Guiding you to connection with your inner world so you can transform your outer world
Breathwork & Coaching that brings a breath of fresh air to how you do life
What I believe
In a day and age where so many of us are at breaking point from all that life demands of us, I know that breathwork can help us live more fully.
I believe there is so much we are up against in today's world that many of us are merely surviving. Everywhere I look I see women at capacity as they attempt to juggle all the things all at once. We’re knackered. We're overwhelmed. We're running on empty. This is especially the case for mothers as the support (hello mythical effing village – where are you!?) is so lacking.
And I am utterly bored of the narrative that woman should forget their needs, their desires, their passions, themselves and just get on it…
This is the kind of BS that has us collectively drowning under the pressure of the mental load, constantly on the edge of burning out and regularly daydreaming about packing in our current life set-up for greener – and hopefully less tiring and stressful – grass elsewhere.
I want to be part of rewriting this script.
This new script is one where women everywhere are deeply remembering and making space for themselves, their needs, their passions and their power. It’s one where women are living life more fully. And being more fully themselves. I want this for the world because I believe that women are here to change the world: we’re here to lead, to create and to shake things up in a way that only we can.
But we’ll need to be rested, resourced and resilient if we’re going to rise.
Here’s where I come in…
I’m here to help women tune out from this BS script and rewrite one that enables them live life more fully.
Using breathwork, I guide women to connect to their inner worlds so they can transform their outer worlds.
My story
It all started with one breath.
As is often the case, breathwork came to me when I most needed it. For me it was early first-time motherhood. For you, it might be another time of great challenge or upheaval in your life.
Within the space of one breath, I became a mother. I passed through that portal of transformation into a new, exhausting, magical, beautiful, utterly chaotic shitshow of a chapter.
I waved goodbye to life as I knew it: adventuring around the world and into myself for over a decade leading up to 2019 as I carved out a path for myself. It was a beautifully messy chapter of finding my tribe and vibe as a surfer, learning foreign languages from scratch, falling in and out of love, solo travelling on a shoestring, trying on various professional hats and partying hard (zero regrets).
On this wild and wonderful journey, I’d curated my personal toolkit of practices to support my health and happiness. Yoga, journalling, visualisations, surfing, 2-hour-long morning practices… these were my go-tos to smooth out the kinks when the going got tough. So by the time I got pregnant in 2019, I thought I was pretty unshakable and there wasn’t much that some yoga, a bit of salt water and buying a plane ticket couldn’t fix…
But nothing could prepare me for the challenges of motherhood.
I quickly found - as many of us do - that new motherhood packs quite the punch: the bone tiredness, the constant worries, the relentless mess, the sheer incapacity to grasp the weight of responsibility when you take the baby home for the first time. And, yes, the love, the joy and the gratitude too. The intensity of new motherhood hit me like a tonne of bricks.
As I grappled with this upturning of my own internal world, the world was turning upside down around me. The first lockdowns of 2020 hit and, with my partner working on the frontline in ICU, things got scary and unpredictable overnight.
To add an extra layer of challenge to it all, after resigning from my corporate job due to being treated badly during pregnancy, I started working for myself as a freelance copywriter and coach with a baby on my lap and a vague plan.
To say that this village-void, anxiety-fraught, juggling-all-the-things experience of first-time motherhood took my breath away would be an understatement.
I felt torn between the absolute need for support but the complete lack of desire to give my baby over to anyone.
I felt like I was spending the long days just waiting for nap time/bedtime so I could get a moment to myself to breathe.
I yearned for the freedom my “old” life was full of and then felt guilty for feeling like that.
I felt judged for my parenting choices but wished I could just trust myself.
And I missed the essence of myself – that free-spirited, adventurous woman – that seemed to have disintegrated when I became a mother.
Desperate to “feel like myself again”, I grappled at my feel-good practices that had come to define me and hold me together so neatly before motherhood. But I quickly realised that a little yoga here and some journalling there took the edge off, but I needed to go deeper.
Enter breathwork
In amongst the mess of early motherhood, one of the only self-care practices I could find time and space for was connecting to my breath.
I started with simple relaxation and stress-relieving breathwork techniques and then moved onto Wim Hof-style breathwork paired with cold water swimming. When I was introduced to a transformative technique called conscious connected breathwork, I knew I was onto something game-changing.
Breathwork quickly became my go-to tool to give me the space to press pause on the busyness of mothering and life. And, honestly, to get to the end of each day in one piece.
But I soon realised that I wanted more: I didn’t want to just “survive” and feel like I was constantly bringing myself back from the edge of tears or burnout. I wanted to make space for me and my growth amongst the shitshow of it all. I didn’t want to forget about my needs, my passions, my desires, my dreams, myself.
As I delved deeper with breathwork, I found myself nurturing my connection with who I am deep down - my wisest, most authentic self - underneath all the stress, pressure and exhaustion of this chapter of life.
