Dan Brule

From a young hospital technician to a world-renowned master of conscious breathing, Dan Brulé’s journey is a testament to the extraordinary power hidden in one of life’s simplest acts, the breath. His story began in Massachusetts, where, at just nineteen, he worked as an X-ray technician and learned CPR. A week later, that training saved a life, an experience that forever changed his understanding of human potential. Soon after, while serving as a U.S. Navy Medical Deep-Sea Diver during the Vietnam era, Dan discovered how mastery over breath could steady the mind, control emotion, and sustain life itself. One near-fatal dive, in which he blacked out at 150 feet and had to be resuscitated, became his defining awakening: “My first breaths felt like bubbles of light,” he recalls, a revelation that would ignite his lifelong mission.

When Dan left the military, he turned that calling into study and service. At Lesley University, where he earned a master’s degree in the Healing Arts, he explored how breath connects body, mind, and spirit. Encountering Rebirthing Breathwork in the mid-1970s gave his purpose form. Since then, he has trained more than 300,000 people across seventy-plus countries, blending medical knowledge, yogic tradition, Qigong, and modern psychology into what many now call the modern breathwork movement. Through his platforms BreathMastery.com and Mastering The Breath, Dan continues to mentor practitioners, healthcare professionals, and seekers who view breath not just as biology, but as a bridge to consciousness.

His influence reaches from private retreats to global stages. As author of Just Breathe: Mastering Breathwork for Success in Life, Love, Business, and Beyond (Simon & Schuster), with a foreword by Tony Robbins, Dan became one of the first breathwork teachers published by a major house. The book, now translated into fifteen languages, cemented his reputation as the “Godfather of Breathwork.” Yet his success is not defined by celebrity endorsements or bestseller lists, but by the ripple of transformation among the thousands who have rediscovered calm, focus, and healing through his guidance.

Dan’s career has also demanded humility. As the practice grew worldwide, so did debates about safety, ethics, and boundaries in the wellness industry. He faced criticism and hard lessons that reinforced his conviction that breathwork’s power requires integrity and accountability equal to its promise. “Teaching breath,” he often says, “is teaching life itself. It deserves the same respect we give medicine or prayer.” This blend of courage and introspection keeps his work authentic, a quality that continues to draw students, scientists, and spiritual leaders alike.

Today, from his base in Florida and his Baja BioSana Retreat Center in Los Cabos, Dan trains new generations of facilitators and brings breath practices into unexpected spaces, from corporate boardrooms to prison rehabilitation programs. He advocates introducing breath awareness in schools, believing that emotional regulation taught early can prevent lifelong trauma. His collaborations with healthcare innovators aim to integrate conscious breathing into mainstream medicine, turning what was once an esoteric discipline into a recognized therapeutic tool.

More than fifty years after that first miraculous resuscitation, Dan Brulé remains guided by awe. To him, breathwork is not simply a wellness technique but humanity’s oldest and most universal form of self-healing, a practice that unites science, spirituality, and the shared rhythm of life itself. He continues to teach, write, and remind the world that transformation does not always begin with revolution; sometimes, it begins with a single, conscious breath.

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