The Kriya Mentorship
What if just 20 minutes a day of breathing could unravel old patterns and create transformation that truly lasts?
This is a 1-on-1, personalized mentorship program designed to liberate limiting patterns at their root over 6 months,
and support you to build a self-led kriya breath practice that will serve you for life.
If you’ve already experienced the power of your breath through a workshop or class and want to go deeper, this is the natural next step.
I know what it's like to do all the things and still feel stuck.
To dabble in all the different workshops and techniques out there, yet still be overwhelmed and regularly collapsing into the same tired coping mechanisms.
I created this mentorship to offer the personalized guidance I wish I had on my own spiritual and healing journey.
Over 6 months, we’ll work together 1-on-1 to curate breath practices that are perfectly designed for your body, your nervous system and the patterns that feel limiting right now.
There are kriya practices for anxiety, anger, uncertainty, stress, insomnia, energy, confidence - you name it, there’s a practice that can help you move through it with more ease.
Kriya is a Sanskrit word that means “action that leads to liberation”.
The underlying philosophy is that liberation is our birthright. Our bodies ARE nature, and are designed to change and evolve.
By the end of 6 months together, you’ll witness your patterns transform profoundly. Not through force or willpower, but because you’ve steadily changed the nervous system wiring underneath them and made a consistent space each day to tap into the innate intelligence of your body and breath.
If you’re ready to make this type of space for yourself, it would be an honor to offer you the kind of support that is more akin how kriya was originally taught: through direct 1-to-1 transmission uniquely tailored to the individual’s needs in each moment.
This is one of my ways of honoring this tradition’s roots within the context of our modern age. If this speaks to you, I would be delighted to connect and get to know you better 🧡
With love,
Mallory
"I have experienced so much profound change working with Mallory: I have more energy and strength, am more in touch with myself, and I have a more positive outlook. My capacity to withstand change in the world at large and in my personal life have deepened. I still practice her techniques and consider them a gift. This was truly one of the best investments I’ve ever made in myself."
Rebecca Perrin, Creative Officer, Eileen Fisher
This is for the high achiever whose been doing the work, and knows there’s a deeper layer to unfold.
You're accomplished and self-aware, and ready to live in alignment with your body's intelligence rather than approaching yourself as a problem to be fixed
You've found real value in therapy, coaching, psychedelics or retreats, but sense that something still needs to be more fully integrated into your daily life
You're in a significant life transition — career, relationships, burnout, spiritual awakening — and want to move forward from clarity instead of fear
You're busy. You need something effective that actually fits into your life. Not hours of sitting still, but 20 minutes a day that actually shifts your state
You want a lasting practice rooted in lineage and philosophy, not the latest trending technique
You want to know yourself more deeply and practice holding all of who you are with curiosity instead of judgment
You're a therapist, coach, or facilitator ready to integrate breathwork into your work safely and effectively
This might not be the right fit if...
You're looking for a quick fix or a passive experience. This program asks for 20 minutes of individual practice every day and a genuine willingness to spend time with your breath, body and Self.
If you're not quite ready to make this commitment, that's okay. You’re welcome to check out our Practice Library on the Breath Connection Sutra portal for guided practices you can do in just 5-10min.
“Skepticism is a lifelong habit of mine. So I engaged Mallory’s instruction with both hope and a shrug. I was looking to improve communication within my family, and to calm a hurricane of emotions within myself. I found Mallory’s teaching to be eminently practical and free of jargon. It also works!
Within a week of daily practice I was noticing changes: in the patience I had with others, in my less reactionary responses to triggers, in the positive way I’d embrace the tasks of the day. I’d recommend Mallory’s intelligent guidance to everyone!”
David Levy, Writer & Brand Strategist
What we'll build together
This is a high-touch, fully personalized mentorship, not a course, or a group program. Every element is designed for you, and you can participate from anywhere in the world. It includes:
🧘🏽♀️ A New Personalized Kriya Practice Set Each Month
Each month, you receive a new custom 20-minute practice selected from hundreds of techniques and designed for your nervous system and where you are right now. Sets integrate breath, movement, mantra, energy work, and meditation as a unified path.
🏔️ Monthly 90-Minute Deep-Dive Mentorship Sessions
Each month we meet for a deep, unhurried 1:1 session. We'll introduce your new practice, work through patterns rising to the surface, and go as deep as you need to on a somatic, emotional, and energetic level.
🙌 Monthly Practice Coaching Calls
A focused 30-minute conversation to support your consistency, answer questions about your practice, and help you integrate what's emerging. We’ll meet live every other week.
💬 Open Line of Support via Private WhatsApp Thread
Direct access to me throughout our 6 months together. If you’re stuck on something in your practice or need to process something that’s opening up, I will be here for you in real-time.
🌬️🌬️ 20+ Kriya Techniques: Your Breath Toolkit for Life
You’ll learn 20+ techniques documented in a personal Practice Library, but more importantly deeply embodied through your own relationship to the practices. Yours to draw on and share for life.
🎓 Optional: How to Teach & Integrate Breathwork
For therapists, coaches, and facilitators: how to bring these practices into your work safely and effectively.
