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Oliver James on Breath and Body Work Practices

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Meditation - Is There a Way to Slow Things Down?

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i often think about, like, if you wanted to hear a song, you had to go to the record store and often they wouldn't even have the record. And so when i started realizing, like, first, don't know whether it was spotfire or napster or whatever it was, when i was like, wait a minute. I can listen to nearly any song in the world like that. Ye. It's something that has to be learned, and there's many ways of learning it. In to day's standards, that would not work athere. Would be uproar. Some one would go to another provider and they would want it within 24 hours. If you're not

Oliver James is a body-led psychotherapist and breathworker known for integrating breath, movement, and body work to support personal transformation and self exploration.

Eric and Oliver discuss his book, 21 Breaths: Breathing Techniques to Change Your Life

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Oliver James and I Discuss Breath and Body Work Practices and …

His book, 21 Breaths: Breathing Techniques to Change Your Life
Defining body led psychotherapy and how it connects breath and movement
How our bodies hold trauma and stress
Discovering a practice that works for you
The importance of patience and slowing down
Learning to notice discomfort and remembering to practice breathwork
His trademarked “Geometric Breathing” of visualizing shapes as you breathe
The importance of nose breathing as opposed to mouth breathing

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The Science of Breathing with James Nestor

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