Our Team

Your body already knows how to heal. It's waiting for the right conditions.

Nicole Tavernier is a somatic movement educator, Oxygen Advantage®-certified breath work instructor and coach, and Play Zone Pro coach who weaves together nervous-system-led movement, functional breath work, energy-healing modalities, and sound immersions to help people move out of survival states and into greater capacity, resilience, and ease. Her work centers on meeting clients where they are and helping them reconnect with the body’s innate capacity for healing.

This work wasn’t something Nicole set out to find—it became necessary.
Surgeries. Injuries. Misdiagnosis. Each experience made it harder to do what once brought ease and joy.

At a certain point, the search for someone else to fix things gave way to something more honest: listening. Listening to the body, to practitioners who saw through a different lens, to the subtle breadcrumbs that kept appearing and leading forward.

Through that process came a new way of understanding the body—not as separate parts, but as an interconnected system. Fascia weaves everything together. Tension in one area often shows up as pain somewhere else. Patterns of dysfunctional coordination can become embedded in the brain’s motor control centers, and change only happens when the body feels safe enough to let go.

The body also reveals itself as an electrical system. Injury, illness, and scar tissue can disrupt its natural flow, while somatic movement, functional breath work, energetic body balancing, and sound immersion help restore coherence.

One insight reframed everything: the body cannot learn or heal while it remains in a state of shock or fear from past trauma.

Through years of study, practice, and observation, Nicole developed the Functional Living Method™ as a way to help people work directly with the patterns underneath their symptoms.

At the center of her work is the concept of State Flexibility™— the capacity to move fluidly between activation and rest, to meet challenge and recover fully, and to access more of the range the nervous system was designed for instead of defaulting to the same few stress responses.

Her sessions are not based on a fixed protocol; they are guided in real time according to what a person’s system needs that day, with the goal of building more range, resilience, and choice in how they respond physically, emotionally, and energetically.  

She uses functional breath work rooted in Oxygen Advantage® to retrain breathing patterns and improve regulation; somatic movement informed by Feldenkrais and Hanna Somatics to help the body recognize and soften habitual guarding; and energy and sound work to support nervous-system reconditioning, restore flow, and expand capacity. The modalities may vary, but the through-line is always the same: helping the body feel safe enough to do something different.

This is not therapy, and it is not fitness. It is the missing foundation underneath both — a way of learning how to breathe functionally, move functionally, and live from a body that is no longer locked in protection. Nicole offers this work for people who are ready to understand their patterns more deeply, reconnect with their bodies, and build a more flexible, functional way of living.