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INTRODUCTION
Breath Works
“So I just finished a breathing class with Niraj Naik. It was the single most weirdest,
most spiritual, most amazing moment of my life… Full stop.” Andy, Bali.
That was it: the final confirmation I needed. Breath really works.
I had just facilitated a SOMA Awakening breathwork experience at a friend’s villa
located in Uluwatu, Bali. Participants experienced a profound, transformative, and
psychedelic journey stimulated by a combination of hypnosis, tribal rhythmical music,
and pranayama breathwork techniques. A short hypnotic induction guided the
participants to set an intention that arises through the awareness of their true core
desire.
For Andy, his wish was to experience proof in the existence of a spirit world through a
religious experience.
Andy was the least likely candidate to be taking a class like this, let alone to experience
the results he had! The son of a preacher, Andy rebelled throughout his life against the
religious views of his family and became a devout pro-scientific atheist in the process.
He really wanted to prove his disbelief in anything remotely spiritual wrong.
After just one session of a SOMA Awakening, Andy became an instant convert.
It was in this session that I also became a full convert to the power of breathwork. After
successfully using simple pranayama techniques taught to me by Swami Ambikananda
- a well respected yogi from England - to help me heal a chronic autoimmune condition
when I had decided that medication was not an option.
The continuous miracles I have either witnessed or been a part of since that time have
been an ongoing testament to the profound power of breath. My journey to this point
sparked my interest to discover exactly why and how breath works.
The Awakening
We live in a time where we desperately need creative minds and visionaries to join
forces and solve the immense problems that face humanity. The financial system,
healthcare, and the environment are suffering because of a broken system.
The schooling system has educated generations out of this creativity and crushed
billions of souls in the process. Modern societies have become robotized and turned
into obedient servants, propping up a corrupt and crumbling economic system, which is
slowly destroying our planet.
Most people are experiencing life through a sleeping trance, but to change things we
must wake up! There was a time however where things were different, a time in our
ancient history that we can learn a lot from.
Spirit To Science
Breathing practices are important to yoga, tantra, and shamanic cultures. The word
“Spiritual” has its roots in the Latin “Spirare”, which means “to breathe”. The word
“Conspire” (Latin “Conspirare”) means “to breathe together”. In fact, the original rituals
of modern day organized religions have a breathwork component to them as they are
believed to lead us closer to God or the divine (just like the Rishis).
An ancient pranayama breathwork technique called Nisshesha Rechaka Kumbhaka, or,
holding your breath beyond the comfort zone for a short period of time, creates a
physiological state known as intermittent hypoxia that induces brief periods of
lower-than-normal blood oxygen levels.
If practiced correctly according to legend, this breathwork ritual will lead to eternal
youth and immortality by producing Amrita, also known as the nectar of Gods.
Perhaps Amrita is in fact the movement of somatic stem cells around the body. Stem
cells have the ability to turn into any other cell and are found in greatest numbers when
you are in the womb as an embryo, a time when you literally exist in a state of hypoxia,
where the oxygen levels inside the womb are about 10% of the outside world. Once you
are born, the stem cells hide away in places of low oxygen such as bone marrow. New
treatments are emerging that extract stem cells from your body, in hope that one day
they can be used to recreate organs. This can cost upwards of $20,000.
However, new research shows that intermittent hypoxic training in which you create
brief periods of low blood oxygen levels, can produce results almost instantly by
stimulating stem cells to come out of hiding and move around the body to places where
they can heal and regenerate healthy cells for your organs.
This form of therapy has been used by Russian doctors for decades to treat diseases
such as coronary heart disease, and to improve recovery time from injury and athletic
training. Stamina and endurance is also improved as intermittent hypoxia stimulates the
production of new muscle tissue, red blood cells, and even blood vessels.
Using a combination of scientifically proven breathwork techniques, rhythmical and
euphoric music, guided meditation, and imagery I have developed a remarkable process
for reaching heightened states of consciousness and ecstatic bliss. It has even been
described as a “psychedelic orgasm on DMT” by a modern shaman.
