Our emotions sweep us like the wind.
So who decides? We or the wind?
Go beyond and through emotions.
Go above negative thoughts.
Go deeper than feel-good attempts.
This meditation will give you access to a magic moment with your awesome self.
At soundswrong.life, all we want is healing. For ourselves and for everyone else, and for everything and everyone who swims, walks, crawls, flies, photosynthesizes, breathes.
John teaches breath first and yoga second. His classes are meditative and aspire to help us unblock our emotions, silence our mental chatter, and balance our nervous systems. They tend to follow lineages of rhythmic Vinyasa, trauma-informed Flow and Restore, or Trance Breathing Meditation.
He is RYT 200 and deeply grateful to his teachers Alex Bauermeister, David Magone, Didi Von Deck, Gregor Singleton, Kate Bush, Masaaki Okamura, and Paulina Haduong. He is equally grateful to and has trained under David Swenson, Rich Ray, and the Prison Yoga Project.
During winter he joins a group of people who ice-plunge in Walden Pond, none of who knows why. Approximately one million years ago he was an amateur DJ and a radio music producer, and by day is a software company executive based in Boston.
The Magonian method is short for the DVRM method, which is presently being formalized by the scientific community in New England.
We start with a few mindfulness exercises.
We then follow with several rounds of relatively rapid breathing interchanged with breath retentions, backed by EDM and inspirational electronic music.
The latter part of the session is a live deep meditation using techniques from Yoga Nidra or the Hawaiian Ho'oponopono mantra, as well as others.
The science:
DVRM (Dynamic Volitional Respiratory Modulation) is a novel non-pharmacological method for influencing emotional, cognitive, and physiological states through deliberate alterations in breathing patterns including accelerated breathing and breath retentions paired with music or other forms of acoustic stimulation. This paradigm differs from other breathwork because of its oscillation between accelerated breathing and breath retention; the length and duration of these oscillations offer flexibility to the practitioner to engineer their experiences. More info here: https://goodstressmethod.com
These sessions are offered by SoundsWrong.Life, LLC.
These sessions are not appropriate for people who will be immersed in water or operate machinery while attending.
DO NOT DO THIS NEAR WATER!
Also, this session is not appropriate for people who may have in the past experienced seizures or phychotic states, because our wacky trance breathwork could potentially trigger those states (unlikely but not impossible).
If you have a health condition related to your heart or lungs, please consult with your healthcare practitioner prior to joining.
If you are pregnant, you are welcome to join but please go easy with the breathing, follow your own breaths and not the wacky trance breaths; and just enjoy along!