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🧠 Helping coaches build clinical-grade breath, sleep & nervous system skills. Day after day.

Chronic stress is a global health crisis affecting individual and collective performance. With coaching, you can turn stress into success for high performance with the enthusiasm, motivation and energy to take action towards your goals. Imagine the level of performance you could reach by waking up each morning feeling calm, alert and ready to tackle your day. Reclaim confidence in your capacity for action by learning the methods helping stressed-out busy professionals, anxious leaders and burnt out go-getters stand out from the crowd by regaining control of their focus, energy and productivity.

23/02/2026

Two events coming up that you might be interested in.

Chemistry of Memories with .rader this evening, a neuro/ breath science informed musical breathwork journey that we believe can be just as powerful as CCB without the need for overbreathing. Comment CHEMISTRY to join us here.

Also for those feeling destabilised by the news of the Polyvagal theory, I’m also putting on a free master class to discuss the updated Science an alternative model on the mindbody connection and just have a general discussion. Comment PVT below for more details on that.

Thank you.

22/02/2026

You’ve already done training.
You’ve already built skill.

But skill alone doesn’t build authority.

Authority comes from depth.
From being able to explain why your work works.
From understanding physiology beyond scripts and protocols.

The breathwork industry is maturing.

Clients are asking better questions.
Organisations are raising their standards.
Serious practitioners are going deeper.

If you’re ready to operate at a higher professional level,
I’ve opened eligibility checks for the next intake of the fully online 1:1 certification and mentorship.

This is not for beginners.
It’s for practitioners who want scientific literacy, structured frameworks, and long-term positioning.

If that’s you:

→ Check eligibility via the link in bio.

Selective intake. Graduate-level equivalent.

20/02/2026

Is this the end of the ???

What do you think?

19/02/2026

The world doesn’t just need more breathwork.
It needs more stress resilience.

Because most people aren’t struggling due to a lack of techniques,

They’re struggling due to dysregulated physiology, poor recovery, and a loss of natural self-regulating capacity.

Over the past years, I’ve been applying a structured system that helps individuals:

restore natural breathing rhythms,
improve regulation capacity,
and build resilience under real-world stress.

This is NOT another breathwork certification.

This is an applied framework for helping people:
restore → regulate → adapt.

Designed for coaches, practitioners, and professionals working with stress, recovery and performance.

Founding Cohort — May 2026
Limited to 30 practitioners.

Comment WAITLIST, and I’ll send you the details.

16/02/2026

Thank you for the incredible testimonial, 🙏

Ed completed my 1:1 mentorship late last year, and his words truly capture what I often struggle to put into words myself.

This isn’t just a certification. It’s a full education — one that goes far beyond what most people expect.

I’ve mentored many individuals who have completed multiple trainings before working with me, and time and time again they’re surprised by the level of value, confidence, and authority they gain through this process.
But enough of the gloating.

If you’re ready to increase your authority, expand your skillset, and build a business that creates real freedom — drop BSC below or send me a DM today.

I have a couple of 1:1 mentorship spaces opening up next month.

15/02/2026

Nasal breathing is often discussed as a way to improve oxygen efficiency.

What’s discussed far less is the possibility of a ventilatory ceiling.

In the only study comparing nasal vs oral breathing in nasally adapted athletes (Dallam et al., 2018), VO₂max was statistically similar — but with a moderate effect size.

More importantly, at 85% of VO₂max, ventilation was significantly lower with a large effect size.

That suggests reduced ventilation may become a constraint as intensity rises.

This doesn’t mean nasal breathing is “better” or “worse.”

It changes the physiology.

In our recent theoretical paper, we hypothesised that relative hypercapnia during nasal breathing may help preserve coronary and cerebral blood flow at a given workload by preventing hypocapnia-induced vasoconstriction.

This is a vascular tone argument — not an oxygen cascade enhancement claim.

However, any modest ventilatory cap may come with trade-offs.

If maximal oxygen flux is constrained, locomotive muscle extraction may become limiting sooner at high intensities.

In other words:

You may preserve central perfusion stability…

But potentially at the cost of peak peripheral output.

That’s context dependent.

If the goal is resilience, regulation, and long-term myocardial protection → nasal adaptation may have merit.

If the goal is maximising peak aerobic output → a staged or “gear-based” progression (nasal → oronasal at higher intensities) may be more appropriate.

The question isn’t:

“Is nasal better?”

It’s:

What are you training?

Oxygen transport?
Or ventilatory behaviour, vascular tone, and perceptual regulation?

If you’re calling yourself a science based breath coach, nuance and depth matters.

We are here to help you reach that depth, comment BSC to learn more about our professional training.

10/02/2026

Those with the darkest of shadows often hide behind the brightest of lights

Spiritual spaces don’t create narcissism or sociopathy. But they can amplify unintegrated psychology when key layers are skipped.

Freud showed us that behaviour is shaped by instincts — pleasure, aggression, desire, and the avoidance of pain.
 When instinct is denied rather than understood, it doesn’t disappear… it goes underground.