The transformation
Breathwork has since helped me to:
increase my emotional capacity to hold space for my daughters as they navigate all the big feelings.
find my flow as I juggle work (freelancing and running a business), mothering and everything else that makes up life.
increase my resilience to ride the waves of challenge that come hand-in-hand with being a mum, business owner and – let’s face it – human.
navigate post-natal anxiety and bring myself back from the brink of burnout.
unlock my creativity and more easily enter into flow states.
grow as a person: shedding layers of conditioning, becoming more unapologetic in who I am, feeling grounded and confident in myself, trusting my inner wisdom and – yes, absolutely – giving fewer fucks about what others think.
process and integrate the experience of birthing my first daughter.
develop a deep trust in my own intuition, enabling me to make big life decisions by tapping into the wisdom I hold within.
reconnect to parts of myself that I had pushed down or forgotten about through the process of adulting and becoming a mother.
Guiding other women on this path
I have no intention of keeping the “secret” of breathwork to myself!
Since 2021, I have had the immense pleasure of guiding others to connection with their inner worlds so they can transform their outer worlds.
Now – as a GPBA-certified, 800-hour trauma-informed breathwork facilitator & teacher and certified holistic wellbeing coach – I share breathwork in a 1:1 and group setting, both online and in-person around Switzerland. While most of the breathwork sessions I do are in English, I occasionally facilitate in French.
Through doing this work, it has become my mission to guide other women on this same path to living life more fully and more fully as themselves.
I believe that when women can connect to the inner wisdom and life force energy they hold within, they become the most rested, resourced and resilient version of themselves. The version that is here to usher in a new world.
And I’m very much here for this world!
Learn more about my journey into the world of breathwork in this blog post.
Learn more about my story and what I stand for in these podcast episodes:
More Mojo Podcast: Breathwork, Motherhood and Self-Connection with Grace Chinn
The Second Spring Podcast: Interview with Grace Chinn
That One Thing Podcast: Wellness in the Surf with Grace Chinn
The Inner Pleaser Podcast: Introducing Breathwork with Grace Chinn
Meditation for Misfits on Kinda Sound: Breathing the Early Years with Grace Chinn
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You can also find me on Substack, where I write about finding magic and mindfulness in the mess of motherhood in my publication ‘Breathing Motherhood’.
Some fast facts
I’m Scottish but live in French-speaking Switzerland with my husband and our two young daughters.
As well as a breathworker and wellbeing coach, I’m a freelance copywriter and content writer.
I started working for myself in 2020 with a 6-month-old baby on my lap and a vague plan.
In my previous lives, I’ve been a Spanish-English translator, English teacher, project manager and retreat cook.
My husband is a nurse who works shifts so every week looks different in our house.
I speak Spanish (rusty but solid) and French (imperfect but functional).
Human Design: 3/5 Splenic Projector.
Astrology: Pisces Sun, Virgo Ascendent, Capricorn Moon.
I travelled and lived (mostly solo) around the world for 10 years before settling down (for now) in Switzerland.
I’ve practised yoga for 2 decades but still feel like a beginner.
I love surfing and I know I’ll grow old by the sea, surfing until I can’t stand anymore.
Let’s breathe together
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1:1 Breathwork Sessions
Carve time out of your busy schedule to drop all the roles you play in life to connect with your inner world via the powerful portal that is the breath. Sessions entirely tailored to you.
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Breathwork Facilitator Training
Learn the art of holding space in a deeply personal & transformative way through the Breathing Space Breathwork Facilitator Apprenticeship, with me as your 1:1 teacher.
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Group Breathwork Sessions
Come to an online or in-person group breathwork workshop or session to experience deep connection with yourself and explore a variety of themes in a group setting.
The values that drive my work
Connection
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Self-empowerment
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Integrity
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Authenticity
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Connection • Self-empowerment • Integrity • Authenticity •
My approach…
Holistic
By blending the body-based practice of breathwork with cognitive coaching techniques, I create unique and powerful containers that allow for true transformation.
Down-to-earth with a sprinkling of woo
Yes, breathwork can be quite woo but I share the practice in a relatable way that’s accessible to people who might be new to such practices of connection.
Grounded in experience
I cannot guide others on a path I myself have not walked. Having been own my own personal development journey for 17+ years, I guide from a place of lived experience.
No BS
The wellness world has become a complicated, confusing space…I like to keep things simple, honest, accessible and down-to-earth.
Bespoke
There is no one-size-fits-all approach that works for everyone. I adapt my services to suit you as an individual, your needs, your lifestyle and your intentions.
Gentle & Intuitive
I believe that transformation unfolds in its own time without a need to push. My feminine approach to breathwork facilitation allows this unfurling to occur.
Well-being Education
GPBA-certified 800-hour Breathwork Teacher Trainer: Breathing Space, 2025
Oxygen Advantage Functional Breathwork Instructor in training, Oxygen Advantage, as of 2025
Yoga Nidra Teacher in training: Sarovara Yoga, as of 2024
Grounding to Grow Breathwork Facilitation Retreat: Grounded Life, 2024
Chakras Training Course: Emma Newham Fitness, 2024
400-hour Trauma-informed Breathwork Facilitator Certification: Breathing Space, 2022
Holistic Health & Wellness Coach Certification: The Institute for Integrative Nutrition, 2020
Plant-based Nutrition Certificate: The Center for Plant Based Studies via eCornell, 2019
