The Power of Breathwork with Stefanos Sifandos

[Music] hello my dear it's Daniella here and welcome to the spa marketing Made Easy podcast so you've heard that saying new level new Devil right so getting to a 100K is different than getting to 500k is different than getting to 1 million and for me so much of what actually got me to those Milestones was the personal development work that I was doing for myself so I noticed that my own personal traumas were influencing how I would show up professionally how did I trust what patterns kept coming up for me until I knew what problem was the issue it was just going to keep coming up over and over and over again not only in my personal life but also in my professional life because truly it is all connected so in that personal development Journey that was where I discovered breath work which for me it felt like 20 years of therapy in one journey in one session of breath work now breath work has been for me just a really important part of my healing and my development both personally and professionally so I reached out to a friend of mine Stefanos who also happens to be half Greek half Italian and he is a total expert in this area really in the whole personal transformation space but he does a lot specifically with breath work and The Feminine which is absolutely incredible you'll hear a little bit more about it in this episode but I wanted to bring him in to really discuss what is breath work how does it work what is it doing why is it so powerful right it's it's just the way that we're breathing and it's a really really fun and interesting interview so let me go ahead and read his bio and then we will jump right in with over over 20 years of direct experience in the personal transformation space Stefanos understands Peak human potential he's a trained educator and relationship expert with a background in Behavioral Science he's passionate about leading people closer to their Highest Potential and each other stefanos's philosophy merges the best of eastern and western methodologies to promote spiritual balance and Empower people in life and in love from trauma release to navigating the at murky Waters of modern masculinity to helping women understand the men in their lives he helps people escape negative patterns and cultivate a positive sense of self Stefanos has also co-founded both a world-class coaching and Education Institute and a global men's empowerment movement and has been involved in multiple eight and nine figure startups Stefanos has worked with thousands of men and women from all walks of life Special Forces soldiers Olympic gold medalists Elite Fighters and everyday people have relied on him to restructure and reframe their relationships with themselves and their loved ones he's a really incredible guy making a huge impact in the world I hope you enjoy this interview and definitely find and follow Stefanos online all right Stephanos welcome to the spa marketing Made Easy podcast I'm really excited to have this conversation today to really open up this topic of breath work to our audience yeah thank you thank you so for me you know the past I would say 18 months or so has been a big shift in kind of exploring more about who I am as an individual and really looking at the personal development side of things I've always been very um numbers focused spreadsheet focused very data driven and the things that I was doing and as I learned more about myself I got more into the world of personal development some stuff was a little too far out for me but I remember having this experience with breath work and I was at a retreat and the woman that was leading the retreat she said okay when I first the first time that I went on a breath work Journey I was there I had this vision of myself as a little girl there was this experience this memory that I didn't even realize I remembered of these two little girls that didn't want her to play with them and how it had caused this trauma that she didn't even ever remember and um she was then like yeah then I visualized holding myself as a little girl and making myself feel better and I'm sitting here thinking what on Earth am I doing where am I at like this is a low to BS like I was just so like this is insane skeptical skeptical judgmental um all the things and I I caught myself and I said okay you are here to be open you are here to not be in control like let's just because that's I have a control thing as many entrepreneurs but I said let's let that go and let's just experience right and I did she had turned on the music she was giving us some voice prompts and talking through some things and within probably 30 seconds I was a weeping snotty mess you're ready that's quick it was pretty quick and what happened for me it it really highlighted and uncovered these trauma memories that were specifically related to when I felt like I needed to take control and it's not important what those specific memories are but it was important for me to acknowledge and understand at this point when this trauma happened that effect caused me to have trouble delegating things that caused me to have trouble um trusting others and because I understood where that came from it has allowed me to focus on it and understand and understand my behaviors in such a deeper better way and so for me I am like a breath work convert I don't know I believe in the power of it so deeply and this is something that's a big part of what you do and how you help others yeah it saved my life I think literally saved my life tell me uh well a number of years ago