PRIMAL WELLNESS · BOQUETE, PANAMA
Youhavebeenperformingatahighlevelforalongtime.
Your body remembers all of it.
Yin yoga and breathwork for professionals who are ready to put the same attention into recovery that they have put into everything else.
This is not for people looking for a workout.
It is for people who have spent years in high-stakes environments (leading teams, managing complexity, operating under pressure) and whose nervous system has learned to stay in threat mode long after the threat has passed.
If you sleep poorly despite exhaustion, carry tension in places you cannot stretch away, or feel like your mental bandwidth has quietly shrunk, your body is telling you something your calendar has ignored.
Yin yoga and breathwork address that directly. Not as a lifestyle practice. As a physiological reset.
“Most people who reach out already know they need this. They have known for a while.”
Why Yin Works Differently
Most movement practices work with muscle. Yin works with connective tissue: the fascia, ligaments, and joints that hold tension between your sessions and long after your workday ends.
Deep Tissue Release
When you hold a pose for three to seven minutes with your muscles released, fibroblasts in your fascia respond to the sustained pressure and begin remodeling. Tissue that has been braced for years starts to let go. Short, active stretches do not trigger this. Yin does.
Nervous System Regulation
The long holds and deliberate breathing activate your parasympathetic nervous system, the part of your biology responsible for rest, repair, and clear thinking. Heart rate drops. Cortisol drops. The part of your brain managing threat assessment quiets down.
Measurable Change Over Time
Research shows significant reductions in anxiety, sleep disturbance, and stress biomarkers after consistent yin yoga practice over five to ten weeks. This is not a metaphor. It is physiology.
The teacher who has been where you are.
I spent twenty years as the person responsible for keeping things running when they could not afford to break.
I also ran on very little sleep, carried chronic tension in places I could not stretch away, and operated at a level of background activation that I thought was normal, until I realized it was not.
Yin yoga and breathwork changed that. Not as a spiritual practice. As a practical tool. I applied the same rigor I brought to infrastructure architecture to understanding what was actually happening in my nervous system, and what it would take to change it.
That is what I teach.
Work With Me
All private work begins with an intake session. The intake is where we establish what your body is doing and what it will take to change it.
The Intake Session
$175 in-person · $155 online
A structured conversation followed by a tailored session. Not a trial class. A professional starting point.
Book Your IntakeThe 6-Week Reset
$900 in-person · $810 online
The minimum effective dose. Six tailored sessions, one clear outcome: a nervous system that is working with you.
Start the ResetThe Breathwork Intensive
$225 in-person · $200 online
A dedicated breathwork session for when you need a faster intervention. Used by military personnel, elite athletes, and executive leadership teams.
Book a Breathwork SessionThree steps. That is the whole process.
Book a Discovery Call
15 minutes. No obligation. We figure out if this is the right fit before anything else.
Your Intake Session
90 minutes. We start with where you are. Then you move.
Build a Practice
Weekly sessions. Private, group, or both. Calibrated over time as your baseline shifts.
Work With Me From Anywhere
I work with clients across North America, the Caribbean, and Europe.
If you are not in Boquete, that is not a barrier. It is just a different format.
Panama runs on Eastern Standard Time minus one hour, year-round. No daylight saving. Book in your timezone. The calendar converts automatically.
Does this work online?
Yes. More than you would expect.
Yin yoga requires stillness, not a studio. You need a mat, a quiet space, and enough room to extend your arms.
For breathwork, the quality of your experience depends on the quality of the facilitation, not on whether we are in the same room. Many clients find the privacy of their own space makes the work deeper, not shallower.
What does not translate online is the incidental stuff: the Boquete mountains, the coffee after class, the walk back through town. If you want that, come in person. If you want the practice, online delivers it.
Online Drop-In Group
$45 per session
Six people maximum. A small, intimate session where you get real attention.
Check AvailabilityOnline Private Session
$155
One-on-one, tailored to where you are today. Requires a completed intake session.
Book Your Online IntakeOnline 6-Week Reset
$810
Six sessions, recordings, and between-session check-ins. The complete program, online.
Start the ResetOpen group classes on Wednesday and Saturday mornings at 11am. All levels welcome. If you have never practiced yin, this is the right starting point before moving to private sessions.
Classes are drop-in. Just show up.
“I've sat through enough corporate wellness programs to know when something is performative. This is not that. Three months in, my resting heart rate dropped eleven points and I stopped waking up at 3am. I didn't expect physiology. I expected another mindfulness lecture.”
“Scott explains the mechanism behind everything. No mysticism, no spiritual framing I couldn't access. Just the body doing what it's supposed to do when you stop overriding it.”
“I'd done therapy, coaching, two meditation apps, a retreat in Costa Rica. None of it touched what this did. The breathwork session in week two broke something loose I'd been carrying for years.”
“Six weeks. That's how long it took before my wife noticed I was different. Not calmer exactly. More like I had room again.”
Free: The 10-Minute Nervous System Reset
A short guided breathwork audio for when you need to come down from operational mode and your usual methods are not working.
Ten minutes. No app. No subscription. Just a tool that works.
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