Most breathwork and meditation teachers earn from the group formats: classes, workshops, retreats, an app deal if you are lucky. But the deepest work — and what your community most often asks for — is one-to-one. Someone messages after a class: "Do you do private sessions?" And the honest answer is usually a hesitation, because private sessions have meant improvising a business every time: negotiating a price by DM, sending a payment request, hoping they show up. Many gifted guides quietly under-charge or give the time away, because the asking feels at odds with the work.
Cheddify removes the asking. Your link goes in your bio; your session types and rates are stated plainly on your page; the client pays as a guest in the browser before the session begins. No negotiation, no invoice, no chasing — the container is set before you take the first breath together. You hold sessions over video or audio calls on the Cheddify app, and earnings pay out through Stripe. The full flow is on how Cheddify works.
What breathwork and meditation guides offer on Cheddify
- 1:1 guided breathwork sessions. A booked 45-60 minute private session: an opening conversation about what the client is carrying, a guided practice tailored to it, and space to integrate afterward. This is the offer people ask for after class.
- Personalized meditation sessions. A 30-minute session where you build and guide a practice around the client's actual life — their stress patterns, their schedule, their sticking points — instead of a generic recording.
- Short reset calls. A 15-20 minute fixed-price block: a guided downshift someone books on a hard day. Low price, high frequency, real service.
- Technique coaching. For practitioners who want to deepen a home practice — posture, pacing, working with restlessness — taught live with immediate feedback.
- Live availability. Toggle yourself available during your practice hours for per-minute calls. Someone spiraling at 9pm who can reach a calm, skilled guide within a minute is receiving something a prerecorded app can never offer.
- Paid check-in messages. Between-session support and practice questions as paid DMs, so ongoing guidance has boundaries built in.
A note on framing that protects everyone: present your work as wellness practice — stress relief, nervous system regulation, focus, rest. Breathwork and meditation complement, never replace, professional medical or mental health care, and certain intensive breathing techniques are not appropriate for every body; screening for contraindications and saying the quiet part plainly on your page is both good ethics and good business.
How to price 1:1 sessions by the minute
Wellness and meditation guides on per-minute platforms commonly charge $2 to $6 per minute. Teachers moving from group classes into private work often start at $2, which prices a 45-minute private session near $90. Experienced facilitators with certifications and a dedicated following commonly sit at $3-4, and senior teachers who train other facilitators price at $5-6. Set a 15-minute minimum so every call has room to actually land, and keep the short reset call as your affordable entry point. More in how to price your 1:1 calls.
The math on a real session
Guide a 30-minute personalized session at $3 per minute and the client pays $90, plus roughly 3% card processing added on their side. Cheddify's fee is 20% plus $2 per call: 80% of $90 is $72, minus $2 leaves $70 to you, paid out via Stripe. A practice of eight private sessions a week at that pace adds roughly $2,240 a month alongside your classes — from requests you are currently declining or improvising.
The honest part
Cheddify brings no students to your door. There is no marketplace, no listing of guides, no discovery — only the people who follow you will ever see your page. Your classes, your Instagram practice clips, your workshop mailing list are the demand; Cheddify is the calm, single step between "do you do private sessions?" and a session on the calendar, paid. If you have a community that already breathes with you, it works from day one. If you are still building one, start there — then claim your link when the requests begin.