Through a more therapeutic variation of this same process, the layers of your mask peel
away and reveal your true nature. You cannot help but become your authentic self. You
connect deeply to who you truly are. Through this awareness comes the path to truth.
Through this profound truth you learn exactly the difference between what is good for
you and what no longer serves you. You can remove negativity and attachment to the
past, fully embrace the present, and be at your very best every single day.
This is evolution of SOMA Breath.
Your Breath Shall Set You Free..
Do you know what the original meaning of “spiritual” is?
It comes from the Latin, “Spirare”, which means to breathe.
Inspire, to breathe in
Conspire, to breathe together
Many cultures throughout history have breathed together in some ceremonial way, and
sacred rituals involving breath are a common thread between priests and religious
leaders of many religions.
Until 1386 the word “conspire” simply meant to breathe together. After the word
“conspiracy” became known, the root word “conspire” took on a new meaning: to plot
something wrong, evil, or illegal.
The power of breathing together as a group practice was hidden for centuries due to the
misdirection of a powerful word. Could the reason for this misdirection be due to an
assumption that people meeting up to do breathwork rituals must be up to no good?
Think of it this way: in the 1300s, the divide between rich and poor became more
apparent than ever before. Those who took part in the breathwork rituals typically
became the more prosperous and healthy members of society. Perhaps a rejected
member chose to speak badly of this community, or perhaps an envious lower class
society decided that these people were evil and greedy.
However, modern science now shows us that when we breathe together in certain ways,
some very interesting and positive occurrences arise; especially to your heart, feelings,
and emotions. In fact breathing together may be the one thing that can solve the root
cause of a lot of the problems of society - disconnection and social isolation, which
create anxiety and depression on an epidemic scale.
SOMA Breath
In Thailand I lead breathwork ceremonies inside a giant meditation pyramid. Groups of
us sat in circles, facing each other, moving hands up and down our bodies to conduct
the energy of each long rhythmical inhale and exhale to beat-driven, trance-inducing
music, with the inevitable symphony of orgasmic bliss emanating from the choir of
breathers. This is a typical Soma awakening breathwork ritual.
To anyone from the outside looking in, we must all look incredibly strange. In fact, we
may even look intimidating, possessed, crazy to someone who has never encountered
this before.
However, in each SOMA session, new friendships, new loves, intimacy, and deep
connections arise from this magical ritual. Soma has no doubt made a hugely positive
impact on the members of our spiritual community in Srithanu, a small village located
on the east side of the island of Koh Phangan.
My Story
Back in 2010 my life could not have been more different. I was housebound, depressed,
and seriously sick with a chronic illness called ulcerative colitis. For a number of years
prior to this I had felt incredibly socially isolated and disconnected. I had become
increasingly disillusioned with the way society had become in England. Especially in my
career as a pharmacist, working for a very corrupt and broken system. Standing mostly
in one spot dishing out pills all day long like a Big Pharma robot slave, I was surrounded
by moody, miserable, and negative people and a boss who only cared about the profit
we made that day. I was in living in a waking trance: a perfectly programmed existence
that was in no way serving my best interests.
My life revolved around the familiar pattern of wake up, coffee, sit in traffic, get to work,
more coffee, complain with colleagues, complete my robotic and soulless work with
minimal breaks, endure the endless mindless natter and gossip about the latest TV
shows and celebrities who I had never heard of; McDonald’s for lunch, pizza for dinner,
drink more coffee, sleep late, party hard, and consume a lot of alcohol and recreational
drugs at the weekends to escape from the madness and misery my life had become. I
felt I no longer fitted into the culture I grew up in and I feared that maybe this is all that
life had to offer. I had no idea the impact of this fear until much later, when it all
compounded into my diagnosis of a severe case of ulcerative colitis.
