Park and Breathe 

Train for the Unexpected Micro-Moments

You don’t lose clarity in the big moments.
You lose it in the micro-moments before them.

The email that lands sideways.
The comment that tightens your chest.
The split second before you speak.

That’s where cognition narrows.
That’s where interpretation hardens.
That’s where reaction quietly replaces choice.

This isn’t a discipline problem.
It’s a nervous system event.

Modern leadership has trained intelligence.
It has trained emotional awareness.
It has not trained the physiology that determines whether both remain accessible under pressure.

The Rise of NSQ

From IQ and EQ to Nervous System Leadership

IQ built capability.
EQ built relational awareness.

Neither trained your physiology to stay steady under modern pressure.

When pressure exceeds regulation, access compresses.

Intelligence is still there.
Emotional awareness is still there.

But clarity narrows.
Judgment accelerates.
Responses move before choice is available.

NSQ (Nervous System Quotient) is the capacity to notice when your internal state is outpaced — and recalibrate in real time.

It is not about becoming calmer.
It is about remaining available.

Available to think clearly.
Available to choose precisely.
Available to lead steadily when stakes are high.

Park and Breathe™ is the applied training system that builds it.

The Problem

Most performance breakdowns are not caused by lack of skill.

They happen when pressure exceeds regulation.

Your nervous system shifts.
Attention constricts.
Breath shortens.

Meaning is assigned before context is clear.
Assumptions form faster than awareness.

Nothing is broken.
This is how the system operates under pressure.

But when regulation is untrained, leadership narrows.

By the time you notice the shift,
the moment has already shaped the outcome.

The Cost of Leaving This Untrained

Micro-moments compound.

A tightened tone becomes misalignment.
A rushed response becomes friction.
A narrow interpretation becomes a team pattern.

You don’t feel it in one moment.
You feel it in decision fatigue.
In erosion of trust.
In conversations that feel heavier than they should.

Untrained physiology quietly shapes outcomes.

Training changes the trajectory.

 The Shift

Park and Breathe™ exists for that gap —
the brief window before reaction takes over.

Not to slow life down.
Not to manufacture calm.
Not to repair damage after escalation.

But to expand capacity inside the moment itself.

To increase the space between stimulus and response.

To condition the system that determines how much leadership is available under pressure.

What Park and Breathe™ Does

Park and Breathe™ is applied NSQ training for leadership.

It conditions the nervous system at the speed the moment happens.

So thinking stays wider.
Interpretation slows.
Choice remains available.

Not through force.
Not through mindset reframing.

Through repeated physiological conditioning.

This is regulation as readiness — not recovery.

 Why This Is Different

Most approaches address stress after it escalates.

Mindset after reaction.
Strategy after tension.
Reflection after conflict.

Park and Breathe™ trains what happens before reaction —

When the nervous system first shifts.
When tone is about to tighten.
When judgment is about to narrow.
When decisions are about to compress.

That’s where leverage lives.

Before reaction.
Before misinterpretation spreads.
Before state contagion shapes culture.

How the Training Works

You don’t train micro-moments by waiting for them.

You train the patterns that appear inside them.

Short, consistent repetitions condition:

• How quickly you detect a shift
• How your breath responds under pressure
• How much space exists before response

The nervous system learns through frequency, not duration.

Three minutes, repeated daily,
reshapes what happens automatically when pressure rises.

Daily Structure 

Each day includes two short sessions:

Morning — Workday Power-Up

This session trains up-regulation:

Expanding attention.
Clearing residual mental noise.
Establishing a steadier baseline for the day.

You don’t enter the day already compressed.

Evening — Home Reset

This session trains down-regulation:

Releasing accumulated tension.
Completing stress cycles.
Returning the system to safety.

Pressure doesn’t roll forward into tomorrow.

How This Transfers Into Real Moments

Over time, the shift happens automatically.

You detect changes sooner.
You breathe before interpretation hardens.
You respond with range instead of reflex.

Not because you remember a technique.

Because the system that runs the moment
has been trained.

Leadership stays online longer.

Decisions stay clearer.

Conversations stay wider.

What This Is (and Isn’t)

This isn’t advice.
It’s not a script.
It’s not positive thinking.

It’s conditioning.

You are training the system that determines
whether clarity is available when stakes are high.

What You’ll Receive

30 Guided Audio Sessions

A three-week body-based nervous system training arc designed to build capacity through lived experience.

Each day includes a short AM and PM practice.
Each session takes about three minutes.

Three minutes that do not interfere with your day.
No schedule changes.
No catching up.
No falling behind.

Just repetition that rewires access under pressure.

The Training Arc (At a Glance)

Week 1 — Body Awareness

Recognize your body’s signals before reaction accelerates.

Week 2 — Body-Based Shifting

Train regulation so space appears before interpretation locks in.

