Individual Breathing Coaching
Does breathlessness keep you from enjoying yourself or exercising as much as you'd like?
Could you use more stamina?
Receive personal, independent support to follow your doctors' orders, or correct poor breathing habits you've identified on your own.
Imagine What It Would Be Like To Breathe Well...
- You might not think twice when friends invite you to do something active like go for a walk, try show-shoeing or play volleyball!
- You might feel less vulnerable during cold and allergy seasons.
- You'd know how to breathe best in polluted, dirty air during crises when you don't have a mask handy.
- You'd probably have more energy for work and fun.
- You'd play with the children in your life with abandon.
- You'd finish the race without collapsing at the end or retreating to bed!
You Got This!
Breathing Coaching features:
- A Breathing Clarity Assessment, which can include a Baseline Breathing-Pattern evaluation and other ideas for improvement after a look together at the Breathing Wellness Wheel, or a review of how we can help you carry out your doctors' program.
- 1:1 live online coaching sessions at the pace best for you.
- Method-agnostic. If you gravitate toward a particular breathing-training method from a physical therapist, book or video series, we can coach you in progressing with that. If you are working with a doctor and a program has been recommended but you are having a difficult time motivating yourself or following it, we can help you with accountability tools and a partner in Coach Lisa, who cares.
- Emphasis on building momentum, motivation and daily consistency, often using tracking to visualize your progress.
- Access between sessions to Coach Lisa for quick questions via text or voice messaging.
Your Three-Month Coaching Program
After Completing a Breathing Clarity Assessment...
You've already done the hard part — showing up, being honest about where you are, and getting a real picture of what's going well and what could be improved. Now comes the part that actually changes things: living it, consistently, with support for the days it's inconvenient, uncomfortable, or easy to skip.
Here's what I've learned, working with people through this for years: knowing what to do is rarely the hard part. Doing it — when life gets busy, when old fears show up, when results don't come right away — that's the hard part. That's not a training problem. That's a coaching problem. And it's not fast. That's why the support doesn't stop when the session ends.There's no single path here, because there's no single reason people come to this work. Maybe you're under a doctor's care and know what you're supposed to be doing — you just need help actually doing it. Maybe your doctor found nothing wrong, and you're figuring out your own self-care. Maybe you've already tried a program, a method, an app, and want an experienced outside perspective on why it hasn't stuck. Maybe you're a parent thinking through your own breathing as you support your child's. Whatever brought you here, the package flexes to what you actually need — not a fixed curriculum.
What's Included
6 Live Coaching Sessions
Two sessions a month for the full three months. Whether your plan came from a doctor, from you, or we're building it together, each session is dedicated time to check in, work through what's coming up, and adjust as we go. If you prefer a live session every week, instead of every two weeks, that can be added.
Daily Accountability Check-Ins
A simple daily check-in, using your choice of a shared habit-tracking app with Coach Lisa, WhatsApp, text message, or another private option that actually fits how you live. We'll set this up together at your first session — not a generic checklist, but something built around you.
Support Between Sessions
Life doesn't wait for your next scheduled call. You'll have voice and chat access for the moments that come up in between — a question, a setback, something you want to talk through before it grows — within reasonable boundaries we agree on together.
How It Work
1. Start with your Breathing Clarity Assessment if you haven't already. This is is where we map the full picture and find out if coaching is the right next step. Schedule an Appointment2. Enroll in your 3-month package. It's one commitment to the full journey, not a month-to-month arrangement. Real change, the kind that sticks, which takes more than a few weeks.
3. Your first session: Together, we'll choose how you'll track progress in a way that means something to you! 4. Then we get to work, with regular sessions, daily check-ins, and support all three months through.
I'm here for you with direct, 1:1 support from someone who's done this work herself. You likely don't need more information. You need a framework, and a partner, that fits your life.
Have questions about whether this is the right fit? Contact Coach Lisa to get started.
Condition Your Breathing!
Step 1: Assess your baseline breathing fitness level, or review your doctors' program and what support you need.
We can’t start where you are until we know where you’re at!
Step 2: Establish a foundation for a regular routine, with support
Normalize your baseline breathing pattern when you’re still or moving slowly. Learn to apply tools of the Corrective Breathing formula — breathe with your nose, stop breathing with your mouth, and breathe less — whenever your breathing feels labored.
Step 3: Use your breathing foundation to exercise as efficiently as possible.
Receive progressive training to build stamina. Often the more you recognize improvement, the more motivated you become!
Private Sessions
Discounted packages available
High-Touch Support with VIP Package
A special note to athletes:
What If You Could Stop Panting Once And For All?
