Creating experiences of interconnectedness—with ourselves, other humans, and this beautiful world.

Whether you’re

  • seeking deeper meaning and ways that go beyond psychology and self-improvement

  • quietly yearning for something more—some miracle or magic we’ve been thoroughly trained to deny

  • part of a bold team striving for truly innovative solutions, and looking for new ways of navigating uncertainty and complexity

You’ll likely find an experience here that resonates.


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CREATE

Nature Flow Lab: Team Transformation

Nature Flow Lab brings a new perspective to leadership, innovation, and sustainability challenges through immersive, experiential learning outdoors.

✔️ Outdoor sessions near your campus or office
✔️ Shift into creative state through breath and movement
✔️ Apply insights from natural systems to real-world challenges
✔️ Walk away with fresh perspectives and practical next steps

Ideal for EMBA/MBA students and corporate teams tackling innovation, growth, or environmental strategy.

Curious about running a pilot or integrating this into your program?
Explore details here


WALK

Berlin Breath Walks

Experience communion with nature through guided practices that bridge traditional wisdom and modern understanding of our bodies and minds.

These walks offer a way to reconnect with nature by recognizing ourselves as part of it. Through slow, silent walking and simple breathing practices, we open our senses, become present, and engage with the forest as a co-creative partner.

Step away from distraction, recalibrate your nervous system, and experience the natural world as an extension of your own body and mind.

Interested in a custom Breath Walk with your team or community?
Explore details here

Reach out for a chat: yulia(at)natureflowlab.com


BREATHE

Breathing with Life: A 5-Week Immersive Nature Reconnection Experience

Exploring our fundamental connection to the natural world and each other. Join our safe space to step outside your everyday and rediscover your place in the natural world.

Each week, we’ll breathe with a different element—earth, water, air, fire, and the universe—unlocking altered states where fresh perceptions and deeper connection become possible.

Sessions take place on Zoom and blend breathwork, physiology, storytelling, somatic awareness, and group presence.

🌬️ This is an invitation-only series.
Submit your email to receive an invitation to the next round.


LISTEN

The Breath of Life Podcast

Alternating between guided breath practices and lightly edited conversations—recorded in nature or via Substack Live.

🎧 Available via Substack or your favorite podcast app.
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About me:

Hi, I am Yulya, a curious human exploring life and the human condition from a variety of angles.

In 1998, at the brink of default, I left a small Russian town to go straight to Silicon Valley for an MBA degree with $350 in my pocket.

My adventures since then included living in four countries, hustling in a Silicon Valley startup, burning out at Greenpeace, founding and closing a startup, cold-calling, and more.

Burnout, challenges of solopreneurship, and some devastating personal events threw me into a swirl of self-development and mental health modalities: from coaching to breathwork and biohacking to embodiment, jumping into ice water, and improv.

My life has changed in profound ways since I started training as a wilderness educator and immersed myself in an experience-based study of nature through observation, ritual, science, herbalism, and simply being with the land.

I believe the void and restlessness many of us feel today stem from a lack of deep connection to the natural world we are a part of.

My dream is for more people to reconnect to their wild roots. Not just for the joy, love, and belonging that it brings, but because when we feel part of something, we also begin to care for it.

Training & Certifications:

  • Wilderness Guide in Training

  • Masterful Breath Coach, Level 3 Diploma (120+ hours of practice)

  • Oxygen Advantage Breathwork Coach

  • Transformative Coach (Animas Coaching, ICF certified)

  • Embodiment Facilitator

  • Neurobiology and somatics expert

  • Cold-exposure, improv, enthusiast

  • MBA, San Jose, CA

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Wilderness educator, breathwork coach, improviser. Facilitating experiences of feeling vibrantly alive and connected to a world that's alive and breathing.