Challenge & strengthen your breath! Invest in you!
Your breath is intimately connected to your overall wellbeing. Improve your breath and improve your health. Build respiratory stamina and flexibility. Learn about yourself. Relax and recover.
Feel, move, and sleep better.
Breathwork connects to and impacts every part of you.
You can influence your feelings, performance, and thoughts with your breath.
Your breathing pattern emerged from your culture and life experiences. While your breathing has kept you alive, you probably could improve how you breathe. We train our muscles to get stronger. Your breathing muscles work all the time. Do you ever train them? Exercise your capacity, build resiliency, and help your body relax.
Some frequently asked questions
What is breathwork?
Breathwork is developing your awareness of how your body breathes in different situations. Breathwork is intentionally altering your breath to create an effect on your body. Breathwork is exercising your respiratory system to develop your capacity, function, efficiency, and resiliency.
What are the benefits of breathwork?
Your breath impacts every physiological system in your body and can provide many benefits. Breathwork is a self-regulation tool. Intentionally altering your breath can help energize, relax, balance, or reset your body. Breathwork can reduce your blood pressure and help your body recover from surgery or an illness. If you can breathe more easily then every system in your body can work more efficiently.
Which style of breathwork does Nicole offer?
Nicole blends information on the science of breathing with experiential practices based on a variety of breathing traditions. Nicole has made learning about breathing, breathing traditions, breathing practices, breathing science, and different breathing patterns in people her passion and profession. Nicole will tailor her approach based on your individual situation.
Nicole is a certified breathwork instructor in Oxygen Advantage, Buteyko Breathing Method, and Pranayama (yogic breathwork). She has also taken multiple courses in the WIM HOF Method and Conscious Circular Breathing. She does not practice or teach one style of breathwork, but rather pull from many modalities depending on desires and interests.
What should I expect at a private session?
Private sessions will address the goals or motivations you have for seeking out breathwork. Private sessions typically last 45-60 minutes. Nicole will evaluate your breathing from a biomechanical, biochemical, and rhythmic perspective. Based on what we find and your interest, Nicole will then lead you through some breathing exercises and if desired create a sequence of exercises for you to do at home.
It can be helpful to have 3-5 breathing sessions to help create change within your body. However, you can gain insight and benefit from one session. As a breathwork educator and facilitator, I want to help you better understand and gain experience in the ways your breath can support you. If your breathing is limited, we can identify ways to help you maximize your breathing capacity and improve your respiratory stamina.
What should I expect at a group class?
Classes tend to be small and will cover the material outlined in the class offering. Many classes will also involve some movement as your rib cage mobility and posture directly impact your breath. There will be time for introductions and questions.
Where are the in-person classes and private sessions located?
Small group classes and individual private sessions are located in a studio attached to Nicole’s home at 880 Barstow Road in Shelburne. The Breath and Balance studio space has one bathroom and a good ventilation system. The studio is accessed from the North side of the building from two parking spaces directly off the driveway. If you have any special needs or sensitivities, please contact Nicole to see if an accommodation can be made.
Do you take insurance?
No. Nicole is not a licensed medical provider and does not take insurance. Nicole is a breathwork educator and facilitator. You are always responsible for your overall health and wellbeing. Nicole wants to empower you with more skills and tools to support your wellbeing so you can thrive.