Hello breath seeker!

First of all, thank you so much for checking out Aria Breath, I hope you enjoy exploring the video explainers, downloads, and music samples that we have here on the site!

The scientific findings we outline here are no doubt astonishing… but they are only half of the reason to practice… science, and ideas in general, can only take us so far.

The truth is, as a culture, we have an obsession with objective (“measurable”) reality – the world of fact, when really, our subjective (“lived”) experience – the world of feeling, is the only thing that matters. After all, it’s the only reality we’ll ever know.

One day, in my early twenties, I woke up with a terrible pain in both of my knees. Being young and healthy, I did nothing about it for weeks and hoped (assumed!) it would go away.

It didn’t.

Instead, it spread to my ankles, hips and lower back.

Even now, over a decade later, I experience this chronic pain on a daily basis. It affects my energy, mood, and mobility and has meant that many of the things I enjoy most in life have been greatly diminished.

It’s not something that is often talked about, but chronic pain affects everything in your life, from your personal relationships to your ability to work. And when the cause is a mystery, which for many people it is, it’s easy to become despondent. But it can also become a teacher.

This might sound crazy… but even now, if I had a magic wand, I’m not sure I would change the history of this experience…

After doctors were zero help… and physio didn’t work… and medication was a disappointment, I turned to meditation as a last resort.

And it changed everything.

What I found went beyond just a relaxation technique, it taught me a new way of approaching my own, unwelcome, reality. One that coached kindness and curiosity to my real-time experience. With no other options, I threw myself into it fully.

The only problem was, I have a very hyperactive mind (the cost of being a “creative type”!), so sitting for hours in formal meditation didn’t just make the pain worse, but the level of steady concentration required was something I found next to impossible. An experience shared by many!

Although I was a passionate meditator, it wasn’t until I combined my practice with breathwork whilst researching my fourth book that I really began to experience seismic changes in my experience... And so began an obsession that has become a life’s work!

Breathwork has allowed me to shift state, alter mood, and control my levels of concentration in a way that mindfulness alone never did.

As well as being a wonderful thing to explore, and a journey that has led to many of my most rewarding friendships, breathwork has been a comfort and a guide to me – it is my honour to be able to share it with you!

I began this concept, researched the researchers, and curated this library of art, music, and knowledge with love and care, over many years because I knew that it could one day genuinely change people’s lives, as it has done for me.

It has become the service that I wish I had had access to at the beginning of my own journey – I’d have got to where I am a lot quicker if it was!

It is my sincere wish that Aria Breath will create for you the peace, pleasure, and respite that these tracks and techniques have given me over the years of researching and testing them.

Wishing you all the best, wherever your journey takes you,

Tom