In many ways, this was my blessing. It was through my sickness that I first discovered
the potential of simple breathing exercises to relieve stress and even heal conditions
ruled out as incurable by conventional medicine. When I asked whether there was any
cure for ulcerative colitis, the doctor told me to shut up and keep taking the meds. But
the side effects had taken their toll and the last option remaining was to surgically
remove my colon. I could not accept that. By sheer fate alone a now very close friend of
my family, and a world renowned yoga teacher, Swami Ambikananda, came to the
rescue and taught me pranayama breathing exercises and simple lifestyle changes
based on yoga and ayurveda.
I really felt the power of these breathing exercise when finding peace and solace in a
sauna after a hard days work. I would frequently visit a wellness center called Nirvana in
my home town of Reading, England. I instinctively started to extend my exhalation and
even make toning sounds with my voice this would bring me into a deep meditative
state. To the surprise of other members of the spa, I was able to stay in the sauna for
many times longer than everyone else, up to 1 hour at 90ºC+ temperatures. I felt the
normal meditative state was expanded inside the sauna. I had a closer connection to
my soul and spirit. The sauna was my temple and I regularly attended to worship.
Miraculously, within a few months I was back on my feet at full health. Within a year I
was living on a tropical island doing what I love for a living! Looking back on my healing
journey, I know that the pranayama breathing exercises were the major catalyst to my
recovery.
This motivated me to delve deeper into researching exactly how and why something as
simple as breathing could make such a profound change in my life.
The records
Yogi Ramachakara, in The Science Of Breath, the acclaimed book on yogic breathing
published in 1903, writes extensively on how and why rhythmic breathing is the secret to
attaining physical, spiritual, and even psychic mastery according to the master yogis in
India.
In 1969, Swami Rama baffled scientists by stopping his heart beat for 17 seconds. He
even managed to raise the temperature of one side of his hand up by 10 degrees, and
the other side down by 10 degrees by willpower alone. This proved for the first time, that
under controlled conditions, we can consciously influence our autonomic nervous
systems.
However, these are just impressive displays that appear like magic and should not
distract you from what more is possible. What Swami Rama was trying to show us is
that by learning yoga and pranayama we can actually reclaim control over our
physiology and psychology. We can become liberated and not only live longer more
healthy lives, free from diseases, but also create a closer connection to the divine.
In more recent times, a close friend and mentor of mine, W im Hof ‘The Ice Man’, also an
accomplished yogi, broke several world records and also shocked scientists by being
able to stay in ice for 2 hrs without his core body temperature changing. He was also
able to withstand the effects of an e-coli infection by willpower alone. He then went on
to prove for the first time during a scientific experiment that you could train others to do
the same.
HeartMath Institute, a group of scientists who have done a lot of great research on the
effect of breathing on physiology, ran another very interesting study called Achieving
Collective Coherence. They discovered that people who breathe together in a special
rhythm create a phenomenon known as collective coherence. According to HeartMath,
when we are in a coherent state, virtually no energy is wasted because our systems are
performing optimally and there is synchronization between heart rhythms, the
respiratory system, blood-pressure rhythms, and so on.
Among the many benefits of personal coherence are increased composure, more
energy, clear thinking, enhanced immune-system function, and hormonal balance.
The Science
When you work out intensely you will naturally breathe through both your nose and mouth to
bring in more oxygen to supply your muscles’ demands. However, under times of emotional
stress you may also breathe through your mouth more when in fact you do not need the excess
oxygen as you are not physically active. This can lead to extra unnecessary stress on the body
and more stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system than is actually required.
Breathing through your nostrils also filters, cleans and conditions the air so that you breath
higher quality air into your lungs. As nostril breathing also warms the air, it flows into the lower
part of the lungs where there are more parasympathetic receptors. This helps you stay calm and
relaxed. If you are competing in sports, simply breathing through your nostrils can stimulate the
parasympathetic nervous system to maintain more focus. In some cases you will need extra
oxygen and so breathing through both your nostrils and mouth at the same time will ensure you
do not over stimulate your sympathetic nervous system.
