A Journey Into Becoming More Of Who You Already Are.
A manifesto of why I'm doing the work I do with the breath. A window of opportunity, of hope, and of bringing more of who you already are into the world.
It is always hard for me to start writing, as if I didn’t know where to get the words from. As if there was a particular route that I should follow. As if there was a particular roadmap. And here I am, with the intention to share with you part of the road that I have walked, which has brought me into the path of learning how to be a breathwork therapist.
As I was training to be a kundalini yoga teacher, I realized that the challenge at hand in any one of the classes that I would guide was huge, because I would be working on expanding the consciousness of each person that would be part of them, and in that, we would enter a space of extreme openness. I saw myself as the guide for their consciousness, and in that sense, the role that I would play would need me to be in my 100% so that I could hold the space. Be there for them.
And that is something that I have discovered as very important in my path. The necessity that I have to use the work that I have done in myself as the means for helping others to do it. I need to share what I have learned, who I have become, and in that sense the biggest focus of my work has been to just learn how to be present. I have actively worked on becoming free from the conditioning, from the knowledge, from the ‘doing’, so that I can enter a space of pure beingness.
I don’t like talking too much about my own journey, because I can recognize in doing that the need of seeking acceptance from you. I don’t want you to trust me because I tell you that I studied this, or that I went to that school, or that I did this course, or that one. I just want you to build up that trust with what I do, and who I am. Because of how I show up in the world. And you can continue to explore that in every way, right now the internet is the window that connects everything together. I’m committed to sharing my work, thoughts, worldview and perspective as the underlying thread that connects everything that I do. That is my invitation for you to stay tuned with me.
I want to bring my truth into the world, and in that sense, breathwork is the means by which I’m better able to do that right now. I will be forever perfecting the way on which I’m able to help people go deeper into their own personal journey, into the understanding that they have of themselves, so that from there something new can arise. I truly believe that each of us came here to create beauty, and my actions are informed by the fact that I think that most of us don’t do it because there are demons/voices/parasites/call-them-how-you-want in our heads that won’t let us do it. They won’t let us bring into the world the truth of who we are because of the lack of trust in ourselves.
Because of the tendencies of living in the past. Of projecting a future that will never come. I believe that those necessities that our mind builds up as a means for interfacing with the world are a consequence of incomplete experiences that we have gone through in our lives, and I believe (and it has been part of my experience also) that breathwork can be the means by which all those can be integrated into a new way of existing. Into a new way of framing each moment on which you interface with reality so that it can come from a place of presence. Of beingness. I’m here to be in service of your own process of evolution. And presence is the ultimate state of that evolution.
The phrase that has been running around my mind in the last years is: ‘I become who I am by interacting with people like you’. What makes sense as I write this is more like: ‘I evolve by walking the path alongside you’. I’m here to help you realize that you are your own healer. In a world where everything that is around us is information, where it is so hard to make sense of it, what is needed is to strengthen the power of our internal compass.
To lift up the fog that won’t let you realize that you are already complete. You are everything that you will ever be, and I’m here for that process of evolution to take place. To help you discover that through the sole act of being you are already taking your place in the game of life. You are already doing the work that you need to do. No one needs to allow you to, no one has to forgive you for doing something that you shouldn’t have done. In this world, there are no should’s.
Each experience that you have gone through in your past is an integral part of who you are now, and the work that we are going to do together is that of learning how to see that history with more clarity, so that each aspect of it that is seen through the lens of polarity can be integrated just into a happening. Just into something that is being, right here, right now. Through you, and it is ok like that. It just is. You just are. And all of the life experiences that you have gone through in your life are just that, the information that constitutes who you are.
Each moment of your life, no matter what kind of framing it can have in the perspective of the totality of it, what kind of polarity you can associate with it, is just that, part of who you are. You are now a consequence of it, and the work that we are going to do together is the one of embodying that in each one of your cells. So that you can become absolutely comfortable in the simple fact of being you.
We will work intensely. This kind of work is deep, it may bring a lot, but I want to tell you that I will be here for your process. I will hold space for you, because it is what I better know how to do. I have been developing the capacity for being present for a long time, and this is what brings more joy to me. Leaving the BS aside and stepping up to Do The Work. This is when things get real, and this is where the purest joy that you will have experienced in your life comes from.
The joy of transforming everything that you have been into what you are in this moment.
The joy of embracing all of the aspects of yourself.
The joy of experiencing life as an eternal flow of pure beingness.
The joy of being who you are.
Breathwork is the main tool that I’ll use to accompany this journey because for me it is a reminder of what is talked about as the ‘cosmic joke’. It is just mesmerizing that the simplest thing of them all, the one that has been with us throughout our whole life, the breath, can have such a deep impact when you relate to it consciously. It is the vehicle for consciousness to anchor to life in our bodies, and it is in that sense that I want to shine a light into the comic aspect of how the most simple thing of all life can be the deepest one.
