Breathless Riverina

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And breathe happily ever after...

One of the greatest challenges of our time,
..is being able to handle the huge amount of stimuli we’re exposed to each day AND at the same time maintain a breathing pattern that is rhythmic and relaxed.

During stressful periods, we take more breaths or breathe at a rhythm that is unnatural.

Over time, this can cause imbalances in the body's ability to self-regulate.

Some of us have acquired impaired breathing habits, faced significant trauma, or have felt disconnected from our bodies for a time.

Wherever you are in your process, there is room to connect to your breathing, to start unwinding some of the tension and build a relationship with the most advanced technology app on the planet — Our own breath.

— Stay in your breath. Low and slow into your belly. In through the nose, out through the nose or mouth gently. Riding the waves up and down.

‘There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then there’s another way; a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.’
– Rumi

INSTRUCTOR TRAINING GIVEAWAY!👇💯

After our launch, expanding our incredible family, we decided to give away # 100

Your chance to WIN a life-changing 3 month training program🤞

It's so simple! Comment the word BREATHLESS to enter!!

🚀 One winner will be announced via stories on the 20TH OF JULY

WHAT YOU GET:

World's most comprehensive Breathwork Training program including:

🫁 21 Day Master Your Breath Program

📚12 Hours of study materials in the Portal & App

💨 100 Hours of Breathwork Practice

🏔️ 5 Days all inclusive Breathwork Retreat

🌀 28 Day Mentorship Program on Business Planning + 1:1 Coaching

- Our philosophy rests on the idea that you can only guide people as far and as deep as you have explored yourself…

…which is why we take you on a journey of discovery with your own breath, where you will:

1️⃣ Intimately explore a wide range of powerful breathing techniques, methods and principles for transformation

2️⃣ Explore the wide spectrum of possibilities for healing, growth and expansion breathwork has to offer

3️⃣ Become grounded in your own practice and experience breakthroughs as you take on the role of Breathwork coach

4️⃣ Be blown away by the power under your nose on a deep dive mountain retreat with your new tribe

5️⃣ Take on mentoring and coaching to create your own instructor style.

- HOW IT WORKS:

Trainings are listed by the dates for the 5-day immersion, but as soon as you book in you’ll receive full access to the portal, app, books and practises.

- WHY BREATHWORK?

Breathwork is one of the most rapidly expanding lifestyle practices today.

We are at a unique point in time where science has finally caught up with spirituality.

Breathwork instructors connect the fields of ancient wisdom with modern applications and help people optimise every breath, take responsibility own personal healing, expand their consciousness and become more grounded, centred human beings.

So let go, look within, go beyond and join the revolution today 💯

Winter Is Here... BE BOLD - START COLD

These bold, badass and powerful souls came from all over the country to brave the new possible...

Dip their toes in the wild waters, dunk their heads under raging waterfalls and open their hearts to make moves way beyond their comfort zones.

Can't thank everyone enough for your support, for cheering us on in our fears, and holding a prayer for us and our safety in your hearts as we navigate the storms...
..the breaking down of walls and building of lifelong bonds

Held, challenged, supported.

Pushing beyond, letting go of control and always, feeling alive.

Deep in the wild mountains, is a strange marketplace, where you can trade the hassle and noise of everyday life, for eternal light

- Milarepa

We hope it makes your heart beat faster

We hope it takes your breath away

We hope you feel the fear

But you do it anyway.

You'll never look back.

Always one step ahead capturing the 📸 magic Solis Photography.

opening her heart to hold everyone in their challenge

ever growing, always creating and lighting up the room whilst blowing off the roof


Caring so deeply for everyone involved and inspiring us.

From the heart,

We're starting a pilot program in April...

We looking for 18 people who want to breathe well, and live better 💨

- Ready to master your breath and create an awesome, informed practice in the next 21 days?
(all online - from anywhere)

Note - the only criteria? You must breathe (if you know anyone who breathes please tag them below)

Jokes aside, are you looking to;

- Get on top of stress 🧗
- Release repressed or deeply held emotions 🙋
- Boost your physical performance in all aspects 🤹‍♂️
- Enjoy more balance, mental clarity and peace 🎯
- Move into deeper and more profound states of relaxation 🧘

If that's you, and you're ready to learn what the transformative power of an informed & grounded breathwork practice feels like,

Comment the words below:

- Breathe well, live better

And we'll send you the details…

I put together a free 7-day breathwork program to help you breathe well, and live better. Have you tried it yet?