“I'm an experienced yoga and meditation teacher and had some familiarity with breathwork, but Mallory helped me develop a deeper and more subtle breath practice. She is a gifted teacher with a lot to offer to new and established students.”
Jaime Ledesma, Deloitte Consultant & Yoga Teacher
After 6 months, this is what becomes possible
This is what I've witnessed happen again and again, when you commit to kriya breath practice with consistency and care:
You feel less reactive and more grounded. The anxiety, mental chatter, and stress is steadily replaced by an expanding sense of peace and clarity
A deeper connection to yourself, your intuition, and the wisdom your body holds
Old patterns begin to shift at the root: reactivity and coping strategies that you've been trying to “work on” for years transform themselves. Not through force or effort, but because the nervous system circuitry underneath them has gradually and sustainably changed
Greater confidence and clarity in how you lead and make decisions in your work, your relationships, and your life
A daily practice that actually sticks because it was designed for your body, your life, and your nervous system, not a standardized technique
Mastery over a personal library of 20+ techniques, including an understanding of when to use them, how they work and how to sequence them for what you need in each moment
A consistent living relationship with your practice, and the freedom to continue evolving it on your own terms for the rest of your life
Begin the work
This is a high-touch, fully personalized experience. We take only a small number of clients each month, to protect the depth of presence and real-time support this work deserves.
Your investment
$825 per month
6 month commitment · $4,950 total
The total cost of this mentorship is about the same as a nice 2-week vacation, but gives you tools you'll use for the rest of your life, plus 6 months of devoted, personalized support to transform your nervous system and build the foundation for a deep lifelong relationship with your own body, breath and inner knowing.
We talk with each individual before confirming to ensure this is a genuinely good mutual fit. If you’re curious but have questions, I’m happy to explore and find clarity together.
About Your Guide
👋 Hi, I’m Mallory Combemale
Daily practice changed everything for me.
I’ve healed chronic health issues, reversed burn-out and transformed from a type-A, hyper-independent NYC career woman into a lifestyle entrepreneur who prioritizes home-cooked meals, dance, and community.
My spiritual journey began when I wandered into a Bikram Yoga class at 19, and shed tears for the first time in almost a decade. Since then, I’ve received hundreds of hours of yoga teacher training and studied Vedic philosophy, Buddhist insight meditation, Taoism and Reiki. In 2019, I travelled to India to intensively train in Himalayan kriya yoga, meditation and breathwork.
Alongside ancient wisdom grounded in lineage, I bring a modern lens: nervous system science from my training at The Nalanda Institute, behavior change principles from my strategy consulting career, and real-world experience guiding hundreds of individuals through personal transformation.
I’ve tried to fix myself through almost every wellness method out there, and swung from discipline to rebellion too many times to count. I understand first hand that extremes aren’t sustainable and true transformation happens when you show up every day in a way that actually feels doable.
This mentorship is the culmination of years of daily practice, including all the lessons I had to learn the hard way and tried to bypass!
It’s an honor to offer the individualized guidance and care I wish I had during my own journey.
If it speaks to you, I would love to connect and get to know you 🧡
FAQs: You might be wondering
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While you may be able to feel the effects and receive benefit from a few minutes or even seconds of deep breathing, in my experience practicing and teaching for many years, I've found that 20min is a sweet spot.
20 minutes is the minimum threshold for a kriya practice to complete its full physiological cycle — to build, peak, and integrate. Shorter practices can shift your state momentarily, but they don't reach the deeper layers of nervous system repatterning that make the change lasting. Think of it like sleep: six hours might feel fine for a few days, but it's the full cycle that allows for deep repair.
That said, 20 minutes is genuinely manageable. Many clients are surprised by how much can change in that window once the practice is truly their own.
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I recommend practicing first thing in the morning after you wake up, before eating. It's advised to practice on an empty stomach, ideally not within ~3hrs of eating a large meal. The morning tends to be when most people have more control over their time, before going to work or other commitments.
However, during our intake process and kickoff session, we will work together to create an individualized plan for your practice, based on your lifestyle and preferences. I've worked with people who do the practice consistently before bed in the evening, after leaving work, during their lunch break, during a morning break, or a combination of the above depending on the day.
It's all about what works best for you.
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Not at all. In fact, the opposite tends to be true. Many clients find that this work accelerates and deepens what they're already doing in therapy or coaching. Because kriya operates at the nervous system level, it can help the insights from those modalities integrate in the body and become a consistent new operating system.
A number of therapists and coaches are also past clients who enrolled specifically to deepen their own practice and bring these tools to their work.
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One of the things I love about breathwork practice is that you don't need to buy any fancy equipment. All you need is yourself and your lungs. Literally, anyone can do it!
You can do the practice sitting up on a chair, bench or stool with your feet on the floor, or sitting cross-legged on the floor or a cushion. If you have particular injuries or medical conditions that make it challenging for you to sit up for 20min, we can also create a practice that you can do lying down. Whatever your situation, we can customize a practice that works for you and your body.
