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my teacher has noticed that I don't breathe enough when I play the piano, she notices that I just hold my breathe, which causes me to lose energy faster.

she said that she emphasizes that you have to breathe at the end of each phrase and trains her young students to do that. my previous teacher never taught me anything like that, so my teacher, just yesterday she was breathing with me while I was playing through my competition repertoire and has asked me to practise doing that at home.

I have always breathed with the music. I find its other tasks where I breathe in a very shallow manner or not at all (usually when driving long distances) I find that it makes me very tired, I don't even realise I am doing it until I become aware that I am growing sleepy.
Does your student realise that she holds her breath?

Gyro: In a way I agree that if we continually breathe in an unnatural manner it may affect us, but occasionally we need to be conscious of how we breathe. As a person who has long suffered from sinus and breathing problems I need to ensure I am breathing deeply at certain times of the year otherwise I begin to feel faint!

I thought you should know that ironically enough breathing voluntary/involuntary is killing us. The oxygen corrodes our body/organs and that is what makes us older. So one could argue that holding your breath is a good thing to do..

But serious: my teacher tries to teach me to breath after a comma or when the "musical sentence" is done. I even joined a choir to learn that (and learning to sing in the process ) as advice from my teacher.

Breathing is kind of a requirement for those of us with lungs to fill. Either do it or we die.

You have to be in synch in breathing when you play music - there is a rhythmic tempo and cycle going on - either with you or without you.

You don't want to inter'rupt a musi'cal phrase to breathe right in the mid'dle of it.

I think probably the piece is too hard for her. Either that or you should give her only one bar plus one beat; then, ask her to stop.

Then do the next bar in its entirety plus one beat.