“Food Became a Fear…” | A Family’s Breathwork Transformation After COVID

The video records a live testimonial by the Saha family at a Conscious Breathing Hub (CBH) event, describing their harrowing experience during COVID-19 when the mother’s health deteriorated dramatically, leading to severe weight loss, anxiety around food, and a sense of hopelessness after repeated medical consultations offered no cure. Desperate for relief, the family was introduced to the CBH and its founder Badri Gella. Through a series of webinars, workshops, and regular breathwork practice—including Ho’oponopono meditation, Diamond Sessions, and Wednesday Wisdom classes—the mother stopped feeling anxious, discontinued all medication, and regained physical strength. The benefits cascaded to the entire family: the father adopted habit tracking, the daughter (Shashi) learned to use breathwork as an emotional regulator and began teaching others, and the whole household embraced a shared purpose (Swadharma) of spreading breathwork awareness. The family recounts a rapid transformation within two months, culminating in a trip to Denmark that they once thought impossible, and they now live with health, peace, and purpose, actively participating in CBH community programs such as the Children’s Club. The testimonial emphasizes the ripple effect of a single member’s healing on the family unit and the broader CBH community.
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COVID stuck. Like many of you, our family also got hit by it, but it hit harder on my wife. My wife turned from 60 to just 50 kg in a snap.
I remember that day when I was looking myself in the mirror. I was not able to recognize myself also. Food became— having food became a fear.
One day, doctor told, we— this don't have any cure. You just have to live like this. My wife have followed every tough schedule, be it food, be it medicine, hoping that she is getting cured. But she is not getting cured. She was shrinking within.
There were times when I didn't touch my mother, fearing it could break her.
This is the time when I really felt that enough of believing on medicine. Desperate to find solution, we finally joined our first webinar with the CBH. First time in a year, shed her tears of complex emotions, and that emotion she was not able to control. My wife told me, I no more feel anxious, I no more feel in the stress, I am alive.
After that day doing that all meditation, I sleep peacefully after a long time.
During her practices, she would give me a gentle smile, telling me that, "I am fine, dear." I'd run to my Papa every single day after his office hours and tell him, "Papa, he is coming back." We all are members of CBH community, right?
It is not that we are the only person who has changed. There is a ripple effect that has created in our family. Now, for example, in my case, when I started implementing the habit tracker, alongside of me, my son also started. So that's the power of a family. So if one person in the family is right, the entire family shines bright. So please welcome on stage the Saha family to share their story. Please, I request all of you to stand up and welcome the speakers for today. Please keep clapping. Welcome, welcome, Sahau family. So the stage is all yours. So we are waiting to listen to your story. Thank you so much.
Okay. Thank you. Thank you everyone for really giving us an opportunity to tell our story. And I'm going to talk through the transformation as a family, what we have gone through, not in years but in months. So it's all— so from falling to how we signed together, so it's all started in before COVID My wife, the woman I love, was full of energy. As a couple, we also had our own intention to start the family with our own values, and we did. We welcome our new family member, an angel from above. We call her Joyshree. Life finally was started settling down. Happy family with love and laughter. We just need an intention, and we do agree on an intention to travel the world. But journey was not that smooth. COVID stuck. Like many of you, our family also got hit by it, but it hit harder on my wife. My wife turned from 60 to just 50 kg in a snap. She grown thinner, she grown much more thinner. I can't recognize the woman that was standing in front of me.
So I remember that day when I was— I remember that day.
Little up more.
I remember that day when I was looking myself in the mirror. I was not able to recognize myself also. Food became— having a food became a fear. It's all the meals became painful. So I, in the nighttime, I woke up with a fear that this is my life, I have to live rest of my life. And most worry part was looking at my daughter and husband. They were so much worry about me and care for me.
Life started becoming that shadow of darkness which was following up silently It turned out to be that darkness what we are living in. Clinic after clinic, test after test, every time it came with the same verdict. I still remember one day doctor told, we— this don't have any cure. You just have to live like this. And, and they just told that you just need to take the medicine and the food we prescribe, that's all. It might be few words for doctor to say, but it hurt me a lot. I feel like a hammer hitting on my nail. I gone to every hospital almost. Knocked their door to find a solution to this incurable disease. But every time we came back with same emptiness. My wife have followed every tough schedule, be it a food, be it is a medicine, hoping that she is getting cured. But she is not getting cured. She was shrinking within.
There were times where I didn't touch my mother, fearing it could break her. I saw her fading away from my very eyes, and it was a terrible thing inside. There were days where I could not— like, I almost I lost her grasp from myself. It was an unbearable thing to imagine. One day, I came to my father saying that, "Papa, if my mother isn't there anymore, I will wear her clothes and feel her warmth." The idea of her not being there anymore was just too painful to imagine.
