We have this tool that is so magical. It's the most profound tool better than any medicine out there and we forget to use it. It's the breath.

Hey, Herdlers. Emily about a year bringing you another installment of hurdle moment from hurdle. Today on the show, I wanted to compliment the episode that came out on Monday with Dr. Michael Jervet. He is a high performance psychologist. If you happen to be listening to him, you're going to have a lot of fun.

If you happen to be listening to these out of order, I highly highly recommend that you head on over to episode 151 and give that a listen. Dr. Jervet talked about the power of our breath and how breath work can make a major difference when it comes to how we perform, how we show up and how we execute at some of the hardest moments.

And so I felt it appropriate to bring in a breath work expert to chat about the practice today. And that expert is Joy Duchet. As I mentioned, Joy is a breath work expert. She's also a spiritual and holistic life guide and intuitive energy healer. And she is a fellow podcast host of the methodology podcast.

In today's episode, we unpack what breath work is how breath work is different than meditation. And she offers up a few different examples of what this might look like in your routine, as well as highlights the benefits of the practice, how it can dramatically impact everything from your anxiety to how you even experience pain in your body.

Joy also gives me a little information and insight as to how she got started with breath work, navigating some past trauma in her own life. And it was such a major game changer for her that she decided, hey, I want to help other people experience the goodness that this practice can bring.

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Today I am sitting down with joy. Do she she's a spiritual and holistic life guide and intuitive energy healer a breathwork facilitator and also host of the methodology podcast. How are you doing today joy.

I'm doing great. Thank you, Emily. It's great to be here with you.

Thank you so much for coming on today. We are going to talk about a topic that I feel as though is definitely getting more busy, especially as we're all spending more time at home and trying to just find some calm or talking about breathwork.

I'd love to know from the get go. How did you get involved with the practice of breathwork and becoming a breathwork facilitator.

It's been a journey of a long amount of healing and seeking seeking first for myself, my own personal healing and then sharing, you know, the magic of what was happening for me with others and bringing that into my coaching practice.

So one day I just almost accidentally found this breathwork that what I call the alchemical breathwork that literally was life changing for me and I had the most wild, you know unexpected experience of

like dramatic healing in that one session that changed everything for me after 20 years of seeking different modalities to heal PTSD post traumatic stress disorder and limiting, you know, emotional pain that I just couldn't

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