Guest of this episode of Eylül Aşkın İle (With Eylül Aşkın), hosted by Eylül Aşkın and filmed in Acıbadem, is industrial engineer and breath coach Aslı Tutuş.
“We choose our professions at a very young age.”
Speaking about the pressure to choose a career early, Aslı Tutuş said, “This is a deeply rooted issue in our society.” She explained, “The reason I chose industrial engineering was my father. He is also an engineer. We have a family business where I could work as an engineer. Since childhood, my father would take me to the company, and I worked there during summers. When it was time to choose a profession, I picked industrial engineering thinking, ‘I’ll support my father in the future.’ But in reality, I had other dream careers.”
“I quit my job suddenly.”
Aslı Tutuş shared that after a disagreement with her father, she abruptly left her job at the company. Describing the situation, she said, “We had reached a point where we could no longer work together. We had a huge fight.” She added, “There was a daughter seeking her father’s approval but never receiving it, a frustrated Aslı who couldn’t get what she wanted, and a father who grew even angrier seeing her like that.”
Industrial Engineer and Breath Coach Aslı Tutuş
“I went to a retreat to gain clarity about my career.”
Aslı Tutuş explained that she considered studying architecture from scratch and called an architect friend for advice. During that conversation, the friend directed her to a breathwork and awareness retreat, where she first encountered breath training. “I was so stuck that I hung up the phone and signed up for the retreat. After leaving, I thought, ‘Thank goodness I fought with my dad.’”
“If a person is searching, the answers come to them.”
Aslı Tutuş views breath therapy as a holistic practice and prefers to start her sessions with awareness exercises. She emphasized that we are born limitless but gradually confine ourselves with learned behavioral patterns. The goal of her work, she said, is to break these patterns.
She Tests Everything Herself Before Recommending It!
“I try everything myself first. Then, I love guiding others to experience it too.” Aslı Tutuş mentioned that she is currently working on a program to help artists overcome creative blocks.
“If you had five more lives, which professions would you choose?”
When asked this question, Aslı Tutuş listed careers from very different fields: “I said I’d want to be a dancer in one, an actress/Hollywood star in another, and a detective in another. These are actually parts of ourselves we suppress—our talents, the things we enjoy doing.” She invites everyone to ask themselves this question and embark on a journey back to their true selves.
Who Is Breath Therapy Suitable For?
“If you want to overcome fears, break free from the boxes that define and limit you, if you’re trying to overcome something in life, or if you’re in a transformation phase but struggling—breathwork sessions, where the subconscious is activated alongside awareness, can be very effective.” Aslı Tutuş invites those curious to explore themselves through free group trial sessions.
You can reach her via her Instagram account “aslimizadonus”.
