Become unshakeable
go airless
Learn to master your impulses and control your stress response with our breath-holding masterclasses and workshops, helping to build greater self-control, confidence, and calm under pressure.
Un-Shakeable
With self-belief, obstacles disappear, and potential is shaped.
Stress and performance anxiety have become everyday experiences in an increasingly challenging and demanding world.
Stress is our response to feeling pressured or threatened. It often arises when we feel we lack control or the ability to cope. While various techniques aim to promote relaxation and emotional regulation, breath-holding has emerged as a surprisingly effective method for calming the nervous system and improving our stress response. Through breath-holding, individuals can strengthen mental focus, resilience, and problem-solving skills and learn to manage stress and anxiety more effectively.
Less Reactive
Breath-holding teaches you to pause between what happens and how you respond. This gap allows you to choose how to respond to situations rather than being at the mercy of instinctive reactions, which can often escalate conflicts or lead to regret.
More Engaged
Developing deep self-awareness and psychological flexibility can help people bring their best selves to work and enhance performance. This can lead to increased creativity, engagement, and less burnout.
More Adaptable
Breath-holding enhances the ability to analyze situations, identify potential solutions, and make effective decisions, even in uncomfortable or rapidly changing contexts. Helping us to spot and seize opportunities amidst chaos.
Flow State
Breath-holding leaves you feeling focused and in control. There’s a sense of mastery and confidence that you can achieve anything. Triggering feelings of deep satisfaction and alignment with purpose.
Experience the transformation
Holding your breath represents a stressful situation. By cultivating self-mastery over our thoughts in a deliberate way during high-stress moments—like practising breath-holding—we gain the confidence to tackle other stressful moments similarly.
Masterclass
Breathe out, Breathe in - and Hold!
Our one-hour interactive masterclass & wellness experience featuring guided meditations, breathing exercises, and breath-holding helps reduce stress, stimulate self-belief, and promote resilience.
1. Guided Meditation
Cultivating a healthier stress response begins with identifying when you feel agitated, reactive, or anxious. This mental check-in exercise sharpens self-awareness and the presence of mind to bring your best self.
2. Mindful Breathing
When the mind performs mental gymnastics, the right tools can help you regain power and control over the situation. This breathwork exercise builds focus and fosters relaxation, a powerful combination for accessing the flow state and boosting resilience.
3. Breath-holding
By taking on this captivating challenge, individuals learn to surpass their self-imposed boundaries. This boost in self-confidence enables them to view obstacles as surmountable and ultimately overcome them.
Healthy Minds for Changing Times (March, 2025)
BREATH-HOLD MASTERCLASS
REGISTERED
170
LIVE
101
TOTAL PLAYS
229
The masterclass was very well received, with a lot of interaction, and it gave colleagues a new perspective and technique of using breath-holding to help them cope with or prepare for difficult or stressful situations.
Trystan Lewis-Williams
Senior Health and Safety Advisor (North West)
Workshop
Go beyond what you believe is possible
Through storytelling, insight, and the latest research, this half-day workshop builds on the lessons and exercises learnt in the masterclass, culminating in an immersive water experience, breath-holding in the purest way possible. You'll leave simultaneously relaxed and invigorated, ready to face challenges more confidently.
Research & Storytelling
Through personal storytelling and the latest research, we'll share the transformational powers of breath-holding to calm the nervous system, support our well-being, and unlock greater self-belief, confidence, and a sense of inner peace. It's all the inspiration you need to become your most un-shakeable self.
Exercises & Insight
Take part in guided meditations and breathing exercises to slow down, open up, and discover ways your stress response stands in the way of bringing your best self to life and work. Using these insights and tools, we'll empower you to go beyond what you believe is possible to up-level your game.
In-Water Breath-holding
Experience the joy of deep focus, mindfulness, and self-control as you hold your breath in the calm and safe waters of the newly developed water sports centre at Llanishen Reservoir, North Cardiff, Wales. This immersive water experience will inspire you to see that with a little effort, anything truly is possible!
We love what we do, and we think you will too.
Nathan Vinski
Freedive Coach
Nathan Vinski is a world-renowned freediving coach and ex-competitive freediver, featured in Netflix's “The Deepest Breath”. The brains behind Train Freediving books, courses, and the Apnea Fitness training programmes. He's been a leading voice in freedive education for almost ten years. Having trained a global squad of competitive freediving athletes to professional success and taught freediving courses worldwide, his mantra is “train smarter, not harder”, and the results speak for themselves.
CMAS & AIDA Freediving Instructor
90m Deep Diver
Sarah Russell
Wellness Coach
Sarah co-founded Train Freediving, a global leader in freediving education and training. After a decade in the corporate world, Sarah traded boardrooms for underwater worlds, captivated by breath-holding's power to access mindfulness, challenge her comfort zone, and boost self-belief. Now, Sarah shares the benefits of breath-holding and the sport of freediving with trainee freedivers, athletes and the corporate world so you, too, can experience the airless advantage in your work and life.
CMAS Pool Instructor
150m Pool Diver
Our mission is to transform mindsets and foster mental fitness, resilience, and mindfulness while tapping into human potential.
Athletic Performance
Boost O2 & CO2 efficicency
Stress Management
Increase confidence
Unlock greater stamina, recovery capacity, and ability to bounce back from setbacks. Breath-holding teaches you tools to manage stress and anxiety. The ability to remain calm under pressure can enhance performance, making athletes more resilient and adaptable during training and competitions.
Coporate Wellness
A unique experience
Supports mental wellness campaigns and activities
Tailored to your audience and campaign message
Share the transformational power of breath-holding with employees to enhance physical health and mental well-being in the workplace and an individual's everyday life. Breath-holding can activate the parasympathetic nervous system, facilitating relaxation and reducing feelings of anxiety.
Endocrine Support
Stress Reduction
Focus & Mindfulness
Self-belief
Discover the power of breath-holding to reduce chaos and stimulate a greater sense of equilibrium inside body and mind. A regular breath-holding practice can lower cortisol levels, the hormone associated with stress, leading to improved emotional well-being and greater self-belief.
Articles & Research
The Power of Breath-Holding For Calming The Nervous System
This practice is deeply rooted in both ancient traditions and modern science, highlighting the profound connection between breath, body, and mind.
Breath-Holding Techniques & Benefits for Triathletes
By incorporating specific breath-holding strategies, triathletes can improve their swimming efficiency, increase their lung capacity, and enhance overall endurance.
Breath-Holding: Your Secret Weapon in Lowering Toxic Levels of Cortisol
Cortisol is your body's 'stress hormone' and plays a significant role in immune and menstrual health, impacting weight regulation, energy levels, and sleep quality.
Breath-holding & CO2 Training to Enhance Sports Performance
Breath-holding and carbon dioxide (CO2) tolerance training are increasingly recognized as valuable techniques for enhancing athletic performance.
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