I'm so broke I sometimes take a deep breath for breakfast.

"I have a buddy who breathes" -Joe Rogan

This man was clearly in his element. He was talking about what he loved and he was excited about it.

I’ve been realizing how much breathing and the type of breathing affects everything in your life! Just focus on your breathing when you’re scared, angry, anxious etc. I’ve noticed that sometimes I would literally be taking short breaths and that would create an uncomfortable feeling in my body as soon as I started taking deep breathes, that feeling was gone. Meditate people! It will change your life.

you were nose breathing and trying to relax while watching this video

Joe Rogan thank you for your podcasts . They have changed my life . Having something to watch daily that is good fir the mind, body , and soul is a true rarity in the history of all media

Tumo was used by the Dalai Lama and his party to keep warm while escaping the Communists across the Himalayas from Tibet in 1959 . . .

Quote of the century: "There's always another twist to the pretzel."

That sucking organs thing is called Uddiyana Bandha, if anyone's curious. The only yoga excersise I do, almost every morning. Highly recommended, it trains abdominal muscles that no ab work will ever excersise.

I did 2 hrs a day of pranayama (breathing) for one month. Learned these very old exercises to expand lung capacity and engage pelvic floor. All that flat stomach vanity breathing is what what was messing me up. After about 4 days didn't want my coffee, sugar or my vices, healthy intenstines, sleeping better,. Everything started to change. And now I'm covid lasy, not breathing, back on my vices.... But 100% agree with what this guy is saying. Getting more oxygen into our cells is life changing both physically and mentally.

Surfer Henry Rollins

*I think he just spoke for like 13 minutes without breathing!*

the abdominal thing is nauli, which is very difficult ! so good to hear breathwork being discussed here ! breathwork is a standard routine for pilates / yoga practitioners, dancers, singers, theatre actors... just like practising scales for a pianist : it doesn’t get any mention but it’s fundamental.

Some years ago my Chinese Tai Chi instructor and I attended a Still Point Meditation seminar in my town. It involved a rapid connected breath. I had done it several times myself and would often fall into the "still point". There would be no breath for several minutes. You were not holding your breath but were completely relaxed. There were about 20 people at the seminar. Most achieved some level of the still point. My instructor kept lying there. Everybody was leaving but he was still there. He kept looking at his watch. He knew he was not breathing and wondered how long this would go on. He did not breath for 30 minutes.

Big bong hits are my preferred method of big breaths.

I absolutely love it when someone manages to out blather joe. ‘Tis rare.

awesome vid. let me just clarify that in freediving we don NOT teach hyperventilation as a preparation for the dive. In fact, we do the opposite. We teach RELAXATION, get the student as calm as possible to have to best possible experience under water. Hyperventilation was used in the early days of freedivingn, but not anymore. thanks

The Technique Rickson Gracie uses is a yoga process known as “Nauli Kriya” it is a purification process. There are multiple stages and ways of using the technique that all effect the system differently. Pranams 🙏🏻

Good stuff - this should be taught in grade school, and practiced from grade school on.

As Elliott Hulse says, 'Breathe into your BAAALLLSSSS!'

Laird is a Will Forte character

Bringing in amazing guests and let them talk, being respectful and being engaged in the conversation, talking only when needed. That’s all it takes to make a good show, and Joe understood that better than anyone else. He has the success he deserves

The Buddha chose the breath as his mediatation object when he became enlightened. Thus conscious breathing is a key to absolute serenity and contentment.

Hey Joe! This interview is a gold mine for breathing man! Thank you for bringing him to your show! The breathwork technique he is talking about... wow thanks man.

I like this guy, he talks more then Joe Rogan.

Great conversation! Lots of pearls here, listen to the entire podcast.

Laird Hamilton looks good af at 55 years old! 💪

Always love these. Learn something about my body every time. Thx fellas

Just did breath work for the first time a few weeks ago and it changed my life. More people to learn about this.

Is this the puppet from Team America?

