Own Your State™

Nervous System Regulation for

Real Life

Own Your State — Before Your State Owns You.

Stress is inevitable.
Feeling hijacked by it isn’t.

Discover how breath-holding, nervous system science, and practical state-regulation tools can help you stay steady—even when your inbox, your hormones, and your household are all actively plotting against you.

Experience the Transformation

Own Your State™ is a science-backed, experiential approach to mastering the way you respond to daily stress.

Not by escaping life…

But by learning to regulate your nervous system, activate your vagus nerve, and build calm from the inside out.

If meditation apps haven’t saved you…
If your to-do list is longer than your patience…
If your nervous system feels like it’s running Windows 95…
You’re in the right place.

Experience the transformation

Own Your State™ is a science-backed, experiential approach to mastering the way you respond to daily stress.

Not by escaping life…

But by learning to regulate your nervous system, activate your vagus nerve, and build calm from the inside out.

If meditation apps haven’t saved you…
If your to-do list is longer than your patience…
If your nervous system feels like it’s running Windows 95…
You’re in the right place.

Regulate Your Body

Reclaim Your Life

Why it works - when all else fails

Owning your state isn’t mindset. It’s biology.

Our blend of experiential learning and targeted exercises helps you...

  • Reset cortisol and calm your stress response

  • Strengthen your vagus nerve (your body’s internal “calm switch”)

  • Build resilience using controlled stress (like breath-holding)

  • Improve focus, energy, mood, and emotional regulation

  • Create calm that lasts longer than a weekend spa trip

  • Full system regulation - not just mind or body.

This is stress mastery you can feel—in your breath, your body, and your day.

This is stress mastery you can feel—in your breath, your body, and your day.

By Owning Your State, You Become...

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 athletes, leaders, and the hormonally-challenged 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.

More in Flow

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.

Who It’s For

Groups of individuals who want to activate their most powerful state to live an exceptional life, every single day.

Creatives, Founders & Entrepreneurs

Create from clarity,

not chaos.

Your best ideas don’t come from panic—they come from a regulated, steady state where clarity, creativity, and intuition can actually breathe. But building something from nothing is inherently stressful: deadlines, uncertainty, financial pressure, self-doubt, and the constant hum of “what’s next?” all take a toll on your nervous system. Our training helps you stay grounded when everything feels high-stakes, make smarter decisions under pressure, and create from coherence instead of chaos. When you own your state, you unlock the ability to innovate, lead, and execute with a level of calm confidence that becomes your ultimate competitive advantage.

Athletes & High Performers

Peak output requires

peak regulation.

At the highest level, talent isn’t what separates the good from the great—nervous system control does. When your physiology is stuck in overdrive, your reaction time slows, your focus narrows, and your emotional control disappears right when you need it most. Our training teaches you how to harness breath-holding, vagus nerve activation, and controlled stress to sharpen your edge: steadier decision-making, quicker recovery, deeper resilience, and the ability to perform under pressure with a calm mind and a powerful, regulated body. When you own your state, you stop playing from survival mode—and start playing from mastery.

Humans Trapped by Hormones and Chaos

Calm your chemistry.

Own your day.

Life doesn’t slow down—and chances are, neither do you. You’re carrying more than most people realise—mentally, emotionally, physically. Between work, parenting, relationships, errands, responsibilities, and the constant pressure to hold it all together, your nervous system rarely gets a moment to breathe. This work helps you create calm amid the madness, steady your emotions, regulate overwhelm in real time, and build a nervous system that can handle the chaos of modern life. Perfect for anyone juggling work, family, relationships, pets, responsibilities, and a never-ending list of tabs in both their browser and their brain.

Why Breath-holding?

Because it works fast.
Because it’s primal.
Because it sends a powerful message to your nervous system:

“You’re safe. You’re capable. You’re in charge.”

It’s not about deprivation.
It’s about activation.

Join us

From chaos to clarity, from stress to control—tools to own your state anytime, anywhere.

Signature Talk: Own Your State™

A story-driven, science-backed keynote that mixes laughs, real-life chaos, and real-time nervous system (and hormone) resets. Perfect for creatives, entrepreneurs, and founders; athletes and high-performers; and anyone juggling life's endless demands.

Your cortisol will chill. Your vagus nerve will cheer. Your team will actually notice the difference.

Available in 15–60 minute sessions.

Workshop: Nervous System Reset Lab

Step into a highly relatable, interactive workshop where chaos meets clarity. You’ll learn how to pause, reset, and own your state—no meditation retreat or silent cabin required.

Walk away knowing how to:

  • Reset your stress chemistry in minutes

  • Activate your vagus nerve to stay calm under pressure

  • Respond instead of react to chaos, deadlines, or tantrums

  • Build lasting focus, clarity, and resilience

This lab gives you hands-on tools to hack your nervous system and balance your hormones—fast.

Available as half-day or full-day sessions.

Breath-holding Experience

A half-day, guided, accessible introduction to controlled stress, breath-holding, and your Mammalian Dive Reflex.
This is where science meets embodied experience—an immersive workshop that shows you how your body actually works under stress and how much calm, control, and power you can access when you know how to work with it.

It’s equal parts science, stillness, and “whoa, I didn’t know my body could do that.”
Through step-by-step breath-holds, simple resets, and hands-on nervous system techniques, participants learn how to shift their state on command—without strain, overwhelm, or needing to be “good at breathing.”

People walk out feeling:

  • Clearer — mentally sharper, less fog, more direction

  • Calmer — grounded, steady, unfazed by noise or pressure

  • Sharper — focused, responsive, not reactive

  • Powerful — aware of their capacity and confident using it

It’s a reset, a revelation, and a reminder:
Your body is capable of more than you think—when you know how to access it.

Meet Your Coach - SJ

SARAH JANE

Freediving & Wellness Coach

Nervous system educator. Water woman. A human who has survived: moving countries, restarting careers, building a business, new motherhood, grief, burnout, and a toddler who believes the only way to live is to drum non-stop!

I teach people how to stop living in survival mode—and start owning their state—using the same tools that kept me calm underwater and grounded in the hardest chapters of life.

CMAS Pool Instructor

150m Pool Diver

Director of chill the f*ck out

What they're saying...

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)

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.

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Breath-Holding for Hormonal Sanity & State Mastery

If your hormones feel like a tempest. There's a simple science-backed way to chill the mood swings, calm the cortisol, and cool the hot flashes so you can get more sleep and stay in control throughout your day.

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The Secret Nervous System Hack Every Founder and Creative Needs

Meet serotonin, the gut-brain axis, and the vagus nerve—your body’s built-in performance booster, stress bouncer, and occasional therapist. Find out how to unlock your gut-brain power to get the competitive edge.

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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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Ready to shift from chaos to clarity, from stress to control—tools to own your state anytime, anywhere.

About:

Train Freediving is a global leader in freediver training and education. Providing freediving courses, coaching, and digital training in Wales, the UK, and worldwide. Our approach is simple: learn to freedive comfortably and confidently – and have fun doing it! As the premier CMAS-affiliated education provider in the UK, you can trust that when it comes to learning about the sport of freediving, there's no one better to guide you.