I was in a very deep depression and I just I was I guess logically looking at my life and saying well if I took the path of suicide what would that look like for the world for my friends and family for me because I can't seem to get out of this thing that I'm in and I'm really trying um and so I was just really deeply contemplating I was in in this in this phase of suicidal ideation thinking about how I could do it what it would look like um you know the impact that it would have just really really assessing it what from what I thought was a logical place at the time and a friend of mine said hey there's this traveling practitioner for breath work and at that time I wasn't really familiar with breath work I understood various uh yogic practices and and an ancient um mystical practices around breath work but the way that he was describing I didn't really I didn't really understand that this almost transcendental experience that expanded Consciousness and took you to places that were very unknown mysterious within with himself right and although I I had some mystical experiences prior to that that involved breath this was foreign to me and I just I I hadn't given up at that point I looked at him I said sure just give me give me your number and do an intro and I'll you know I'll try whatever and that day just shifted my life I mean what came out of me and what moved through me and what realizations I had and what was actually released that was so stuck in me and so painful and what I really realized then is as I was because I've been studying psychology and Behavioral Science and Social Psychology and Trauma for many many years but what I viscerally understood then was that it was less about the experience and the event although that plays a part in how we are affected by it but it was more my interpretation of that event initially and then what I made that event mean every time it came back into the periphery of my awareness and that compounded the trauma and it made me like you said I'll use my words though repel mistrust um not be present be fearful of other people not be engaged in love not take risks like all the things and that day I released so much and moved through so much that I I found a new Direction in life um so I really I really think that session and that that woman who facilitated that session the interesting thing is you know I've completely forgotten her name I I can see her face but there's only one session that we did as well she is it's like she disappeared after that I don't know she changed your life she saved your life in a in a sense she helps she's got you on the right path so interesting the impact that we have on others without even knowing it without even knowing it yeah here you are so many years later talking about her on a podcast yeah so breath work tell me a little bit about what it is the the kind of Concepts behind it because you have this incredible story I have this I I felt like I went through 20 years of therapy yeah it's that's honestly what happens that's but that's the power of somatic work that that that's the that's the power of getting into our bodies because we paradoxically do everything we can to get out of our bodies because when we experience trauma we experience an intense event generally what happens is that bodies and mines shut down but we still store the experience of the event at a cellular level in our body so it doesn't escape us until we actively close the loop on that trauma otherwise the loops are open and they keep playing out in order to try and have a redo so you can be differently with the experience or the event so you can close the loop on trauma and move on in the wild if if an animal is being chased or hunted and that animal gets away by another Predator another predatory animal that animal will go somewhere once it's complete in its safety and shake and release the adrenaline and cortisol and whatever other stress hormones are released through that or whatever's activated through the sympathetic nervous system in those times and then it goes about its day that's it that's the Simplicity of it we don't do that as humans we store we suppress we repress we deal with it by psychologically avoiding and numbing or numbing comes later but we avoid the big thing we disassociate we check out mentally but that stuff is still being absorbed by our bodies now when we walk around and move around and Derek's system is sending is is absorbing information from its environment sending signals via the vagus nerve into the brain and informing us of what's happening in our world are we safe are we not safe do we do we feel okay to be with this person can we open up a little more um does this person remind me of something this is all unconscious right that is dangerous or um not fit for me and so we're constantly assessing the more trauma you have particularly trauma that's stored and unresolved the higher your vigilance is so the greater your threat funnel so you're constantly operating at this high stress super Vigilant doesn't trust anybody can't trust anybody doesn't see self through a healthy lens low self-worth compensation all the time to feel better that could look like let me let me increase my status let me have more money in my bank account let me drive nice cars um let me look a particular way or to compensate for that feeling of inadequacy or that feeling of fear and pain the thing that we're avoiding the most so I'll pause then and I'll definitely share how particular breath techniques are impacting Us physiologically and how and why those