607. Breathing Less to Experience More: The Inner Dive of BreathHoldWork & MovNat w/ Erwan Le Corre
The Life Stylist
Luke Storey
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 129 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with Erwan Le Corre, founder of MovNat and creator of BreathHoldWork. You might know him as the Godfather of Natural Movement, but today we’re diving even deeper into the frontier of human capability: breath, resilience, and the power of training discomfort.
We talk about Erwan’s journey from reclaiming primal movement to mastering the breath-hold—culminating in a national record under CMAS rules and a personal best of over eight minutes underwater. Erwan breaks down the science and spirit behind static apnea, BreathHoldWork, and the forgotten importance of “practical meditation,” which involves using breath-holds not just for oxygen efficiency, but as a vehicle for developing true inner mastery.
If you’re someone who’s ready to push your edge—not just physically but mentally and spiritually—this conversation is going to light a fire under you. Visit lukestorey.com/breathholdwork and use code LUKE for 25% off the BreathHoldWork Meditation Master Class.
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MORE ABOUT THIS EPISODE:
(00:00:00) Containment Culture: The Collapse of Natural Movement and Free Thought
(00:14:48) Movement Poverty: Why Lack of Natural Movement Is Killing Us
(00:31:49) Reclaiming Strength, Purpose, & Physical Confidence
(00:40:38) From Daily Practice to Dopamine Discipline & Survival Mindset
(00:57:29) Breath-Hold Mastery: From Spearfishing to Spiritual Awakening
(01:34:27) How Breathwork Unlocks Emotions, Visions, & Inner Truths
(01:47:19) Relaxation as a Skill: Rethinking Breathwork & Mood Mastery
(02:00:29) Consciousness, Breath, & the Sacred Inner Space
(02:14:02) How to Begin—or Teach—the BreathHoldWork Practice
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| 0:00.0 | So it looks like Brigitte Macron is a man. |
| 0:05.0 | What do you think of that as a Frenchman? |
| 0:09.0 | Not really concerned about that? |
| 0:11.0 | Are you still in touch with people back in France? |
| 0:14.0 | A few. |
| 0:15.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:16.0 | Not that I tried to, you know, even though I've been living in the US for 16 years now, |
| 0:20.0 | I never tried to hang out with French people. I don't care. I'm not interested in a particular background. It's more about who the person is. I want to hang out with them or not, regardless of whatever. |
| 0:32.1 | I thought of that just because that's when I think of France, having not been there in probably 25 years, that's what I think of. |
| 0:39.1 | But you were there. |
| 0:39.9 | The world we live in is so full of deceit and fallacy, you know, that I find it entertaining when |
| 0:47.2 | things like that come to light. I don't care. It has no impact on me, right? But it's |
| 0:52.6 | interesting over the past, you know, four or five |
| 0:55.2 | years to see some of the veil dropping. You have independent journalists that start |
| 1:00.2 | digging into different things that they question and very interesting things come to light. |
| 1:05.3 | I believe, and I'm saying that out of my intuition, and I could be totally wrong. You actually care |
| 1:10.3 | deeply. The thing is that... |
| 1:12.5 | Well, I care about the truth. Exactly. Yeah. So when you say you don't care, I believe what you want to |
| 1:17.8 | express is that you know the reality of the world that there is a lot of deceit in the world and therefore |
| 1:25.5 | somehow you are doing your best to not be overly sensitive about it. |
| 1:30.9 | But your value system is based on integrity. |
| 1:35.3 | Therefore, it bothers you just to know that deceit even exists in the world. |
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