About us
Honest, grounded work. The space to actually feel it.
No script. No spiritual performance. Breathwork, Paradigm Coaching and Somatic-Kinetic Realignment Bodywork, always shaped around the person in front of me.
- Practices
- Breathwork, Coaching & Bodywork
- Location
- Central London
- Sessions
- In person, mobile & online
About Iva
The person behind
IV'S Breathwork.
Iva Novak is the founder of IV'S Breathwork, a practice built not from theory, but from a life lived in the body.
Her story begins in sport. A childhood spent competing, always in motion, followed by over a decade in the gym training, transforming and testing her limits. Sport taught her more than performance. It taught her discipline and commitment, how to perform under pressure and how to sit with pain. It taught her endurance and the quiet art of trusting the process, even when the outcome is not visible yet. Visualisation before the moment. The importance of recovery after it. Staying humble while winning and the harder lesson of how to lose, learn and grow from it. Sport built her capacity for patience, compassion, teamwork and the value of small wins compounding into something bigger.
Alongside this ran a second, equally enduring passion: medicine and the endless question of what it means to be human. The mind. The body. The way one shapes the other. Medical school broadened that understanding, deepening a love for the human being, not just as a system to study, but as something sacred.
From her early teens, Iva was drawn to self-development. By her early twenties, she had discovered Eastern medicine and its practices. She found in it a balance that Western frameworks alone had not given her. Mental clarity, confidence, self-trust, self-love, self-worth and internal peace: none of it is easy to hold onto in a life spent, in many ways, standing outside the crowd.
That friction became the foundation. It gave her a deep, lived understanding of being human, experiencing pain in all its forms, emotional, mental and physical, and of what it takes to move through it. That understanding is what shapes her work today.
Iva helps others find balance emotionally, mentally and physically through Breathwork, Coaching and Bodywork. She blends the wisdom of Eastern and Western medicine with a lifetime of experience, meeting each person exactly where they are and walking with them towards where they are going.
To you, through you, this is what it takes.
Pressure built her. Now she helps others turn theirs into something beautiful.
The approach
Mindset, breath and body are one conversation.
Most approaches treat them as three separate projects. You go one place for your head, another for your body, and hope the two eventually agree. In practice they are already talking to each other constantly. The tension in your shoulders and the story you tell yourself are not unrelated.
Change the belief and the body softens. Change the breath and the mind quietens. Release the body and the story you have been carrying loosens its grip. That is why these three modalities sit together in one practice rather than in separate rooms.
It also means there is no fixed package. Some people arrive for pain and end up doing the deeper emotional work. Others arrive for the emotional work and discover their body was holding the answer all along. We start where you actually are.
- Breathwork
- Paradigm Coaching
- Bodywork
- Nervous system regulation
The foundation
Move as One.
Three modalities. One nervous system. Breathwork opens it, coaching rewires it, bodywork realigns it. Together, they multiply.
Mindset
Your mindset shapes your reality.
Your mindset is the lens through which you interpret challenges, setbacks and opportunities. Shift the lens and the same circumstances are experienced differently: challenges become opportunities and roadblocks become stepping stones. True change does not begin only with what you do. It begins with how you see, and what you believe.
Breath
A direct line to your nervous system.
The way you breathe speaks directly to your nervous system. Breathing consciously can shift you out of fight-or-flight and into rest-and-digest, changing your mental, emotional and physiological state in minutes. Breath becomes a tool you carry with you for awareness, regulation and presence.
Body
Your body brings to motion every thought you think and every emotion you feel.
The body responds to everything: thought, emotion, stress, posture, repetitive movement and old injury. Tension is rarely only physical. Working with the body through touch, movement and awareness opens another route to regulation, strength, ease and connection.
Allow it.Feel it.Love it.Let it go.
Four words that hold the whole practice. It is not a slogan; it is a sequence. Most of us get stuck on the first one, because allowing what is actually there is the hardest part.
Allow it. Feel it. Love it. Let it go.
Release what no longer serves you.
Transforming lives
In their words.
“It was a very intense and deep session. The place itself is very cosy and feels like home. I came in with the goal of finding what had been causing my stressed and anxious behaviour lately, and came out with more than I bargained for. I felt comfortable and heard during and after the session. Afterwards, it felt like I had complete control over my own feelings and emotions, as though I fully understood them. It takes courage to take this step because it will make you face your biggest fears, but in the end it will be well worth it. Highly recommended, do yourself a favour and take care of your mental wellbeing.”
“I have had the incredible opportunity to have a few breathwork sessions, all with Iva, a very attentive and kind person with a pure soul. It’s definitely the best I’ve tried so far. All the sessions were incredible. The choice of music was made to my taste and state of mind; each piece made me feel and travel to different places in my subconscious. During the sessions I felt comfortable and heard, both during and afterwards. There are not enough words to express what breathwork makes you feel. The only way is to experience it for yourself. 100% recommended.”
“Iva is a very kind and highly conscientious person, and that is the energy through which she delivers her service. Along with her lucid knowledge and great skills, she guides you into wonderful, healing places. Highly recommend!”
“Iva is an extremely warm and kind person who knows how to listen, hear and understand the feelings of others. I am very glad that I attended her breathwork course, which I decided to attend because of the tension and negative emotions that permeated it. During the course, with her breathing guidance, soothing tone of voice and the music she chose, I released a large amount of negative emotions and stress. I felt much calmer. My sincere recommendation to everyone who wants to feel peace in the soul and body.”
“An encouraging breathwork leader helped throughout the session. She explained and taught us about breathwork. I didn’t have high expectations before the session, so I let myself go. The atmosphere in the space was pleasant and calm. After the session, we shared our experiences. I felt calmer and less tense. I definitely recommend breathwork, which can reduce tension and stress.”
“Iva has changed my life forever, guiding me through breathwork and reminding me how powerful our breath is. For the longest time I struggled with my mood and feeling unbalanced, but nowadays I remember what I have learned. I remind myself that Iva said our life is already written, we have to choose the easy way or the hard way. I say this to myself a lot. She has a beautiful energy and a powerful hug.”
Begin
One breath at a time, you come back to yourself.
Book online in a couple of taps, or send a message first if you would rather talk it through. Every session starts with a conversation about where you are and what you need.