unconscious unprocessed unresolved thoughts memories feelings emotions how they come to us with greater awareness but I'll pause there for a moment yeah it's interesting because when you were sharing about that in the body um you know I've shared this on the podcast before but I lost my dad to malpractice and there is an experience where I got home before he died I heard the ambulances coming and you know I opened the door I walked in I saw the whole thing everything that you know was happening in in the moment and this was you know 21 years ago right or even more than that I was 17. and maybe two years ago I was playing in the driveway with my son and there were these ambulances that came on the street and my whole body went into like a panic like I've my heart was racing my and all of there was a physical reaction that I was having that from the ambulance and I remember telling my husband like I don't under like I must have some unresolved stuff going on here because that really brought it up but it just brought that so much of how we store that in our bodies to actually have a physical reaction because I felt processed I felt like okay this has been this many years I've accepted I've looked at this and grown into the place where I can see it as a gift of going through the pain because that gave me growth and awareness in a different level and I I of course want my dad back I see that when I you know with my children now that they don't have their Papu but there's the um the body the physical thing that happened that was so eye-opening for me that really shows like those things get stored in your body in a whole different way they're associative um symbols and their precursors to preparation essentially and you may very well have resolved that grief within you but because that experience was so intense I would gather walking into the unknown and seeing that with a loved one and I'm sorry for your loss as well that that's really big and that imprints on us at every level psychologically emotionally spiritually physically and so that ambulance you're hearing that ambulance is reminding you that you need to brace and so that's that right in those moments again doesn't mean that you have more grief I mean you may but it doesn't necessarily mean that what it does mean is that in those moments you can remind yourself that you are safe and that you needn't needn't have to brace it's also habit too again the intensity in the imprint right but then you've got chronic patterns of behavior as well like for example you know for years so my my brother was a drug addict for a long time uh and he's been clean now for many many years right but for a long time I would be receiving phone calls either from my mother or police or hospital or whatever it may be and every time I'd get my mum's phone number or an unknown number I got brace you know and for years after even though my brother stop that behavior and we became a lot closer as well which is really beautiful this is my best friend now we just were so close not so much now but years later I would still get that sometimes you know and and and that sometimes is is that that habitual patterning that we're exposed to and it's there to prepare us but in those moments again working with those parts of us that feel really scared or feel shocked or are hyper Vigilant and and regulating our nervous system really undoes that pattern that word undoes you undoes that pattern it works it works unravels that pattern it's probably a better term yeah and to tie this into entrepreneurship I I really believe you know being a a spa owner when you get into hiring a team and you get into dealing with customer issues or whatever it may be I mean going through just the Journey of Entrepreneurship is the greatest lesson in personal development apart from having children I believe you're constantly having to um deal with this fire that fire this personality or how am I going to work this how am I going to grow into having the capacity to lead this company to the way that I want and I feel like when we have those things that everybody has trauma at some point everybody has things that make them brace when those are not resolved we bring those into the workplace we bring those into yeah in in every aspect and an action from somebody else can mean something completely different than it was intended when we're looking at our own stories so it's so important to do the work on yourself and really understand what are my triggers what are my what are the things that um I may have biases about or anything like that to be able to lead your team or have those tough conversations that you need to have um or even just have the confidence in yourself that you're able to build this company you have the capacity to build this company you know it's it's so important these two things go hand in hand in such a big way it's not you know I was talking with you earlier like this morning we had doctors and Laser reps in this very like corporate medical types of episodes and now we're talking about breath work and it's like all right it's the the business in the morning and the woo in the afternoon and but really they're so intertwined and so necessary with one another for I don't know if the word is holistic success or complete success or really like balanced success and getting to the place that you want yeah sure I mean when as an entrepreneur hiring or having multiple personalities and I don't mean that from a personality disorder perspective of having multiple people with multiple histories and multiple ways of