Physiology
Directed Neurogenesis
Neuroplasticity is the concept that your brain can change. Neurogenesis is the ability for
the brain to grow new brain cells. Numerous studies, especially on stroke victims who
have brain damage, now demonstrate that your brain can regenerate and repair
damaged areas. What is even more amazing is that new emerging research shows us
that it is possible to actually self-direct neurogenesis and intentionally grow new brain
cells in the areas desired.
Dr Jeffrey Schwartz, a leading researcher of brain dysfunctions, and Sharon Begley, a
Wall Street Journal science columnist, conducted great research together on a
phenomenon of self-directed neuroplasticity. In 1989, while treating patients with
obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), using a therapy based on Buddhist mindfulness
meditation, they discovered that patients were able to reshape their brains to diminish
or remove obsessions.
In 1995, Alvaro Pascual-Leone at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and
Stroke, had a group of volunteers practice a five-finger piano exercise, and another
group simply think about practicing the piece, using mental visualizations of practicing
each note at a time. He discovered that those performing the mental rehearsal
produced as big a change as the group who carried out the actual movements!
With Soma Breath you will learn how to use the power of intention and visualization
combined with the physiological effects of breathwork and meditation to stimulate and
self-direct brain growth in areas that would be appropriate to you.
A Soma Breath coach is expertly trained in facilitating directed neurogenesis.
A quick exercise
Listen to two pieces of music, one you love and one that you really hate…
How do you feel after listening to each one?
Do you feel contracted or expanded?
Do you want to relax and enjoy or run away?
When we have high vibrational emotions like love and passion, we produce coherent
frequencies in the electromagnetic field that radiates from the heart - like listening to a
piece of music that you love. Low vibrational emotions like fear and hate produce
discordant frequencies, just like when a piece of music is out of tune.
We intuitively know which vibrational state we are in by tuning into the emotions we
feel. When we radiate high vibrations by choosing to feel love, we shift our frequencies
into coherence. Every individual thought, intention, emotion, and what we feel
energetically impacts our environment, which affects the collective vibrations on a
global level. By simply breathing in rhythm to music that is beautiful and soothing to
you, we can create a natural state of physiological coherence. This physiological state
of coherence will rub off on others around you by simply being in their presence - this is
the power of collective coherence at enhancing the consciousness of the entire planet.
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Kumbhaka
Oxidative stress
Studies have shown that oxidative stress is a major factor in causing degenerative diseases like
Parkinson’s and osteoarthritis.
This could be as result of stem cells staying locked in ‘Niches’ by excess oxygen in the blood
Is Carbon Dioxide Toxic?
In normal amounts carbon dioxide is not at all toxic. It diffuses from your cells into your
bloodstream and from there out via your lungs and is always present throughout your body. You
would have to inhale large quantities of CO₂for a prolonged period of time to causes any harm
to the body. This duration would be much much longer than what you would expect during
intermittent hypoxia.
Type 2 Diabetes
This debilitating illness has reached epidemic levels around the world. The current methods of
treating it are with drugs that include stimulating insulin release from the β cells by
sulfonylureas, stimulating peripheral utilization of glucose by biguanides, and reducing insulin
resistance using thiazolidinedione derivatives. These medications require constant use and their
effect diminishes over the time meaning higher doses and more need to be taken. This can lead
to all kinds of nasty side effects.
Often, extremely restrictive carb free diets need to be employed if a patient wants any chance to
reverse or manage the symptoms without relying on medication. However human embryonic
stem cells can be directed to turn into cells that produce insulin. Mice have been seen to
regenerate β-cell mass after losing 70%–80% of it.
When the narrowing of coronary arteries is gradual by atherosclerosis, it has been shown that
coronary collaterals form naturally to improve blood flow. It is thought that tissue hypoxia leads
to the formation of VEGF that stimulates the growth of these new “natural bypasses”.
Patients with sleep apnea and hypoxic spells have also been shown to create coronary
collaterals naturally. Dr. Buteyko hypothesised that sleep apnea, asthma, and other disorders
that reduce the amount of oxygen in the blood was actually the body attempting to create a
hypoxic environment. The Buteyko method actually works by creating intermittent hypoxia,
which makes perfect sense as to why it has such incredible results at curing asthma and sleep
apnea.