How lessons from the deep can help us reach higher heights and perform under pressure 👇

1. Big lungs 💨
2. Lots of red blood cells 🩸
3. Strong diving reflex 🐬

These three adaptations help you deal with a complete cessation of breathing for a few minutes.

But do they have any relevance to prolonged exposure to a mild decrease in oxygen, like you experience in the mountains?

Can this explain how our abilities for breath-hold diving and high altitude climbing are related?

Turns out - it does.

We absolutely love data like this - we live for it. I remember reading a report from a study on winter swimmers in London, where the researchers had found a 'strange side note' - and getting so damn excited for it;

- Not only were the swimmers healthier and happier for their hobby - they also performed better at altitude. (even though all their cold exposure took place at sea level)

This speaks to the idea of what we call Cross-adaptation - and it informs a lot of our practices. The application means that to train for one area of adaptation, will also increase performance in other areas.

When we stress ourselves in the right ways, we become stronger as a whole. Physiologically, physically, but also mentally and are I say spiritually more adapted humans.

The bigger takeaway, for us, is the idea that freediving isn’t as crazy and unnatural a pastime as most initially think.

The dive reflex and adaptations that happen when people learn to hold their breath originate way back in our evolutionary history—it’s what Per Scholander, one of the first scientists to study this, called “the master switch of life.”

And as the research shows, the circuitry that enables us to go deep is also what enables us to make it to the top of Mount Everest.

—because we were simply born to dive, and when chasing our evolutionary potential - we have no option but to thrive.

Breathe Well - Live Better.

Give-Away Alert! 👇

- Win an unforgettable trip to the mountains 🗻

What you need to do:

1. Like & Follow Breathless
2. Tag 2 loved ones in the comments below (up to 3 entries)
3. Like & share this post

Winner will be announced 31st of March and receive:

🏔 4 days / 3 nights Chalet Accommodation
💨 Breathwork with Live Music performances
🏔️Hiking Expeditions to hidden gems in the mountains
❄️Experience cold exposure in pristine Alpine Waters
🌡️ Sauna, Spa, Amazing Food & Awesome Facilities
🌀 Challenges in Wild Nature

Dates: 03-06 June OR 10-13 June

Anyone is welcome ! (16+) - We can't wait to embark on an Expedition together with you and see the journey you take not only during the time away but as a community moving forward.

We will be there to guide and support you every step of the way.
To help you make this your own journey.

To allow you the space and provide you with the tools to tap into your inner superhuman.

All you have to do is get yourself to the mountains, and we'll take care of everything else.

When to use Breathwork?

The principal effect of Breathwork is inner balance, emotional realignment and the reduction of cortisol, accompanied by a lowered heart rate and soothing of nerves.

Here are some recommended moments to use Breathwork to maintain this state throughout the day:

1️⃣ Upon waking 5-7AM

Breathe before your coffee, breakfast or checking your phone 📱

Cortisol levels peak in the morning, helping us face the stress of the day. Too much cortisol is like too much coffee. There’s a happy medium.

It takes around 4 hours for cortisol to return to normal levels after a bout of stress. Breathwork in the morning reduces the starting level and will speed up the return to normal.

The morning session is therefore by far the most important one as it sets you up for success.

2️⃣ Before lunch 11 - 1 PM

Mornings are active periods, the SNS / PNS balance leans to the left. A rebalancing via breathwork is going to have a calming effect, as you:

- Re-center yourself
- Alleviate built up stress
- Prepare for digestion
- Avoid post-meal drowsiness

In addition, the PNS stimulation improves digestion, which takes the backburner when the pressures of the day creep up on us.

3️⃣ Late afternoon 5-7PM

For most, this time is a change in rhythm; the work or study day ends, and we come home to our ‘second life’, with its unique stressors and tasks.

This session can be the most difficult to honour but ensuring you take a breather before shifting gears can make all the difference.

This time is as critical as the morning one, the quality of your evening and sleep depend on it.

Upcoming Saturday, 26th Feb, 8am @ Labyrinth - Pioneer Park - Tumut.
Everyone is welcome.

When was the last time you signed up for a challenge?

Upcoming Saturday, 12th Feb, 8:30am @ Labyrinth - Pioneer Park - Tumut.
Everyone is welcome. Please RSVP by Friday through messenger with Pedro Augusto or instagram .

Flow is the very thing that makes us come alive. It points the way,

and we should go there. Often.

Whether you realise it or not, everyone is chasing the experience of ‘no-mind’

Binge-watching Netflix, three glasses of wine a night, ma********on, dating apps, headspace and attempts at biohacking away our anxiety in a desperate bid to keep up.

