So I just lost my faith at that time, and boom, that same time I start bleeding.

And you know like when you don't listen to your gut and you're miserable all the time, you start to get gut ache.

And when you stop listening to it, over time it gets worse and worse.

So basically now that turns into being housebound, sat on the toilet almost 30, 40 times a day shitting razor blades.

Like the pain is insane.

So I'm now housebound with an autoimmune disease I got diagnosed with called ulcerative colitis, which is ulcers in your colon, and I lost a third of my body weight.

... you know, even today after watching this?

Yeah, so, yeah, so getting into all that, so, like, that one thing of my website blowing up led to then meeting Wim Hof, right? He, his son read the infographic, and I became his right-hand man for a while.

yes and that through the i don't know if it's through plants i don't know if the ego death is related to that sense of of death but certain people say that through meditation you experience small doses of death what does that mean

absolutely true because So the most revered technique in pranayama is kumbhaka, breath retention.

And bhaya kumbhaka is holding your breath after exhale.

And look at the English names.

Inspiration is breathe in, inspire, inspired.

So when you're inspired, you have great thoughts.

So when you breathe in, you create thoughts, right? Oxygen comes in, boom, mitochondria, boom.

So what's worked and what's not worked?

So for the benefit of the listeners that don't know anything about you and your journey, which is incredible, by the way, it's exactly what inspires me to follow my path with my journey and my background, which I'll share a little bit about that later on, where you'll see some of the similarities on the path that I've walked, the issues I've had with my health and what leads me to be sat here today as someone that wanted to connect with you and learn from you so for the benefits of those that know nothing about you then just tell us a bit about yourself

yeah man so well now i'm the founder of Soma Breath so let's start with where i am right now so i live in Ibiza founder of a school of breath transformation that's music driven That is now over 4,000, I think, instructors around the world.

It's crazy.

We've got research, peer-reviewed research at Cambridge University on our techniques.

And I have a beautiful family.

I live here, live in the dream.

But it wasn't always like this.

There's no exit.

Right, right.

So something happened.

They decided to shelve this idea.

And I became really disgruntled with society, with culture.

with the world at large.

I lost my connection with God, spirit, everything, because I just couldn't understand, like, why would something like this be stopped, right? Why don't people want to help other people? So, and I'd worked so hard to get out of this profession and I wanted to do something meaningful in my life, right? Which is what I thought I did.

But now I'm facing going back to being a pharmacist again.

breath.