THE RESET

So. Something is getting between your team and their best work.

Maybe it's the pace of business. 
Maybe it's burnout. 
Maybe it's a kind of friction that used to feel productive but doesn't anymore.

And I'm telling you a morning with a breathwork facilitator can reset that.

You may have questions. Starting with...

What the hell is breathwork anyway?

At its simplest — it's an active breathing technique.

Physical work. Intentional, rhythmic, and sustained.

We use tension and release, carefully chosen music, and sometimes sound to help carry you through.

The effect — consistently and reliably — is a kind of breaking through. The mental noise that's been running the show gets overwhelmed rather than quieted. And in the space it leaves, something more essential gets access to the surface.

And what follows — ten, maybe fifteen minutes of the deepest rest most people have experienced since — well maybe ever.

Some people call this a psychedelic practice without the drugs. 

In terms of the altered state it can produce, that's not entirely wrong. But what I find most remarkable — and most useful — isn't where it takes you. It's what it leaves you with afterward.

Most people experience a residual charge in the body.
A tingling.
A buzzing.
A feeling of being genuinely present in your own skin in a way that's hard to manufacture any other way.

What does the morning look like?

We begin with a discussion. For two reasons.

First — I need to teach you the breathing method before anyone lies down. You'll know exactly what you're doing before you do it. No surprises.

But also — and this matters — to find out what's actually present in the room. What's alive in this particular group on this particular day.
We're not breathing to escape what's there.
We're breathing directly into it. 

Then you'll pair up with a colleague. One of you will breathe. The other will give their complete attention to their partner — present, engaged, no phone, no email, no agenda. Choosing again and again to stay with this person, even in a room full of other partnerships and other breathers.

Then, after a break, you switch.

This isn't a trust exercise.
It's a happening.
An authentic exchange.
And it follows you back into the work.

Being that present for someone is the same muscle you need to be present for someone's half formed idea.
The same quality of attention.
The same willingness to let it get better without having to make it yours.

Most teams have never been asked to develop that skill explicitly.

This does it. In a single morning.

Every member of your team leaves with something real. 

A practice you can use. Five minutes that works just as well under your desk before a difficult meeting as it does at 3am when sleep won't come. Yours to keep. Yours to use.

The experience of having given your complete attention to someone and received theirs in return. Which changes how you show up both one on one and as a member of the team.

And something harder to name but something very real — a felt sense of your own energy. Maybe you felt that buzzing. Maybe it's something you felt while your partner was breathing, being present in a new way.

And you will have done thirty minutes of solid, active breathing. And, I kid you not, that’s enough to feel deeply, and completely...reset.

Let’s talk.

914.643.7355
benmacbrown@gmail.com

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