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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.
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.
Rediscovering the Soul of Breath
Breath is more than air. It’s life, spirit, and connection. Justin Ternes explores the ancient philosophy of breath, showing how mindful breathing links us to our true self, others, and the world, inviting a deeper awareness of pneuma, the life force that unites body, mind, and spirit.
What Color is Your Emotion?
Emotions can be as vivid and nuanced as colors. In this post, Justin Ternes explores how identifying and interpreting your emotional “colors” can improve emotional literacy, body awareness, and mindfulness, helping you feel, name, and navigate your emotions more clearly.
Mastering Breath Control Through Key Variables
Breathing is more than “taking deep breaths.” Justin Ternes breaks down the key variables of breath amplitude, frequency, rhythm, intensity, and location to help you master breath control, optimize physiological effects, and harness breath as a tool for calm, focus, and resilience.
Many Emotions, Many Interpretations
Emotional health comes from awareness and the ability to feel and interpret the energies of our emotions in the body. In this post, Justin Ternes explores how reading and accepting emotions, rather than creating or labeling them, builds emotional intelligence, intuition, and mind-body connection.