Soma Breath Meditation Masterclass - Go Even Deeper With A SOMA Breath Instructor

Niraj Naik leads a breathwork masterclass using rhythmic breathing and breath retention to trigger intermittent hypoxia, measured with a pulse oximeter. The practice aims for heart coherence and mitochondrial benefits, though it's unsafe for people with uncontrolled hypertension, pregnancy, epilepsy, or pacemakers. He also describes his paid 21-day Soma protocol and instructor training program.
Questions this video answers
Below ~90% and around 85% and below (demonstration showed readings into the 70s and 50s).
Readings quoted include 84–83, 80–79, down into the 70s (77, 75, 73, 72), and a low reported reading around 53%.
He advised against breath-holds if blood pressure is 'over 150 over 100' (i.e., systolic >150 or diastolic >100).
Week 1: 20 minutes daily; Week 2: ~45 minutes daily; Week 3: 60 minutes daily.
A five-day New Year 'awakening' retreat from January 2 to January 6; an 11-day instructor training retreat from February 2 to February 13.
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Get into a position where you're not going to be disturbed. Okay? For the next hour, get, you know, obviously all the direct distractions need to be turned off. Get safe. Maybe sit in a comfortable chair or lie down, but you need to be able to watch the video. So for the first bit, you're going to watch this video training where I'm going to be teaching one of our instructors, and you can follow along and you're going to feel some results from this, just this alone. Okay?
So.
So let's all get cracking.
Now.
I'm going to show you one round of the Soma Awakening breath work meditation. Orlando is going to follow along, and I'm going to guide the instructions. So Orlando has a hypoximeter on his finger. This measures the blood oxygen levels and it will allow him to know exactly when he's in the state of hypoxia. So when this goes below 90, around 85% and below, what will happen is it will trigger this intermittent hypoxia state where this positive stress response happens and all the magic happens in the physiology.
Okay?
So you want to keep that on your finger and be aware of it for the first few times you do this. After that, you'll actually be able to feel yourself going into this hypoxic state and know that you're doing it kind of correctly. Okay? So Rwanda is also sitting in a comfortable position with his back straight, upright, legs crossed. Some people find it hard to sit like this for too long, so you can also sit in a chair with your back straight as well.
The key is comfort.
Okay? Later on in the last phase of this experience, you're going to be doing it lying down, okay? Because it gets a lot more intense. But for the first two weeks, at least, try and do this sitting up if you can, because that will allow the energy to move more freely through you. And it also allows you to really connect deeply with your energy within. Because of the various energy locks that we'll be applying during this. Okay? So get yourself comfortable, and then you'll press play on the music.
That's right.
Now, for a few moments with your eyes closed, bring an awareness to your breath.
That's right.
Noticing how you breathe in.
And out.
On autopilot with no control over it.
However, through conscious control.
We can actually change our physiology.
This is how we do it by breathing in beats. So you can hear the rhythm now, the music.
That signifies the inhale and the exhale.
You can even hear the inhale and.
The exhale in the music itself. So now you notice Mando begins the phase of breathing in beats.
So he's taking a deep full yogic breath where his abdomen rises in his.
Chest and then he lets go.
This is the rhythm in 2, out 2, 3, 4. In 2, out 2, 3, four.
You notice his exhale. He makes a little sound.
Sigh of good feelings. This actually allows you to go even more into a relaxation with every exhale.
You can also just blow out a sound this continuous or just a.
An ocean wave.
The key is just to keep it.
Very consistent, regular and rhythmical.
That is the key for heart coherence. Because what this rhythmic breathing does is it gets you into this physiological state called heart coherence.
This harmonizes all of the functions in the body.
It brings you from a low energy state up towards a more higher energy state.
As he's breathing gradually building up, he starts to contract the mulabunda at the top of his inhale.
Letting go on his exhale, pulsing it so contracting, squeezing the pelvic floor muscles and letting go on the exhale.
That's right.
Squeeze and let the last.
Squeeze.
Let's now stimulate the sexual energy.
Start feeling this energy. Start to build up inside. Tingue sensations moving around your body.
Start feeling some foreign sensations.
Vibrational energy starts to rise with every breath.
That's right.
Sam.
Music starts to build up.
Focusing on those good feelings, good sensations.
That's right.
Gives us a build up compassion inside.
