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How Your Breath Shapes the Way You Experience Pain
Breathwork can transform your relationship with pain. Justin Ternes shares how conscious breathing, awareness, and education empower the mind, body, and heart, helping you navigate pain with resilience, calm, and presence rather than simply masking discomfort.
Breath Is the First Step
Life begins and ends with the breath. Justin Ternes explores how breath influences thought, movement, and mindset, offering a simple yet powerful reminder that conscious breathing is the first step toward flow, presence, and personal transformation.
Breathwork and Posture
Good posture isn’t just about sitting straight—it’s about movement and breath. Justin Ternes explores how variety in posture and intentional breathwork improve core stability, reduce stress, and enhance overall physical health, offering practical tips and exercises for modern life.
Harness the Heat Within
Your inner fire is your life-force energy, and your body is its container. Justin Ternes explores how breathwork, movement, and physical strength help you build your frame to hold, harness, and move energy, unlocking passion, purpose, and psycho-emotional resilience.
Athletic Performance
Breathwork and meditation are powerful tools for peak performance—on and off the field. Justin Ternes explores how intentional breathing can calm nerves, enhance focus, boost endurance, and improve emotional control, helping athletes of all levels unlock their full potential.
Breath, Ice & Pain
Breath and cold exposure can help modulate pain and improve stress response. Justin Ternes explores the science and practice behind breathwork and ice baths, sharing how these techniques enhance resilience, regulate the nervous system, and help you feel more grounded, present, and alive.
Cold Exposure
Cold exposure—ice baths, cryotherapy, or plunging into a local swimming hole—can improve circulation, fat burning, mental clarity, and immune function. Justin Ternes shares insights, safety tips, and mindful breathwork techniques to help you harness the ancient and modern benefits of the chill.