Week 3 — NSQ Leadership & Influence

Apply physiological stability in conversations, decisions, and moments where your state shapes others.

Because leadership isn’t what you know.
It’s what remains accessible when pressure rises.

How the Practice Works

This is practice designed to train body awareness and regulation for unexpected micro-moments—
at work, at home, and in between.

Through repetition, you learn to recognize:

• Tension as it appears

• Shallow or restricted breathing

• Narrowing attention and readiness to react

So awareness and response begin to show up automatically,
without stopping your day to “do the work.”

What This Supports

When regulation improves, access improves.

Clearer thinking under pressure.
Stronger executive presence.
More accurate judgment.
Conflict that resolves before escalation.
Teams that recover faster from friction.

The edge isn’t intensity.

It’s access.

Foundations: The Science Behind the Training

You’ll receive 8 optional Foundations modules explaining the biology behind this method.

They support the practice — not replace it.

Understanding increases confidence.
Practice creates change.

This Training Is For You If…

You operate in moments where judgment, presence, and timing matter.

You already have capability.
You want reliable access to it under pressure.

Where This Shows Up

Entrepreneurs making rapid decisions.
Executives navigating complexity and change.
Lawyers and advisors inside high-stakes conversations.
Sales professionals where tone determines trust.
Parents transitioning from intensity to presence.

Different roles.
Same micro-moments.

What Park and Breathe™ Provides

Three minutes at a time to reset your nervous system —

So the next decision isn’t driven by the last reaction.

At work.
At home.
In between.

Not by adding more.

By increasing access.

This Is Already Happening

You don’t need to imagine the micro-moment.

It already happened today.

A conversation where you spoke a little faster than you intended.
A decision made with less patience than you prefer.
A moment at home where your tone carried more tension than you meant.

Not because you lack capability.

Because your nervous system shifted before you noticed.

Training doesn’t create pressure.

It changes how you move inside it.

The moments that shape your leadership are happening whether you train for them or not.

The only question is whether your physiology is prepared.

NSQ™ Leadership for Organizations

Organizations invest in intelligence.
They invest in emotional intelligence.

Few invest in regulation capacity —
the physiological stability that determines whether judgment, tone, and timing remain intact under pressure.

Yet performance breakdowns follow a predictable pattern:

A nervous system shifts.
Attention narrows.
Reaction spreads.

Under chronic activation:

Decision quality drops.
Conflict escalates faster than awareness.
Psychological safety erodes.
Strategic clarity compresses.

This is not a talent problem.
It is a regulation problem.

Unregulated pressure is expensive.

It costs time.
It costs trust.
It costs alignment.
It costs execution speed.

Park and Breathe™ develops NSQ™ Leadership —
the capacity to detect state shifts early and recalibrate in real time.

The result:

• Higher-quality decisions under pressure
• Reduced reaction cycles across teams
• Stronger executive presence
• Greater collaboration without forced harmony
• Faster recovery from friction

This is not a wellness initiative.

It is leadership infrastructure.

Most valuable during:

• Rapid growth
• Organizational transition
• High-visibility roles
• Environments where reaction costs outcomes

To explore team or enterprise training:
[email protected]

When This Is Most Useful

During rapid growth.
During transition.
In high-visibility roles.
Where reaction costs time, trust, or outcomes.

Park and Breathe™ moves teams
from reaction to intention,
from accumulated stress to strategic steadiness.

To explore team or organizational options:
[email protected]

What the Training Supports

When teams learn to regulate at the nervous-system level:

• Psychological safety increases without being forced

• Decision-making improves under pressure

• Collaboration becomes more effective

• Collective intelligence becomes accessible

Not because people try harder—
but because their systems are steadier.

Park and Breathe™ helps teams move
from reaction to intention,
from accumulated stress to strategic presence.

To explore team or organizational options:
[email protected]  

Meet Your Guide

Reizel Larrea Alvarez

Founder of NSQ for Leadership™Creator of Park and Breathe™
Leadership Performance & Negotiation Strategist
Emmy Award–Winning Investigative Journalist | Former Deloitte Auditor

Reizel trains the micro-moment before reaction —
the split second when the nervous system tightens and clarity can either sharpen or collapse.

Her work focuses on the physiological layer of leadership:
the patterns that shape decision-making, tone, timing, and trust in real time.

Through NSQ for Leadership™ and the Park and Breathe™ method, she equips leaders to regulate internal state and respond with precision when it matters most.

Train the Capacity Modern Leadership Requires

You already have capability.

But capability is not the same as access.

When pressure rises,
does your leadership expand —
or does it compress before you notice?

Three weeks.
Three minutes.
Twice a day.

The micro-moments that shape your outcomes are happening either way.

Begin your first session now!