seeing the world right different Vantage points they see the world through different lenses it is wise to ensure that we're asking the right questions and even as an entrepreneur that where you're hiring people providing is what I do in in my in my business so one of my businesses now that I recently launched even though I'm a coach in this space I have uh specific individuals that support our team on a personal and professional level and they have access to that person almost like a in-house psychologist if you like or a pair of psychologists because I understand the value of optimizing team and optimizing efficiency but more importantly that people are human with human problems and they have stuff that they can't see because we often can't see the forest through the trees because we're in the thing and so having support with that is really important for conflict management for you know internal repair if one of our employees or one of our contractors is having issues at home in a familial sense like can we support them through that yes and I see the value and importance and investing in that now means that there are less issues later there's more operational efficiency there's greater individual and Collective happiness within the workplace within our ecosystem and that impacts all of our clients and impacts all of our stakeholders and they sense that and they see that and they see that as a USP as well they see that as a point of difference in the marketplace because we we not only do that for our internal team we do that for our community as well but we provide monthly uh sessions where people can just come and be coached live and be and be taken through a process live and work through their issues and there's there's deep healing in being witnessed by a group of like-minded and light-hearted people that are non-judgmental and compassionate and we set the scene with context set a great deal just like our contact set for breath work I will sometimes spend nearly an hour context setting for breath work and like and really expressing and and helping people explore and understand even if they've done it before even if they exposure to it all the nuances of breath work and the spectrum of the experience that you may or may not have to help people feel really really safe so if I jump back to breath work for a moment the reason why I do that is because like a plant medicine Journey or a sacred Sacrament Journey or anesthetic right whatever it may be or laughing gas which may be a little more familiar to your clients that you may use that in your in your um in your practice I'm not sure I know dentists use it obviously in other medical professions as well but once you have that you are at the helm of that substance that you've taken if you have too much marijuana or too much LSD or too much cocaine or too much anything that external substance or Ayahuasca whatever it may be you don't even have to have too much of that but that external substance has you you can't think your way through that you're not gonna you know you're not going to go and drive and pretend you're straight and you're not intoxicated or you're not under an influence or your Consciousness hasn't left the familiar state of being into an unfamiliar place you can't control that the interesting thing with breath work as I'm sure you can attest to is you can go to some really interesting places within your own psyche that are Akin and very similar to plant medicine Journeys or being under the influence of something it's you know it's so interesting because um you know I have in this world of personal development there's a lot of people that are plant medicine and all that kind of stuff and that's not really my path it's not something that I've felt um called to or interested in experiencing and with breath work I did feel like like something physically yeah happened and it was it was such an experience and it was such a um I mean I was like ugly snotty crying yeah and I I it was out of my control and it was it felt like the way that people describe when they go on these plant Journeys or whatever that is here's the thing though with breath work you were out of control but the moment you change your breath technique if you chose to within seconds to minutes you would be in a regulated state in a familiar State of Consciousness that's the difference that's so crazy that's the difference so here's what that does and I'm not by the way I'm an advocate of plant medicine I am a genuine advocate of appropriate use in appropriate conditions I also have criticisms of how plant medicine is used by the masses and the Western world into in today's world which is probably a topic for another time and I don't have to be opinionated about that here but I'm just being very clear on where I stand on no it's fine I think it's a personal choice yeah yeah oh for sure absolutely and why I am an advocate of breath work as I'm an advocate of plant medicine for different circumstances but with breath work couple of things firstly so many people that have experienced trauma what's part of that trauma is being out of control or their power taken from them or them losing their power and so plant medicines in in because they can be a little extreme very quick and you lose that control and that power very quickly it can reactivate trauma now breath work can somewhat do the same thing however you know in our context said a lot however you know that you're in control because all you've got to do is change your breath now you may think what if I go too far that can happen but