Polyvagal Theory offers a practical way to understand how the nervous system responds to safety, stress, and connection. In this article, we explore the three polyvagal states, how they develop over time, and how breathwork can support regulation in a trauma-informed, accessible way.

Is breathwork safe? We explore the real risks, common side effects, contraindications, and how to practice breathwork safely including guidance on high-intensity techniques like holotropic breathwork and Conscious Connected Breathwork.

Your brain is not fixed. Through neuroplasticity, the nervous system continues to learn and adapt throughout life. This article explores how breathwork supports that process — from reshaping habits and trauma responses to building new pathways through gentle, repeated experiences of safety, choice, and awareness.

Your nervous system is constantly shaping how you feel, react, and recover, even if you’ve barely thought about it since school. This foundational guide explains what the nervous system is, how stress and safety affect it, and why understanding it can change how you meet everyday life.

Many adults live with trauma responses without ever naming them as such. From fight, flight, freeze, and fawn to less obvious patterns, this article explores how trauma shows up in adult life, and how trauma-informed breathwork can offer gentle, supportive pathways toward regulation and choice.

There’s a particular kind of tiredness that comes from thinking and holding too much at once. In this article, we explore cognitive load, why mental overwhelm is so common, and how breathwork can support clarity, regulation, and capacity, without adding more to your plate.

Breathwork coaching doesn’t replace existing professions, it complements them. This guide explores how trauma-sensitive breathwork coaching can integrate ethically into therapy, coaching, healthcare, education, yoga, bodywork, and caring roles, offering practical nervous system support without overstepping scope.

Breathwork coaching is about more than teaching breathing techniques. It’s a grounded, ethical way of supporting people to work with their breath for stress, focus, emotional regulation, and everyday nervous system care. In this guide, we explore what a breathwork coach actually does, how breathwork coaching works, how it differs from facilitation or therapy, and what to look for in a trauma-sensitive breathwork coach certification.