Hey, what's going on my friends? Welcome to the Astro Hustle. I'm

Cori Allen and hope that you're doing well, feeling good today, and really just

enjoying what is immediately in front of you, what is around you in your life the people that you're in contact with whether it be digitally or whatever just the relationships and all of the beautiful things around you in the analog world.

And maybe remember to take a good breath in, a good breath out,

to relax all of the muscles in your face and shoulders and body as you exhale

and allow yourself to melt and arise and to the present moment and speaking of breath the joy of breath that we

all just hopefully experienced I've got a really great podcast for you today my

guest is James Nester James is an author and journalist who's written for Outside Magazine to New York Times,

the Atlantic Scientific American Men's Journal and so on and so on. He's got a new book.

We actually talked right before this book was published,

but it's out now. It's already listed on the New York Times as a bestseller and it's called

Breath, the new science of a lost art.

So it really goes through almost the evolution of breathing and human breath

and really a lot of fascinating information.

I read the book, I had a great time, learned a lot. It was very

fascinating and incredibly well-written and I had even a better time talking to James that we go into all sorts of things about breathing and breath and even

getting into some of the more transcendental and kind of ecstatic breath and

whim-hoft type of stuff a lot of cool stuff covered and James is just an awesome guy and I had a great time speaking with him.

I know we're going to dig it and definitely get a few good thought nuggets out of it, for sure.

And on the topic of books, if you're feeling

ungrounded or anxious or looking

how to remain present within the churning gears of modern society. I only to mention real quick that my book

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