Full power is being in the driver’s seat of life. It is being fully present, right here, right now. It is playing with life, not life doing things to you. It is having a strong and true voice. It is creating space where others can emerge in their full power. It is showing up at your best regardless of context: athlete, partner, parent, student, business person, servant, leader, human.
And full power in life is most directly accessed through simple but powerful tools: functional breathing, heart rate variability (HRV) training, physical training, mindset, service to community, communication, healthy risk, knowledge, relationships, and self-awareness. Being pointed back to yourself, to you your innate control knobs, with the structure for exploration and optimization.
Whether you are an elite athlete looking to squeeze an extra 10% improvement, or a chronic sufferer restoring basic breathing and heart rate and nervous system function and feel the beauty of life again, or anything in between, this approach can move the needle for you.
It can provide:
Optimized breathing for effort, rest, and daily life
Embodied emotional and physical resilience
Improved performance, sleep, and focus
Increased awareness and control of your internal state
Lifelong habits and feedback for growth
A thriving community for support and optimization
Healthy growth-oriented relationships that expand your sense of life
Alignment to nature, elements, and your innate programming
Considering breathing and HRV specifically in this context, most athletes train everything except their breathing, leaving 10% performance on the table. Breathing is the remote control of your nervous system. And your nervous system determines your experience of life. Learn to control your breathing, and you learn to control your performance.
Mechanically, you are improving CO2 tolerance, O2 exchange, calming your breathing patterns, and training yourself to relax into difficult situations. And as you learn to control your breathing, you are also training your HRV. HRV is a key indicator of the resilience of your nervous system. It tells you how ready you are to engage, or whether you need to recover. A healthy heart and nervous system respond nimbly to your needs; your heart rate varies constantly and dynamically. An exhausted heart and nervous system become a metronome: very little variability.
So as you train your breathing and HRV, you can directly improve yourself. You learn to recognize your own internal state, something many of us simply have become deaf to, or never learned to feel. And then change it. And this moves you more and more into your own full power.
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