Breath & happiness
Meet stress with inner calm
6 week online course
A foundational nervous system training —
yours to keep, at your own pace.
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Get instant accessA regulated nervous system
might be the most useful thing you can give yourself.
Meet stress with inner calm.
Shift your state deliberately, when you choose to and when you need it.
Be powerful or peaceful — at the right time.
Experience more happiness.
This is a six-week training to build that capacity. Theory and practice, woven together.
You'll progressively strengthen your ability to stay grounded and centred
You'll see how the breath, your thoughts, and your emotions move together — constantly shaping each other, and shaping how happy, peaceful, and energetic you actually feel.
Calm the breath, and the mind calms.
Calm the mind, and the breath calms.
Relax the body, and emotions release.
Relax the emotions, and the body lets go of stored tension.
Shift one, and the others follow.
Take a deep, long in-breath, and slowly exhale. Your whole system relaxes…
Who this is for
People arrive here from three different places. You'll probably recognise one as yours, or find yourself somewhere in the overlap.
You're running on empty — and you're tired of things that don't work.
Maybe it's work, caring for people, the years simply adding up. You're not in crisis; you're just flat — more tense than not, and you've lost the feeling of your own days. You don't need to be spiritual, to call anything an energy, or to have ever meditated in your life. You need twenty minutes a day that actually changes how your body feels — something that asks you to believe nothing before it starts working. That's what this is.
You hold it together for everyone — and your body's started keeping score.
On the outside you're managing. Underneath there's a wiredness that won't switch off: the 3am wake-ups, the tight chest before something that matters, sleep that never quite lands. You've maybe tried an app or two and bounced off. This is different because it's physiological — a real, trainable practice with something you can actually measure, not another voice telling you to relax. You learn to settle your own system on purpose. A daily anchor that keeps you going, so it doesn't fizzle by week two
You've done years of inner work — and somehow it still hasn't fully landed in your body.
You can hold an hour of meditation and explain the nervous system to a friend over dinner, and still not quite feel your own state as it's happening. This is the physiological layer most practices skip: the breath training that finally connects what you understand to what you can feel. If you teach, coach, or hold space yourself, it's also the foundation you probably wish you'd had at the start. Several long-time meditators and teachers came through the cohort and said the same thing — "I learned to see my own state in real time," "I found parts of myself I thought I'd lost."
The Foundation
The Four main pillars
deep calm
Progressive Breath Training
Each week you will gradually slow your breathing rate in a structured way. The aim is to make slower breathing natural, efficient, and sustainable.
Create a baseline state of calmness you can tap into at will
More energy
Carbon Dioxide Tolerance Training
Learn a breath-hold measurement that reflects how calmly your body handles rising carbon dioxide levels — an important marker of nervous system stability.
You use oxygen better and achieve higher levels of energy
State awareness
The 7 State Shift Framework
A practical model for recognising reactive states and constructive states — and understanding how physiology influences both.
Achieve awareness of what state you are opperating from and create more opportunities
Somatic wisdom
Clear Self-Observation
Learning to listen to your body, to notice what you’re feeling, where you feel it in your body, and how your breathing interacts with it — without turning it into a story about yourself
Create somatic wisdom. Live a more embodied life. Connect with yourself.
What's included
The structured content (yours to keep)
Six weeks of lessons. Short videos, audio practices, written framing. Structured across six weeks — unlocking step by step as you complete each part, at your own pace.
Occasional nudges and inspiration by email. A few well-timed notes to keep the practice alive between lessons.
Five PDF manuals one per week, walking you through each practice and the science behind it. Control Pause, Diaphragmatic Breathing, IHT, Mula Bandha, Integration. Plus a habit tracker and the 7 Levels of Energy diagram to support your daily practice.
Nine guided breath training audio tracks, progressing from gentle to advanced, designed to support your daily practice — twenty minutes a day, at whatever pace your system is ready for.
Three short guided audio journeys – designed as pockets of release, relaxation, and quiet joy. Whenever you feel heavy, tired, overstimulated, or simply ready to let go, these 20–30 minute audio sessions offer a gentle way back into your body, your breath, and the spaciousness underneath it all.
Two deep breathwork journeys for going further when you’re ready. 60–90 minute guided sessions drawing from holotropic, Rebirth, and shamanic breathwork — the more activating side of the practice. Optional, and unlocked once you’ve moved through the first weeks. A real taste of how deep the breath can take you, held in a structured, safe space.
Lifetime access to all of it. Come back any time.
What a self paced week can look like
There’s no timetable to keep up with — you move at your own pace. But a simple weekly rhythm helps the practice land. Here’s one that works.
Start of the week — open the next part.
Two short videos and the week’s audio practice and downloadable guides unlock in your dashboard. About thirty minutes of new content. Watch when it fits your day.
Through the week — daily practice.
