Niraj Naik leads a breathwork session using SOMA Breath's intermittent hypoxic training. You breathe in a 2-in/4-out rhythm, hold your exhale for 60 seconds, then hold your inhale while engaging your pelvic floor. The practice aims to calm your nervous system and reduce fear by pushing slightly past comfort.
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Foreign. Welcome to SOMA Breath intermittent hypoxic training sequence where you're going to be breathing in a two in four out rhythm with a breath retention phase. Breathing in through your nose, out through your mouth. That's right. So now sit comfortably with an upright posture, relaxed. When you hear me say in, breathe in. And when you hear me say out, breathe out the smooth and consistent rhythm to the rhythm and groove of the music. That's right. Let's begin. Three, two, one. Exhale and in. Breathing in. Breathing out the smooth, consistent inhale and exhale. 1, 2, 3. Breathing in through your diaphragm, then into your chest and letting go on every exhale. This rhythm should be effortless, relaxed, with no force. Deepen your breath slightly, taking longer, deeper breaths, staying in that rhythm. Deepen your breath even more. Begin to breathe deep, full breaths in that same consistent rhythm. Just three breaths left before the breath retention phase. Two breaths left, one last breath. Now take a deep breath in and breathe all the air out, holding your breath after a full exhalation. Relaxing the shoulders, your chest. Let your chin drop towards your chest and relax every muscle in your body. That's right. You have 60 seconds remaining on this breath hold. If you need to take a breath at any time, take a little sip in through your nose and breathe out and hold. Hold your breath and you can repeat this as many times as you need to until you get the command to inhale. That's right. Stay calm, stay relaxed. You are perfectly safe. Allow your muscles of your body to be relaxed and at ease. Let your shoulders drop, soften your jaw, your face becoming very relaxed. You have 20 seconds remaining. You're doing great. See if you can hold your breath slightly beyond the comfort zone, going beyond what you thought was possible. Overriding the fear of holding your breath rubs off on other areas of your life where you may be having fear that holds you back. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Now take a deep breath all the way in and hold your breath. Breath after full inhalation, pulling up the muscles around your pelvic floor, your sphincter up, contracting up, you send this energy up like a spiral of light into your midbrain, illuminating you to the light, this blissful awakening. And focus now on maintaining the state of stillness by holding your breath for as long as you comfortably can. Now you have 15 seconds remaining of this breath retention phase. Relax muscles in your chest, your diaphragm, your face. Just stay calm and at ease and enjoy that stillness. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Now let go with a hum, hum. Now coming back to normal breathing, observing how you feel, noticing any changes. Congratulations. You have now just learned and experienced how to do Soma Breath intamin hypoxic training. So if this felt really good, then imagine doing a whole 20 to 60 minute full deep dive session. You can find a variety of these on the Soma Breath app inside our courses like the 21 Day Awakening Journey and in our instructors classes. That's right, slowly come back around.
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Then the lucky one to come back. How's that feel?
Amazing. Yeah, this is, this is beautiful. Warmth flooding throughout my body, profoundly relaxed and just kind of an abiding sense of joy, relaxation, peace.