Osteoarthritis
As we age normal wear and tear on the joints causes cell damage. If your rate of cell repair is
lower than the rate of damage, you get osteoarthritis. Scientists are trying to harness stem cells,
multiply them in culture and then put them at the site that needs recovery. Hypoxic conditions
have been shown to increase hypoxia-inducible transcription factor HIF-2α that leads to growth
of stem cells in osteoarthritis patients.
Autoimmune Conditions
Autoimmune diseases such as ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s, asthma, and arthritis result in an
increase of inflammation at the areas affected by the disease. Cytokines play a major role in the
development of inflammation. In experiments with rats induced with a form of rheumatoid
arthritis that were treated with intermittent hypoxia, it was shown to have a powerful
anti-inflammatory effect, by a cascade of effects that lead to the inhibition of cytokines.
The Buteyko method also has many years of anecdotal evidence of people recovering from a
variety of chronic autoimmune conditions. The Wim Hof Method also boasts similar success
stories from its users.
As a past sufferer of an autoimmune condition I believe the cause and treatment is probably
more complicated than simply holding your breath. Factors such as poor digestion, poor lifestyle
choices, leaky gut, emotional and physical stress are to be taken into account for the
progression of many chronic diseases - not just autoimmune. However intermittent hypoxic
training may offer some relief of symptoms and be part of a wider protocol that takes into
account the other lifestyle factors.
Intermittent hypoxia causes vasodilation and also increases blood flow to the brain. Could
combining certain yoga postures such as inversions and headstands with intermittent hypoxic
training be a powerful method to improve cognitive function?
The Spirit
Dr. Steven Barker has been extensively involved in studies researching the endogenously
produced hormone dimethyltryptamine (DMT) since 1976. He writes “I think DMT may primarily
be synthesized in the lung during specific physiological states; controlled breathing, such as
occurs in many meditative practices, extreme physical exertion, hyperventilation, near-death
changes in respiration rates, hypoxia, etc. DMT synthesized in the lung would go directly to the
brain, by-passing the metabolic destruction that would occur from liver metabolism.”
No one knows the full explanations behind the spiritual visionary experiences possible through
breathwork, so this is a brief explanation for why SOMA possibly works:
With deeper practice and extended length of the Awakening sessions from 45-minutes to
1-hour, you can create an effect that may be explained by the release of Soma or DMT in the
body. During these extended sessions the rhythmic breathwork phase is significantly longer - up
to 30 minutes. This supercharges the nervous system and may stimulate the production of DMT
in the lungs. After several cycles of breath retention you can bring your SpO₂levels down to
50% and less. You can lengthen your breath retention times to 3 minutes or more! At this point
perhaps your reptilian brain is tricked into believing that you are about to die, and it prepares to
do so by releasing the same molecules that are triggered when you die.
Rick Strassman theorizes that DMT is responsible for creating the ‘white light at the end of the
tunnel’ experiences commonly reported by survivors of a ‘near death’ experience. The
awakening of sexual energy may enhance the psychedelic experience by stimulating the
production of dopamine, serotonin, and other tryptamines.
The rhythmic breathwork followed by brief pauses in breath is similar to the breathing patterns
associated with rapid eyeball movement sleep (REM) which is when your brain is most active
during the different phases of sleep and your dreams are most intense. What I have noticed
during Awakening sessions is that people go into a similar state to REM sleep while still
conscious for 30 seconds to a minute. With eyelids shut, their eyes would seem to rapidly move
around in different directions. Then after a few moments they would safely return back to
consciousness and report remembering intense visions, total loss of time and space, or
absolutely no memory of what happened, and sometimes all three!