Ten to twenty minutes of practice a day, anchored by the breath-training audio. Occasional email nudges keep it alive between lessons.
Once a week — a longer session.
Give yourself one longer practice. A shape that works:
- Arrival and quick check-in
- Review of the week’s training and how it landed
- Habit tracking, celebration, and gratitude practice
- Guided breath training — slow breathing development and gentle breath-hold work
- The week’s framework, applied to real life
- A guided breathwork session to close the practice
- Reflection and close
Six weeks of this. By the end, the rhythm becomes second nature.
What you'll do, week by week
Week 1 — Awareness & Baseline
You establish your starting point.
The course opens by looking at how your breathing and nervous system actually run right now.
You will:
- Learn the fundamentals of slow, efficient nasal breathing — the foundation for calmer energy and clearer thinking
- Measure your natural breathing rate and start to see what it tells you about your current state
- Learn to take a simple breath-hold measurement that reflects how regulated your nervous system actually is
- Understand what different measurement ranges typically mean for energy, calm, and regulation
- Capture how you currently experience your days, so you have a real baseline to compare against later
- Begin using the habit tracker that holds your daily practice across the six weeks
You start by watching your own patterns with clarity and curiosity. For most people, this alone produces the first shift — a felt sense that your inner state is more trainable than it had seemed.
Daily practice: breath training (10–20 min), morning and evening measurement, habit tracker.
Week 2 — Diaphragmatic Breathing
You stabilise the rhythm. We refine slow, diaphragmatic breathing and lengthen the exhale — the breath that tells your nervous system to settle. By the end of the week, you’ll start to notice when your physiology is shaping how you’re seeing things, and you’ll practise one conscious pause before reacting each day.
Week 3 — Cellular Energy & Controlled Discomfort
This week is where we stop treating comfort like a god.
Through structured breath holds and intermittent hypoxic training, you meet mild, controlled intensity and learn something deeply useful: your system can be trained to stay steady under pressure.
We also explore mitochondria — the small but mighty energy-makers inside your cells — and how breathwork may support the way your body creates energy, resilience, and vitality from within.
Week 4 — Deepening & the Pelvic Floor
You refine your control. Mula Bandha — the pelvic-floor lift — brings awareness to a part of the body most people never train, and that awareness sharpens everything else.The breath gets applied in real situations now: before a hard moment, not just inside a practice session.
Week 5 — Integration
You compare your starting point to where you are now. Your first measurement against your final one. We come back to the 7 States framework — this time with weeks of experience under it. You begin to choose your baseline rather than inherit it. You are now building sovereignty.
Week 6 — Continuing the Practice
You close the loop. A guided session anchors the training into life beyond the six weeks — what to keep, what to deepen, what to let go. The course ends here. The practice doesn’t.
What changes after six weeks
During the training, you'll learn to:
- Breathe in a way that restores your energy rather than depletes it
- Recognise and shift your internal state with precision
- Access calm, focus, or intensity when you need them
- Think more clearly and act more deliberately
- Stop quietly losing energy to inefficient breathing
- Move through your day with steadier footing
By the end of the course, you'll have:
- A simple daily practice that strengthens your system over time
- A reliable method to reset and refocus in key moments
- More stable energy across the day
- Greater clarity and presence in conversations and decisions
- A wider internal range — the capacity to handle intensity and still feel light
And, often, something harder to put into words. A shift in how you experience your days.
More vitality. More joy in ordinary moments. More agency in how you show up. A wider internal range. Life that feels less heavy, and more yours.
WHAT STUDENTS SHARE
WHAT YOU’RE SAYING YES TO
full REFUND — YES, EVEN AFTER YOU FINISH
If this isn’t what you needed, I don’t want your money.
Within the first 14 days — or before you've worked through a quarter of the course, whichever comes first — full refund. No questions, no forms.
If you go all the way through and it genuinely didn’t deliver any value for you, you can still get a full refund. I’ll ask you to fill out a short questionnaire about what didn’t land, so I can keep improving. That’s the whole condition.
Nobody has actually asked for a refund. The point isn’t that I’m hoping no one uses it. The point is that I’m building something I want honourable people to feel safe inside.
What this is — and what it isn’t
This is not a quick fix, and it isn’t about chasing peak experiences or forcing yourself into some dramatic breakthrough.
It is a steady, grounded training in calming the system, listening to your state, releasing what you are ready to release, and learning how to work with your breath as a real tool for nervous system regulation.
Six weeks of consistent practice can begin to change your baseline. Not through magic. Not through pressure. Through repetition, awareness, and the quiet intelligence of the body.
The daily practices are gentle and accessible: slow breathing, light breath holds, structured awareness, relaxation, and state-shifting tools you can return to in real life — not just when everything is peaceful and the candles are lit.
