Integral Breath Academy ✦ professional breathwork ✦ yoga nidra ✦ meditation ✦ online worldwide
Breathwork; Yoga Nidra & Meditation for Nervous System & Balance
Come home to yourself
Your holistic way to balance your nervous system and uplift your entire being— calm when you're wired, energy when you're flat — through professional, original pranayama, trauma-sensitive breathwork, deep rest, yoga nidra and meditation. For people who've tried the apps and talk therapy, and know there's something deeper.
30+ years of practice · meditating since 1987 · Transformational Breath® Facilitator & Group Leader · SOMA Breath® Master Instructor & Transformational Coach · diplomated Art and Trauma Therapist (Germany) · Yoga Trainer, speaker in Meditation, Science, Consciousness
Beneath the noise there is space
Most of us live one breath ahead of ourselves — bracing, planning, performing. The breath is the one place where you can step out of that current and return to yourself. In a few conscious breaths the body softens, the mind widens, and you remember a spaciousness that was never gone — only covered over.
One home. Many doors. A whole academy of breath and balance
As the name suggests: Integral Breath isn't a single technique or a wellness trend — it's a whole academy of breath: several original breath methods, deep-rest practices, and living meditation traditions in one place, taught from three decades of practice. Some doors are active, some are effortless. All of them lead to the same place: a balanced nervous system and a quieter, focused mind and a spacious heart.
You don’t need to become someone new. You need a way back to what’s already here, underneath the noise. That way is your breath — and it’s the most natural thing in the world. Regulating, deep, restorative, energising— never forced catharsis. You don’t have to choose the “right” method; you’re guided to the one that fits where you are today.
From regulation to recognition
Whatever door you enter — breath, deep rest, or meditation — the path moves through the same three stages: a regulated nervous system, genuine embodied presence, and the quiet recognition of who you already are.
Nervous System Sovereignty
Stress- & Burnout-Resolution
Biological Regulation
measurable HRV shifts
End the chronic survival mode — not by managing it, but by regulating it at the biological level. Heartful, science-grounded methods retune your system with precision, so steadiness becomes something you can call on.
Embodied Presence
out of survival mode, into flow
a true coming home
integration at cellular level
Real change, not just insight about change. Together we release what keeps you from being fully with yourself — steady, lasting work with old emotional weather, so your life force and self-trust move freely again.
Recognition — Coming Home to Being
remembering your essence
beyond mindfulness
beyond self-improvement
Transformation is work; recognizing your essence is grace. The veil thins, and you meet — directly — the unshakable presence you never actually lost.
Who guides you
Integral Breath Academy is led by Eva Makkos — a teacher of more than thirty years who works where science, living lineage, and trauma-sensitive depth meet.
Eva is a certified Transformational Breath® Facilitator and Group Leader and SOMA Breath® Master Instructor, a certified Art and Trauma Therapist in Germany, and a lifelong meditator (since 1987) and yoga practitioner (since 1992), trained in various traditions and rooted in the lineages of Kashmir Shivaism and Krishnamacharya. since 2007. Ancient wisdom, modern science, held with genuine care. → About Eva
SOMABreath® & Transformational Breath® & Own Research
Why I offer established and validated methods
Being a certified faciltator and group leader I guarantee you the integration of each session. We work with the breath as a precise tool for deep subsconsious procesess.
Using breath procokolls and curated music, esp. recorded for rhythmic breathing. The protocoll has been researched at Cambridge University. It is very efficient to for heart coherance, reaching Gamma and Theta states and Breathwork instead of just Marketing Breathwork.
30 years background to develop mastery in yoga and meditation. Diplomated art therapist in psychosomatics I(in Germany) A safe space for your journeys and transformation.
Research
Grounded knowledge from studies of conciousness and my PhD thesis about transformational processes assure the academic depth of of guiding you.
Kind words of participants
Facilitation of professional Breathwork and functional breathing training with market leader methods meets the real profound experience of healing and coming home. Clients talk about their way of therapeutic shortcut with my facilitation back into full aliveness of their essence.
