About us

Our story

Breath@Work emerged quite naturally… For over a year we both trained with Dr Ela Manga, a medical doctor based in Johannesburg and founder of Breathwork Africa.

Every week, we logged in from Thailand and South Portugal to practise facilitating breathing sessions or to attend monthly webinars and weekend-long workshops. Learning with Dr Ela Manga and Breathwork Africa was for both of us a transformative experience. Their enthusiasm and passion are limitless. They challenged us and supported us in equal measure.

Along the way, we discovered we both had years of experience working in a corporate environment and fresh memories of tight deadlines, adrenalised energy, drained creativity and low enthusiasm.

Slowly we started to envision bringing the magic of the breath into the corporate world. What if we could re/energise the workplace? What if we could share the precious tools we learned and help leaders, managers and employees feel more relaxed, resilient but also more focused so they could reach their fullest potential and access their higher cognitive abilities?

We both strongly believe it is our mission to do so.

Véronique - PhD, Co-founder of Breath@Work

Véronique loves researching, learning and exploring the amazing potential of the human body and mind. She started her career in academia before entering the online education industry, working as Learning Experience Designer and Educational Consultant for various global companies. She witnessed how working online, remotely, in industries where tight-deadlines are the norm can lead to disconnection, frustration and very often burnout.
This awareness led her to study various mind-body modalities - in parallel to her corporate career- before turning to Breathwork. She strongly believes that by harnessing the power of the Breath we can not only feel better but also tap into our highest potential and transform our lives.
She left the corporate sector to focus on yoga therapy, Breathwork, and her renewed interest in research - especially the interconnection between yoga, pranayama and neuroscience.
She lived in France, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, Spain but has now settled in the South of Portugal.
To find out more about Véronique's professional background, check https://www.linkedin.com/in/veroniquegauthier1/

"We can go weeks without food, days without water but only minutes without breathing. It is astonishing that we don't pay more attention to the way we breathe. We can do so much with our breath: lower our heart rate, calm our nerves, boost our memory & creativity...”

Céline - Co-founder of Breath@Work

Céline has spent her entire career working in Learning and Development for large corporations and renowned professional services firms across Europe and Southeast Asia. She has helped professionals at all levels develop the skills, endurance, strategies, resilience, and mindset they need to thrive and succeed in all areas of life. By working in high-pressure situations with overachievers, she has learned what it takes to keep being our best selves even when the outside world is rapidly changing, moving, or becoming more complex.
She has been working as an independent leadership, executive and life coach and facilitator since 2020 which is also when she discovered breathwork.
Celine sees in breathwork an answer to the aches, pains and longings experienced by so many professionals in the corporate world who have lost touch with their innate talents, a sense of purpose, their drive and with their peers. Celine has lived in France, the UK, the USA, the Philippines, Singapore and is now residing in Thailand.

To find out more about Celine’s professional background, check https://www.linkedin.com/in/celinebousquetfontaine/

“I spent twenty years learning what motivates and inspires individuals. I never came across anything as powerful and potent as breathwork. Our breath is the greatest untapped superpower we have, and the modern world is just now beginning to (re)discover its potential. ”

“The world of work, for most people, is anywhere from mildly to severely broken. The world today needs people who have stepped back into a place of possibility and potential. We need people who are fully alive, maximally capable and fired up, tapping everything they have from a place of joy and enthusiasm to create the next generation of ideas, solutions, services, institutions, experiences that will lead us all into the future in a more empowered, activated and alive way.”

Jonathan Fields

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