At Stanford, Andrew Keaveney was chairing the Buddhist Club and trying to meditate. He tried a dozen techniques and kept coming up short. Then he found Sky Breath Meditation and four years later he was living at the source of it, at an ashram in Bangalore, India figuring out why it worked when nothing else had.
In this conversation, Andrew shares how Sky Breath Meditation works with our physiology rather than against it, using the documented relationship between breath patterns and emotional states to bring the nervous system into alignment from the inside out. We get into what the research actually shows, how it fits alongside 12-step work, psychedelic integration, and traditional clinical care, and why it doesn’t ask you to believe anything different than you already do.
What separates Sky Breath from other meditation techniques and why it’s the most studied breathwork protocol today
How the breath-emotion connection works, and what a scientific study revealed about running it in reverse
Why Andrew & I believe addiction is about identity and what it takes to get underneath it
What a person in recovery said Sky Breath gave him that nothing else had: choice - in the moment before the decision
Website: artofliving.org | Recovery-specific: skyrecovery.org
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With Blessings,
Randal