How would that affect your life?
- Imagine enjoying workouts more.
- Imagine performing faster and easier
- Imagine confidently anticipating longer races and greater challenges.
- Imagine greater stamina and energy spilling over into other areas of your life...being more available for family or work or fun after events.
Meet Coach Lisa!
Lisa Bowen has been coaching people with labored breathing since 2011.
Lisa first took an interest in breathing retraining more than 10 years ago to work with her own asthma. Despite puffing on her rescue inhaler before, during and after exercise, she still often couldn’t catch her breath.
As she practiced breathing toning and control exercises, Lisa noticed it was becoming easier to hike a three-mile loop in the hills behind her house that she’d been doing for years. Today she can do it easily in half the time it took her 20 years ago.
Lisa became obsessed with sharing what she’d learned and started her coaching practice with a two-week course to become an instructor of the Buteyko Breathing Technique, the foundational breathing-retraining philosophy that a Ukrainian doctor developed in the 1950s to address chronic hidden hyperventilation. Since then, she has studied with the most experienced and renowned teachers from Europe and Australia, deepening her expertise—an approach that could serve as inspiration for a coaching bachelorarbeit .
After many years now, Lisa has found that better-breathing skills, once learned, become an unconscious competence. (You don’t need to explicitly focus on them after a certain point unless there’s an emergency that requires more mindful attention). Lisa was amazed and happy to find that she could breathe and exercise without discomfort in the smoky air caused by the recent Northern California wildfires, even during the infamous Camp Fire centered in Paradise, CA when the San Francisco Bay Area was reported to have the worst air quality in the world for a couple weeks last year.
Lisa is a certified massage practitioner in California. She offers alternative, non-medical/non-psychological techniques, and her services are considered to be alternative or complementary to the healing arts that are licensed by the state of California.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long does it take?
It depends where you start and how much you apply yourself, just like personal training at the gym!
Our program is designed to teach you how to notice the difference between poor and healthy breathing habits, and then offer a series of progressive activities to practice, to make positive changes.
Most of us are taking at least 20,000 breaths a day in a pattern that’s automatic and mostly invisible to us, until we start examining it. Through breathing retraining you are shown how to make incremental changes to that pattern for a short period a couple times a day — ideally blended into your regular routine — which will begin to change the automatic programming the rest of the time.
We offer several options — from our Tranquil Breath Tribe monthly membership to a top-notch, high-touch private VIP private-coaching program. To get started, join the Tranquil Breath Tribe or schedule an appointment!
Where do we do it?
We are located in the San Francisco Bay Area, on Pacific Time, and are training and coaching online over Zoom and other platforms. We were completely office based until March 2020, and have found that students have responded enthusiastically to the change. The online experience is actually better for most students because more-frequent shorter sessions are better than longer, jam-packed sessions for people from around the Bay Area, Sacramento and beyond.Â
Depending on a student’s situation, the initial session is usually 45-75 minutes. Standard follow-ups are 30-40 minutes. And we have a VIP Coaching program that offers anytime video, audio and chat messaging. Appointments start from 7:30 a.m. on.Â
Will this cure my (insert your illness name)?
Breathing retraining is a self-management approach that focuses on conditioning your breathing. We’re teaching a set of tools — based on simple, scientifically-verified principles and exercises — to normalize the breathing pattern across all the typical activities of daily life. It’s not a treatment or cure. If you have a medical or psychological diagnosis, you can use breathing retraining simultaneously with drugs and any other therapy. It doesn’t interfere with them and can even enhance their benefits. What makes us special is that we take a habit-coaching approach. Breathing is invisible and so we have to establish great habits to make headway.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
“I’ve never had a breakthrough in my health as amazing as this! Lisa has shown me a light at the end of a tunnel of chronic illness and chronic coughs. Thank God for this place!”Â
H H
Alameda, CA
“I highly recommend attending one of Lisa Bowen’s Buteyko Blitz Weekends or classes that she offers. Lisa gave me many tools that I am slowly trying to incorporate in my life. Lisa is a competent, personable teacher who both provides information and then makes sure you understand what you are learning by having you practice various methods. I am confident attendees will benefit from this method.”Â
C P
Oakland, CA
Ready To Breathe Better?
Stand-Alone
1:1 Coaching Session
75-Minute
Breathing Consultation
Four Sessions
1:1 Coaching
(10% discount over single sessions)
(After a package is purchased, the system will issue a code you can use to register online for all sessions at once or one at a time. It keeps track.)