Who are we?
We are BreathWorx — Professional facilitators who share a fascination with the power of breath. We share the drive to seek out new environments and experiences that test self-perceptions and limitations. Like many, we also share the basic human need to connect with ourselves and with the world around us. We realize conscious breathing is simply the most effective tool for alignment and execution across disciplines.
After countless hours of research, travel and training as students and teachers we have built and rebuilt the blueprints of time-tested methods for easy accessibility. We have gone to great lengths to bridge the gap between ancient Eastern wisdom and the modern, Western analytical mind. We know the tools that work because we have tested and practiced them first-hand. Now, we offer BreathWorx for the most intimidated novice, the most ambitious practitioner and anyone in between.
We’re educators with backgrounds that span traditional teachings such as yoga, qigong, martial arts, healing arts and meditation as well as professional athletics, entrepreneurship and corporate leadership. We are inspired by the limitless nature of human capacity and acknowledge the personal responsibility we each have in actualizing true potential. Of ours and of those around us.
Meet the Team
Gabor Boczonadi
Gabor is a professional athlete, turned corporate warrior turned human development facilitator. His exposure to the connection between movement, breath and performance started at the age of six as a competitive tennis player. After pursuing tennis professionally he turned to corporate America where we worked as a Regional Director at a multinational marketing agency. The lifelong pressure as a top performer led him searching for something to help handle stress and reverse the decades of trauma left on his body and mind. It was that search that led him to yoga, breathwork and mindfulness training.
Gabor is an experienced yoga teacher (RYT500) who also holds an Ayurvedic (traditional Indian medicine) as well as a Himalayan Sound Healing Certificate. He completed all his yogic training in traditional methods in India. When not teaching movement, breath or meditation he works as an outdoor educator as a Level 2 Challenge Course Facilitator. Gabor spent years working with athletes, at risk youth, corporate professionals as well as prison populations. A teacher by nature and a top performer by nurture Gabor knows the way to results and how to guide others on the path to it.
Michael Hooten
Michael is an instructor of breath and movement with 10 years of teaching experience in settings with youth, adults, mental health, physical fitness, and integrative, holistic wellness. With a childhood foundation in taoist meditation, he became a student of martial arts, yoga, and meditation during childhood and teenage years. Continuing to explore the combination of breath and movement in areas such as weight lifting, rowing, hiking, backpacking, and rock climbing, Michael discovered the power and universal application of the thing that keeps us all alive - the breath.
Michael is a certified qigong breath work instructor, a registered yoga teacher (RYT200), certified professional life coach, and a registered psychotherapist.