23/08/2026
Had a chance to sit down with Arjun Lal, renowned breathwork facilitator from Ujjayi Movement Studio, and ask him a bunch of questions specifically around breathwork for performance.
And we genuinely walked away thinking… how do we know so little about something we do 20,000+ times a day? 😅
One thing we loved learning was that breathwork isn’t necessarily meditation. Meditation is generally about training awareness, attention and our relationship with thoughts. Breathwork is the deliberate manipulation of how we breathe, the rate, rhythm, depth, pauses and nasal vs. mouth breathing to influence our physiology.
Different breathing techniques can influence CO2 tolerance, nervous system state, heart rate, perceived effort, recovery and our ability to regulate stress and arousal. Which means your breath can potentially be used very differently before training, during hard efforts, between intervals, after a workout, before sleep or even in the middle of a stressful day.
Some techniques can help up regulate you when you need energy and readiness. Others can help down regulate the system when you need to recover and calm down.
We are pleased to inform you that we are hosting Arjun Lal and Kavya Peerbhoy, at a Breathwork workshop on Aug 29-30 and Sep 5-6 at Academy Of Strength. DM us to get more details and sign up or find the link to sign up in the bio.