The person who built this method
Erwan Le Corre — founder of MovNat®, three-time US National Record holder in static apnea, and creator of BreathHoldWork®.
Stated once. The work speaks after.
I built BreathHoldWork because nothing like it existed. I had spent years inside the practice of breath-holding and Natural Movement, and I could find no method that trained the breath, the mind, and the nervous system together — under real stress, with progression you could actually measure. So I built one.
The record is not the point. It is proof of trained nervous-system control: a mind that stays composed while the body signals alarm. That control is what the method teaches. The record only demonstrates what becomes possible.
— Erwan Le Corre
From outer movement to inner mastery.
Breath was part of my life long before it was my work. A breath-holding contest with my brothers as a boy. A grandfather who held his breath in a bucket of water when he was young in an attempt to become a better cyclist. An uncle on a long beach in Brittany who told me, with a smile I still remember, that if you set your mind to do something, that is what you will do — that I could choose beyond what I thought was my limit. He had just opened my mind to the power of intention. I was a child. It stayed with me.
Movement came first as a career. In 2008 I founded MovNat® — Natural Movement, the body reclaiming the competence it evolved for. In 2009, Christopher McDougall introduced me to the American audience in Men's Health, the same year Born to Run landed. That launched my work in the United States. I have been at it ever since, teaching on multiple continents, writing The Practice of Natural Movement, building a method for the outer body.
But the deeper thread was always the breath. I trained breath-holding the way I trained everything — through experiment, repetition, and attention to what was actually happening inside. Not through yoga, not through pranayama, not through any tradition handed down as doctrine. Through practice. Between 2021 and 2024 I set the US National Record in static apnea three times, with an official 7:29 and a personal best of 8:03.
The first time I broke the record, it was not my lungs that decided it. After two failed attempts, what changed was my mind — resetting it, choosing composure where there had been panic, holding steady while every signal screamed to breathe. That was the insight that became everything: the breath-hold is not a feat of the body. It is a training ground for the mind under stress. The limit was never the oxygen. It was the response.
That is when BreathHoldWork® began. Freediving programmed the physiology but never produced a method for the mind. Meditation addressed the mind but never put it under real, trainable stress to train it. I built the method that does both — the one I had been searching for and could not find. It exists so that anyone willing to train can develop the same control, at their own level. You do not need a record. You need a method. This is it.
— Erwan Le Corre
What I teach
Three ways into the same method.
The complete method, self-paced. Lifetime access to every module and the Practice App.
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Train what the record demonstrates. The complete BreathHoldWork® method — lifetime access. Regularly $495, now $360.
