About Chelsea Reinbold

I teach breathwork the way it is meant to be held slowly, safely, and with deep respect for the nervous system.

My path to this work did not begin with a plan to become a facilitator or run a training. It began with my own healing.

For a long time, I believed I didn’t have trauma. I was functioning, capable, and getting through life. But beneath the surface, my body was living in chronic stress and survival. I didn’t know how much my past was shaping my capacity, my relationships, and what I believed was possible for my life.

Before breathwork, I was a full-time bartender. I had children young, and while I always knew I wanted to help people, I assumed that path was therapy. At the same time I genuinely believed bartending was what I would do forever because I had the belief I was too old to start something new.

Breathwork found me unexpectedly. And through it, I learned something that changed everything:
You cannot think your way through healing.
And you cannot force your way into the life you desire.

You have to feel your way there.

Through breathwork, I built a new relationship with my body, my past, and myself. As I invested in my own training and mentorship, I found my calling. Not just a modality but a way of leading, healing, and living that was rooted in safety, embodiment, and truth.

That lived experience is what shapes how I teach today.

I am a trauma-informed breathwork facilitator and mentor who prioritizes embodiment over performance, regulation over intensity, and integrity over shortcuts. I do not teach breathwork as something you do to people. I teach it as something you hold with people.

I have supported hundreds of individuals through breathwork, and I have seen this truth again and again:
The deeper we go ourselves, the deeper our clients are able to go.

This is why Embodied Breath Academy exists.

As breathwork becomes more popular in coaching and wellness spaces, I see a growing need for facilitators who understand that trauma, stress, anxiety, patterns, and behaviors live differently in every body. There is no one-size-fits-all breath journey. Some nervous systems need intensity. Others need slowness, pacing, and gentleness. Safety always comes first.

I refuse to teach the cathartic chase. I teach discernment.

Because breathwork, when not held safely or embodied properly, can do more harm than good. But when facilitated with care, presence, and nervous system awareness, it creates lasting change. Clients feel grounded. They feel capable. Their past no longer limits their capacity to hold their true desires.

And from that place, everything changes personally and professionally.

My role is not to rush your growth.
It is to support your embodiment.

So that when you facilitate, your presence alone creates safety.

This is not fast.
It is not formulaic.
And it is why the results last.