reflection
Every session follows a clear, supportive structure. Clients begin with grounding to establish safety and presence, move into guided breathwork, and then close with time for integration and reflection. This rhythm ensures that clients leave feeling steady, clear, and emotionally balanced — prepared to carry the benefits of the practice into their daily lives.
By adding Breathwork, treatment centers provide clients with additional, practical, body-based tools they can carry with them beyond the program.
Safety & Ethics
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Medical Awareness: Contraindications are carefully reviewed before participation.
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Supportive, Not Substitutive: Breathwork is offered as a supportive wellness practice — not a replacement for medical care or treatment.
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Respect for Individual Needs: Each client’s physical, emotional, and medical considerations are honored.
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Client Choice: Participants are always reminded that they are in control of their process and may slow down, modify, or stop at any time.