About Breath of Life Wellness

A practice built in Maui by the people who needed it.

Modern breathwork and Internal Family Systems, run by a small team of practitioners who came to this work the hard way.

A retreat cohort gathered on the Maui deck

Nick TNT Terry and Paulina, co-founders of Breath of Life Wellness, at the love-more graffiti wall in Maui

Our story

How this started.

Breath of Life Wellness began the way most honest things do. Out of necessity.

Nick TNT got sober at 24, worked the steps, and at year four hit the wall most people don't talk about. He found breathwork, and discovered the piece his recovery had been missing. He went on to write a book modeled on the Big Book of AA, and build a practice on Maui rooted in conscious connected breath, twelve-step wisdom, and the body.

Paulina and Aundi came in with the IFS lens, the parts of us that suffer, protect, manage, and exile. Amanda Dykann brought two decades of yoga and spiritual coaching to every retreat. The team grew; the mission did not change.

To put a working tool in the hands of anyone who's been trying to feel better and quietly running out of ideas.

We don't do affirmations and bypass. We do the work that hurts a little, then keeps working.

The Breath of Life ethos

The team

Meet the people behind every program.

Nick TNT

Breathwork + recovery

Nick TNT is a breathwork and retreat facilitator with over a decade of experience in wellness and recovery. He specializes in conscious connected breathwork to support emotional release, nervous-system regulation, and reconnection to self-trust and purpose.

He is the founder of Breath of Life Wellness, co-owns Honu House Hawaii, and is the best-selling author of Breath of Life: Finding Long-Term Recovery with Breathwork and Stepwork. Nick's facilitation blends breathwork, cold immersion, mindfulness, and community to create trauma-informed, heart-centered spaces where people can release, reconnect, and remember who they are.

Amanda Dykann

Yoga + spiritual coach

Amanda Dykann is a yoga teacher, retreat leader, and spiritual coach with nearly 20 years of experience. For over 15 years, she has guided luxury yoga retreats around the world, blending movement, mindfulness, and holistic healing in breathtaking locations.

Trained in Bikram, Vinyasa, and Yin yoga, and holding a master's degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica, Amanda creates deeply transformative experiences rooted in both yoga and spiritual growth.

Paundi

Internal Family Systems

Paulina and Aundi, PAUNDI, are honored to share the insight and lived experience they have gained through their education and advanced training in Internal Family Systems (IFS). Both are currently pursuing their doctorate degrees in psychology and are Level 3 IFS trained.

Becoming IFS trained in the same year marked a meaningful alignment and the beginning of a shared path in this work. What began as parallel journeys naturally evolved into a shared mission to bring IFS into the world in a way that feels accessible, embodied, relatable, and fun.

What we stand for

Four lines we won't cross.

None of these are marketing. They're how we work, in every program, every session, every email.

Honesty over performance

No affirmations and bypass. The work that hurts a little, then keeps working.

The body, every time

Talk has its place. The body holds the rest. We always put the body in the room.

No one turned away

Donation-based weekly journeys. Scholarships on retreats. We mean it.

Community is the medicine

A practice you do alone won't hold. A practice held by a circle will.

Success stories

What changes, when it changes.

Three voices, three starting points. None of them planned to write a testimonial. They wrote anyway.

Initially I was skeptical about breathwork. I'd been suffering from anxiety, depression, self-harm and insomnia. Working with Nick reduced my anxiety and insomnia all together.

Anjali R., former patient

After two heart attacks and the pandemic, I spent two months on Maui. Nick was extraordinarily helpful. The daily practice changed my life.

Andrew Martin-Weber, former patient

The daily practice of breathwork has had, and still continues to have, a profound influence on my focus, mental outlook, and clarity.

Tom Barry, former patient

From the journal

Notes from the practice.

Field notes for sponsors, sponsees, and the curious. Short reads, mostly.

A small group of practitioners on yoga mats

Becoming a breathwork practitioner.

What the training actually involves, and what we look for in cohort applicants.

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A group of women practitioners on the Maui deck

Discovering breathwork and long-term recovery.

What we mean when we say breathwork is the missing piece of the recovery puzzle.

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Breathwork and personal transformation.

Why thirty days of daily practice changes more than thirty months of insight ever could.

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About the practice

Common questions.

Are you a treatment center?

No. Breath of Life Wellness is a wellness practice, complementary to clinical treatment, not a substitute for it.

Do I need to be in recovery to work with you?

No. Many of our clients aren't. The work translates to anyone carrying anxiety, grief, or stuck patterns.

Are you licensed therapists?

No. We're certified breathwork practitioners and coaches. We work alongside therapists and refer out when clinical care is the right call.

Where are you based?

Maui, Hawaiʻi. Most in-person work happens here. Online programs run worldwide.

How do I get in touch?

The fastest way is the form on the contact page, or DM us on Instagram. We answer within two business days.

One life. One breath. One love.

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