Get ready to take away.
Or in your breath after exhalation.
Allowing your neck just to relax. And your chin may drop forward. This creates an energy lock, a neck lock that prevents any more air entering into your lungs.
Relax every single muscle neuroni.
And try.
And override the first sensation to breathe. You can even shrug your shoulders. You start feeling like you need to breathe. Your diaphragm just needs to loosen. You can even do a breast stroke like this. And you'll notice now that the hypoxy meter, the oxygen levels are starting to drop. Going down below 90. Now he's in hypoxic state.
10.
84. 83. Great.
80. 79.
77. 75. Doing a great job. 73.
72. Amazing.
68.
In the 60s. Doing amazing.
Now the magic of this hypoxic state is creating a positive stress response in the body.
Take a small inhale and full exhale again to maintain this unful place. Exting, relaxing, keeping the head neck lock, letting the neck drop down.
See it's down to 53%. 55. This is beautiful.
Several minutes in hypoxia. Now I can Notice the oxygen levels start to rise quickly.
Controlling the urge again.
Taking a short inhale and full exhale again. Back into the Hypoxia. Down to 67. Doing an amazing job. When you first do this, you don't.
Worry too much if you don't reach these sources of levels because it takes some practice. Been doing this several times already for several months.
And now you're gonna get this bigger. To breathe.
Fully, inhale and you're gonna squeeze your mulabanda. Put your neck down. And you can even suck in your abdomen slightly. Sucking up, pulling up your diaphragm. Imagine you're like drawing up all the energy from your sex up through your spine, up into your head.
Boom.
Illuminating your head. You can even keep a neck lock again, maintaining the air now in your head.
Energy starts to really spark up this crazy imagination of the midbrain.
You let out a nice tone.
When.
You kind of hold your breath any longer.
Ram.
As you start to do the toning, you'll start feeling these amazing sensations moving through your body. Toning allows this energy to spread all around the body. You can even imagine looking up into your mind's eye with your eyes closed, your eyes pointing towards your third eye, your pineal gland.
So, like this large. And you can just visualize colors in your mind's eye right now. Sensations, lights. You may even see visions. You may have some thoughts and new ideas that emerge as you do this.
Thank you, Orlando.
It's an instant way to change your state without needing any substances. How cool is that? No drugs, no substances. You just change your state.
Boom.
Now you feel epic. Okay. And we've only just died. That was just the first little round. Okay, we are going to go a bit deeper. Who wants to go even deeper now for the first bit, just get the rhythm right. The first time you do this, just get the rhythm right. Stay time. And don't worry about the contraction of the mulabanda. Do that once you figure you've got it under control, the rhythm. Okay. Then you can add in that extra component. So it's like layering it. Okay. You don't have to jump in and do everything right from the first time you try. You can do it in steps. Okay.
Is the breath retention with the lungs empty or with air inside the lungs?
No. You hold your breath with no air in the lungs for as long as you want. You possibly can first. Then you inhale.
And hold it in again for as long as it's comfortable. Okay. That's the final inhalation.
Is it okay to hold the breath for people with high blood pressure.
If it's not under control, then no. But if it's under control, if you got a controlled.
Blood pressure, then yes. But if it's. If it's not under control and you're struggling and you have a blood pressure that's over 150, over 100, or then I would say don't do this just in case, because I don't. I'm not, you know, I'm not your doctor. I don't know your full medical history, and we can't be responsible for anything. You have to take this with your own risk. Okay? But eventually, if you, if, if you haven't let your blood pressure go out of control, you're under control. This can actually help you lower the blood pressure over time.
If this is okay to do when you're pregnant, take it as a regular guided meditation. Just don't do the breath holds. That part is apparently dangerous if you're pregnant.
Okay, so I think we're ready. We're going to go into a real deep dive into this experience now together, and you're going to start contrating the soma within. So make sure you can listen to the instructions. It's going to be guided again, and you may even want to do this lying down. Okay. If you feel more comfortable lying down on your back. Okay. All right, let's do it. All right, Gary.
Sit comfortably with your.
Back straight or lie down on your back without any tension. Begin this meditation.
By feeling and embodying.
Gratitude.
Allow the feeling of gratitude to flow freely through your body. Gratitude for the ability to do an experience like this.
To enjoy the body.
That you have been blessed to be born with. The health, love, happiness.
