Nicole is a breath educator and coach
Our bodies are dynamic living entities with so much possibility and complexity. By learning about the science of breathing and learning how your conscious self can communicate with and support your body, you can better enable yourself to thrive in your life journey.
I (Nicole) became curious about breathwork through personal experience. In 1999, I was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition; the iris of my eye had become inflamed, and overtime the inflammation spread to my optic nerve. While the eye doctors were helping me manage my symptoms and prevent permanent damage, they did not know how to make my eye better. Unfortunately for the first year, things kept getting worse. I started to try different things to see if anything would help reduce inflammation. Once I started using my breath and setting aside time to simply breathe and relax, my eye started to heal. Another year later, the inflammation was gone. I would lie on the floor and practice slow and relaxed breathing, often visualizing sending light, my breath, and healing energy to my eye. During that experience, I learned firsthand that the body has to soothe itself and it takes time. Using my breath was a way I could help my body relax and heal.
I returned to normal life and forgot about breathing, a few years later my eye inflammation returned. I then changed my habits and started to practice what had helped in the past, including relaxed slow breathing and breath visualizations. My eye inflammation reduced and went away more quickly than the time before. This cycle still occasionally repeats, but when the inflammation returns I’m able to manage and eliminate it. In 2000, I started to more seriously investigate the power of the breath and how it is a bridge for our conscious mind to access the nervous system. In 2021 I took a WIMHOF breathing course and in 2022 become certified to teach in the Buteyko Breathing Method, Oxygen Advantage®, and Pranayama (yoga breathwork). I continue to learn about the body and the power of the breath; I’m participating in two other certification right now. I enjoy learning from, sharing, and working with others. We’re all participating in life together, sharing breaths with all those around us.
Schedule a time to talk if you have any questions or want to discuss your situation. Taking a class or a private is a great way to start.
Approach & Philosophy
Nicole helps you identify self-regulation tools to better understand your body so that you can be your best self. Nicole is continuously learning from scientific papers, books, yoga, qi gong, teachers, and clients how our human physiology works and ways to influence.
Your breath is a connection between your unconscious and conscious self. By increasing your awareness of your breath, you can better understand what’s happening in your body. By intentionally controlling or altering your breath, you can help your unconscious-self become more in line with your conscious-self intentions. Through movement and action you can help direct your body and settle your mind.
Nicole enjoys helping others access their breathing, understand how their breathing pattern differs from the “functional breathing pattern”, and ways they can slowly shift their breathing habits overtime. The more efficient your breathing pattern is, the easier it is to breathe and perform your best. And your breathing pattern will be unique to you as none of us have the textbook posture, body, and physiology. Nicole enjoys working with others to help them figure out what will work for them.
Our breathing patterns need to be able to return to a relaxed and calm state so that your body can heal, recover, rest, and rejuvenate. We want to be able to ride the emotional roller coaster of life with grace and ease. Sometimes due to life, our breathing gets stuck in a less relaxed state. In order to relax, we need to help our body figure out how to relax. Relaxation comes from the body, not the mind.
Education & Experience
Nicole is continuously learning through formal training, by listening to and working with others, and through her own experience.
Nicole Carpenter, a retired engineer, is a certified Oxygen Advantage® Breathwork Instructor, Buteyko Clinic Breathing Method Instructor, Yoga Instructor (500 hour), and a Pranayama (yoga breathwork) Instructor.
Currently enrolled in: Spiraldance Breathwork Level 1 and 2 Certification, April – December, 2025
Embodying Safety: A Certificate for Integrating Yoga, Qigong & Polyvagal Theory™, March – May 2025
Tai Chi Easy Training & Certification, July – August, 2024
Teen Yoga and Trauma Informed Children’s Yoga Certification through Yoga Ed – Oct. 2023 – April 2024
Wim Hof Method 5 day Retreat with Dan de Luis, Ontario, Canada, January 2024
Teaching Children’s Yoga Certification through Yoga Ed – August – September 2023
300-hour Yoga Teacher Training with Yoga U Online, September 2022- October 2023. Instructors included Tom Myers, Marlysa Sullivan, Julie Gudmestad, Baxter Bell, and Lynn Crimando.
Buteyko Clinic Breathing Method Certified Instructor, Sept 2022
200-hour Yoga Teacher Training, Evolution Physical Therapy & Yoga, Oct. 2021 – May 2022
Yoga Vermont 200-hour Pranayama Certification, April 2021 – July 2022
Qi Gong 5-day workshop with Robert Peng, Omega Institute, July 2022
Oxygen Advantage Certified Instructor, April 2022
Pranayama Focus Weeks with Eddie Stern, Spring and Fall 2021
Engineering Health: Introduction to Yoga and Physiology, New York University, 2021
Wim Hof Method Fundamentals Course, Spring 2021
Chi Running 5-day workshop with Danny Dreyer at Omega Institute, September 2017
Regular yoga practitioner 1996 – present
University of Wisconsin – Madison, B.S. Chemical Engineering
Please outreach with any question you may have. Nicole Carpenter is based in Shelburne, Vermont and can meet in-person at her home or virtually.
Nicole’s approach combines ancient traditions with modern science, empowering you to understand your body better and develop self-regulation skills through intentional breath control and awareness.
You need no prior experience to start doing breathwork. Wherever you are and whatever state you are in is a perfect place to start.