I built this because I needed it and didn't have it.
Breathwork and performance coaching · Melbourne in person · Online globally
"Thirteen years, then a full stop."
Nobody has to do the same thing until they die.
I ran my own recruitment business for thirteen years. Built it, ran it, sold it. By most measures it worked. By my early forties, though, the life underneath the results had quietly deteriorated. My health wasn't where it should have been. The work had stopped lighting me up, and I kept going largely because it was what I thought I should be doing.
That's a more common position than people admit. We're allowed more than one career in a lifetime. Nobody has to do the same thing until they die.
Then I burnt out. Not a rough patch. The real thing, which takes one to three years to come back from.
I went looking. Coaching, and a lot of it. Mentors. Travel to places and practices around the world that claimed to help, some of which did and some of which didn't. What I found was that a handful of things did most of the work, and nearly all of them ran through the breath.
The tools I needed at forty, I didn't have. I have them now and I use them daily. What took me years to assemble, I've compressed into six weeks.
Why it's not woo woo
I'm not asking anyone to believe anything. Your BOLT score is a measurement. Your HRV and sleep data are measurements. They move or they don't, and we both get to see which.
A 2023 Stanford study published in Cell Reports Medicine found that five minutes of daily structured breathwork improved mood and reduced physiological arousal more effectively than mindfulness meditation. I came from recruitment, not from wellness. I needed to see it work before I believed it.
The evidence stack
Three layers
Physiological
BOLT score, measured in the room and re-measured
Continuous
Wearable data — HRV, sleep, stress, resting heart rate
Subjective
A full life audit and your core values, so the numbers mean something
Breathwork Sessions
In person across Melbourne and live online worldwide, for anyone who needs to reset.
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Six weeks, measured, for people performing well and running hot.
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For organisations that would rather prevent burnout than replace people.
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