Nicole is a breath educator and coach.
Nicole is a breath therapist and facilitator.
Nicole has been practicing breathwork since 2000, when she started to help herself heal from an autoimmune condition. In 2022, Nicole started working with others and founded her business, The Breath and Balance. Our breath is an incredible self-regulation and vitality enhancing tool. Through breathwork we can shift from surviving to thriving.
Nicole Carpenter is a certified Oxygen Advantage® Breathwork Instructor, Buteyko Clinic Breathing Method Instructor, and a Pranayama (yoga breathwork) Instructor.
Schedule a time to talk if you have any questions or want to discuss your situation.
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 is a certified Oxygen Advantage® Breathwork Instructor, Buteyko Clinic Breathing Method Instructor, Yoga Instructor (500 hour), and a Pranayama (yoga breathwork) Instructor.
Spiraldance Breathwork Level 3-5 Instructor Training Program, February 2026 – April 2027
Spiraldance Breathwork is a conscious circular breathing and empowerment program that meets Global Professional Breathwork Alliance Standards.
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, 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
Engineer, strategic planner, and team manager for 25 years
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.