If you want to learn more specific breathwork and mindfulness techniques, then get my NEW free 15-day breathwork course here: kitarowaga.kit.com/15-day-breathwork-course
OK, this is interesting. You’re the first person I’ve come across to a) acknowledge that both heat and cold stress are hormetic stresses and follow the ‘upside down U’, but more interesting still, you b) point out that the stress with an ice bath is front-loaded and immediate, yet it’s very much back-loaded in a sauna. You’re the first person I’m aware of to elucidate that distinction 👊🏻
Kitaro, you changend the way I look at this great Method. I'm from Germany, so please don't judge me for my terrible english. I used to start the Method 2 years ago with some interruptions. When I started It increased my energy levels extreme and my emotions where not as overwhelming as before. It also hepled me to get rid of my panic attacks. But as someone who tends to a unhealthy desire for perfection, I started to track my breathholds an was focused on the tingeling an the "high" feeling after the retention time. I started to get really sad and angry because I wasn't able to enjoy the sessions anymore. Thats wy this video defenetly changed the way how I will performe this Method in the future. Thank you Kitaro, your videos changed the way how I see it as a whole. Keep going my friend. I love your videos! Keep breathing and greetings from Germany :)
So much value... massive respect to you my man, i think you're an absolutely amazing dude! You deserve all the success you get🙌 all the best to you and yours... 🎉❤😊
your videos bring me life, thank you so so much Kitaro. you are to me the most down to earth and authentically sharing true experience without extra fluff to sell something. you honestly give me hope and I share your videos with a lot of my friends as I recommend anyone who enjoys Kitaro's work do as well. don't give the RUclips algorithm all the power, actually share this with people you love!!!
The 5 power principles is a very good video. Well done on how you explain your PAUSE framework. The explanation of the unmet needs at 5:40 was very necessary for me and very valuable.
I've always felt this way. I've done the wim hof method for about 7 years. I've done qi qong and yoga for about 14 years. Just started tummo a few months ago. There are all tools, and im 43, and I'll be learning new toops until i pass to the next dimension.
This video is Fascinating! I feel if I employ some of the things you talk about, I will become a more balanced human being. Thank you for sharing this!🙏
Thank you. One of the big strength of the WH method is that it’s as SIMPLE as powerful. Even if what you try to give us seems to be very interesting, it’s seems very complicate and confusing for me … I hope that I’ll find the time to watch the video a second time, but at the first listening, I’m lost (unfortunately, I’m French speaker and my English is far from perfect)…
it's rare for me to comment, but i want to thank you for your content, which gave me the "eureka" moment for an issue i was trying to solve. This video goes straight to my favs 👍
What a pleasure it is Kitaro to watch your videos and to learn from you. I hope to one day be able to participate in a class of yours face to face in person 🙏
Fantastic breakdown. You really show the depths ( or heights ) which one may delve into a practice. Plateauing is a tough one as life's challenges can get in the way of remaining on top of practices. Thanks for your insight !
I love what you're sharing here because I've been practicing this for some time ever since I was a little kid. If we choose adversities that are a bit more difficult than what happened to us randomly and spontaneously in life then it is a bit easier to flow and manage stress in how we either react or respond to situations and the people involved in them. 🙏✨️✨️✨️💖
This is one of your best videos and insights thus far. The ‘drawing’ of the wider picture is still sinking in. keep at it, you enrich the fewer with great insight
Saving this to watch later. I am immensely grateful to have found your work, your breathwork sessions are on a whole other level - I first reached the 2 minute retention with your sessions and they really helped me through a period of processing grief too. Here’s to your continued rising and success! Thank you ☺️
Maybe two years ago, after having practiced the cold exposure for a couple of years, I discovered your videos teaching Wim Hof breathing and with their help added it to my routine. After a period of sticking close to your instructions, I found myself being moved to experiment with the technique such that a remarkable spontaneous sequence of changes in my way of practicing unfolded and produced an ever-expanding experience wherein one new wrinkle after another introduced itself in a continuing flow from one paradigm to the next. It continues to be a fascinating adventure as the body seems to know intuitively how to build on the benefits of each successive change. Thank you, Kitaro Waga, for your help in launching me on this marvelous journey! Your way of teaching inspires calm confidence.
Mix the following ingredients for access to amazing healing and tibetan monk abilities 1. Morning cold water exposure between 3-5am 2. Intermittent fasting 3. Deep mindful meditation 1 hr plus with a focus on heart mind coherence 4. Kundalini Awakening meditation 5. Finding a spiritual practice that involves service to those suffering more than yourself 6.use acceptance to harmonize the chaotic energies released from the previous 5 steps. If you do this you will become something new.
