I know what this industry does to the mind.

I'm speaking to anyone who's carrying more than they let on. Whether you're at the bottom or just worn down, you might feel like no one really knows what you're going through. Without getting too far into the gritty details, here's mine.

I left home at 15 with hardly any stability or guidance. I lived with whoever would house me. Friends, distant family, homeless shelters. The streets were always open.

I met my first wife through the turmoil, and that gave me enough of a foothold to start working and to build something. I was offered a laboring job in construction through a neighbor of ours. At the time it was the only place that would hire me with the felonies I'd accumulated from being on my own. Construction wasn't my first choice. I watched guys get chewed up and spit out in a matter of days and leave for "easier work." For me, it was producing more money than I had ever made doing anything else, so I decided to stick with it and work my way up.

Just as I was gaining stability, a debt collector came knocking, looking for payment on old debts. Those debts came due in the form of prison time, executed by a district court judge. This came at a time when I had a family at home. That gave me the fire I needed to begin to turn things around, a reason outside of myself. From that point forward I began to get educated in personal development, and I made an agreement with myself that this was it.

After I was released, however, personal development study and court-ordered therapists only got me so far. Still dealing with life in general and the stresses of the construction industry, it wasn't enough. Not too much later, another debt collector came knocking. This collector came in the form of emotional debts. Years of trauma, the stress of being on the run from the law for years at a time, and emotions unfelt and never dealt with, all buried in the subconscious and in the body, ready to explode under the surface.

These all manifested in violent behavior, physical and emotional, anxiety attacks, broken relationships. The list went on. At the time, lacking awareness of what was really going on, I would blame these things on whatever was happening in that moment. I stayed quiet about it. Essentially suffering in silence, at a time when I thought I was growing from "personal development."

Fifteen years later, a divorce from my then wife led to another extreme low, which became the catalyst for me to find breathwork and yoga. That turning point carried a ripple effect through my life, and over the course of years and study it led me to where I am today.

I am here to share what I have learned. Many of these lessons took me years to figure out, in areas that might not seem to resonate at first sight, however life-changing they turn out to be. I deliver them in a way that is easy to understand and effective, cutting out the unnecessary parts of the teachings.

From my experience, what I feel is most powerful about breathwork and yoga is that it doesn't require you to sit and talk about your feelings or what you're going through. The only thing required is showing up to do the practice and staying consistent with it. The rest works on its own. See what you find from your own experience.