Who we be.
Founding partners.
Martin O’Toole
Founder
Martin is an integrative psychology coach, breathwork facilitator and author of the psychospiritual self-help books How To Die Happy and How Not To Suffer. Before that: twenty-five years in advertising – good at the job, considerably less good at being a person. His former addiction, his burnout, and the suicidal ideation aren’t details he shares to make folks uncomfortable. They’re the reason he knows what he knows, and why, to him at least, this work isn’t, in any meaningful sense, theoretical.
Sober since early 2018, he found breathwork in Bali, and it changed his life. It showed him that with his own body – using something he’d spent a lifetime taking utterly for granted – he could intervene in his own learned stress responses. And so, he literally changed his mind. And he’d undo none of it – every bit of the wreckage that came before is why he’s here now.
Julia Louise
Founder
Julia is a certified embodiment coach, Reiki healer, yoga teacher and bodyworker, with fifteen years of holding spaces as a yogi, retreat lead, co-facilitator, and wellness manager. For decades, she’s woven her training into her travels, learning each craft in its indigenous home – yoga in India, massage and bodywork across Thailand and Bali, among them Thai massage and Emotional Release Bodywork. A formidable guide, in the fullest sense of the word.
She’s also the operations brain behind Worker Be – turning the vision and strategy into something that runs, scales and actually delivers. A rare combination: hands that heal and a head for the business, holding the room and the whole operation with equal command. She co-facilitates every breathwork session alongside Martin, then carries the logistics, the standards and the architecture that let the work land and last.
Julia and Martin facilitate from the same place: lived experience. Whilst the credentials are real, and the lineages are serious, they’ve done – and continue to do – the work themselves.
What we actually do.
We bring breathwork and leadership coaching into organisations.
On paper, it sounds almost insultingly simple: we teach people to breathe.
In practice, it’s nothing like a classic wellness workshop, and everything like a release of pressure that’s been held far too long.
The unambiguous biology.
Through the vagus nerve, controlled breathing measurably lowers cortisol, restores heart rate variability, and eases the body out of the threat response it’s been consistently inhabiting, in some cases for decades. A 2023 Stanford study found that breathwork outperformed mindfulness for real-time mood improvement and anxiety reduction. This is an ancient practice, with which modern science has finally caught up.
Further than regulation.
Emotional Release Breathwork, the centrepiece of what we bring, works at the level of stored stress and suppressed emotion. People release things they’ve carried since childhood: grief that never had a room, rage that was never permitted, chronic tension that turns out to have had an emotional address all along. The person who walks out of that room is not quite the one who walked in, and it shows up on Monday morning. In all the best ways.
We work best with founders and leaders who are done performing wellness at their people. Leaders who are ready to actually do something about it – from the roots of the roots.
“What a journey – it was life-changing! And the most incredible thing is that I just breathed!”
The work.
Welcome To Your Nervous System (1.5h)
Welcome To Your Nervous System is an introduction: a grounding in the science of breath, intervention, regulation techniques, and the workings of the nervous system. This practical, interactive session walks total beginners through the basics of how to regulate themselves.
Full Immersion (half day)
The Full Immersion is the complete intervention. Over half a day, you move through a BOLT-score baseline, the FRAY Method, diaphragmatic warm-ups, a full Emotional Release session and a closing sharing circle, with a measured before-and-after to take back to the mothership.
Emotional Release Workshop (2.5h)
An Emotional Release Breathwork session works at the level of bio-energetic discharge, reaching what talking therapies might spend years circling: filed-away grief, the truth you swallowed, the anger you made reasonable, the fear disguised as composure. You breathe, you release, you reset.
Deep Rest Workshop (2h)
Deep Rest Breathwork is a guided, immersive practice that settles an overstimulated system back to baseline. Where Emotional Release moves something, this one eases you down through slow and deliberate down-regulation. You arrive wired and depleted, and you leave genuinely reset.
Executive Coaching (60-90m)
If you're leading and carrying more than you let on, this is for you. We already provide coaching to leaders running teams between 2 and 20,000, in the ongoing work of leading from a regulated place.
Get in touch
If you want to find out about any of our work in more detail, get in touch.
Our
Values.
We don’t know what we don’t know
Always learning. Perspective is a healer, and there are three sides to every story. When things get heated, take your medicine: breath. Simples.
Own your shit
Good or bad, own it. A hidden error annoys us far more than an owned one. If you get something wrong, say so first and fast.
Underbellies rule
Vulnerability is courage. We engage from the heart, every time. No shame, just truth.
Full measures only
We deal in people's mental and physical health, their safety. So check, double-check, and when you're not sure, wait until you are. As close to excellence as humans can be.
Fluff is for belly buttons
We're near-ego-free or working on it. We come as we are, speak as we feel, and say what we see. We invite the same in return.
Our home.
We’re on the road and in venues and spaces most of the time. For sales inquiries, email Rafferty. He’ll get things rolling.
3rd Floor Suite
207 Regent Street
London, W1B3HH