The Founders
Jacqueline Alexander- Strategic Business Consultant | Meditation, Breathwork & Yoga Facilitator
With over 30 years of business leadership spanning hospitality, healthcare, and wellness entrepreneurship, Jacqueline bridges the worlds of strategic thinking and mindful practice.
She has founded Humming Puppy Yoga studios in Melbourne, Sydney and New York, led and managed high-performance teams, and understands firsthand the delicate balance of driving growth while maintaining wellbeing. She creates the space needed for diverse perspectives and insights to emerge, leading to decisions that don't sacrifice human thriving for business success, or vice versa.
Jacqueline brings expertise in:
Business strategy and sustainable growth
Wellness entrepreneurship and studio management
International business operations
Organisational culture and design
Leadership and team development
Meditation and mindfulness practices
Jacqueline is able to see beneath the surface of what's happening in organisations, uncovering the deeper patterns that drive behaviour. Her work is rooted in deep listening, strategic clarity, and the ability to create systems that support the humans managing them.
Dara Coleman Creative Leader | Transformative Experience Designer | Breathwork Facilitator
With over 25 years bridging performance and wellness, Dara moves between the worlds of creative expression and embodied attunement.
He has collaborated with visionaries like Oliver Stone, Steven Soderbergh, and Tom Hooper, while developing breathwork programs that integrate ancient practices with modern neuroscience. After a transformative journey through his own catharsis, he guides others toward clarity, resilience, and vitality through the awareness of conscious breathing.
Dara brings expertise in:
Performance enhancement and stress management
Trauma-informed facilitation
Nervous system regulation and sleep enhancement
Meditation and mindfulness practices
Buteyko Method and Pranayama breathwork
Dara goes beyond managing symptoms to transform the underlying patterns of anxiety, insomnia, PTSD, ADHD, and panic disorders while elevating those already experiencing deeper states of aliveness. His approach is characterised by precision, authenticity, and the ability to tailor transformative experiences that adapt to each person's unique journey.
Why we work together
We didn't set out to become business partners.
We found each other because we'd both arrived at the same truth from different paths.
Jacqueline had built businesses across three continents, yoga studios in Melbourne, Sydney, and New York; high-pressure environments in healthcare and hospitality. She knew how to create structure, scale operations and build teams. Through years of yoga, meditation, and breathwork practice, she also understood nervous system regulation. But she'd lived the paradox, building businesses designed to care for people while burning herself out in the process. Those breaking points taught her that structure alone wasn't enough, businesses needed nervous system intelligence woven into how they actually operated.
Dara came to business through the body. A car crash led to breathwork, which led to teaching everyone from musicians to police officers, performing artists to corporate teams. Working everywhere from Esalen to film sets to boardrooms, he kept seeing the same pattern: when people couldn't regulate their nervous systems, no amount of strategy could help them think clearly or lead well.
We met and recognised something in each other: we'd both learned the hard way that you can't sustain what you don't embody.
We learnt that companies behave like bodies. That's what we both kept seeing, organisations that contracted under stress, teams that couldn't access their intelligence when dysregulated, brilliant people making terrible decisions because their nervous systems were running the show.
We decided that together, we could work with both: the architecture of how businesses are built, and the aliveness of the humans running them.
We co-created Coleman Alexander Wellbeing because we were tired of watching good people build businesses that slowly destroyed them. We've spent three decades between us learning that lasting change only happens when you steady both the structure and the humans inside it.
This isn't theory for us. It's how we work, how we live, and what we've rebuilt our own lives around.
We partner with a deliberately small number of clients because we embody what we teach: regulated capacity over relentless growth.
Together, we help businesses breathe.
If you’re curious to see what's possible for your business, schedule a complimentary 60 minute conversation today.