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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.