Using brain mapping we studied the brainwaves of participants who had experienced a full
SOMA Awakening. Interestingly, gamma waves were significantly boosted during the peak
intensity of the rhythmic breathwork phase. Gamma is associated with peak brainwave activity
usually only seen in experienced meditators such as the Dalai Lama. Moments of inspiration
and profound clarity are associated at the gamma brainwave level. An alpha-theta cross was
observed during the breath hold phase that is associated with the brain resolving a lot of
information. This may explain why participants feel more of a sense of peace and clarity after a
SOMA Awakening. It is also similar to the resolutions and the feeling of spiritual cleansing after
consuming a DMT-containing entheogens like ayahuasca.
However, at present all DMT research is either theoretical or done using rat models. The sheer
fact that DMT does not last a very long time in the body, and the lack of funding for this kind of
research means that research in humans in lacking.
The problem with just imagining the things that we want is that we get great positive feelings,
but underlining them are often some murky feelings like doubt and second-guessing - it is these
feelings that are really holding you back. You need to clear these first. If all you do is focus on
creating a big image of what you want, then all you do is create more thrust which in turn
creates more drag - this contaminates the vibrational message going out to the universe.
So how do you get rid of this? How did you know u had a bad feeling in first place?
Every single thing human beings do is because of a feeling. So to be aware of exactly how you
feel is the secret to manifesting your dream life. The peak of all human feelings is right at the
moment of orgasm. By understanding the law of orgasmic attraction, you will finally be able to
make the law of attraction work for you.
The law of attraction states that you will attract into your life what is in harmony with your
dominant thoughts. However the reason why things like manifesting fails for people is because
no one told you what your dominant thoughts actually are.
Studies show that the fastest way to enhance neuroplasticity is 20 mins of intense orgasms.
This high vibrational state releases oxytocin (the bonding hormone). This is the primary
hormone for amplifying and enhancing neuroplasticity. The right dose of oxytocin in your system
allows much faster rewriting of old imprints and overlaying of new imprints in its place.
Neuroplasticity is the speed and facility with which the brain creates neurons and pathways. All
esoteric traditions from Buddhist meditation to Sufi whirling are methods to invoke brain change
and to free yourself from the imprints that occured in the first 7 years of your life.
Think about all the things that had to happen for you to be reading this right now. You may have
been recommended this by a friend, or you may have responded to an advert. Before that event
occured in space and time, your friend had to have learned about this somehow and the website
that the advert was placed on that you responded to had to be created by someone. The
computer that the website was programmed on had to be invented by someone at some point in
history.
The very fact that you were born at all is a miracle, because a lucky sperm found a lucky egg at
a cross section between time and space. Really, you are the net result of a lot of love making
going back millions of years, with the chances of you even existing being 1 in quadrillion!
Just imagine how different your life would be if you were a little bit taller, or shorter, or a
completely different race or skin colour? What if you were born a different sex? Imagine if you
were brought up speaking a different language than your mother tongue, how different would
your life have been?
You could say that life is the product our collective and cumulative responses to external
influences, and the external response to your physical traits, which we have absolutely no
control over. Your response to a situation begins with a feeling. Everything human beings do is
because of a feeling. But where do those feelings come from?
The more you meditate on this question, you can contemplate how a feeling arises because of a
physiological change that occurs in the body which is then interpreted by the brain as an
emotion. So, what is it that makes this physiological change? An electrical impulse in the
neurology of the body is what initiates the muscles into action. But where does that electrical
impulse come from?
By using the analogy of a computer, you can assume that just like a computer we have both a
software component (your mind) and a hardware component (physical body). Your mind, just
like computer software, can be programmed. It is those programs that drive instinctive and
habitual behaviour. These programs (also called “imprints”) are recorded memories based on
how to respond to situations in order to stay safe, and they are wired and stored into your
physical hard drives. Most of these imprints occur in the earliest part of our lives at 0 -7 years,
and according to yoga and other schools of mysticism and magic, they are almost impossible to
shift.
Our brain stem, located deep in the center of the most primitive part of the brain, called the
reptilian brain, has evolved to filter out all of the information from reality that bombards us
everyday and to prevent us from becoming overwhelmed by it. It is these filters that defines our
perception of reality. But what creates these filters in the first place?
