This week on the HUMINT podcast, Brain Mackenzie joins us! Brian is an innovator in human performance, stress adaptation, and a pioneer in the development and application of custom protocols to optimize health and performance. We talk about a wide range of subjects including psychedelics, meditation and breaking identity, and controlling stress on the physiological level using the breath. Make sure to listen in at the end to one of Brian's favorite quotes that will blow your mind. Cheers!

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Show Notes:
 
00:45 Brian Intro

03:18 The reason Shane got into breathwork

05:40 Brian’s introduction to breathwork

08:10 Gateway to Meditation & transcending reality using Breathwork vs psychedelics 

13:13 What drew you to psychedelics?  

17:36 Meditation and breaking identity 

26:00 Working through trauma & stress to strengthen the vessel and create freedom in your life

31:26 Controlling stress on the physiological level using the breath 

39:48 How can we monitor energy based on respiration? 

44:38 The evolution of human connection with nature

53:10 The importance of getting back into our body

58:56 Brian’s group events & where to find him

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Shane's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shane.hanner/
Brian's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_brianmackenzie/
Shift Adapt Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shift_adapt/
Shift Adapt Website: https://shiftadapt.com/

Welcome back to the HUMINT podcast! In this episode, I interviewed Emily Hightower who has over 25 years experience in helping others heal their mind & body through breathwork, yoga, and other holistic modalities. Her expertise is in the neurophysiology of trauma and resilience and she brings incredible perspective to internal transformation and human performance. We discussed the relationship between breath & trauma, unconscious vs conscious breathing, how breathwork can aide in self-realization, and her thoughts on various breathwork modalities that have gained popularity today. Enjoy!

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SHOW NOTES

00:05 How did Shane & Emily connect?

02:26 How Brian Mackenzie and Emily connected and what their workshop about the Skills of Stress was about

04:08 What’s the relationship between the breath and trauma?

05:24 Is the a physiological understanding of how using the breath is able to release traumatic signatures from the body?

10:43 Importance of breathing into the lower belly for experiencing deep joy & authentically expressing ourselves 

13:20 Meaning of “receiving the breath”

18:11 Panic attacks & anxiety with breathwork

25:31 “Stress bucket” principle 

30:30 Breath helps bringing the higher mind online: unconscious vs conscious breathing

37:01 Holotropic & Wim Hof methods vs deep breathing-style breathwork  

43:10 Practices to incorporate the breath in real-time, ie. archery 

53:10 Relationship between the breath and the mind, how practice with the breath can expand self-realization 

57:38 Where to find Emily & her programs

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Shane Hanner Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shane.hanner/

Emily's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/intrinsic_way/

Shift Adapt Website: https://shiftadapt.com/

I recently interviewed Steve James, host of the Guru Viking podcast, whose guests are some of the most incredible and authentic mediation and spirituality teachers living today,

We talk about meditation, Dzogchen, embodiment, trauma, and more...

00:00 Steves background
09:55 Steves Practice
14:00 Shane on meditation
18:13 Shanes background and Dzogchen Studies
21:32 Realizing Rigpa
25:24 What motivated Shane's spiritual seeking?
30:35 The War of Art
33:16 Why Meditate?
40:14 Steves Daily Process
42:35 What is Embodiment
45:32 Trauma & meditation
52:30 Embodiment & relationships

In this episode I speak with Rob Wilson about the incredible complexity and transformative potential of our most fundamental connection with life, the breath.

Ive been following Rob @preparetoperform and his counterpart @_brianmackenzie for years as they apply modern understandings of physiology, performance, and energy production to the techniques used in yogic & contemplative traditions that manipulate the breath as a means to transform the mind and body.  

This conversation spans a variety of related topics including assessing breath control capacity as a readiness and allostatic load (stress) gauge, the Wim Hoff method, energy system development, hyper-emotional states, connecting the body with the mind, shamanic foundations of modern techniques, near death experiences, and training for off-time vs real-time stress events. 

Im so pumped to share this episode with you.  Get your notepads out because theres a ton of incredible information packed in here.  

On this episode have Matt Wiedemer who has been in the human performance field for over 20 years. We get into Matts current role as Jon Jones S&C coach training, his training under world renown strength coach Louie Simmons of Westside Barbell, speed training,  dogmatic practices in the S&C industry,  General Physical Preparedness (GPP), posterior chain training, the myth of “sport specific” training, and so much more.

Shane and Corey dive into the esoteric aspects of intense Zen training and how that learned internal language translates into a deeper relationship with ones body and mind.

Muscle is an organ of performance & longevity. Understanding the evidence-based principles to build and maintain it are key to a maximizing our physical potential and well-being.  

In the first of this series of short segments, Shane and Tony define what Progressive Overload is and how to incorporate it into our training.  

"If you're not incorporating progressive overload then you're not training, you're just exercising." - Unknown Wise Sage

Stan is one of the most educated and well-spoken figures in the fitness and performance industry today.  He's been my primary mentor in this area for the past two years so naturally he had to be my first guest.

He is an IFBB Professional bodybuilder and World Record Holding Powerlifter, one of only 10 men in the world to ever total over 2,300 pounds raw in competition, and holds the title as the Worlds Strongest Bodybuilder.

Shane and Stan discuss the Vertical Diet, training Jon Jones, fatigue management, and ways to optimize mens sexual performance.