Niraj Naik: SOMA Breath For Less Stress
Wellness + Wisdom Podcast
Josh Trent
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2018
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Through the breath, we can control our state of energy to change emotion. Getting into a rhythmic breathing state allows us to harmonize every single function of the body to be coherent so that we can move from low to high energy emotions. - Niraj Naik
Do you wake up every day with absolute enthusiasm to work hard for something that you love?
OR
Are you waking up every day because you have to in order to pay the bills and survive?
Those are the two questions that Holistic Wellness Expert, Author, Founder of The Renegade Pharmacist blog, and SOMA Breath Instructor, Niraj Naik asks himself every morning.
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In Wellness Force Radio episode 249, Niraj will uncover what he has learned about the broken UK and US healthcare industries while working as a pharmacist, how to naturally change your emotional state through shamanic and yoga practices, and how he was able to heal through the foundations of pranayama, yoga, and Ayurveda.
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| 0:00.0 | What's the best thing that the Yogis have done for us? And that is they taught us how to have an off switch for stress. |
| 0:09.0 | And that our social stress is the breath and the exhale and by learning to exhale properly and to hold your breath and control your breath in certain ways we actually can control the entire physiology of our body. |
| 0:24.0 | If we modulate our autonomic nervous system further with breath retention, |
| 0:29.0 | where we bring the oxygen levels down in the bloodstream we trigger a cascade of hormones and |
| 0:37.2 | neurotransmitters released in the body. You start to create the chemistry in your |
| 0:41.2 | body with dopamine and |
| 0:42.5 | serotonin that actually makes you take action. |
| 0:47.0 | That's Niraj Naik, and this is episode 249 |
| 0:50.6 | of Wellness Force Radio, |
| 0:52.1 | where we discover the physical and emotional intelligence to live life well. |
| 0:56.0 | In this podcast, we learn about the science, story, and physiology. |
| 1:00.0 | Behind Soma Breath, a revolutionary advanced breath work meditation technique, |
| 1:04.4 | we're talking with its founder and my friend, Niraj Naik, a musician, wellness |
| 1:08.5 | entrepreneur, and former clinical pharmacist with a truly inspiring story of how he's overcome health struggles |
| 1:14.5 | and let go of a life that wasn't serving him it was actually killing him. He then |
| 1:18.8 | stood and breathed in his power after decades of training in Iurveda, yoga, and multiple wellness modalities, |
| 1:25.6 | to found Soma, which has caught fire in popularity globally this year. |
| 1:29.6 | This podcast is huge for me too because I'm actually recording this intro live from |
| 1:34.0 | Copagnan island in Thailand I'm here to experience this Soma breath work myself I |
| 1:38.9 | honestly came out here to expand this understanding for my own breath work and experience a different culture to |
| 1:44.8 | really practice what I preach when it comes to us discovering this physical and emotional |
| 1:49.5 | intelligence so we can live our lives well. Sometimes we get to travel 9,000 miles from the west coast of Thailand to truly discover. |
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