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What if one of the simplest ways to help your body feel calmer was simply to slow down your breathing?

Welcome to Part 3 of my Summer of Beautiful Breath series. This week, we’re exploring coherent breathing, a beautifully simple breathing practice where we breathe in and out for the same length of time.

We’ll practise breathing in for five counts and out for five counts, bringing the breath down to around six breaths per minute.

In this short guided practice, I explain why slowing the breath can support the relationship between our breathing, heart and nervous system and why coherent breathing is often used to help with stress, anxiety, heart rate variability (HRV) and resilience.

I’ll also guide you through a couple of minutes of coherent breathing so you can experience it for yourself.

In this episode:
• What coherent breathing actually is
• Why we’re aiming for around six breaths per minute
• The connection between breathing and heart rate variability (HRV)
• Why HRV can be a useful marker of resilience and our response to stress
• How our everyday breathing can become faster without us even noticing
• A simple guided 5-count inhale and 5-count exhale practice
• How to adapt the count to four or six if five doesn’t feel comfortable
• Why nasal and diaphragmatic breathing still matter
• How to build this into a simple daily breathwork practice

You don’t need a wearable, an app or any complicated breathwork technique. Just a few quiet minutes and your breath.
Try practising this once a day over the next week and notice what changes. Not just in the numbers, if you track HRV, but in how you actually feel.
And remember what we’ve been building throughout this series: notice your breath, bring it lower into the body, breathe through your nose where comfortable and gradually begin to slow it down.
Small practices. Repeated often. That’s where the magic can happen.

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Could tension around your diaphragm be affecting the way you breathe?

In the second episode of my Summer of Beautiful Breath series, I’m guiding you through a gentle breathwork and self-massage practice to help you explore and soften tension around the lower ribs and diaphragm.

We’ll use slow nasal breathing while gently working beneath the rib cage, noticing any tight or tender areas without forcing or pushing through discomfort.

In this short guided practice, you’ll explore:
• How your diaphragm and rib cage move as you breathe
• A gentle technique for massaging around the lower ribs
• How to use slow nasal breathing during the practice
• What to do if breathing through your nose feels difficult
• How to recognise tension without trying to force it away

Our bodies can carry tension we haven’t consciously noticed. This practice offers you a few quiet minutes to reconnect with your breath, soften through the upper body and give your nervous system a gentle signal that it is safe to slow down.

If you haven’t yet listened to the first episode in this series, start there to observe where and how you are breathing before moving on to today’s practice.

IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTICE: Please only practise this if it feels comfortable for you. Stop if you experience pain and do not apply pressure beneath the ribs if you are pregnant or have a medical condition that could make the practice unsuitable. If you are uncertain, seek advice from an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.

Next time, we’ll explore a simple coherent breathing practice that you can return to whenever you need a moment of calm.

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Welcome to the first episode of my Summer of Beautiful Breath series.

Each week throughout the summer I’ll be sharing a short, practical breathing exercise that you can return to whenever you need a moment of calm.
This week we’re starting with the foundations: noticing how you breathe.

Are you breathing into your chest or your belly? Through your nose or your mouth? Without judgement, these simple observations can tell you a lot about what your nervous system is experiencing.

In this gentle guided practice you’ll learn how functional breathing can help you feel calmer, safer and more regulated, one breath at a time.
If you find this helpful, save the episode and come back to it whenever life feels overwhelming.

In this episode:
Why your breathing matters for your nervous system
Chest breathing vs belly breathing
Nose breathing and why it matters
A simple daily practice you can use anywhere
Small changes that can help your body feel safe

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Let us know you’re joining here!
Welcome to the very first episode of my Summer of Beautiful Breath series.

If you’ve ever thought, “Breathwork sounds lovely… but I never actually remember to do it when life gets stressful,” then this episode is for you.

As a nervous system coach, I’ve seen time and again how just a few intentional breaths can completely change how we feel, think and respond. The challenge isn’t whether breathwork works. It’s remembering to use it in everyday life.
In this episode, I share a simple exercise to help you discover whether you’re naturally breathing into your chest or your belly, why this matters for your nervous system, and how you can begin retraining your breathing with just a few minutes of practice each day.

Throughout the summer I’ll be releasing a collection of short, practical breathing exercises and somatic tools designed to help you feel calmer, think more clearly, reduce stress and build a greater sense of safety within your body.
Whether you’re living with anxiety, burnout, overwhelm, or simply want to feel more grounded, these episodes are designed to become a peaceful few minutes in your day.

You’ll learn:
• The difference between chest breathing and diaphragmatic breathing
• How breath influences your nervous system
• Why the vagus nerve plays such an important role in stress regulation
• A breathing practice you can start today
• How tiny daily habits can create lasting change

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This is an unexpectedly emotional, funny and somewhat oversharing episode where I end up crying! Today marks 25 years of marriage to my husband, Jason, so naturally I dragged him into the studio to tell the story of how we actually ended up together, warts and all, and I promise it's a goody!

We had known each other for years. We were best friends. The timing was never right. And when something finally did happen, Jason promptly suggested we should probably forget the whole thing and stay friends.

Thankfully, I had other ideas.

This is a very unfiltered conversation about university days, terrible 90s fashion, an extremely awkward first date, a proposal that did not go remotely to plan and what 25 years of marriage really looks like.

There is plenty of laughing, bickering and Jason taking the mickey out of my love of manifestation, Reiki, sound healing and anything involving energy or frequency.

But somewhere along the way, the conversation becomes far more emotional than either of us expected.

We talk about love through depression, miscarriage, cancer and some of the hardest years of our lives, as well as the extraordinary healing power of feeling genuinely safe with another person.

It is funny, honest, slightly chaotic and very us.

And yes, I cried.
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