I recommend dedicating a particular place in your living space for your practice. It doesn't have to be anything fancy - simply the same chair in the same corner of the same room will work. Practicing in a consistent physical environment can help you create and maintain a new habit consistently. -
No problem. The only certainty in life is change. The purpose of this program is to help you integrate daily practice into your lifestyle for the long term, which means working with the inevitable ups, downs, changes and disruptions that occur in life. We will work together to create an individualized plan for your practice that takes into account your travel and other unique life commitments.
Rather than forcing you to stick to an overly rigidly routine (e.g., I must practice at exactly 6:33am every day or I'm a failure), I will support you to create a practice that is flexible and can serve you through periods of travel or other disruption.
In my experience, having a daily breathwork practice has supported me immensely during travel for work and leisure. I've been better able to manage the stress that can sometimes arise due to travel issues, being with family or simply being away from my usual routines and comforts. The practice is here to support you to live the life you desire and show up as your best self for it, not limit you.
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Let’s have a conversation. Please book a call using the link above or reach out to Mallory at mallory@breathconnection.co to share your situation and discuss options.
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I spent 4 months in intensive training in India in 2019, hold 750+ hours of yoga teacher training, and have studied Himalayan kriya yoga, Vedic philosophy, Buddhist insight meditation, Taoism, and Reiki (I'm a “Master Level” Reiki practitioner and teacher). I completed nervous system science training at The Nalanda Institute, and I bring over a decade of behavior change and strategy work from my consulting career. Most importantly: I live this practice daily. It's not just an empty framework or methodology I teach. This is how I've transformed my own life. My own personal practice is the foundation of everything I offer.
Here are some more detailed highlights from my training and decade plus teaching career, if you’re curious:
YOGA & MEDITATION TRAINING
April 2024 & March 2025: Vipassana Meditation, Insight Meditation Society Barre, MA
7-Day silent Vipassana meditation course with Erin Treat, Victoria Cary and Howard Cohn
Aug 2023: Vipassana Meditation, Insight Meditation Society Barre, MA
3-Day silent Vipassana meditation course with Narayan Helen Liebenson
Nov 2020 - Jan 2021: Beyond 500-Hr “Master Training” Sattva Yoga Academy Online
Deeper training in the Himalayan Kriya Yoga practices, including yoga philosophy, puja, meditation, pranayama, kriya and asana
Please note: I do not recommend this school. For more details see: https://www.safehouse.yoga/
Oct - Nov 2020 Held: The Somatics of Support Online
Exploration of guiding somatic experiences of support, including physiology, anatomy, the nervous system and Bartenieff Fundamentals with Margherita Tisato
Jan 2020: “The Art of Waiting” Yin Yoga Training, Temple Brooklyn, NY
Yin Yoga training, including anatomy, pain science and the nervous system with Margherita Tisato
April - May 2019: 500-Hr YTT, Sattva Yoga Academy Rishikesh, India
Intensive training in the Himalayan Kriya Yoga practices, including yoga philosophy, puja, meditation, pranayama, kriya and asana
Certified as a kriya meditation teacher, who is able to initiate students into the lineage with their own personal mantra
Please note: I do not recommend this school. For more details see: https://www.safehouse.yoga/
February 2019: Classical Hatha Yoga, Isha Yoga Center Coimbatore, India
Introduction to Hatha yoga poses and techniques in the tradition of Sadhguru
February 2019: Vipassana Meditation, Dhamma Setu V Chennai, India
10-Day silent Vipassana meditation course in the tradition of S.N. Goenka
Oct 2018: 12-Hr Restorative Yoga Training, Bend & Bloom Brooklyn, NYComprehensive training in Restorative yoga poses, sequencing and use of props with Marlie Mcgovern
Jan - June 2018: 100- Hour Yoga, Mind & Spirit Training New York, NY
Psychology and neuroscience of yoga, including the latest scientific research on breath and nervous system with Joe Loizzo and Sonia Sequeira
Studies of yoga philosophy, including the Yoga Sutras, Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita and Sri Vijnana Bhairava Tantra with Mary Reilly Nichols, Jacob Kyle and Marlie McGovern
2017: Trauma-Informed Yoga Training, Liberation Yoga Project New York NY
Understanding of trauma and nervous system, and techniques for structuring and guiding a trauma-aware yoga class with Anneka Lucas
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016: 200-Hr YTT, Loom Yoga Center Brooklyn, NY
Comprehensive training in yoga asana, anatomy, class structure, yoga philosophy and meditation with Margherita Tisato, Ambyr D’Amato and Ximena Milagros Perez Frankel
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No prior experience is required. The program is designed to meet you exactly where you are, whether you're entirely new to practice or have years of experience and are ready to go deeper. The personalized approach means that we honor your unique starting point and build from there.
Your body knows the way
Kriya teaches us that evolution isn't something you have to force. It's what happens when you make space every day, to let your body's natural intelligence unfold.
If you’re ready to make this kind of space for yourself each day, I'd be honored to support you.
We talk with each person individually before confirming to ensure this is a genuinely good mutual fit.
If you have questions before booking, reach out at mallory@breathconnection.co.
I’d love to hear from you 🧡