So I was in New York City during 9-11, and after that day, I had a lot of anxiety every morning at 8.30, you know, and I tried a lot of things. I went to like hot yoga, you know, five times a week. And I followed these like Tibetan monks to all their talks in New York

City and I you know I'd feel peace for a little bit but it just wasn't lasting I'm and I was still

shaking at 8.30 in the morning every day and so before I had to get it I go out of the building so I

until I walked into this breathing class called sky breath meditation art. It's offered by a nonprofit called Art of Living,

which is a world.

It was started in India and it's all over the world now.

It's deeply entrenched in like the traditional yoga philosophy and culture.

But it's not what you would learn in your local yoga class. It's much more

in depth. It's called sky breath meditation. And I took the class just thinking, gosh, this is just

another thing. It's not going to help me. And then, lo and behold, you know, my anxiety went away.

And I, you know, what is it, 20, 25 years later, I'm still

doing my sky breath meditation every day. It was very transformative. And I was able to just

move on, you know, and excel at what I was doing and feel so much better. And about 10 years

later, I was a postdoctoral research assistant a postdoc

in psychology at the University of Wisconsin and I was seeing all these veterans with trauma

and not being helped and I thought let me just see if the breathing can help them the way it helped

me and we ran a series of studies now with veterans with trauma and high anxiety as well as students

with anxiety and just generally burnout and so forth.

And I've seen how profoundly impactful it is to help people come back to a place of not,

yeah, in stillness.

And that's very difficult for, it's difficult to meditate when you have a lot of anxiety

i know after 9-11 meditation wasn't even a possibility but the thing that the sky breath does is

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