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Seeing 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥-𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 drives me, and I thrive on leading teams to make it happen—for patients who need it most.

𝐏𝐡𝐃-𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 20+ 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞, I accelerated my career quickly, building and leading international teams within just 2.5 years of starting in the corporate world. I’ve managed complex clinical and commercial projects, 𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬-𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬, 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥, and ultimately served on the Board of Directors of a global organisation.

I thrive at the 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧—aligning people, simplifying complexity, and driving teams to 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬 that improve patient outcomes.

Ei-Ling Tan, Ph.D.

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Stressed out of my mind, running on fumes, and wondering if this was what success was supposed to feel like. Spoiler alert: it wasn't.

Then breathwork found me. And bloody hell, everything changed.

Not just how I felt (though finally sleeping through the night was a game-changer), but how I showed up in business. How I made decisions. How I trusted myself.

I realised I'd been running my entire life from a dysregulated nervous system. No wonder everything felt so hard.

So I did what any obsessive entrepreneur does - I went all in.

I trained in everything breath-related I could get my hands on. Developed the BreathHealing Release™ Method. Started teaching other people how to regulate their nervous systems without burning out.

Now I run the Influential Breathwork Academy, certifying coaches who want to help people breathe their way to better business and life results. 

Here's what nobody talks about: when your nervous system is regulated, everything gets easier.

Better decisions. Clearer thinking. More creativity. Less anxiety about money. More trust in your instincts.

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🫁 Founder of Influential Breathwork & the BreathHealing Release™ Method  
📖 Author (when I'm not too busy breathing)  
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🏆 #1 LinkedIn Creator for Holistic & Functional Medicine  
🎓 Master Practitioner in all the things that help people change (NLP, Hypnosis, Somatic Therapy)

I work with:
High-achievers who are tired being stressed. 
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Anna Parker-Naples

Most coaches are teaching nervous system regulation without actually understanding it.

And their clients are paying the price.

I'm watching something troubling happen in the coaching industry.

Nervous system regulation has become the hottest topic. Everyone's adding it to their services. It's in every bio, every sales page, every marketing message.

But when you scratch the surface, most coaches can't actually explain:

How chronic stress impacts the autonomic nervous system

Why someone can't "just calm down" when they're dysregulated

The difference between acute stress response and chronic activation

How to safely work with functional breathing

When they're outside their scope of practice
They've learned just enough to use the language.
Not enough to work with it responsibly.

And clients, especially high-achieving ones operating under sustained pressure, are paying for expertise that doesn't actually exist.

Here's what I know.

You don't want to be that coach.

You want to actually understand what you're talking about. 

To have the credible, structured knowledge that lets you work confidently and safely with clients who need real nervous system support.

That's why I created the Nervous System Regulation Coach Certification.

An 8-week professional certification that gives you:

-Proper understanding of stress physiology and nervous system function
-Functional breathing techniques for regulatory stability
-The PRESSURE Model™, a practical framework for sustainable regulation
-Clear professional boundaries and scope of practice

This closes the gap between what you're offering and what you're actually trained to do.

Founding cohort launches soon. Waitlist gets exclusive pricing and early access.

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Have you noticed this gap in the coaching industry? What do you think is driving it?

Let me know below ⬇️

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Influential Breathwork, Founder - Certifying Coaches, Healers & Therapists in Breath Regulation, Subconscious Reprogramming & Somatic Release 🫁 Creator: BreathHealing Release™ Method 🎤 Speaker | Author | Podcaster

I almost didn't post about this on LinkedIn.

I'm not sure why - maybe because it feels so personal. 

It's happening tonight at 7.30pm via Zoom.

I tried to find the right kind of grief support.

The kind where people actually get it.

Where they're not trying to rush you through it or fix you or help you 'process' it so you can get back to normal.

Where they understand that there is no normal anymore. Just a new version of life that you're learning to navigate.

I wanted to find people who weren't afraid of the rawness. Who could sit with the intensity without trying to make it smaller or more manageable or more palatable.

Who understood that grief isn't just in your head. It's in your body. Your chest. Your shoulders. Your bones.

Talking helps. To a point.

But there's only so much you can talk through before you realise that your body is holding things your words can't reach.