Which is already present and will flow to you in abundance as you open your heart and mind.
To the truth.
The truth that you already have. Everything you need to receive. Infinite love, abundance, wealth, health.
Already inside the very core of your being.
And this experience.
Shall awaken you to.
Your full human potential.
Potential by accessing this wealth of energy, knowledge and wisdom that lies deep within.
With your eyes closed, putting your right hand on your heart, feel the beat of your heart.
And have a moment of gratitude for your heart.
Provider of nutrients, energy, vitality to your organs and every cell in your body, without which your life would not exist.
The center point of intuition, inner sight and connection. Connection, empathy.
Now we're going to begin a rhythmic diaphragmic breathing.
When I say in.
You will breathe in as instructed. And when I say out, you'll breathe out. As instructed, with a rhythm of a four to the floor beat.
Now begin the breathing beats.
In 2, out 2, 3, 4. In, 2 out.
As you breathe in and out in to make sure you're filling the entire capacity of oxygen in in your lungs by breathing in deeply from your roots through to your belly chest. Making a circular motion around your head. So you're cycling this sacred life force energy like a current of electricity around your body. That's right. Connecting deeply with this smooth out circular breath.
In, two out.
Smoothing on the inhale, smooth on the exhale. Keeping that consistent rhythm with every breath.
Two out two, three, four. In two out two, three, four. In, two out.
Feeling that energy building up inside with every breath you take.
Out, two, three, four.
Creating two supercharged from deep within.
Three, four. In two out two, three, four. In two out 2, 3, 4. In two out two, 3, 4. In 2 out 2, 3, 4. In 2 out 2, 3, 4. In 2 out 2, 3,4. In 2 out 2, 3 4. In 2 out 2, three, four. In 2 out 2, 3,. In 2 out 2, 3, four. In 2, out 2, 3.
You may felt tingly sensations building up inside.
The charge running through your body.
Stimulating to your own creative potential from deep within.
In two, out two, three.
That's right. Keep breathing. Keep connecting.
Smooth consistent rhythm.
Two out two, three.
In two out two.
Breathing in gratitude.
Breathing out love.
That's two out.
Breathing in this vital prana life force energy.
In.
Breathing out your intention.
Gratitude to love.
Out 2, 3, 4.
Letting go of any tension on your exhale.
Breathing in with no force on your inhale out. Letting go of any stress or tension that may remain.
Out, 2, 3, 4. In, 2 out.
Building up that energy, the life force deep within.
Like an electric charge building up and up. That's right.
Now fully in and fully out.
That's right. Letting out a little hiss. Letting go of all of the maining air from your lungs. Allowing your leg to move and drop forward as you become completely relaxed.
Life is just a series of inhales and exhales.
As you press pause on your breath.
You press pause on life.
Enjoy this moment of stillness as you go deep into a meditative state.
Now see these words is your subconscious mind.
Who am I?
What do I really truly want?
And what does it feel like to have it?
Embody those feelings of having it right now.
Any thoughts, feelings or ideas that emerge in this time.
Come from within. So they are important.
And whenever you get an urge to breathe.
Override the first sensation to breathe.
Take a nice deep full inhale.
Pulling.
Up your sexual energy through your root chakra. Contracting the pelvic floor muscles, the muscles that you use to hold a new urine. Drawing up this energy, straightening your back, bending your neck forward and screwing up your forehead, third eye and shooting this energy, this life force right through up the spine and into your midbrain. Activating the seeds of the creative mind. All of your breath.
It.
Bring yourself back to a normal breath.
Breathing in gently, slowly staying relaxed on every exhale. That's right.
Sam.
As we get ready to breathe in beats.
In, 2, 3, 4. Out 2, in, 4, in, 2, 3, 4. Out, 2, 3, 4. In, 2, in, 4, out 2, 3, 4. In.
Out, 3, 4. In.
Out.
Out.
Three, four. In, two, three, four. Out two, three, four. In, two million three, four. Out.
Sam.
Sa.
Good feelings, good sensations.
Reality.
Connect to the light within.
You are a divine spark of the creative life force.
As you connect to your higher self, your higher power.
Witness the white knights.
Your higher self.
Channeling through you.
Beacon.
Of divine energy.
Transmitting.
A higher frequency of vibration.
Connecting you to the reality.
That you want to attract, that you deserve.
That is aligned with your highest values.
Much love, positive energy.
Whatever ideas, visions.
Moments of clarity that.
You receive with this exudence, pay attention as it is important.
To your personal.
Growth, your well being.
Your health, abundance and happiness.
Peace.
Sat Sa.
Okay, so just bring yourself back.
Smooth, consistent, rhythmic breathing.
Slower, more relaxed.
Is there a sigh of good feelings? That's right.
And just take a nice sigh of.
Good feelings.
And love to just know how you're feeling now.
Wow.
Everyone's moved up to a 9 or a 10.
Boom.
Who is interested in going further with this, going deeper for helping you with the symptoms of chronic illnesses, but also to turn the law of attraction into a super powerful manifesting machine to learn meditation to a very heightened state, to really wake up the dormant parts of your brain and to remove old emotions that are trapped from the body. This is our 21 day protocol. It is my most proudest work I've done. I've been doing this stuff for years. I've been doing this, these meditation courses and programs for last.
Nine years now. And this is by far my best work ever. All of the music you just heard is music I produce myself and it's amazing. Like our results that we're getting are like transforming lives right now. And HeartMath did a lot of studies on the heart brain connection through rhythmic breathing.
Okay.
And I believe I've taken their work to the next level because when you breathe in a rhythm like this and you breathe Together, Okay. You create magic. It really strengthens the bond of the entire community of people who breathe together. And this is my big mission actually is to get people to breathe together around the world. That's why I've created a 21 day protocol for us to all breathe together and connect and collaborate and co create. Well, how does this differ to like all the other breathing techniques? Well, like holotropic and rebirthing and things. I've written a whole article on it so you can find out. Well, it's basically we do breath retention, which is the real power of this and the rhythmic breathing with music. All the other techniques are very loose and they're just hyperventilating for very long periods of time. It has a purpose, but it's not our purpose. Our purpose is to give you a scientific protocol for healing, rejuvenating and manifesting. These other techniques are more for catharsis and removing emotions. We do all of that in our process as well. However, we do it in a more scientific way which is better for your body. If you go to intermittent hypoxic training, this is the protocol we follow.
Okay.
It's exactly what we're following.
Okay.
It's just good stuff. Okay. It says intermittent hypoxia training. Iht, also known as intermittent hypoxia training is a non invasive drug free technique aimed at improving human performance and well being by way of adaptation to reduce oxygen. IHG has been researched for decades, yet an understanding is still not our hands. So it's just because it's very new. The science is now being more and.
More.
Awareness to it, but they know that it works. Okay. So an RHD consistent session consists of an interval of several minutes breathing hypoxic low oxygen air. So they would use machines to do this. We use breath hold. So you are the best machine. You don't need expensive machines. Okay? You are a machine already the best biological machine that exists in nature. And use breath retention to create a hypoxic low oxygen.
Concentration in your body. And then it's alternated with intervals breathing, ambient norm, oxic or hyperoxic. So hyperoxic means more oxygen than normal, which is what we just did. Okay. Was we did the rhythmic breathing that gets in the more oxygen, then you hold your breath, that lowers the oxygen. Okay. And this process may be repeated several times in length sessions per day, depending on the prescription or a manufacturer's protocol. So remember, this is done by machines, very expensive machines, cost you thousands of dollars. Biofeedback can be delivered using the pulse Oximeter, as I just showed you, we use the pulse oximeter. Okay.
The low level of oxygen blood leads to a host of various reactions, some of them beneficial, some of them pathological. This is if you overdo it and you don't follow the protocol, okay, it can be bad for the body. So you have to do it in the right way, in a safe way, done in the protocol that we just did, we gave you just now. Okay. That, that method is very safe, very effective. However, we do it in a very powerful way over 21 days, which is our 21 day awakening post school, which really takes all of this into account. And you do it with coaches, live online and as Gary said, delivered through track. So you follow along and the response is almost instant, as you just experienced today. And it's evident at various levels, from systemic down to cellular. That means from your whole blood system through to your cells of your body. Okay.
This is next important thing is usage.
When used for performance enhancement in sports settings, IHG improves mitochondrial status. This is what we're talking about. The secret of longevity, of optimum health, well being, moods, physical strength and all these things is down to your mitochondria. Okay. There's a lot of studies now going on to mitochondrial health. And here we go. This improves mitochondrial health. And here's some studies. You can go and check this out. They back this up. So if you're looking for peer reviewed studies, here you go, here is some studies, okay. Being citation. Okay. Leading to improvements in aerobic and anaerobic performance. Okay. IHT can be beneficial for treatment with a wide range of degenerative diseases, including chronic heart disease and lung diseases, hypertension, which is high blood pressure, asthma, chronic bronchitis, liver, pancreatic diseases, anxiety and depression, iron deficiency anemia, lack of energy and fatigue, which is a big problem that people have. And I actually is contraindicated, but it's not 100% confirmed because it tends to help actually almost everyone.
But in some cases acute somatic and viral diseases. These are like if you go to a tropical country and you suddenly get, go into the jungle and get like a crazy bacterial skin infection or something, you might need some emergency treatment and you might not be able to do this. However, that's again, they don't, they don't know for sure. So it's a citation needed. Chronic obstructive pulmonary COPD 2 and 3. So these are the severe forms of COPD. In the more mild form it's going to be okay, but the more severe ones is going to be a Problem. So two and three, chronic diseases, the symptoms of terminal illnesses. Basically, when you're on your deathbed, this might not really work. And if you have problems with lack of oxygen, even cancer, we can't really recommend anything with cancer like they're put in jail for that. So that's down to you or your doctor. And also people with epilepsy, pacemakers or heart arrhythmias. You must do this under medical supervision because it could trigger that. But they say that for almost everyone who has epilepsy, you have to be careful with anything because it's one of those things where you just don't know what's going to trigger it. But really, you can see that this is extremely powerful technique that we are modeling with our method, which is free, pretty much. You can do it yourself. All right? You don't need machines, expensive machines. You can do this all yourself. You can do it from home, okay? But I do advise you get our protocol and follow that protocol and have a coach guide you through it. Once you've done the 21 protocol, you're going to make it into a habit that stays with you for the rest of your life. You even get daily dose that you can actually do each morning to get the benefits each morning. And then you can become an instructor of this technique and help other people and create abundance with it. Now, here's the cool thing. I've also thrown in five other breathing techniques with it. So in the ancient school of pranayama, okay, There are many techniques, but there are five fundamental ones that work on both sides. Your autonomic nervous system. Lowering.
Blood pressure. Heart disease. Lowering stress. Cleansing the body. Getting rid of bad toxic gases and toxins from your digestive system. Promoting the growth of good bacteria. That's right. Satiate in the appetite so that you feel full up so you don't overeat. All of these things can be relieved through breath work, okay? Stopping acid indigestion and reflux. All of these things can be fixed with breathing techniques. So who wants to learn about this? Gary is going to talk to you in more depth about the 21 day protocol. If you want to learn how to do this or to even become an instructor, okay. Of the 21 day protocol and to run your own workshops and to give people this experience using our techniques, our meditations, our technology, our music, then Gary is going to explain. All right?
Now, it's a 21 day protocol. And once the first webinar is complete, the zoom session, you go into the week one, which is the initiation phase and you get a 20 minute meditation which Niraj produces, a guided meditation with music that you're asked to do every day for the first week. So every day you do a 20 minute meditation. And also within that week there's a few additional exercises that you're asked to do as well. It's to really get accustomed to the breathing and to go through this process called the average perfect day exercise, which allows you to create your own avatar of the person that you want to become, to have your average perfect day. Instead of trying to think of like what is the best moment in your life, it's what is the average perfect day? Something that's actually attainable, that you can actually reach. And you go into this deep guided meditation combined with breathwork and with music similar to the music that you heard today, all produced by Niraj. Then in the second week, you start off again with a zoom session. And this one we call the awakening phase. This one's more about awakening to what you want to call into your life and who you want to be. So it's like add on to what you did in the first week with the average perfect dates, going a little bit deeper into that. And again you go through an online meditation experience, which is about, I think it's about 45 minutes to an hour long, depending on how the group goes. And the entire webinar is two hours because everyone wants to ask questions and get a little bit more out of it. So then once you're finished that webinar, that one also will go into your members area. You get access to to it forever. And then you get access to the second week meditation, which is a 45 minute meditation with music and guided vocals from Niraj, which we call the awakening phase. And this week again, you'll get some additional exercises too. And yeah, so we just ask you to do the 45 minute meditation every day for the second week. Then in week three, we call it the Soma phase. Same thing. You start off with a webinar with a group, go super deep into a meditation. This is the deepest one because this is when you actually start to release the Soma when you're ready to release it. When you go when you've already had two weeks of experience with this, and then you go through a one full week of a 60 minute meditation, which is really intense, amazing meditation. If you think what you experienced today was really cool, like, wait till you try this one. It's, it's next level. Like you have to experience it to see for yourself.
And yeah, and then that's the whole 21 day protocol. Then anybody who wants to be an instructor, this is the prerequisite to become an instructor. So if you join our instructor training course, which I also posted a link here in the chat, if you join the instructor training, the first thing that you'll do is go through the 21 day protocol. And then when you complete the 21 day protocol, you start the instructor training portion of it. Also in the 21 day protocol, you get access to our breath control course, which is all about therapeutic breathwork, like different breath work techniques, what they can be used for, and all this stuff. And in the instructor training, you go much deeper on the therapeutic breath work and learn how to actually apply this in the real world, how to help people with stress, with blood pressure, with diets. And also the main thing with the instructor training is to actually learn how to guide the awakening, how to actually guide these sessions in group workshops at your local yoga studio or in or doing them online through zoom sessions like we do. And we also give instructors that qualify the opportunity to teach 21 day protocols. We're going to start doing that next month. So instructors that show us that they can guide these 21 day protocols really well, they're going to actually get to be part of the SOMA team and actually guide these sessions.
So.
We have a whole pharmacy of breathing techniques that you will get if you join the 21 day program. I really think this is the best course that's out there. Okay, then we do retreats. We've got retreats. You want to come on a retreat? Gary can tell you some more information about that too. We have a retreat coming up in New Year's Eve in Koh Phangan in Thailand. If you want to come to that. If you're called to that, come. We also have an instructor retreat in February. Okay. If you're called to do that, come to that. Gary can share some links to that as well.
Hi, this is Neeraj, a renegade pharmacist, and I'm the creator of somabreath.com and Soma Therapy. SOMA combines breath, music, technology and movement into one holistic practice that's designed to help you elevate your vibrational state, to reach the peak human experience, to help you clear the clutter from the past and any negative beliefs that have been holding you back from being at your very best. And this is designed to help you be in absolute, unstoppable states of flow. Now, here's what happened when I took a group on our first ever SOMA life training become certified SOMA therapists.
I was a pharmacist in the States for seven years. All I did was continue to do these long shifts in this crazy healthcare system and all it was corporate bullshit that I was dealing with. The amount of stress is unreal. I can't even put it into words. I was already drinking plenty and suppressing feelings and numbing the pain.
Decided to make a big change out of my corporate job, corporate lifestyle that had taken me to just being super stressed out, not really knowing what life had in store for me. It wasn't till just recently when I met Neeraj the the renegade pharmacist and learned more about soma, that everything really started to shift and change through these practices and different techniques and the support of the tribe. I mean, all of a sudden my life starts changing right before my eyes.
I have tried so many different other breathwork techniques before and I found them all somehow or energy draining. And SOMA is just so beautiful. And I just had a so beautiful journey. I really connected. I felt so energized. Gave me really deep insights about the whole SOMA world, which is much more than just breath work. But breath work is the heart and the core of it.
As I've been going through this process, I've been seeing how it just keeps expanding and expanding and growing and growing. I've seen people have huge, massive transformations in a course of a few days. I had a woman in my group that had a complete transcendental experience where a lot of her old past stuff had come up. And I was able to assist her and facilitate and really guide her through the whole experience.
I never had any expectations. I just was, I'm gonna get away, come here and do yoga every day, do these yoga workshops and get healthy and not drink, not smoke. And maybe in a month after that trip, I'd be able to go back and maybe stay stronger and healthier. After a few days of doing all this breath work, it was just incredible, like where my mind went and how much clarity I all of a sudden had. Like, I can never go back to that job. I can't work one more day in that job. Finally, a week ago, I called and said, hey, I can't come back to work this week. The best decision I ever made. Now I actually have the opportunity to be healthy, help other people in a real way by learning all this SOMA breath work and all of these techniques.