you can come back a lot easier and I can support people I support people in coming back because I have a skill set in being able to do that the other thing is when people know that they're in control paradoxically they'll move a little deeper into the exploration of the unknown within themselves so the intensity can be deepened heightened more expanded if you like and therefore the result can be more powerful because it's like there's a safety net there's like oh all I've got to do is change my breath if I go too deep cool you know what it I'm going to go deep and I go there where sometimes people won't do that when they know that they'll be out of control for too long it's too scary that's interesting because I don't even like being drunk like I it is a sense of control like I'll have two glasses of wine Max but anything that's going to make me feel like I can't control my actions it I don't like the way that feels most people don't yeah um all right so talk to me a little bit more about breath work in particular of kind of what's happening what's the experience is and then I want to know about these events that you host sure of course yeah thank you so I'll I'll try and just really simplify it because there's a lot that I I believe Western medicine doesn't know and we don't understand and then there is a lot that we do that we can just very simply um explain them so to speak so there are different techniques for breath work obviously when we say breath work it encompasses um I guess a a narrow rain well depends who you're speaking to it encompasses a range of different practices and techniques the ones that we are referring to here is more of a holotropic style of breath work or a Wim Hof style of breath work um either through the nasal passage or through the mouth generally through the mouth they're quite rapid hyperventilated style movements of breath yeah I think I had to do like through like 80 the belly the chat yeah cool and then the cyclical breath and you can have an active inhale or an active um or sorry you can have an active inhale and or an active or passive exhale you can do a double double barrel um chamber inhale so there's so many different techniques right but essentially that style of breathing um will elicit a very generally a very particular response in the body so what's happening is that that style of breathing and then I involve a number of different elements that I've pulled from uh different modalities and methodologies that uh lend itself to the quality of the experience and possibly the intensity of the experience and I'll cover those elements in a moment as well breath technique activates a part of your brain the hippocampus the part that is the part of the hippocampus that is responsible for unconscious thought unconscious memories uh unconscious feelings emotions and it can bring them to the surface of conscious awareness and it's that and I think that's how those memories come back that you correct yeah that's right that you've suppressed and so you have an opportunity to be with them in a different way than you were and part of that is we all well I'll say this pretty absolutely we all want freedom however we Define Freedom we all want freedom but the true path to Freedom is feeling what has been unfelt that's a that's an integral part of the process so we have to feel what wasn't felt at the time of that intense it experience that we had that we interpreted as bad or negative or hurtful or harmful or painful or whatever which you might have been in shock at that point correct absolutely and you didn't have an opportunity because you're in freeze you didn't have an opportunity to express and feel and maybe it wasn't even appropriate to do so because you had to survive in that moment but that feeling being expressed is more than just a feeling it's a release and it's a closing of that physiological trauma Loop because now what happens from that point if we allow it we just get activated activated and activated and the norm for us internally becomes a sympathetic activated nervous system as opposed to a balance of parasympathetic and sympathetic more so parasympathetic right because we only really need I mean this some truth is so I'll say it anyway the sympathetic nervous system plays a role in our lives but it's there to protect us but where when we're hyper Vigilant it's just constantly activated so when this breath technique activates and pushes on this area of the brain and we have these emotions that come through and we have uh an associate of emotion that comes with that like um sadness grief anger screaming whatever whatever visceral like we want to animate the body we want to animate the body without judgment without even questioning just follow the feeling you just want to follow it so if you want to clench your fist clench your fist you want to scream scream your tears are coming let them come like allow the cycles of expression to complete and then once they complete they're pretty much done now there could be layers to that yeah sure you know you don't just brush your teeth once a day or shower once a day or whatever you know you you repeatedly do that in order to maintain and so you may have multiple sessions or multiple experiences of this but once that particular cycle is complete it's complete right so that's that's an important part of the breath work some of the elements an important part of understanding what's happening in your body some of the elements that I use to activate and I guess intensify the experience or set that set the experience up set