Peak performance requires balancing paradoxes: effort and ease, control and release, thinking and flow. Learn how allostasis—stability through change—allows athletes to perform under pressure. Discover how breathwork trains nervous system flexibility, accelerates recovery from injury, and unlocks hidden performance capacity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.