 Yeah, so why is breathing so important? So that's something that when I first went to your workshops, I was like, wow, it's like I got my yoga teacher certification like a couple or five years ago. And I was like, I felt lucky that I kind of knew how to breathe already. And I've seen it, I've seen so many times in workshop where a man will be in front of a woman and she'll just say, can you please breathe? Like, can you just, you're holding your breath and he literally just like changes as a man, everything drops. But just why, one, how do women know? And why is that so important? Because that's like just breathing, I feel like is some of the best advice like for everything, for life, for business, for, yeah. It's a very loaded question because breathing is really not important. But breathing is very important. And so why I'm saying breathing is not important is of course the human body knows how to breathe, right? When you look at a baby or you look at somebody in an indigenous culture or tribe, they will breathe very deeply, very relaxedly without any push whatsoever. And their body will automatically determine how much energy is needed and the breath will follow the body's natural need for oxygen. So that's how we are meant to be. So if I could bring you in a state where you're so relaxed that you're no longer clenched in certain ways, your body would dictate how you breathe and it would be the deepest breath necessary for your being to be as full and as aware and as alive and as present as it needs to be. So in that way, breath is not important because breath is already always happening in its most natural and perfect form. However, we are a tweaky bunch these days. And our breath patterns are influenced by our stress level and by many other, by what we wear, by, you know, surrounds that are more and less stressful. So most people are no longer in touch with natural breathing with free, relaxed, you know, breath patterns. So because of that, and because most of us have so much stressors in the body that the breath no longer functions like that, we have to learn how to breathe again. And the first step on how to learn how to breathe again for most people, there's other ways, some of which I'm currently exploring in what I'm teaching, but in the most prevalent way of how it's done is you teach somebody to take the kind of breaths that your body would take naturally if you were just relaxed enough. So what that means is belly breathing or breathing down deep into the pelvic area, breathing into the solar plexus, widening the relaxation on the front surface of the body. So that is why breath is so important. If you don't breathe, other than up here, it has a certain effect on a woman's body. So the effect that has on a woman's body is based on the knowledge that deep breath, deep relaxed breath is possible. So we know because how we know is that in any given situation, any woman who is not completely traumatized, clenched and fucked up, but even then will orient towards the most relaxed breath. And why is that for the... Well, it has to do with survival. It's a very old, essentially developmental thing. I don't know exactly what all the details of that are, but it's known and I can tell because I sometimes can't help but synchronize my breath with. It's not something that I do with a man who is a very deep and relaxed breather. And it's researched and whatever, but that's just the way it goes. So a woman walks into a room, she can tell in that whole room without knowing, I know what to look for because I'm trained, but a random woman off the street, you bring her in a room and you watch her and she will gravitate and also synchronize her breath with the most relaxed breather in the room. Now, of course, the most relaxed breather in the room is the man with the deepest breath, what a woman with the deepest breath, relaxed and deep. So why it's important for the sexual occasion is that when a woman orients towards a man's breath, she orients towards his body, his direction, his guidance because he is the deepest man in the room and that of course makes for the most pleasurable sexual engagement. And so what we try to replicate in workshops there is the estimation of what a deep relaxed breath feels like. Sadly, of course, in the beginning that deep relaxed breath is anything but relaxed. You know, guys are sounding like locomotives, but that's the step to get to a deep relaxed breath. And so that's why breathing is made such a big deal. And of course, you know, there's just physiological things when you breathe deeply, you can feel more deeply in yourself and another human. When you breathe deeply, you get more oxygen which makes you more ready to deal with what needs to be dealt. So there's all kinds of aspects of why a breathing is important, but those are all estimations for what should happen naturally. So when you meet on occasion, there's men like that and I've had the fortune of meeting a few. When you meet men who know nothing about any of this, but they're just deeply, deeply sourced, seeded human beings. They have never heard about breath and their breath is deep and relaxed. And that's of course the best thing. So why you learn how to breathe so you become that kind of a man. Yeah, what's your hypothesis on why just that there is so much shallower breathing? It's just the stress of the, you know, the Western world and the work and all the distractions. Well, it's a twofold thing. It's that, right? If you sit in a chair all day, your body is no longer used the way a body needs to be used. When you look at how humans were built, so to speak, right? There was a lot more activity, a lot more activity and a lot more rest. So early humans and humanoids spent vast amounts of time, you know, traveling for food purposes, you know, hunting or gathering later, but also huge amounts of time resting, completely resting. So we don't do either, you know? I mean, yeah, if you're good, you go to the gym an hour a day, but that's not really what your body's built for. Your body's built for several hours of, you know, smooth and easeful movement followed by quite a few hours of just laying around and sleeping and eating and having sex. So the shallow breath is a direct result of the constant constriction and tension in the body. But the other aspect, which is a more psychological aspect, of course, is that the more trauma of old or present trauma you have the less you're breathing. Once again, it's the constriction, but of course also anybody who's ever done breath practices once you start breathing with some depth and relax into your breath, all kinds of emotional shit comes up. And so most people don't want to feel that much. And hence they have worried even when they're told, you know, a taught breath instruction they don't want to feel that much. Yeah, so. Which is understandable, you know, but it's not the deepest expression of humanity you can be is when you can feel shit.