There comes a point when your body begins to speak what your mind has long tried to override.
First with tension. Then fatigue. Then a deep dissonance between what you do and what you actually need.
I didn’t always know how to listen to my body.
For years I moved too fast: giving, pushing, overextending.
My body protested in the language of injury.
My breath stayed tight.
And still I thought, “I just need to try harder.”
But there’s a threshold where even your will can’t carry you.
And when I reached it, I collapsed; not only outwardly, but inwardly.
That collapse was the beginning of my return.
Yoga: The Body as a Portal
I was guided to yoga not through mysticism, but through a physiotherapist. It was meant to be physical rehab - for my knees, my posture, and for pain management.
But yoga, when practiced as it was intended, with presence, is not just movement sequence.
It is ritual.
It is remembrance.
It is breath braided with consciousness.
It wasn’t immediate. At first I resisted.
The stillness felt like torture.
But slowly, yoga began to soften me.
Not just physically - but neurologically, emotionally and energetically.
Modern science now echoes what the yogic sages of India have taught for millennia:
The breath regulates the nervous system. The body stores our stories. Healing begins not in the mind - but in the soma.
Yoga activates the parasympathetic nervous system, the rest-and-digest state, where repair becomes possible.
Studies confirm that regular yoga practice can reduce cortisol, calm hyperarousal, and even reshape brain function (see: Harvard Health, 2021; Stanford Center on Longevity, 2023).
But this is ancient knowledge.
Long before EEGs, the rishis of India, through deep meditative absorption (samadhi), taught that the body is a vessel, the breath a guide, and silence a doorway.
The Subconscious: Where Beliefs Hide
Even as my breath deepened and my body unwound, something still gripped me.
Tormenting thought patterns. Self-shaming mental scripts. Invisible inner noise.
That’s when I found hypnotherapy. And it must have been destined.
Its important to know that hypnotherapy is not the dramatized theatre of mind control that Hollywood has dreamed up, but rather the sacred healing technology of trance.
Hypnosis is simply the threshold state - between waking and sleeping, where the conscious mind softens and the subconscious becomes receptive.
Science describes this as a highly suggestible, theta-brainwave state (APA, 2024).
But across cultures - in Druidic circles, in Buddhist tonglen, in African spirit dances, in Mesoamerican rites - these states have been known as prayer, communion, divination and healing.
We enter trance not to lose control, but to remember what’s underneath it.
And in that state, I found what yoga had opened: the doorway.
Hypno-Yoga: A Ritual Technology
It wasn’t something I planned to create. It emerged.
As I taught yoga - layering in breathwork, asana, then hypnotic suggestion - people began to drop deeper.
They’d approach me after class, radiant and quiet, as if something long-held had just exhaled, asking, “What was that?”
I didn't know yet at the time, but what it was… is Hypno-Yoga.
A ritual technology born of need, intuition, and deep study.
We begin with breath, movement, and presence.
We descend into trance.
We plant new seeds in the fertile soil of the subconscious.
We rise re-patterned, reconnected, rewoven.
This is beyond the capabilities of mindset work. This is soul work - through the body.
The Invitation
If your breath has been shallow…
If your body is asking to slow down…
If something ancient in you remembers that there is another way -
You are invited.
To a 7-day sacred return - in Bali, the Island of the Gods.
Held in the jungle’s quiet heart - beneath forest canopy, beside waterfalls, in a sanctuary built with earth-honoring hands.
Rooted in ritual.
Woven with breath, trance, and movement.
This is not simply a retreat.
It’s a remembering.
And before you go - Pause with this
What has your body been trying to say?
What part of you is ready to exhale?
References & Further Reading:
American Psychological Association. “The science of hypnosis.” 2024.
Harvard Health Publishing. “Yoga benefits beyond the mat.” 2021.
Stanford Center on Longevity. “How yoga affects the brain and body.” 2023.
Mircea Eliade, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy