NaBloPoMo Day 28: Breathing with Sandy. I'm 100% in.

 

Sandy rarely wears a shirt.
https://www.breathewithsandy.com/

It has been a revelation, this Breathing with Sandy. Don't get me wrong, I have been doing the box breathing every now and then for a while. But I never realized there's a whole fandango of different breathing techniques until someone recommended this kinda unusual book called The Presence Process. 

I feel bad calling it "unusual" because it is a beloved book that has transformed a lot of people's lives. But it's one of those books where, when you're reading it, you feel like you feel when you find yourself somewhere you didn't expect to be. Like at a rave surrounded by folks in velvet vests dancing with twinkly lights and there's a pond and someone is in it riding an inflatable swan. I appreciated the book and the Process but it's definitely one of those right time, right place, right person kind of affairs.

So anyway, spoiler alert, part of the Process is to do this "conscious connected breathing" for 15 minutes twice a day for ten weeks. I was game, why not. But then I couldn't manage to do the conscious connected breathing for fifteen minutes all on my own. I also couldn't manage to do it twice a day. Or often once a day. But yeah, no worries, this is what Youtube is for, and so... I found Sandy. He has some conscious connected breathing classes.

By the way, if you can manage to do conscious connected breathing for the full fifteen minutes with Sandy or however you manage to do it, you kind of hyperventilate yourself into an unexpectedly great mood. I am now totally sold on the whole "breathworks" thing. 

In fact, I'm so sold I'm out there talking about breathing and Sandy with anyone who will listen.  I was having lunch with Renya last month and successfully proselytized her. We both donated to Sandy's Patreon. We are patrons of breathwork now.

Tom says he enjoys Sandy's classes, but he's neutral on the shirtlessness.