The goal of breath coaching isn’t to build a lifelong daily breathwork practice.
The goal of breath coaching isn't to build a lifelong daily breathwork practice. Well, not necessarily. That might weird coming from a breath coach. But hear me out. When people sign up for coaching, they usually think the goal is some version of: Learn the techniques → build a daily practice → breathe slowly for 20 minutes a day forever. And sure, that's part of it. The techniques work. The practice helps. Most of my clients keep some version of it going long after we're done because they like it. BUT what actually shifts is rarely the breathwork itself. It's everything that happens because of it. One client, Jack, a commercial director, came into the program with bad sleep, anxiety he'd come to accept as "just how I am," and this deep belief that pressure and success had to go hand in hand. We worked through it: the breathing, nasal walks, the sleep protocols, the nervous system stuff. The numbers improved a lot (his BOLT score, a breathing efficiency assessment, up 300%, which is the kind of thing I get embarrassingly excited about 🤓) But the message he sent me a few months after the program wasn't about any of that. He didn't write to tell me...