Love Laird, always true to himself. And always an enthusiastic Great Dane puppy.

I loved this bit, thank you for posting it. I didn't know anything about Tummo Breathing/Meditation. Thank you thank you thank you!

If you want to expand your energy - and increase both your mental and physical stamina to a noticably higher level, I most highly recommend you get the book, 'The Five Tibetans' ~ Christopher Kilham , and do the exercises and breathing as described. In a short space of time (a week or two) you will feel how well they work. * You won't be disappointed, I promise you !

If you research the science and biology behind this its actually quite fascinating. Its also part of a lot of other activities like yoga, meditation etc. Amazing part was with breath you change your chemical composition in your body and activate different parts of your brain and nervous system (parasympathetic on exhalation) . This is actually backed by some serious research.

0:51 perfect translation thanks for clearing that one up

Uddiyana Bandha 11:40 It's a great exercise for longevity!

Joe: you ever hold your breath for like 7 hours? Laird: yeah, oh yeah!

Laird has the same communicative style and intensity as Henry Rollins. Even a similar accent.

Definitely checking this full podcast out

This was great,,,,needed to hear/learn/reaffirm this.

Totally true. I learnt how to meditate and use breathing exercises on Saturday two days before my exams started and it dealt with all the stress and anxiety.

"There's always another twist to the pretzel". Wise words.

I can attest this stuff does work, stress levels were crazy high during the height of the quarantine and now I’ve never felt better

I love how excited laird is when he speaks 💕

0:55- i dont know what sorcery this is. But ive replayed it at least 5 times before time stamping it.

I heard about Tumo over 25 years ago. Only then i heard that the guy who dried the most sheets would also be floating 1 feet of the ground.

I Love this talk! Just because something is aesthetically pleasing doesn’t make it functional! Boom 💥 Looks don’t make the person - Breathwork is a Full Body Experience and we all need to work on optimizing it! 🌬

Really enjoyed listening to this amazing athlete.

“There’s always another twist to the pretzel.” - best closing ever

Concept is bringing awareness to the body, it’s easy to get stuck in the mind but we must remember we are temporarily both the body and the mind. Find what brings awareness to the body whether it be breathework, sports or something else and that’s the what will bring you inner joy

One deep breath through the noise and I feel better already 😊

Thr name of that breath-work technique Rickson Gracie talked about is "agnisara dhauti" fire wash - a powerful method of pranayana.

11:30, that organ massage is called Nauli. good stuff

Actually the feeling of light headedness comes from a form of O2 deprevation at a cellular level because CO2 has a function in O2 absorption, hyperventilating scrubs most of the CO2... (patrick mckeown oxygen advantage) but it's still beneficial to do breathwork, both for performance and emotional healing.

Great interview! Thanks!

I do this for anxiety and anger as well. Or sadness. Just focus on my breathing and try to clear my mind and just calm my body / mind. It would be more effective if I gave it more than a minute or so but I'm impatient so I do just enough to feel the benefit and then go about my business.

So glad to see him have Laird on finally!

Joe: well you know Abraham Lincoln used to perform breathwork Laird: mhm he's a friend he visits from time to time 😂😂

So glad this was recommended to me.

11:29 It's Nauli Kriya. All the kriyas are cleansing practices, this is one is for the visceral organs, but there are other for the nose(sinus) and eyes, for example. You can practice Uddiyana Bandha - it literally means 'flying upwards' - and any other of the bandhas first to get used to it. Pranayama means 'the breath of life' and so it refers to the breathing exercises. Great clip as always, thanks Joe.

It's weird I am just experimenting on my own with 1 min exercise, 5 min breathing stuff... and this pops up in my recommended. Thanks!

Breathing is not just about getting O2 into your body and exhaling CO2. There is the prana which is using the breath as a vehicle. Which is what that keeps you alive. The life force or Prana. Breathing is not just the physical..

Very informative n interesting! Glad I watched this, I just started doing yoga so this is very helpful. I wanna do martial arts too one day soon.

