A 7-part embodied breathwork practice for getting out of your head
and back into direct relationship with your body.
You try box breathing. You count your inhales and exhales. You follow the little expanding circle on an app. When you’re stressed, you remind yourself to “breathe into your belly.”
It helps... until you stop thinking about your breath.
Then, almost without noticing, you’re right back to holding it.
Your breath gets shallow. Your chest tightens. Your shoulders start creeping toward your ears. You don’t realize what’s happening until your body is already tense.
This isn’t a space where you’re given another breathing pattern to memorize, another count to follow, or another technique you have to remember when you’re already overwhelmed.
It’s a space where you learn how to actually feel and understand the breath that’s already happening inside your body.
Because when you can actually feel your breath from the inside, it stops being another technique you have to remember to use.
It becomes something you can return to. The tool you reach for when you can feel the stress rising. The breath that you can come back to when you’ve left yourself.
Something that’s already here, waiting for you to notice it.
Sometimes before your shoulders, jaw, and chest have joined in.
Instead of moving your body and remembering to breathe, you learn to let the breath initiate the movement.
Not another thing to think your way through. Something physical you can feel and practice.
A 7-part video video practice rooted in breathwork from the Daoist Water Tradition.
I'll teach you how to bring your awareness inside the body and begin feeling your breath through the diaphragm, internal organs, and surrounding tissues. Then we'll bring that awareness into movement. Because the goal isn't to become really good at doing a breathing exercise.
I want you to know your breath well enough that you can feel when you're fighting against it, holding it, forcing it, or simply not letting it move. And then I want to show you another way.
You'll have seven practices you can move through on your own time and return to whenever you want to reconnect with your breath and body.
You catch yourself holding your breath while you're answering an email, waiting for a text back, driving, working, or trying to get something exactly right. You don't always notice it when it starts. You notice it later, when your shoulders are tight or your jaw hurts.
You've tried breathing exercises before. But sitting down for 10 minutes, counting seconds, remembering when to inhale, hold, and exhale feels like giving your brain another job to do. You wanted to feel grounded before bed or calmer after a stressful day, but instead you're wondering if you're doing the practice "right."
You know you're supposed to "take a deep breath," but when you actually try, it still feels stuck somewhere in your chest. You pull in more air, try to send it into your belly, maybe even take an exaggerated inhale—yet your body still feels tight and the breath still feels like something you have to force.
You can feel when your body is holding tension, but knowing you're tense and knowing how to soften are two completely different things. You tell your shoulders to relax. You unclench your jaw. You take a breath. And five minutes later, you catch yourself bracing all over again.
You know breathwork is supposed to help you feel calmer, more grounded, and connected to your body. But most of what you've learned has taught you what to do with your breath, not how to actually feel and understand the breath you already have.
Your breath was never meant to be managed.
It was meant to be felt.
You start catching the moment you hold your breath before your shoulders are at your ears and your jaw is aching. You can feel the subtle shifts happening inside your body and use your breath to soften before tension has hours to build.
Your breathwork practice stops feeling like another task to get right. You're not sitting there watching the clock, counting seconds, or trying to remember what comes next. You actually look forward to slowing down because you know how to explore your breath without turning it into another performance.
A "deep breath" finally makes sense in your body. Instead of pulling in more air and hoping it reaches your belly, you can feel your diaphragm move, notice where your breath has space to expand, and work with your body to create room for a fuller breath.
When you notice yourself bracing, you have somewhere to go. Instead of repeatedly telling yourself to "just relax," you know how to bring your attention into your breath and body, explore where you're holding, and invite softness back in.
Breathwork becomes a skill you actually carry into your life, not something that only works while you're following instructions. You understand your own breath well enough to return to it while you're stressed, overwhelmed, lying in bed, waiting for that text back, or simply trying to come back to yourself.
The goal isn't to breathe perfectly.
It's to become familiar enough with your own breath that you can find it again when you need it.
There are two pieces to the practice.
You'll work with breath as something you can feel internally, rather than something you have to control from the outside. That means bringing attention to the diaphragm, the abdomen, the sides and back of the body, and eventually the internal organs involved in the practice.
We go slowly. You're not trying to force a bigger breath. You're learning to feel what your breath is already doing and give it more room to move.
Then we bring the breath into motion. Instead of deciding how you're going to move and trying to fit your breath around it, you'll practice letting the breath lead.
The movements are simple on purpose. The point isn't choreography, flexibility, or doing anything impressive. It's learning what it feels like when breath and movement aren't fighting each other.
Each practice builds on what comes before it, so I recommend moving through them in order the first time.
Start by locating your diaphragm and becoming familiar with the movement of the breath there.
Bring the breath into the sides of the body and begin pairing it with simple movement.