The imprints that occur between 0-7 years old are what shapes these filters. The conditioning
from events after this age merely add layers on top. Unless we learn to change our filters, we
will merely be existing in a sleeping trance like robots acting out hardwired imprints or
“meta-programs”. SOMA Breath is designed to help you wake up out of this sleeping trance by
discovering your true will.
Imprints & Meta-programs
Your unconscious mind is hardwired to believe that familiarity equals safety. So your
unconscious mind does whatever it is programmed to do, even though a better behaviour may
exist. An example of this is smoking cigarettes for comfort. There are much more healthy ways
to get a feeling of comfort but if it is not familiar or not yet formed into a habit, cigarettes will
remain as your go-to mechanism for stress relief.
These hardwired imprints or programs first appeared in your life at a time when the awareness
of good vs. bad, evil vs not evil, spiritual vs. not spiritual did not exist. It was either familiar or it
wasn’t. As soon as you were born the most familiar thing to you was your mother’s nipple that
you sucked, that gave you an immediate sense of relief and comfort. This action satisfied your
first feeling of hunger, one of the earliest primal drives that comes from your reptilian brain, the
part of your brain that only cares about your survival. A cigarette prompts the same response
due to imprinting.
However, the earliest instinct for survival of all is your breath. The first thing you do when you
are born is to take a big inhale, your first big gasp for survival. It may not be a surprise why
people, especially in stressful situations, instinctively exert more force on the inhale, and have
remaining tension in their chest when they exhale because they find it hard to let go of the air,
as though it is the last breath they will ever take. It is quite common to notice people holding
their breath after an inhale when they are feeling tense, and then freaking out when told to hold
their breath with no air in the lungs.
By modulating our responses to these early imprints, by correcting our breath, releasing and
letting go, we can begin the process of true liberation from these early life imprints.
Through a higher vibration and emotional quality, negative emotions can be released and
cleansed from the body, and the ability to attract and manifest your intentions is increased. This
type of diaphragmatic breathing also moves the largest lymph gland in the body creating a
powerful cleansing effect. Before the breath retention phase, you extend your exhale with deep
vocal toning. This allows you to tap into the power of the vagus nerve, switch off stress and
connect with your subconscious mind during the breath retention phase.
Life is a series of inhales and exhales. Your quality of thought is also linked to breath. Erratic
breathing leads to erratic thinking. Smooth consistent breathing leads to coherent thought – this
has been shown by studies from Heart Math Institute. When you pause your breath during the
breath retention phase, you press pause on life. This allows you to go into the deepest
meditative state possible where you can connect with your subconscious mind. Using the power
of affirmations, visualisation techniques, and self hypnosis you can program your subconscious
operating system to influence your autonomic nervous system. The activation of sexual energy
throughout the process and the gradual progression of the experience through repetition of the
routine over a 1 hour duration creates a strong gamma wave stimulation and heightened
ecstatic states of consciousness.
Powerful emotional releases can occur, negative imprints from the past can be cleared, and
what we call “divine downloads” that are moments of deep insight and moments of inspirations
makes this experience truly unforgettable. With a trained SOMA Breath Coach you can upgrade
your subconscious operating system and liberate yourself from negative imprints, belief system,
and past traumas that may hold you back from success, health, wealth, and happiness.
The SOMA
Soma As A Form Of Psychotherapy
The greatest mistake of most forms of therapy is the reductionist model of separating body from
mind. You have talk therapy, psychoanalysis, regression therapy, all different models just
focusing on one area - the software. To really make therapy work fast you must engage both the
software and the hardware. You must engage the body!
Soma actually means “one body”, “one mind”, “one collective consciousness” in Greek. Soma is
the understanding that the universe is holographic and that you are a manifestation of the
vibrations that emit from this holographic universe. You are the net result of everything that was,
is and will ever be. You are both the hardware and the software. Your are Soma!