Adler showed how unresolved inferiority often reorganises into power, superiority, and control.
 Status becomes regulation. Admiration becomes safety.
Jung warned that when the shadow is not consciously integrated, it is projected — often disguised as morality, enlightenment, or righteousness.
 The ego doesn’t dissolve. It inflates.

When someone jumps straight into spiritual identity without working through: • biology • attachment • nervous system regulation • power dynamics

You don’t get transcendence.
 You get spiritual bypassing.

This isn’t an argument against spirituality.
 It’s a reminder that psychology doesn’t vanish when we meditate.

True maturity isn’t about being “above” instinct, ego, or shadow; it’s about knowing them well enough that they no longer run the show.

Actions always matter more than image and words

09/02/2026

Science is a powerful lens — but it isn’t the only one.

Breath, nervous system regulation, and performance sit at the intersection of source, sensation, and structure.

The work isn’t choosing sides.
It’s knowing which lens to use, and when.

This gives freedom to understand all and see where it lands. In your gut, and in your brain.

Working with people requires a ton of understanding of perspectives. But ultimately, adaptability is one of the best assets as both a coach and a mentee!

Comment COMMUNITY to join our free space.

08/02/2026

Most nervous system content today is framed around threat and survival, as if that’s the only function the system has.

And while that lens matters — especially in trauma — it also keeps many people stuck in a loop of trying to feel safe.

Safety alone does not create a life people enjoy.

The brain also has circuits for play, curiosity, exploration, meaning, and connection.

The nervous system doesn’t just protect us — it’s designed to help us thrive.

If nervous system coaching only teaches people how to stay regulated, it’s not building capacity.

It’s teaching containment.

And containment doesn’t lead to aliveness, engagement, or long-term change.

People don’t invest long-term in learning how to “calm down.”

They invest in learning how to live well — with energy, joy, and resilience.

Regulation is the foundation.
Thriving is the aim.

How are you showing up for yourself beyond just staying regulated?

04/02/2026

One of the most effective ways to naturally reduce your breathing rate isn’t to force slow breathing — it’s to reduce your allostatic load.

Allostatic load refers to the cumulative physiological cost of chronic physical, psychological, emotional, and social stress on the body. When allostatic load is high, the nervous system stays in a state of heightened demand, and breathing patterns adapt accordingly — faster, shallower, and less efficient.

A simple way to begin addressing this is the ERIC model:

E — Erase: What stressors can be removed entirely?

R — Reduce: What stressors can be scaled down?

I — Increase: What resources, supports, recovery, or regulation practices can you add?

C — Create / Change: What needs to be redesigned in your routines, environment, or boundaries to better support regulation?

Conscious slow breathing can shift your state in the moment — and that matters.

But this is primarily a state-level intervention, not a long-term solution on its own.

If you want sustained clarity, better sleep, improved mood, stronger memory, and a lower baseline breathing rate, the deeper work is reducing allostatic load, not just chasing calm through techniques.

If you’re struggling to identify or restructure the sources of load in your own life, this is exactly where my coaching helps — translating stress, anxiety, and focus issues into capacity, resilience, and lasting change.

Drop me a DM if you’re ready to work at the level that actually produces adaptation, not just temporary relief.

03/02/2026

Early Bird is now open for the next Breath Science Certification – Group Training. Starting in March.

This is for practitioners who want to:
 • Understand the breath as an output of the nervous system • Use systems and framework to provide high level 1:1 coaching • Build real confidence in assessment, education, and application supporting real world change.
• Expand a skillset and gain confidence in using a scientific language that resonates with a western audience.

There are only 5 early bird spots remaining.

If this feels like your next step,
 👉 comment “GROUP” and I’ll send you the details.

02/02/2026

Trauma resolution isn’t a willpower problem.
It’s a capacity problem.

Much of the difficulty people run into with breathwork, somatic work, or emotional processing isn’t because those approaches are wrong — it’s because they’re often applied out of sequence.

The nervous system can only access, process, and update trauma-related patterns when the body has enough physiological capacity to support change.

That capacity is shaped by things like:

• sleep and circadian rhythm
• metabolic and mitochondrial health
• energy availability (ATP)
• nervous system stability
• the ability to enter and exit physiological states safely

When those foundations aren’t in place, pushing activation — even with good intentions can lead to overwhelm, shutdown, or dissociation rather than resolution.

This is why, in the , we take a physiology first approach.

We don’t start with catharsis.
We don’t start with meaning making.
We don’t start with “going there”.

We start by restoring the body’s capacity to regulate.

From there:

• regulation becomes possible
• resilience can be built
• and only then does deeper processing reliably stick

Breathwork isn’t the goal.
Nervous system safety and adaptive capacity are.

This framework guides how we train practitioners — not just what to do, but when to do it.

Capacity before access.
Order before intensity.

If you work with breath, the nervous system, or trauma-adjacent states, this sequencing matters more than most people realise.

Wish to learn more in depth about physiological approach to supporting trauma check out our framework at the end slide of this post and if it resonates drop an application in for our certification , linked in the bio.

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