Work with the position of the body so your structure gives the breath room to move.
Explore breathing through the sides of the abdomen and into the low back.
Bring your awareness into the back body and begin working with the kidney area through breath and movement.
Put the pieces together in a longer guided breathing practice.
Bring everything you've practiced into movement and let the breath lead.
This isn't breath as a metric.
It's breath as a practice you can actually feel yourself inside of.
Inside Breathe Like Water you'll receive:
One-time payment: $47
I've done plenty of breathing practices where the main instruction is essentially: inhale for this many seconds, hold, exhale for this many seconds, repeat. Those practices can absolutely be useful. But this course is teaching something different.
There are no complicated breathing ratios to memorize. Most of the work is about developing your ability to actually feel what's happening inside your body while you breathe.
Breathe Like Water is rooted in the Daoist Water Tradition and the way I've been taught to work with breath, softness, internal awareness, and the body.
You'll explore how the diaphragm, abdomen, sides, back body, and organs participate in breathing.
Some things are easier to understand once the body starts moving. That's why breath-led movement is woven throughout the course rather than treated as a separate exercise.
One of the principles I've learned through this work is practicing at around 70%. You don't need to strain to make something happen. In fact, straining often makes it harder to feel anything subtle. So throughout these practices, you're encouraged to do less than your maximum and pay closer attention.
Once you've learned the sequence, you don't always need to pull up an entire class. Sometimes you might spend five minutes feeling your diaphragm. Sometimes you'll work with your low back. Sometimes you'll move for a few minutes because you've been sitting at your desk all day and realize you've barely been breathing. That's how I use this work too.
"I feel a much better connection to my diaphragm than I ever have with other breathwork."
"I can actually feel my breath and my pulse in my hands."
"It feels like I've gotten a shoulder massage, and my whole body relaxes with it."
Six years ago, I find the Daoist Water Tradition thinking I already understand breath pretty well. I've spent years practicing yoga, and a lot of what I've learned about the body is built around effort. How deeply can I get into the posture? How long can I hold it? Can I breathe through more intensity? This training turns a lot of that upside down for me.
One of the first things I have to learn is how much I am trying. Even with my breath. I am constantly attempting to make it deeper, slower, better. The Water Tradition teaches me to become more interested in what happens when I stop forcing it.
Can I soften enough to feel the diaphragm move? Can I notice where the breath stops? Can I let the inhale arrive without pulling it in? Can I stay with a smaller, easier breath instead of always trying to make it bigger? That changes the way I practice. And eventually it changes the way I move through everyday life too.
I've been practicing this work for years now, and these are still things I come back to regularly. When I'm irritated. When I've been working for too long and realize my whole body is tense. When I'm hungry and getting weird about it. When someone cuts me off in traffic. When I feel disconnected from my body.
And also when something beautiful is happening and I realize I'm moving too quickly to actually feel it. A sunset. Being near the water. A really good moment with someone I love. This practice helps me become more available for all of it.
That's why I teach it. Not because I think everyone needs another breathwork technique. Because learning how to feel my breath gives me a very simple way to find my body again.
You already know what it feels like to hold your breath and call it fine. What you haven't felt yet is what happens when you stop holding it, when breath and body finally move together instead of against each other. That shift doesn't happen by reading about it. It happens by practicing it. This is where you start.
Join Breathe Like WaterBreathe Like Water is for you if you're curious about breathwork but don't want another highly technical breathing protocol to memorize.
It's for you if you've done plenty of thinking about yourself and want a practice that gets you into direct physical experience.
It's for you if you tend to hold your breath, brace, tighten, or disconnect from your body without realizing you're doing it.
And it's for you if you want something simple enough to actually return to.
You don't need experience with breathwork, yoga, qigong, or movement.
You just need enough space to lie down and a willingness to pay attention.
Instant access for $47Not at all. I teach everything from the beginning, and the movement is intentionally simple. You don't need to be flexible, athletic, or familiar with breathwork.
It's completely self-paced. You'll get access to all seven videos when you join and can move through them whenever you want.
Seven guided video practices covering Daoist Water Tradition breathwork and breath-led movement. You'll have lifetime access, so you can come back to them whenever you want.
No. You'll just want enough room to lie down comfortably and move a little. A yoga mat, rug, or carpeted floor works perfectly.
I create this for people who already understand a lot about themselves but want to feel more connected to what's happening in their body. You've done therapy. You've journaled for years. You can name every pattern you have. This isn't another place to analyze yourself. It's somewhere to practice feeling.
Each video runs between 15 and 30 minutes, so you can move through the series at whatever pace fits your week.
You don't have to become good at breathwork. You don't have to memorize another technique. You can start by learning what your own breath feels like.
Join Breathe Like Water — $47