Exploring Darkness: My Experience of Spending Ten Days in Complete Darkness meditation spirituality

As someone who has always been fascinated by the power of the mind and the potential of human resilience, I decided to take on a unique challenge: spending ten days in complete darkness.

As human beings, we rely heavily on our senses to navigate through life. Our eyes allow us to see the world arou...

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The Billion Dollar Brotherhood: Nicholas Bayerle and Joey Hauss breathwork cold immersion wim hof method

I first met Nicholas Bayerle in February 2020, before life as we knew it changed forever, at 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu Murrieta while facilitating a Wim Hof Method Workshop.

I'm proud to say that today, Nicholas is like a brother to me. In this episode, Nicholas and I discuss how I got into instructing...

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TBI or CTE: What The Hell Is Wrong With Me? brazilian jiu-jitsu breathwork cold immersion wim hof method
My good friend Mark Tullius recently published his newest book TBI or CTE: What the Hell is Wrong With Me?, which details his experience with Traumatic Brain Injury, and his journey to find helpful treatments.

I had the pleasure of taking Mark through the Wim Hof Method as research for the book. It...

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The Los Angeles Jiu Jitsu Club brazilian jiu-jitsu

I'm super proud of my best friend, Eric Medina, for stepping into his greatness and opening up an actual living-breathing Jiu-Jitsu Academy.

Eric and I met wrestling at Moorpark College and first embarked on the Jiu-Jitsu journey separately, (but at the same time.) It was shortly after that we star...

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Relearning How to Breathe breathwork wim hof method

I was first introduced to Jeremy Frisk during Evolving Out Loud with Kyle Cease's, End of Effort: Online Meditation Event. We were doing an exercise we call "It's Totally Possible," and when I heard Jeremy share his Totally Possibles, I knew he was a person doing inner work.

When Jeremy later reach...

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My Journey Finding Comfort in the Uncomfortable bioginástica brazilian jiu-jitsu breathwork cold immersion wim hof method

My journey sharing the Wim Hof Method started at Jean Jacques Machado's Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy. Rickson Gracie was hosting a seminar and was talking about how he learned proper breathing and movement from Academia Orlando Cani, the founder of Bioginástica, and how it was the second most importa...

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Why Practice Breathwork? breathwork wim hof method
"The inhale breath provides us with new energy, the exhale releases the old."

With everything going on in our lives and in the world, it's easy to be in our heads thinking about what has happened and what is yet to come. Having a consistent breathwork practice has been instrumental in helping me se...

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