One Mind
Super Mind. your very best thinking has got you to where you are today. This thinking is
conditioned by the information you consume every day, the people who you communicate with
the most frequently, your last five messages on Facebook, your workmates, lover, or partners.
They shape and condition your current reality and future path, so you must be really careful of
who you let into your close circle, if you truly want to be successful in anything you do.
This is why some people are drawn to mastermind groups: to collectively learn and share from
people smarter than themselves. However it’s the people closest to you who have the most
influence and this forms your Supermind. As a SOMA Breath Community, we feed your mind
with the most up to date information, we bring you up when you are feeling down. We give you
tools to reprogram and upgrade your thoughts. We support all of your wildest ideas and
ambitions with love and constructive feedback. Our community becomes your upgraded
“supermind”.
One Body
Super Human. The old paradigms are that you are a victim of your genes, that chronic diseases
can only be treated through medicine, and that your brain cannot change. This paradigm
separates mind from body; one of the greatest mistakes of our time. However, not all is lost
because new science is disproving all of this. The fact is that your mind and body are one. By
studying real life superhumans, people who have reversed disease, and who have trained
themselves from nothing to high level athletes, we have created a series of protocols for
becoming truly “super human”. When you start practicing SOMA breathwork, you will learn how
to reach optimum states of health and fitness, and explore your full human potential while
exercising your creative imagination at the same time.
One Force
Super Charge: Emotion is energy in motion and passion is the number one predictor of success
and flow. Passion is contagious, so when you are around passionate people, you also become
passionate. Sexual energy is a type of passion, and it is the highest life force energy. We all
possess it, but we are not trained on how to properly use it. Dogmatic religions and societal
hypnosis has degraded it and suppressed it for so long, that sexual energy has become a taboo
in many cultures. What is amazing, is that sexual energy can be cultivated and transmuted into
creative energy when you breathe in certain rhythms. The first thing you will learn to do as part
of our SOMA community is to cultivate this energy and rekindle your passions. Then, you will
notice that your path to success becomes supercharged with an unstoppable life force.
The Practice
Pulse Oximeter
A pulse oximeter measures the oxygen saturation of your blood (SpO₂) along with your
heart rate. This device is typically used by people who have difficulties breathing so that
they can monitor their oxygen levels on a regular basis throughout the day. Extreme
levels of chronic hypoxia can cause serious issues in the body. We can also use a pulse
oximeter to measure our intentionally induced hypoxic states, created using the
Longevity technique. A pulse oximeter can also be used to measure your heart rate over
time so that you can monitor how your resting heart rate changes as you become fitter
and healthier.
Mala beads
Mala beads can be used simply to count the number of repetitions for certain breathing
exercises.
When you join the protocol you will gain access to breathe in beats exercises and
PharmaBreath - how to activate your inner pharmacy for improved quality of life.
The Protocol
Who is it for?
The 21-Day Awakening Protocol is perfect for everyone regardless of age, race, colour
or religion. If you can breathe, you can awaken!
How Does it Work?
The 21-Day Awakening Protocol is a high intensity training for your soul and spirit. It is a
sequence of therapeutic breathwork techniques combined with brainwave music and
guided meditation that awakens you to your full human potential.
There’s More
This is not all that is included in the 21-Day SOMA Awakening Protocol. You will take
part with a tribe, all starting your journey on the same day. You will be supporting each
other and exploring together, and you will be a part of the tribe who have completed the
Protocol in the past. Their help and insights will also be available to you, whenever you
want it. You are supported at each step along your journey by a qualified and
experienced SOMA Instructor. Each week there is a live call with your SOMA Instructor
who will give you extra insights to your practice and who can answer all of your
questions (not just during the call, but at any time you want to ask them something).
We are so passionate about this daily breathwork practice, that we want to share as
much as we can with you, so you will also be given unlimited access to PharmaBreath
exercises, Breathe In Beats exercises, a Daily Dose guided meditation that you can use
on a daily basis once the 21-Day Protocol has ended, and simply loads more
supplementary information, worksheets, and resources.
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