“MOST OF US ARE LIVING IN A HIGHLY DISTRACTED, OVER-STRESSED, EGO-DRIVEN EXPERIENCE. - NO ONE BUILT AN OFF SWITCH” - JAMIE WHEAL

Right under your nose 👃

The Breathless breathing techniques have been designed to pull the neural triggers that can produce the same kind of enlightenment that lifelong meditators experience.

Want an out-of-body experience?

Join a breakthrough breathwork event on Friday night instead of boozing up.

Want to be smarter and happier?

You can learn to quiet your prefrontal cortex – that inner critic – and access more of your brain’s attention-focusing norepinephrine using a simple 15-minute recording with some epic music.

Anything that gets you out of ruts and routines, defrags your mental hard drive and resets your nervous system, pays big dividends over time.

Consider four of today’s most familiar non-ordinary states: meditation, breathwork, active hot & cold exposure, psychedelics & extreme sports. – Now combine them and you end up with?

You guessed it. Breathless.

Breathwork provides this opportunity to go ‘straight to the source’.

The combination of optimal engagement with the task of conscious breathing, the visceral and often immediate effects and curated balance of neurochemistry create a unique opportunity to use our body to get out of our heads,

Rather than the classic approach of using our minds to talk ourselves into not talking to ourselves…

“20 YEARS OF ZEN IN 20 MINUTES” “IT TOOK ME 5 DAYS OF VIPASSANA TO GET TO THAT POINT” “I’VE NEVER EXPERIENCED SUCH STILLNESS, SUCH EASE”

Consider the gains: a 200 percent boost in creativity, a 490 percent boost in learning, a 500 percent boost in productivity.

These are essential skills and those are big percentage gains.

Breath & Ice Experience - Manly “A breath of love can take you all the way to infinity” Rumi

The art of the most human act of all... ❤

Season finale
What a way to wrap up winter 2021! Our last weekend in November has been a hit for the last three years but these 2 incredible expeditions went beyond all expectations 🏔️❤️
Blessed with a snowstorm on the last 2 days, the mountains all to ourselves and some fantastic company
Special thanks to the amazing team and ofcourse for capturing the magic 📷
Also for the catering & for allowing us to use the amazing space
Revitalized and ready for our instructor training coming up next weekend!
Much love everyone, see you next winter 💯

What is it about the mountains that makes us feel so alive?

Mountains inspire determination, ingenuity, creativity and awe - all of which fuel our spirit.

Can we learn from the science, myths and mountain dwellers and bring elements of the mountain environment into our lives?

Mountains provide the ultimate playground for us to connect, learn, reflect but also take part in our own evolution...

One of the greatest experiments of adaptation happens when humans inhabit the high ranges - the Cold Exposure, Solar Radiation & Low Oxygen Levels cause our bodies to 'Remodel' - Literally being shaped by our environment to thrive in its inherent challenges 🏔️

This 'Remodelling' proves to have benefits far beyond its high altitude setting - and we believe it's greatly enhanced by bringing an open heart, a willing mind and a deep belief that life is an adventure waiting to be lived

We learned yesterday that as restrictions lifting we'll be packing our bags again before the snow melts this year - with Winter Expeditions planned in the first weekend of November, which has been the season finale in 2019 & 2022

Whilst away from our spiritual home 🏔️

The Breathless techniques provide an amazing way to Simulate Altitude and gain the benefits (5 Breath-holds a day is your aim) 💨

I've been playing around with visualizing the mountain within as my steady centre to move from ⛰️

Essential Oils can also be a way to bring the mountain to you,
- Himalayan Cedar
- High Alpine Lavendar
- Andean Mint
- Pink Pepper

And ofcourse deepening the relationships we made in those precious moments spent where we feel most alive ❤️

Cant wait to see you all,

WINTER TIME

I remember a time when winter resembled a looming period of darkness

Like an incoming dark-grey sky clouding my happiness, bringing with it rainy days of mood swings, the cold weather seemingly putting life 'On Hold' for a few months

Year after year I felt a depression slip over me when the light of day reduced

I made a pact with myself to never feel that darkness again, to flee the winter months for far-away places of warm weather year round

Now, I can't wait for the most wonderful time of the year, the people it brings into my life, the opportunity to share with others the majestic beauty and quiet power within this season

No more hiding, blanketing myself in excuses to close off to the world around me when the seasons change. Even throughout last winter 2020 we demonstrated the power of coming together on 10 unforgettable Winter Expeditions

Adventure, vitality, your bucket list experience, we've got you covered in 2021 .expeditions

What would it mean if this were the best winter EVER?