The tightness that won't shift. The tears that won't come even when you need them to. The exhaustion that goes bone-deep.

I needed something that met grief where it actually lives. In the body. In the nervous system. In all the places that clench and hold and brace against the pain.

That's what breathwork has given me.

A way to acknowledge the impact of losing my mum without trying to push it away or talk myself out of it or make it okay.

A way to honour what she meant to me by actually feeling it. All of it.

Not to get over it. But to let my body process what it needs to process.

Breathe Through Grief is the session I wish  I'd had access to countless times over the past eight months.

A space held by someone who knows what this feels like. Who isn't trying to fix you or rush you or make it more comfortable.

Just space to feel it. To breathe through it. To let your body have what it needs.

If you've been searching for something that actually gets it, maybe this is it.

Sign up to join me tonight (Thusday 19th Feb) at 7.30pm.
>>https://lnkd.in/eqeYgwRe

💛 Repost to share with someone who might just need this right now.

There’s a huge gap in the coaching and wellbeing world in terms of nervous system knowledge. 

On one end: basic breathing exercises.

You know the ones - Inhale for four. Exhale for six. Calm down. Or recommend box breathing no matter what (don’t get me started on how misguided and uninformed that is!!!) 

On the other end of the scale: deep trauma release and intense breathwork (the kind with semi-clad nubile young things who are writhing on the floor).

And then, what I see is that there is very little formal, high quality training in the middle.

That REALLY teaches coaches how to guide nervous system regulation (and doesn’t just talk about it). 

That’s what the brand new Certified Nervous System Regulation Coach certification is about.

How we take people out of high stress and sustained stress in a way that is safe, repeatable and effective. 

The new course I’m building tackles exactly this.

Want details on the pilot version I’m running soon? 

Wait list details and access to exclusive price below. 
Sign up here >> https://lnkd.in/eeaHacbr

🔁 Repost to share with others who need this training.

Are you a fan of box breathing? Or does it make you stressed?  Let me know in the comments.

Most coaches are teaching nervous system regulation wrong.

And for high-performers, that's not just unhelpful. It's harmful.

The coaching industry has fallen in love with a phrase.

Nervous system regulation is *everywhere* right now. Coaches, therapists, consultants, all adding it to their bio, their offers, their Instagram stories.

And I get it. The demand is real.

But here's what's being missed:

Knowing the vocabulary isn't the same as knowing the science.

I've sat with executives, entrepreneurs, and high-performers who've been through "regulation sessions" with well-meaning coaches and left feeling worse. More dysregulated. More confused about why the "simple techniques" weren't working.

Here's why.

High-functioning people aren't just a little stressed.

They're operating under chronic internal load, the kind that builds invisibly over months and years. Their nervous systems have *adapted* to that pressure. Standard breathing exercises and generic grounding tools aren't designed for that level of activation.

To work responsibly with these clients, you need to understand:

- What's actually happening physiologically under sustained pressure

- Why their usual coping strategies have stopped working

- How to build *genuine* regulatory capacity, not just temporary calm

- The difference between suppression and regulation (they look identical from the outside)

- How to apply this in a structured, repeatable, professional framework

This is the gap I kept seeing.

And it's why I created the Nervous System Regulation Coach Certification.

An 8-week professional certification built on structured physiological knowledge, not recycled Instagram content dressed up as a methodology.

At the heart of it is the PRESSURE Model™.

A clear, applicable system for moving clients from chronic activation to sustainable regulation. Step by step. Grounded in science. Applicable in real client sessions from day one.

This isn't breathwork as a nice add-on.

It's the foundational training that makes you credible, confident, and professionally equipped to work with the clients who need it most.

The founding cohort launches soon.

Waitlist gets exclusive pricing, early access, and split pay options.

👉 Join the waitlist here: https://lnkd.in/ev2CPS8e

What do you think is missing most in how nervous system work is currently being taught? Drop it below, I'd love to hear what you're seeing.

Let me know below ⬇️

♻️ If you work in coaching, therapy or leadership development, please repost this. The people in your network who are teaching this topic deserve to know what responsible, evidence-based training looks like.

Follow Anna Parker-Naples  for the science, the frameworks, and the honest conversations that the coaching industry often avoids.

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