Marie
"I felt the affirmation 'I am safe in all vibrant cells of my body. Through the breathing radically all blockages got resolved and my energy was able to flow freely again. I was in a birds' perspective and realised: Everything is already within me. I feel totally grounded and secure in my own essence. Thank you for this liberating coming home to myself ."
Student
Katharina
"I can very warmly recommend a breathwork session with! After each session I felt incredibly calm, centered and grounded. I really felt that I slipped into my body. I was preparing for an exam and in retrospect I was incredibly relaxed and calm where as there was tension before. Eva guides in a very pleasant way; I felt held and free at the same time. Thank you for this transforming power."
Merchant
Martina
"I'm grateful having to got to know, Transformational Breath through Eva. Eva is easygoing and direct . Sie can explain method and agency which helped me to open myself to the new method. So far I had 2 sessions each time I felt the effects afterwards clearly. . Eva is the perfekt facilitator of a transformtive process. I really recommend this cellular work to everyone. "
Retiree
How breath, rest & meditation balance your nervous system — the science
This is one of the places where ancient practice and modern data agree. Conscious breath, deep rest, and meditation measurably shift your nervous system — and, done well, they can settle you when you’re wired or* lift you when you’re flat.*
Here is an overview of some studies
Fight-or-flight → rest & digest. Slow, exhale-led breathing signals safety to the brain, easing heart rate and the stress response (Zaccaro et al., 2018).
Raises HRV & vagal activity. Slow breathing reliably increases heart rate variability — a core marker of a resilient, flexible nervous system (Laborde et al., 2022).
Works both ways. Regulation isn’t only calming down — it’s the capacity to come up from shutdown too. A balanced system can do both.
Quiets the overthinking mind. In long-term meditators, the brain’s default mode network — the seat of rumination — grows quieter (Brewer et al., 2011).
Releases stored tension. Body-based breath patterns help discharge stress held in the body — reaching what talk alone often can’t.
Deeper rest and sleep. Deep-rest practices shift brainwaves toward the slow rhythms of restoration, so you recover faster.
Just five minutes a day of exhale-emphasized breathing lowered anxiety and lifted mood more than mindfulness meditation in a 2023 Stanford trial (Balban et al., 2023). → More on nervous system regulation
Where would you like to begin?
Your foundation.
To release, heal & come alive, daily energy, menopause distress.
to rest & restore. Effortless, non-sleep deep rest that renews you in minutes.
to stay steady under pressure. The science of moving between activation and calm — at will
to come home to presence, Stillness and inner spaciousness, from a living tradition.
Go deeper — The Integral Breath Reset
A guided 4-week journey that uses breath and deep rest to move your system out of chronic activation into steady, self-led balance. → See the program · → Work with me 1:1
You are not a problem to solve. You are a presence to remember.
Eva Makkos
Start today — a free guided meditation
A short, guided practice to settle your system and taste what’s possible. Yours, free — just tell me where to send it.
FAQ
Breathwork is the conscious use of breathing patterns to shift your physical, emotional, and mental state. Depending on the method, it can energize, deeply relax, release stored tension, or open expanded awareness and reach altered states of consciousness. It works from the body up, reaching places thinking alone can’t. Many modern techniques have their roots in ancient breathing techniques that have been used by mankind all over of the world.
It’s your body’s ability to move flexibly between activation and rest — to ramp up when needed and genuinely settle afterward. Breath, deep rest, and meditation train that flexibility, so calm (or energy) becomes available on cue.
No. This is professional, therapeutic breathwork, meditation and mentoring for personal growth and nervous-system regulation — not psychotherapy or medical treatment. It often reaches, in the body, what talk alone cannot.
No. Every practice is guided step by step, and you always move at your own pace. The free guided meditation is a gentle place to begin. For Breathwork please read the beginner's guide for your first breathwork session.
Disclaimer: Our offers serve personal development and are based on knowledge of several years of university study and 7 years of practice of psychosomatics and psychiatry. Eva knows how the nervous system reacts under stress. However, the offers this context don not replace medical diagnosis nor treatment.