There are also two deeper breathwork journeys included as bonuses for those who feel ready and curious to go further. These sessions are more intense, which is why they only unlock after you’ve moved through the first weeks and built some foundation. They are completely optional. You never have to do them. There is no prize for pushing. No spiritual gold star for overriding your body.
This is also not a deep-trauma container or a replacement for therapy, medical care, or the right professional support. If you are navigating active trauma, the gentle daily practices may sit alongside good support, but they are not meant to replace it.
The invitation is simple: come as you are, practice honestly, and learn to meet your own system with more awareness, steadiness, and choice.
PRICING
Self-Paced — Lifetime Access
€149
One payment. Includes:
- All six weeks of structured content — short videos, audio practices, written framing
- Five PDF manuals, a habit tracker, and the 7 Levels of Energy diagram
- Nine guided breath-training audios, three audio journeys, and two deep breathwork journeys
- Occasional email nudges and inspiration to keep the practice alive
- Lifetime access — yours to keep, come back any time
Instant access — start today, in your own time.
A note on the price. If you want this and €149 is what’s stopping you, write to me before you decide the course isn’t for you: hello@dominiclevien.com. We can talk it through.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Do I need any prior breathwork experience?
No. We start from where you actually are. By Week 6, the methods that sounded technical at the start are just part of how you breathe.
Self-paced or the live cohort — which should I choose?
Both use the same six weeks of content. Self-paced (€149) is for moving in your own time, with lifetime access. The live cohort (€249) adds six weekly Zoom calls with me and a small WhatsApp group — more structure, more accountability, and the energy of doing it alongside others. If the live experience calls you, it's here: dominiclevien.com/breath-and-happiness-live-cohort. And you can always start self-paced now and upgrade to a cohort later.
How much time do I need each day?
Ten to twenty minutes of practice a day — that daily practice is what does the work; the lessons are the framework. The module videos run 20 to 60 minutes each, and you can watch them at your own pace.
When can I start? Can I take my time?
Right away. Self-paced opens the moment you join — no cohort dates to wait for. Move through the six weeks at whatever pace suits you, and come back any time. Lifetime access means there's no rush.
Is there a group or community?
The self-paced course is yours to do independently, in your own time — no group, no schedule to keep. The live cohort adds a small WhatsApp group for the six weeks, where people share their gratitude journals, their struggles, and their wins — one of the most motivating parts of it. If that kind of shared momentum appeals to you, that's the cohort: www.dominiclevien.com/breath-and-happiness-live-cohort.
What equipment do I need?
A quiet-ish and undisturbed space, That's it. No special breathing devices, no apps, no gear. the power of this training is that you already have everything you need!
What if I'm working with anxiety, panic, or active trauma?
The breathwork in this course is grounded and mostly not activating. Most people with mild-to-moderate anxiety find slow nasal breathing settles their system. For deeper trauma work, this can sit alongside the right support but isn't the support itself. I will propmt you before we do any deeper activating work and you will be able to choose to participate or not — write to me if you're unsure.
What are the contraindications?
For most people, none. The training is gentle by default and the breath holds in early weeks are mild. The classic contraindications for breathwork — situations where I'd want to talk with you first:
- Pregnancy
- Cardiovascular conditions (heart disease, uncontrolled high blood pressure, recent stroke or heart attack)
- Severe respiratory illness
- Epilepsy or seizure disorders
- Glaucoma or recent eye surgery
- Recent major surgery
- Chronic mental illness (active psychosis, schizophrenia, severe untreated bipolar)
- Certain medications (especially blood pressure or psychiatric medications)
For your specific case, write to me before enrolling: hello@dominiclevien.com — I'll be honest with you about whether this is the right time.
Do I get to keep everything?
Yes. All lesson videos, all audio tracks, all PDF manuals — yours to keep, with lifetime access.
What's the refund policy?
Full refund, two paths. Within the first 14 days (or before you've worked through a quarter of the course): no questions asked. After completing the course: still a full refund if it didn't deliver, with a few honest sentences about what didn't land. Detail in the Trust section above.
What happens after I finish?
The course content stays available — lifetime access, revisit any time. You'll be invited to the live cohort and other things I run when they fit. No marketing fire-hose.
IF THIS IS YOURS
If you've read this far, you've probably already decided.
If you're still unsure — listen to that. Take a breath. Read the page once more if you want. Or write to me with the question that's actually sitting with you: hello@dominiclevien.com. No pressure to buy at the end of the email.
If it's a yes:
Start the moment you're ready.
— Dominic
Want to do it live?
Same six weeks of content — with more around it: six weekly Zoom calls with me (all recorded, so you never miss one), two longer live breathwork journeys, and a small WhatsApp group that genuinely keeps you going — people sharing their gratitude journals, their struggles, and their wins. If you'd rather have that structure and live support, the cohort is for you.
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