What shadows are you willingly facing or chasing this year? Sending love to You in your process!

People often comment on how discovering how they can make a few simple changes in how they use their breath has helped them take back control of their life. To realise they have more power over their mind then they thought they did. That it has helped them find the calm in the storm that can be our world and brought them back to their body.

The beauty and science of the breath is that it gets to be that simple.

Are you intrigued to know more about the breath and how you can use it as a tool to enhance your life and human potential?

Come and join us at our next event in Newcastle!

What you can expect 👇🏽

✔️Breath-work
✔️Scientific explanations
✔️Ice Baths
✔️Meditation
✔️Discussion
✔️Warm cacao, delicious food and bad jokes
✔️To leave with tools, training and knowledge to incorporate into your daily life and practice
✔️Hang out with a group of like-minded people and share a bonding experience that will open you up, lift your soul and leave you feeling alive, connected and a part of something bigger than yourself

Check out the link in our bio for more details and to register!

Spaces are strictly limited 👊🏼

The lowest hanging fruit
The one step you can take today

Towards better breathing, deeper sleep and overall improvement of mood, wellbeing and energy

Would be to start with making the unconscious conscious, in particular the window of opportunity you have to optimize every breath - Without much conscious effort at all

Truth is most of us don't breathe optimally during sleep

Now - truth is most of us don't breathe optimally in general, we're not taught how to, and - your nighttime breathing is merely a reflection of your daytime breathing

This really goes for all areas of breathing in that sense...
- "We don't rise to the level of our expectations; we fall to the level of our training." - Archilochus

Here's some other hard truths.
✔️ The quality of your day depends on the quality of your sleep
✔️ You simply can't sleep well if you don't breathe well
✔️ Around 40% of the adult population snores at least occasionally
✔️ This figure increases to 60% in the over 40's
✔️ It's serious problem - untreated 'Sleep Disordered Breathing' leads to a host of conditions
✔️ Almost 50% of men over 50's will develop Sleep Apnea
✔️ Global sleep Apnea Industry market size was 5.9 Billion in 2019 (This does not include any form of breathing-retraining)

It doesn't end there.

❌ Low energy, slowed reflexes & impaired cognitive ability
❌ Sexual dysfunction, weight problems, stress & poor choices

2020 WAS THE YEAR OF THE BREATH
Let 2021 be the year YOU take control of YOUR breath

Start here.

Fact - Studies showed that 'Mouth Taping' can reduce the amount of 'Apnea' episodes at night by 50% & reduce the volume of snoring by about the same.

It's not about taping the mouth.

It's about making sure we breathe through the nose as much as humanly possible...

Path of least resistance:

Use a medical-grade mouth taping product at night
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Your body is on your side. Big Time.
👉 It wants you to breathe right
👉 It only stops breathing at night to prevent worse things from happening
👉 Even that debilitating (And preventable) snoring noise is an attempt to bring your breathing back to balance

30 Days - all it takes. TRY

"A breath of love can take you all the way to infinity" - Rumi

It all starts and ends with the Breath; at least, it did for me.

There are a lot of new faces joining us at the moment, so I wanted to take a moment to reintroduce myself and speak into a little of my own story.

Which began one afternoon about 5 years ago on a sofa somewhere in Amsterdam. I was feeling defeated after a 10-year cycle of running away from myself.
I was in pain. Clouded by the fog of depression and shutdown. Unable to live with myself. It hurt others. There seemed no way out.

When someone offered me a way in
BREATHE

And there it was, hope, I felt light, tears, compassion, and possibility just explode inside of me

At first, Breath was a way to keep my head above water, to start making some moves again. Learning to trust myself, my body, and my heart, I built up more Energy, Resilience, Understanding, and Passion over time.

Believe it or not - the world of BREATH is endlessly exciting and fascinating if you can look beyond the overcomplicated and dogmatic approaches that inevitably arise

And BREATHING is on the rise baby

I now get to spend my days coaching A-league sports teams, developing wellness solutions for Australia's largest companies, running expeditions in some of the worlds most pristine environments. Not to mention the 5000 people I've had the blessing to stand in front of, tell my story, and introduce into the world of BREATH!

It’s where the magic happens

I'll meet you there

Do you want to be a part of it? Hit the link in bio to find out when I'm near you.

OR

DM me; I'm always open to new connections worldwide!