• certified breath coach
• practitioner of six years
• 12,000+ of hours of yoga and meditation experience
• engineer, writer, app development consultant,
graphic designer, and founder of two companies
• host of dozens of breathwork training programs
• yoga continuing education certified
• strength and conditioning group fitness coach
• read and reread hundreds of books on the topics of modern science, yoga, physiology and breath
• certified woo-woo hippie
It all started after breaking my collarbone on 08/08/08 — I was 11 years old at the time.
About 3 weeks later — while still healing — I hit puberty, my endocrine system flooding me with growth hormones.
This meant that my spine grew crooked.
My right shoulder and chest caved in, resulting in a dramatic reduction in my fitness, agility, confidence, concentration and even eye sight.
It also resulted in a spine with scoliosis, leading to chronic back pain and painful headaches.
Of course, the transition was too subtle for me to tell. Each year I became slightly more off — slightly more uncomfortable.
What started as a much-needed stretch routine for my hips and shoulders became a 180 in my personality, values, interests, and philosophy almost overnight.
Breathing is my favorite topic, because it weaves together so many disparate domains: mind-body awareness, posture, ability to cope with stress, gratitude, evolution, focus, and even identity.
I use yoga to wake up faster, sleep deeper, improve my digestion, run longer distances, experience more pleasure in sexual intimacy, alter my state of consciousness on-command, effortlessly enter flow states, and much more.
The scientific yoga concepts I share have all-but fixed my once-horrid posture, which has significantly helped mitigate my back pain, awakened my kundalini, and believe it or not, returned me to 20/20 vision.
- Shunryu Suzuki | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
are you breathing, or are you aware of breathing? you can't do both