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Grit and Glory- Performance Culture Undressed is a podcast about the real price of excellence and what it means to define success on your own terms. Each episode brings a combined experience in physique sport, contact sport, and high-pressure professional life to conversations that are honest, embodied, and unafraid. Deane and Edwin two athletes, two insiders, one conversation that doesn’t pull punches.
In this Episode: The Relationship You Never Trained For with Lauren Watkins
Founder of Breath Is Medicine. Somatic guide, breathwork facilitator, and performance coach based in Washington D.C.
Most high performers learn how to override what their body is telling them. Often it becomes part of that performer’s identity. This is true for people in sports and in business. It’s a useful skill until it isn’t. Somewhere along the way the same override that got you to high levels of performance starts costing you the one relationship you thought came automatically installed, the relationship with your own breath. Lauren Watkins has spent the better part of a decade helping people find their way back into that relationship.
In this episode, Lauren walks us through the breath as a direct line into the nervous system, the difference between breathing through the mouth and the nose, and the practical consistency that separates a real practice from a one time class. We get into her own path into this work and the discovery of breath as a gateway back into her own intuition.
We spend real time on a thread that runs through so much of what we cover on this show, the way many of us chose competition as a solution to something that was never really about the sport, the band aid for the band aid, and what it costs to spend years, sometimes decades, overriding the body’s signals just to keep performing. Lauren offers a different frame entirely: a return to something more basic than any protocol. Know your body. Build your capacity for sensation slowly. Meet yourself where you actually are.
Toward the end, Lauren leaves us with a practical starting point anyone can use today, along with an invitation to join her weekly Wind Down Wednesday breath journey.
Learn more about Lauren’s work and her weekly, online Breath Journey – Wind Down Wednesday 8:30 - 9:45PM ET and a Free Sleep Guide.
https://www.breathismedicine.com/offers/Zpdti98L/checkout?coupon_code=GRITGLORY
Enjoy the conversation, and enjoy breathing.
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