It is a reminder of how much life is taken for granted, and in the moment on which you start relating to the breath in a different way, your whole perspective of it is transformed. Renewed. Evolved. I’m here to help you navigate the waters of developing a conscious relationship with your breath: the tool that has been giving you life since you were born. I’m here to guide you, to walk alongside you, and to learn through each step with you.
I’m here because I love life, and I want that more and more people can experience what the breath can bring into their experience as human beings.
At the end, intention is everything. With all the things that you do, with everything that you can do. It is what drives success, what drives motivation, what drives the end result of the creation. In the process of being intentional, there is a fundamental transformation of the person that is behind the intention. There is a happening. There is a connectedness that was not there before. Everything that I will do from now on is an invitation to go deeper into that. Into the embodiment of all of what you are.
I’m here to remind you how important it is to breathe. And to develop a conscious relationship with the act of breathing. I’m here to navigate the waters of what comes up when you pose the challenge of facing your own life experience from the lens of compassion, of acceptance, of the willingness to embrace everything that has ever been, so that you can live life at your full potential. I’m here to help you become more of yourself, and the way on which we’ll do that is just by exploring what the breath wants to show you. There are no preconceptions, there are no expectations. The whole idea of this game that we are going to play is to leave every expectation aside.
Of what should be but isn’t.
Of those attitudes that you should have had but you hadn’t.
Of those responses that you should have given but you didn’t.
Of those interactions that you should have had but you hadn’t.
The breath is the tool that will helps us walk towards that goal. And it is not about the goal actually, it is about the road that we will walk together. By just being aware of what shows up in every moment. By just being with it. The breath won’t show you something that you are not prepared to deal with. It won’t take you to places that you are not ready to visit.
The breath is wise.
The breath is life.
It is the connection to life, the thread that connects your own and unique existence to this life that you are living. And that is everything that is. And I want to do this correctly. I want to come here with humility, with a beginners mindset, to let you know that I’m also just a student. One that is here to learn as much as I can so that I can share with you what has come, and with that, take a step towards a new understanding of what it means to be a human being. I learn about this by seeing life from the perspective of who is at the other side. I am being through you, and as I open to navigate those waters I allow this intelligence to flow through my own system. I allow myself to just be, through you, through all of your experiences.
I just want to be here for you, with everything that I have, with everything that I am, so that we can together bring more of what we want to bring into the world. That which wants to be manifested through us. I’m here in service of that mission. I’m here for you. And for me. For all the ones that have come before. For all the ones that will come after.
I started writing this writing with the intention of sharing with you what got me into being a breathwork practitioner, and this is what came up. This is my truth, right here, right now, and the underlying aspect of this truth is a deep necessity for being in service. For bringing more consciousness to the world, more responsibility. A deeper capacity for people to be there for others, but more than for others, for themselves.
Each piece of content that I will publish here will be an invitation to go deeper into that process. The better realize who you are, by showing up and Doing The Work. No one can do it for you. No one can take care of you for you. No one can feed yourself in a proper way for you.
No one can create for you, because the important part of the act of creation is not the end result. It is the information that is brought to your experience as a human being because of it. It is what is brought to you as a consequence of showing up, and establishing a deep relationship with Resistance. Resistance is all the voices in your head, all the demons that won’t let you see, all the aspects of yourself that you deny, all the ones that you don’t want to integrate. Resistance shows up when things get tough, but it is an indication that something is being moved. That there is a transformation taking place. Open up to that transformation, and allow the breath to be the means by which it happens.
It is time to take action. It is time to show up. For your health, for your relationships, for your spirit. For every aspect of yourself that wants to be manifested, but can’t yet because of the voices that build up the fear that won’t let you take those steps. Using the breath as a guide, we will establish a deep relationship with that fear. We’ll become friends with it. We’ll acknowledge it, and we’ll make it an integral part of our experience. It will never go away. The only thing that will happen is that you’ll understand how to develop a constructive relationship with it. One that helps you become. One that helps you just be. You came here to just be. It is time to embody that. It is time to manifest it in every one of your actions.
And I’m here to walk that path with you. I’m here to navigate those waters. To help you make sense. To give you the strength that is needed when there is a willingness to give up. Because that’ll happen. Resistance is a mighty contender. But we’ll make it through. And you’ll be renewed. You’ll be more of you. You’ll become less of all of what you are not. That is the magic, and the vehicle is the simplest one of them all, the one that has been with you since before you knew there was a ‘you’ inside your head: the breath.
Welcome to the journey. It’s inspiring to have you here.
JP