Breathe like your life depends on it.
Ours did.
Recovery is a practice. It starts with the breath. Trauma-informed breathwork and engineered sound from two brothers who lived it. In Austin, South Florida, and online.
Our story
The story we carry into every room
Two brothers, two roads through addiction, one shared calling. These chapters are Christian’s. Tyler’s will be told in his own words.
I dropped out in 9th grade and learned the fast life early. Percocet and Xanax nearly wrote my ending before I turned 22.
I got married at 22 and walked away from that life. 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. I made it out of the life that took him. Making it out came with an assignment.
In the summer of 2026, my younger 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.
His full story is coming, told in his own words. Nobody else’s.
Meet him before you commit to anything: every engagement starts with a single pilot session where you meet both facilitators.
Christian Johnston
Co-Founder & Facilitator
Here to back his brother’s calling. Ninth-grade dropout turned startup VP and 8.5 years at Google. In recovery himself, teaching from lived experience. 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
What we believe
01Craving is a body state before it is a choice.
02The body heals when it finally feels safe.
03The breath is the handle God left within reach.
04Practice beats promises.
05Nobody recovers alone. Not even us.
Somatic, defined
Somatic means the body. That is where we start.
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.
Felt, not explained
What the body was never allowed to feel, it holds. Inside a safe container, it can finally release it.
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 works 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. Practice is how it learns 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.
Feel it now
Take one round with us
This is the shape of the practice: four connected breaths, all the way in and all the way out, then a hold. First, sit or lie down. Breathing like this can make you feel dizzy or tingly, so the hold lasts only as long as it feels comfortable, and you can stop anytime.
When you want more than one round, our breathwork classes and workshops in Austin and South Florida pick up where this leaves off.
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 speakFor families
Watching someone you love fight?
We have stood where you are standing. You did not cause it, and you cannot breathe for them. But you can breathe for yourself: regulation for the waiting room, the phone call, and the long nights. A steadier you changes every room you walk into.
You do not need their permission, their progress, or their knowledge to start. Comforted to comfort: 2 Corinthians 1:3-4.
If you or someone you love is in crisis right now: call or text 988 (Suicide and Crisis Lifeline) or call SAMHSA at 1-800-662-4357. Both are free, confidential, and open 24/7. And 988 is for you too: you can call or text about someone you love, not only for yourself. More support: resources for families.
Coming 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.
Every track will be guided and scored by the two of us, in recovery ourselves.
1:1 in Austin or South Florida, or virtual anywhere. For treatment centers, teams, and schools.