Three days ago, I facilitated an entire entire cacao ceremony and breathwork ceremony that had people out of their minds going crazy and I'm helping them breathe. And literally at one point, I got so energized and so powered up through what was happening in my life and providing this energy for this breath work that I end up standing up and doing one of these numbers, getting everyone to just breathe to their soul and their core. And the reactions of these people were absolutely phenomenal.
Thanks to Neeraj, the renegade pharmacist. He's incredible and he's so inspiring because he's done what I've always wanted to do. I know deep inside that's what I've always wanted to do. He really has his head wrapped around everything that you need as a whole to change your life for the better. To get to that peak state where you can actually use your full potential and do what you actually want with your life.
It's going to be life changing for many people. And I'm so happy to be on this journey, to be able to share it.
I've never experienced anything like this. Everybody needs to do it. You have to try it. What are you going to lose by breathing?
I'm excited to see where this is all going.
I don't have the full picture and I don't need the full picture. It's beautiful right now as it is, and I'm just excited to be a part of it and to be able to share this with as many people as I can.
So all of this stuff. You can also find more information inside the Soma Breath community, which I invite you to join if you haven't already. And really, you can.
Make a lot of.
Impact into your health and well being just by being part of our community and taking part in our meditations and programs.
If you become an instructor, we want to help you. So we want to give back to our instructors. So anytime you do a workshop as an instructor and somebody in your group wants to go further with SOMA and they want to become an instructor or they want to join the 21 day protocol or any of our other programs that we're going to. Of our other programs that we're going to be releasing soon, you actually get commissions. You get up to 50% commissions on anything that you refer to us. So that's our way of giving back to our instructors because we want to kind of share in this. We want to spread this message and we know we can't do it. We know we need help and that's why we want to empower the instructors to do that. We want to allow people to actually not just Earn an income in your own groups but also earn an income by referring people to the greater. So my community. So on breath.com forward/events, find the retreats that we have coming up in. So we have one in on New Year's that's going to be, this is going to be a four day retreat or sorry, five day retreat from January 2nd to January 6th. And it's going to be an awakening retreat. So it's basically going to be you're going to be doing this breath work, plus sauna sessions, plus some other amazing activities with Niraj and a group of other people. Yoga in Koh Phang in Koh Phangan, Thailand, which is like our favorite place in the world if you've been there.
Yeah.
If you haven't been there, I highly recommend it. It's island paradise in Thailand which has amazing food. It's very safe. An amazing community of people that just want to like have an amazing time together. Ecstatic dances. We're doing an ecstatic dance on New Year's that's gonna be really cool too. So you get a free ticket to the excited party on New Year's if you join this retreat. And then we also have another retreat coming up in February from February 2nd to February 13th, which is an instructor training. You basically get access to everything that you get access to in the online instructor training. Plus you join this 11 day retreat with Niraj and a bunch of other people that are gonna become instructors and you learn how to guide these sessions if you're already an instructor in case there's anyone on this call that is if you're already a Somal waking instructor or you want to become one online. You don't want to wait until February, but you still want to join the retreat. You get a $800 discount when you join the retreat as an instructor, as somebody that's already an instructor. And then at the end of the instructor training retreat, you have an extra two days.
So.
So the last two days of the instructor training retreat is to learn how to actually become a ceremonial instructor, to learn how to teach this at festivals for large groups. Because in the online instructor training, you're learning how to do it in front of people, in front of groups of 20 to 30 people, no more than that. But when you go to the one in Koh Phangan, Mirage can actually see, make sure that you know what you're doing, make sure you know how to handle uncomfortable situations and all that. So you can actually guide this to groups of over 100 people.
If you're interested in any of those things that we just talked about, then you know where to go. You've got all the links. And that was a taste of Soma, the awakening. And you saw what our amazing retreats are like. If you want to come and hang out with us in beautiful Thailand. But you also got a little technique that you can go away with and practice at home. However, as I said, it's so much deeper and better to do it as a group. You get much more of the value from it. Plus you get to meet other people from the world, you get to connect with people and all that makes life so much more precious and treasure it so much more. Relationships and community is a cure almost everything. So that's why I really believe and when you get part of a good community like this that's growing and getting better and spreading, we can all literally help this world in our only little bit, in our own little way, get a little bit better.
Thank you so much, everybody. It's been amazing. We'll see you in the community soon. Much love and blessings. Peace.
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