Take a deep Breath is a good channel, thanks for the podcast😀

“There’s always a different twist to the pretzel” 🥨

I've saw a show where they had infrared cameras trained on a monk who voluntarily raised his body temperature through breathing/meditation.

Thanks

Thank you ❤

last sentence of the clip: “there’s always another twist to the pretzel” 😂

JRE is Mr Rogers neighborhood for adults

Entertaining fasho! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 Thanks Joe

thank you

Ever since I started using my nose to breathe I’ve been able to do incredible things like breathe underwater and levitate.

Who else was breathing weird while watching this trying to apply what they say 😂

Very Insightful. Didn't Know any of this.

That's great training.

Underated content! Cheers!

"Any movement in an area, that's in and out, is a form of breath work." Frantically loads up 3 ft bong😆

I've read books on different breathing techniques from Tibet and India. A lot of the techniques leave me feeling a bit strange after. The only thing I've done that helps is 5.5-6 breaths a minute. So basically 5 seconds in 5 seconds out. Belly breaths. Helps with a lot of things, especially stress and sometimes even inflammatory issues I have.

Deffo need to listen to this podcast. This stuff is super interesting to me

One of tai chi aspects is breathing through the nose calmy and deeply and with an awareness

As far as i've heard from survival experts, the reason you get breath shock when jumping into ice cold water isn't to make you jump back out. It's to make you go unconscious as fast as possible. This way you won't drown, and it puts your body in a state to weather the lack of oxygen without suffering brain damage. Apparently, it's part of the reason people can fall through the ice go for an extended period before being revived without suffering any permanent brain damage.

listening to Laird for health and fitness advice is like Sean Penn giving advice about handling crisis situations

It’s very nice to hear someone talk about an organ as a possible muscle that needs and wants to be worked out for a change U may think people do but the never train it

Laird "theres always another twist to the pretzel" Hamilton

You should get Jon Krakauer on the podcast. Aside from all his adventures and books he's definitely had some "breath work" type experiences like on Everest.

After 40 years of exercise and being a physician I just learned that when I get to the gym tired or weak the way to resolve that feeling is breathing exercises. I start by holding my breath and get a baseline time. WHich is always significantly less than my high time of 120 seconds. Usually I find it is only at 20 seconds but after a few minutes of breathing exercises I'm at 90 seconds but more importantly I'm oxygenation my blood. End result is I feel great after entering the gym feeling like shit...easy...try it. Just hold breath but when exhaling get all your CO2out.Its toxic.

I do breath holding after workouts. As soon as I finish my run I breathe out completely through my nose and then hold my breath for as many steps as I can. I take a break of about 30 seconds to a minute then hold my breath again. I keep repeating until I can hold my breath comfortably (on empty lungs) for about 25 - 30 steps. It has made a huge difference in my cardio and also my recovery is much more rapid. Read 'The Oxygen Advantage' to understand why.

Who has just gotten light headed from trying to do a whole bunch of different breathing while watching this? hahahahahah

I learned this breathing method in Qigong....

that's absolutely breathtaking

It does help I started doing it 6 weeks back

Good Lord.... Calm down Laird... Just breathe man

I've been doing the WHM for 3* years, on and off, magnificent stuff, changed my life

Its true what he says about the abs ive lost my six pack training my breathing and fixing my back problems. I have all the core stability now but without the blocky tight abs anymore

This is really amazing.

All I got from this was that there is always another twist to the pretzel

It's entirely possible that a buddy of mine breathes through his nose.

This is similar or an offshoot or a watered down version to what we call Pranayama, the proper way practiced by Ancient Rishis/Yogis thousands of years back , it's best to learn from the source itself. The goal of Pranayama, which means to suspend the breath, is the practice of Kumbhaka or retention that's the essence breath retention it unties the granthis along the spine enabling kundalini to flow freely and slows down most metabolic processes especially the heart rate, which is how Yogis are able to live such long healthy lives.

amazing never really thought about it