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My Favorite Meditation Preparation Practice
Learn a simple 4-step meditation prep to create safety, presence, and calm. Justin Ternes guides you to connect with your body, emotions, and environment before settling into mindfulness practice.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Breath & Stress
Stress is a natural part of life but your breath can transform it into growth. In this post, Justin Ternes explores how breathwork enhances physical health, mental clarity, and emotional well-being, and introduces the self-guided Breath for Stress course to help you manage stress anytime, anywhere.
Breath is Encouragement
Every conscious breath can be an act of self-encouragement. In this post, Justin Ternes explores how breathwork fosters self-efficacy, health, and connection, sharing insights from a client session and practical ways to breathe life, love, and encouragement into yourself.
Awareness of Heart
Intentionally feeling into your body, emotions, and heart, even when uncomfortable, can expand awareness, reduce stress, and deepen your connection to life, love, and health.