Field notes

What's actually
happening in there.

Short, plain notes on the mechanics behind the practice — no mysticism required to find them interesting.

PHYSIOLOGY

Why holding your breath on purpose isn't the same as panic

Intermittent hypoxia — short, controlled dips in oxygen — trains the body's response to stress rather than just triggering it. The difference is the "on purpose" part.

CELLULAR

Mitochondria don't care that you meant to relax

A look at how breath-driven oxygen fluctuation appears to prompt mitochondrial adaptation — the same cellular machinery altitude training leans on.

NEUROSCIENCE

Neural complexity, or: why the same breath pattern never feels identical twice

Notes on why altered-state breathwork produces such varied subjective experience session to session, and why that's a feature, not noise.

FIELD REPORT

Running the first club session — what actually happened

A plain account of facilitating breathwork, guided with music, for a running club after a long Sunday effort, including the bits that didn't go to plan.

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