Our Founders
Two women, two healing journeys, one shared vision to create the safe, life-saving community that once held us.
Brielle Brasil
Brielle Brasil is a master breathwork facilitator, teacher, and leader in the breathwork industry, known for her deeply intuitive, trauma-informed approach to healing and transformation. As the creator of the ELEVATE Breathwork Certification, she trains and mentors the next generation of facilitators, guiding them to embody their leadership, master their energy, and hold powerful, life-changing space for others.
Her work is rooted in lived experience. After navigating childhood trauma, anxiety, depression, and an eating disorder, Brielle explored many healing modalities, but nothing created lasting, embodied transformation the way breathwork did.
In 2019, during a period of workplace abuse and chronic anxiety, breathwork became the catalyst for profound change. Through the practice, she regulated her nervous system, released deep conditioning and trauma, and reclaimed her voice. It has since supported her through major life transitions, including birth trauma, postpartum rage, weaning depression, and the identity shifts of motherhood.
Today, Brielle is known for creating deeply safe, expansive spaces where individuals can release trauma, reconnect with their bodies, and access their innate power. Through breathwork, somatic awareness, intuitive guidance, and energetic work, she facilitates experiences that lead to true transformation and embodiment.
She has guided over 1,000 people globally through retreats, workshops, 1:1 immersions, and large-scale events. In addition to co-founding The Lotus Collective, she is also the co-founder of Essence Retreats, international experiences designed to help women step out of constant doing and reconnect with the power of their feminine being.
Through all of her work, Brielle is devoted to expanding the reach of breathwork by developing embodied leaders who create ripple effects of healing, transformation, and awakened consciousness around the world. As a mother of two, she is especially passionate about supporting women in regulating their nervous systems, releasing overwhelm, and stepping into their power. Everything she teaches, she has lived.
Founder, Lead Breathwork Facilitator
Tuscany McMahon
Tuscany is a compassionate RYT 200HR yoga instructor with a background in Psychology and Sociology. Her classes are deeply rooted in mental health awareness and nervous system support, creating a welcoming, inclusive space where people of all backgrounds can reconnect, reset, and feel truly seen. Her teaching weaves together mindful movement, breathwork, positive affirmations, and emotional presence offering a gentle invitation to come home to yourself.
Her yoga journey began over a decade ago during a season of profound grief, anxiety, and depression. At fifteen, Tuscany lost the grandparents who raised her just months apart and was moved to another state, losing her home, her safety, and her sense of belonging all at once. As a teenager, she struggled with panic attacks and depression, coping by disconnecting from her body in order to survive. She felt invisible and deeply alone. At eighteen, Tuscany stepped into a yoga studio for the first time and something shifted. She felt strong, brave, and seen. It was her first experience of connection without judgment, movement without shame, and healing without having to explain herself. Yoga became the lifeline she returned to through every season of life, and she stayed close to it however she could.
After surviving a near death car accident in her 20s, Tuscany made the decision to stop living in constant fight-or-flight. She committed to therapy, completed her degree in psychology and sociology, became a mother, and continued turning to yoga as her grounding force. Tuscany dealt with more loss, heartbreak, and grief but she refused to let life harden her. Instead, she went deeper into her practice. Yoga became the place she could breathe again. Teaching became healing in motion. Community became the thing that saved her again and again.
This is why Tuscany co-founded this studio. Because she knows what it feels like to have nowhere to turn. Because yoga is not just fitness it is a place for safety and connection. This space is built from her lived experience, education, trauma, healing, and unwavering belief that no one should have to carry their pain alone.
Founder, Lead Yoga Instructor