the environment environment up in such a way that that individual can really really just go there and grow loud music as you mentioned earlier that was crucial for me yeah and for most and and sometimes it can be very frustrating and even annoying for people good being the annoyance because that's moving energy that's that that's doing something that's shaking like you it also made me feel safe tender yeah because I felt like whatever experience I was gonna have yeah I could cry like or whatever and not everyone's gonna look at me that's right yeah and that's another part of it too right uh eye masks are great because we want to internalize our experience and block out the senses remember our eyes are our greatest threat funnel right and how we perceive the world around us so that's another element as well um having practitioners and support staff that will you know for lack of a better term administer or provide Gentle Touch support if if people want it I'm always in a private way if anyone wants if anyone does not want any touch during their during their session then that's fine no problem at all um and some people will raise their hands and and most won't most want to be know that someone's there caring for them if they're in a very deep experience but if you don't want to that's completely okay it's you know you're autonomous Sovereign being right so there's that element of that Gentle Touch as well and then there's there's two I guess there's two guidelines that I use is keep breathing because this technique can also make you fall asleep you know the gaseous levels in your body are changing pretty rapidly you know nitrogen carbon dioxide oxygen you can also experience cramping a carpetal response in your extremities yeah that's that's very normal and common for most people that passes but it can be very intense um you may fall asleep that's all part of the process so just keep coming back to the breath and then again I'm another element well I'll finish this Duo first keep coming back to the breath and follow the feeling without judgment so if again tears are there to cry don't oh why am I crying where's this happening where is it coming from I feel okay tears of their cry I feel like when you are given this direction of you know 80 percent belly twenty percent it like keeps you present also because you have to keep concentrating on am I doing the breath yeah yeah am I engaged yeah and again the the last I guess one of the last parts that one of the last elements is I I'm very um not overly I wouldn't I don't think but I'm vocal during the session so over the music I will guide and I will support and provide visualization and provide and I'll and I'll feel and read the room in that and and provide guidance in that and so I'll remind people to come back to their breath and I'll remind people that they're safe in their bodies and you know there's so many times where and there are some modalities in schools of thought that that say don't make any inter don't have any interaction don't provide any intervention with that person having their experience right at all zero um sometimes that's useful uh I'm not opposed to that I'm but I'm also an advocate for uh we're relational beings so I'm an advocate for you know someone a support person coming in and supporting that person and sometimes they'll be on the verge of expression you just hold their feet or put a hand on their chest and you know for me the the guidance was essential yeah and you know I was in the moment I was staying present and she was asking questions what do you need to let go of and it was almost like she was talking to my subconscious like having that you know like it was guided questions like that reminding us to stay present reminding us of the breath and then talking through these different things and there was this all these memories that came up that I I don't know I mean I have one experience with this but I don't know if I would have had those particular memories come up if I were just focusing because I would be thinking am I doing this right am I staying present you know having that voice that guidance was incredibly helpful for me it really can be yeah and you know that's another I guess it's not an interesting point around um group work or single work when it comes to breath work both are equally as powerful in different ways and it just depends where you are in your life and I recommend doing both so tell me about these events do you host these with your wife or is this just you yeah I do just of late she hasn't been able to come just because of her little one you know the timings of it but yeah generally yes but um every month so they're live in Austin uh in Texas and they're live streamed as well and recorded So everyone gets a recording whether you're there in person and or you're there virtually and you keep that recording for forever basically and it's a three-hour immersive and it's a combination of a number of different elements breath work is one component so we don't just breathe for three hours there's live coaching there's other essential practices usually every month carries a theme um as we're talking now this month's theme is dating and relationships next month's theme in April is going to be more around intimacy and sexuality and so every every you know we've done grief December was grief you know just last December passed let's let's sort of uh whatever you whatever you've experienced 2022 what do you want to let go of let's let's grieve that and actually move throughout so there are very specific practices