Breath for Recovery
Recovery is a practice.
It starts with the breath.
Trauma-informed breathwork and engineered sound for people in recovery, teams under pressure, and the organizations that serve them. Grounded in science, delivered with lived experience. In Austin and online.
Our story
The story we carry into every room
Two brothers, two roads through addiction, one shared calling. Christian’s chapters are below; Tyler’s are coming soon.
I dropped out in 9th grade and learned the fast life early. Selling weed, MDMA, Xanax. Then taking them. Percocet and Xanax nearly wrote my ending before I turned 22.
Marriage at 22 flipped the script. I built a computer repair shop into a real business, sold it, and became VP of a cloud startup in Austin.
Eight and a half years at Google taught me how high performers burn out quietly, and how the same nervous system that survives the street also drives the boardroom.
My father died of a heroin overdose. This year my brother survived sepsis, endocarditis, and open heart surgery from IV use. Recovery is not a concept to me. It is my family’s daily fight.
Breath for Recovery exists so fewer families get that phone call.
The founders
Two brothers, one mission
We have lived what addiction takes. Now we use everything we walked through to help people build a better life through sobriety and God, one breath at a time.
Tyler Vazquez
Founder & Facilitator
- Recovered from drugs, living proof of the work
- Certified in the Cloud Breathwork Method
- Leads Breath for Recovery’s mission and practice
Tyler’s full story is coming soon, in his own words.
Christian Johnston
Co-Founder & Facilitator
- Here to back his brother’s calling
- High school dropout
- 8.5 years at Google, startup VP before that
- Former drug dealer, recovered from addiction
- Founder of Cloud Breathwork, Austin; ASU-certified in Somatic Breathwork
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.”
2 Corinthians 1:3-4“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
John 3:16
Somatic, defined
Somatic breathwork: healing that starts in the body
Somatic comes from the Greek soma: the living body. Somatic breathwork works where addiction and burnout actually live: in the nervous system, the chest, the gut, the jaw. Insight alone rarely changes a body that still feels unsafe. Practice does.
Body first
Stress, trauma, and craving are body states before they are thoughts. We start where they start.
Feel to heal
Sensation is the doorway. When the body is finally allowed to feel inside a safe container, it can release what it has been holding.
Trained, not talked
Regulation is a capacity you build like strength: repetition, load, rest. Every session is a rep.
Why it works
Why breath, why sound
Regulate
Intentional, connected breathing shifts the body out of fight or flight and engages the parasympathetic brake the nervous system forgot it had.
Release
Somatic work reaches what talk alone can’t: stored trauma, grief, and shame held in the body.
Rewire
Cravings and stress live in the nervous system. Repeated practice builds a new baseline to come home to.
Rhythm
Engineered sound and frequency give the breath something to lock onto: every session scored like a set, built to carry you through.
Who we work with
Three rooms, one method
Rehabs & treatment centers
Group somatic breathwork for clients in residential and outpatient programs, led by facilitators your clients can’t dismiss as tourists.
Bring it to your facilityTech & executive burnout
Nervous system regulation for founders, operators, and engineers running on empty. We speak the language because we lived the pace.
Plan a team sessionYouth & schools
Straight talk from two brothers who made it out: why the friends of the fast life disappear when it counts, and what to build instead.
Invite us to speakHere for yourself or someone you love? That door is open too.
Explore sessionsComing soon
Guided audio, engineered for recovery
A streaming library of breathwork journeys scored with original electronic sound. Built for the 3am moments. Join the waitlist and get first access.