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Evidence-based education and immersive experiences for doctors and high performers
The Breath Doctors · For people and teams under pressure
Practical skills for people and teams under pressure.
Clinician-led training for healthcare and corporate teams, alongside courses and experiences for individuals.
Understand how pressure affects you. Practise tools you can use in demanding moments and make more room for recovery.
Choose your route
Work with us in the way that fits.
Healthcare teams
Training for consultants, GPs, resident doctors, locally employed doctors and their clinical teams. Clinician-led teaching, practical tools and clear learning aims for programme leads to review.
Explore healthcare training →Corporate teams
Book a ready-to-run, one-day Foundations of Balance workshop for your team, or ask us to tailor a session. Practical learning for focus, decision making and recovery at work.
Explore corporate training →Individuals
Live online courses, breathwork coaching and Foundations of Balance days for people who want practical support in their own lives.
Explore courses & dates →When keeping going takes its toll
Being good at coping isn’t the same as feeling well.
You carry responsibility. Make difficult decisions. Look after other people. Keep going.
But perhaps you’re still replaying the day when you get home. Finding it harder to be present. Or spending your time off recovering just enough to start again.
When you’re used to functioning under pressure, it’s easy to overlook what it’s taking out of you.
You deserve more than simply getting through the week.
What we want you to take away
Understand what’s happening.
Learn what helps.
Our work brings together clear explanations, guided practice and time to reflect—with three aims:
Recognise your response
Understand how stress shows up for you, and notice when the demands are starting to outweigh your recovery.
Find steadiness under pressure
Explore practical ways to work with your breathing, attention and response in demanding moments.
Make room for recovery
Build ways to step out of work mode and reconnect with the people and parts of life that matter to you.
Education. Experience. Everyday practice.
Space to pause.
Tools to carry forward.
There’s more than one way to make space for yourself. Join a live online session from home, build your understanding over a course, or step away for an in-person day.
Our online sessions and courses bring clear explanations and guided breathing practice into everyday life. Learn with us, ask questions and explore practical tools you can return to between sessions.
For those looking for more time away, our in-person experiences offer space for reflection, connection and mindfulness, alongside guided breathwork, sauna and cold exposure. Across both formats, we help you understand your stress response and find practices that fit your life.
The aim is to leave with something you can use when ordinary life starts again.
Meet the doctors behind the work
We know the responsibility.
We’ve had to learn the recovery.
We’re Tim and James. Our work in medicine has shown us how much people can carry while continuing to look capable. Our own experiences have taught us the importance of recognising when that comes at a cost.
The Breath Doctors brings those perspectives together: medical understanding, personal experience and practical ways to look after ourselves within demanding lives.
We know individual tools cannot fix an overstretched system. We also believe people deserve access to things that can help.
Meet Tim & JamesPodcasts
Breathing for Doctors
Dr Tim Hughes joins Patrick McKeown on the Oxygen Advantage podcast to explore breathing, medicine and caring for the people who care for others.
Watch the episode →NAIL-IT · 42 minutes
How to Thrive Under Pressure
Tim discusses stress, breathing, recovery and sustainable performance, drawing on his experience in medicine and wellbeing.
Listen on Apple Podcasts →From participants
Practical tools people can carry forward.
“All of it. The techniques were incredible. So simple yet instantly so effective.”
“It felt safe, real and achievable, and something that can be easily incorporated into life. I’d like to do more”
“Really brilliant session, keen to attend a full day session with my team at work after this.”
Anonymous feedback from BSLM 2026 breathwork workshop participants.
Your next step
Find practical support for your team or yourself.
Explore clinician-led training for healthcare and corporate teams, or choose a course or experience for yourself.