that we get into that promise for the breath work there's a combination of somatic work additional somatic work I should say in a child work reflective work group work Triad work um you know connection relational work as well and then we move into breath work and we recover we integrate and then we do live coaching as well and sharing too so it's a big part of it how does that work with the virtual component have you had feedback that you know because I imagine you're just in your house do you still have like the loud music like if you turn the volume up on your computer or yeah yeah yeah yeah for sure so look there's again there's really there's benefits in both right and and being in the comfort the safety of your own home can be really healing for some people is exactly what they need um and it's easy so ease of access as well right it's pretty easy to set up um the live streaming that we do the audio individuals really high quality particularly the audio so they hear it very clearly no issues there right it's not like just a sort of character this is a proper live stream setup um and with that as long as they're whatever you at home are using whatever system is you can run your system through Bluetooth speaker as well right whatever system you're using you can have the music on pretty loud yep okay that's interesting so you have you have these every single month live streams so anybody in the country anybody in the world anybody in the world and they're recorded if you can't make it because it's too late or too early for you that seems like a really safe place to try something like this very much so and test something out and it's super cost effective and I'll share this with you now as well moving forward I've decided to make especially the virtual one 100 the virtual one um uh pay as you can really yep how beautiful is that will impact people on such a a big way yeah it'll be a minimum but it's a normal amount a normal amount yeah it won't be a fixed pricing we just pay what you want basically and pay 100 bucks pay 100 bucks you want to pay 10 bucks pay 10 bucks that's great so um I know we're going to get all the links from you and have that all set up so we'll make sure to include that below I want to encourage everybody to check that out and try it out test it out Explorer for yourself I mean it was such a powerful thing for me to just understand like wow there's so much still in there we are we are constant Works in progress and really you know getting to that next level and and pushing yourself to constantly be the best version of yourself requires sometimes looking at parts of yourself that you don't want to see and and accepting yourself and loving yourself for that yeah agreed anything else you want to add to make this episode complete for you you know breath work can be really scary and it can be confronting and there's a lot of unknown and it can be perceived as woo-woo but the reality is that uh you know we're two or three minutes away from Death so to speak I mean that's the power of breath right so I think it pays to really connect to our breath in meaningful ways in different ways in all the ways not just this kind of breath work but also maybe more passive gentle breath work uh being more aware of the manner in which we breathe can be deeply healing as well you know are you a mouth breather are you a nasal breather because ideally we're meant to breathe through our noses there are so many great resources out there on breathing and all of this all of these resources that are modern today they have come from very ancient practices and so if you're anything like me you like to go straight to the source I like to go straight to the source and I really enjoy some of the modern authors and uh experts on breathing and breathing patterns and and breathing physiology and breathing for expanding Consciousness and improving relationships and emotional well-being and emotional health as well and as I said it can be really scary fun to practitioner to find someone that you can work with someone that you can trust and allow them to help you journey into breath work and it can be deeply revealing and life-changing for you like I said for me it really saved my life and for you it sounds like it really helped you turn in a very new Direction it did and it shifted so many it was like this Awakening you know in a sense to see myself in a different way to understand myself it it has been tremendous in my relationship with my husband I feel like we're in the best place that we've been in years and that was a a trigger for it and also in my company you know like understanding how to lead my team in a different way understanding I just feel more aware and it touches every aspect of your life have you ever had anyone come in and take your team in yourself through a collective breath work session no good idea I will reach out to you about that if not I can recommend uh where are you again I'm in DC but my team is oh virtual easy then yeah that's great yeah we're all virtual I like that very good well tell our listeners where they can find you follow you get in touch with you all the good things thank you uh so my main website stefanossifandos.com uh breath work for the feminine stefanosofanos.com feminine and uh on social media at Stefanos sevendos very good thank you so much I appreciate your expertise and for being here it's been a wonderful wonderful conversation appreciate you thank you guys for listening and we'll catch you on the next episode foreign

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