This is the time when I really felt that enough of believing on medicine, and I was desperate to find a solution. Soon my friend told me about Conscious Breathing Hub and Badri sir, who used the power of breath to heal the body from within. But yes, I was very good at yoga, in my school days. I was not able to comprehend how yoga can heal cancer-like diseases. And moreover, this spirituality, this meditation, these are all supposed to be the post-retirement activity. How a 30-year-old young man can teach us? With this confusion of cloud and at the same time desperate to find solution, we finally joined our first webinar with the CBH. My wife was not sure how she will be get cured. For the first time in a year, she shed her tears of complex emotions, and that emotion she was not able to control. My wife told me, "I no more feel anxious. I no more feel in the stress. I am alive." And journey began. I am no more anxious anymore just to check whether she is still breathing.
Before joining the CBH, I thought I am breathing my whole life, how it can heal me? But I joined 2 days workshop of Badri Sarv. So in that I feel so peace, and with the Ho'oponopono meditation, my eyes roll out with the tears. And after that day doing that all meditation, I sleep peacefully after a long time. After that, we joined CBH for the Silver member, and we fixed the time and follow the consistency to practice that breathe works. And slowly, slowly, I saw the changes. I saw that it's not helic— my body, the soul, the— my soul is coming back to me.
When my mother joined, when my mother joined CBH, I finally felt the shadow had lifted. The darkness we once lived in had moved away. And the clouds shined rays of hope. When my mother practiced her breathing exercises, I would just peep in just to make sure she was doing fine. During her practices, she would give me a gentle smile, telling me that, "I'm fine, dear." I'd run to my papa every single day after his office hours, and tell him, Papa, he's coming back.
So slowly my journey started with CVH and everyday practicing. After 2 months, I went to the doctor. So doing all the report test, doctor told me, you had lots of medicine, so no need to take any more medicine. So by December 20th— uh, sorry, by December 2024, I stopped my all medicines and To connect with Badri Sir, we joined the Diamond Session. Slowly, slowly healing, healing process progress, and Sir helped me a lot. Not only by the body, he's change our mindset also. Joining the Wednesday Wisdom class I came to know lots of theories, and by that we came to know what is the Swadharma. In the Swadharma, I came to know that first we have to take care our body so we can live our life fulfilled.
Yes, Shashi, your comment.
I learned something too.
It's okay, it's okay, come on, encourage her, please.
I learned something too. Breathwork isn't just mere breathing, it's a secret medicine, an exhaler to keep your mind calm. Control of your emotions, and keeping your body in tip-top shape. Whenever I am anxious, scared, or angry, I would just take a deep breath in and tell to myself, it's fine. I also learned that I am not my thoughts but the observer of them. I am proud to say, through CBH, I have found my ikigai, the very purpose of life. I now teach other children and families about this knowledge and my experience when I got my mother back. Today I stand on this prestigious stage as the youngest breath healer of the CBH community. Awesome.
Okay, so you heard the story. This is not an easy journey. In 2 months, we just completely came out of medicine, which we never imagined. In this, in this journey, I too also find my own sadharma. Those Diamond classes every day, this whole community, this is my extended family. This is our extended family. This stays with all. There are numerous stories in our CBH. Once I start hearing those, once I start interacting with each and one of you, you guys are the reason where we are standing in front of us. In this way, I found my sadharma as well. I understood that it doesn't end with just by healing the body. It means that find the true purpose of your life. The purpose is to spread this knowledge to thousands. Today I am in a mission along with Badri Sahib to spread this awareness to all of those who are all living in the darkness that we used to live in. We made impossible to possible. If you can remember, my first line was, purpose is to travel the world. We made this happen just in, just in 2-3 weeks back, and trip to Denmark, 7-hour flight, sub-week food constraint, every day 10-kilometer walk. Was seems to be impossible. But with your support, this whole extended family support, your always dream, everything, every meditation have pushed us and we made that possible. This all pics are from Denmark. We came to CBH broken. TBH made us whole again.
Today we live our life health, peace, and purpose. Every day we practice our Swadharma.
When we replace 'I' with 'We', illness becomes wellness.
Thank you.
This is the Sahaj family signing off.
Wow, please, please, please give a standing ovation to the Saha family. Please, please, CVX family, please receive the love.
Open your hands.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, CVX family. Thank you, and thank you to this great community. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you so much, uh, Pupa and family.
For all of you together applying whatever I have taught, and especially— and she's the reason behind your conscious Children's Club, okay? She was behind me, so when are you starting? When are you starting? So I can be also there. So today, like, that's why I have quickly started Children's Club as well. So thank you so much.
Thank you for inspiring all of us.
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