8-week 1:1 program:
Sustainable Cognitive Performance
Under Pressure
This 1:1 breath coaching experience (in person in Berlin or online) is designed to help you build a daily functional breath practice that supports clearer thinking, better focus, steadier decision-making, emotional regulation, and more reliable recovery in demanding work and life contexts.
Program start: Jun 25, 2026
Applications close: Jun 15
Unmanaged chronic stress takes a toll on your body and mind
Chronic stress does not only affect how you feel — it degrades the quality of how you think, decide, communicate, and perform under pressure.
Energy And Drive
Chronic stress drains physical and mental energy. Over time, this can show up as reduced vitality, lower motivation, inconsistent output, and a growing sense that even ordinary demands require too much effort.
Perception
Under stress, perception narrows. You develop tunnel vision, interpret ambiguity more pessimistically, miss nuance, and become less able to accurately read context, people, and risk.
Cognition And Decision Making
Stress compromises executive function. Thinking becomes more reactive and short-sighted, while focus, memory, prioritization, strategic thinking, and decision quality all suffer.
Emotional State And Relationships
When your system is overloaded, emotional regulation weakens. You become more reactive, less flexible, and less able to stay clear, grounded, and constructive in conversations that require leadership.
using Intentional breath to
Rewire your nervous system
Intentional breath is one of the most practical ways to regulate your nervous system in real time. It helps you shift out of stress reactivity, regain cognitive clarity, and access a more regulated baseline from which focus, perception, and better decisions become more available.
In this 1:1 program, you will learn functional breathing techniques tailored to your physiology, schedule, and performance demands. The goal is not just to feel calmer, but to think more clearly, respond more deliberately, and perform with more consistency under pressure.
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Program Details
“I felt massive shifts in my clarity, decision-making, and ability to think clearly. Especially in the startup world there is always a dozen things that fight for your attention. I can really put them into their place and prioritize what is really important in the moment — and from there make much better decisions.”
Lucas Fingerle
/ Founder & CTO
Practical tools for leaders with demanding schedules
The central principle of this program is accessibility, precision, and integration. Everything is designed around helping you use the practice in real life — not only in ideal conditions, but in the middle of demanding days.
Tailored 1:1 Guidance
You receive individual guidance based on your goals, nervous system patterns, stress profile, and work reality, whether we work together in person in Berlin or online.
Accessible protocols
Learn effective techniques you can use before difficult conversations, in meetings, between tasks, while traveling, or in moments of internal pressure — without needing to step away from your day.
Effective support
I support you throughout the 8 weeks with accountability, refinement, and adaptation, so the practice stays relevant to your needs and continues to evolve with your progress.
Build the ability to access peak peformance under pressure in 8 weeks
Sharper Thinking Under Pressure
Reduce mental noise, come out of overwhelm faster, and regain the ability to prioritize what matters when many things compete for your attention.
Stronger Focus And Cognitive Endurance
Train your ability to concentrate, return to task more quickly, and sustain higher-quality attention during cognitively demanding work.
Better Decision Making
Approach decisions from a more regulated state so you can structure complexity better, think less reactively, and choose with more clarity and discernment.
Composure In High-Stakes moments
Stay steadier in meetings, conflict, public speaking, and pressure spikes so your thinking and communication remain available when stakes are high.
Experience from previous participants
“The breathing has helped me to take better decisions. When you calm yourself down, you are able to look at all the different elements of a decision, structure those elements properly, and it is easy to prioritize them and find the right path.”
Dr. Daphne Hering
Founder & ceo, cyra Capital
“There is so much change — an ever-changing environment that produces so much pressure from the outside and very often from the inside. I find breathwork is a very effective tool to simplify all that complexity and just make sense of it.”
Tim Ermak
FOUNDER & SENIOR AI PRODUCT MANAGER
“I have noticed on the days when I do my breathwork practice that I have a clearer head and I can be more focused. When I do 10 minutes of breathwork, I can focus much better.”
Bryony Cooper
DIRECTOR INVESTOR RELATIONS, PT1
“I was able to stay calm pitching on stage in front of several thousand people — thanks to controlling my breath before, and just in general being able to ground myself.”
Lucas Boller
FOUNDER & CEO, KINETIC
Readiness check
Meaningful baseline change only happens with consistent practice. This program is a good fit if you are willing to:
Commit to weekly 1:1 sessions
Join one weekly 90-minute 1:1 session online or in person in Berlin, with guidance tailored to your current challenges, patterns, and goals.
Practice briefly every day
Commit to a realistic daily practice of roughly 5–30 minutes across the day, using protocols adapted to your schedule and capacity.
Apply the work in real situations
Bring the practice into actual performance contexts — meetings, deep work, decision points, conflict, travel, or recovery — so it becomes usable under real pressure, not only during sessions.
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my focus and expertise
I’m a former C-level tech executive supporting leaders and high-performing professionals in accessing clearer thinking, better self-regulation, and more sustainable cognitive performance under pressure. My work combines evidence-based breath and somatic tools with close individual guidance so clients can build practices that are both effective and realistic in the context of demanding lives.
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