I'm a WHM instructor myself and agree that mindfulness in the official Wim Hof method teaching can seem to come a little short - it's in there though. For me Vipassana meditation practice adds that element wonderfully. But Wim Hof brings that daily power and these incredible health benefits 🙏🏻
“The mindset protocol” as Wim always meant it, awareness, will soon be added to the syllabus - it has actually always been there. Wim talks about awareness, intention, trusting the bodies wisdom, life intelligence EVERYWHERE 🤷🏻♂️ - we now structured this in a protocol and is even much simpler than explained here 😉
@ This is amazing news! I'm very glad you'll include mindfulness in a structured way into the method, Wim Hof style. For the purpose- and intellectual-minded the depth will become even clearer that way 🤙🏻
@@bennubreath - exaclty - we are in-structors - We put in a structure that intellectual minded people can apply step by step and gives them the experience from this pathway too.
Thanks for the great content....this is worth watching again, to absorb all your info. I'll be checking out your 15 day course. Been doing WH breathing daily along w/ cold finish shower for about 5 years now. Definitely plateaued but I'm 64 so not sure how much further I'm looking to go....I'll let you show me new techniques and go from there.
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You are like a good friend I can only listen to ❤ I’ve known that heat is also a stressor but I haven’t thought sauna as a place to train your resilience to heat stress (now, it seems obvious)
Evolution and change are a constant. So moving onwards, leave the WHM academy and widening the path… is good ;-) I will continue being a follower of your content.
Hi 👋 thanks for the video. Quick question: do you do the Tummo breath/Wim Hof breath by breathing in through your nose and out of the mouth, or do you do the inhale and exhale through the mouth as Wim Hof has shown? I've been doing it ~3 hours before bed to help drop my heart rate lower as I sleep. Though I don't necessarily sleep great, my heart rate drops quite low, which is good. Anyway, thanks for any feedback!
I inhale through the nose. There are rare cases where I inhale through the mouth. I wouldn't recommend the WHM in the evening. Try coherence breathing instead. I have a free 15-day breathwork course where I guide you through different breathing techniques.
@KitaroWaga Thanks ✌️ Yes, I agree WHM isn't great in the evening, but it seems to be working for lowering my HR when I finally do goto sleep. I'll check out Coherence Breathing 👍
Kitaro, with all do respect - I teach the WHM at the Academy - a lot of things you’re saying here that supposedly are missing, are simply not true; eg about the breathing technique (awareness is key in doing the breathwork begore, while and after; more precisely to reawaken life intelligence and intention) - Interoception was studied in MRI studies of 2024 - The meaning of breathing in WHM has the deeper goal of reawakening gut feeling/heart voice (mindfulness) etc etc etc - WHM breathing phase = hormetic stress - WHM retention phase = becoming aware of “just being” and doing absolutely nothing - Looks like you were not up to date at all. - Awareness before the breathwork, deep intention to reawaken Life Force as Wim says, before the breathing, to do it mindfully with intention, is all part of the WHM breathing. -
Kitaro, the Mindset pillar (wim calls it the science of your soul) IS the deep and infinite foundation where the Breathing and the cold exposure are rooted in. It deals with Life intelligence, awareness, recognition of infinite consciousness and unconditional love that is already there and needs to be recognised and dis-covered with the breathing and the cold exposure - Or you never truelly understood the Mindset pillar of the WHM, or you deny that it has always been there. - The WHM is definitely enough if you understand the Mindset pillar … - As well the breathing as the cold exposure are hormetic stressors. - It has been studied and detected in the brain (insula and ACC) in the brain (interoception) en in the executive networks (orbitofrontal cortex) - No problem with you sharing your idea’s with your metaphores and frameworks, but just don’t deny as if the WHM misses these parts (HEIR = hormetic enhanced Interoceptive refocusing was studied because of the WHM) - The insights of the WHM mindset part are life changing already, even without the breathing and the cold. - The breathing and cold are the tools to reawaken and reactivate this body intelligence & Life activation consciously. - Eg the retention phase has the goal (set up front) to experience the deeper being (by doing nothing, not even breathing) and just being with whatever arises (physical symptoms, emotions, etc) - Or you never understood the Mindset Pillar, or you are consciously and supposedly “adding” things that were not there. 🤷🏻♂️ - up to you. - So please, teach your things the way you want after your WHM period. But don’t pretend or act like this is absent within the WHM … - I’ve learned nothing new and can add a lot more stuff to breathing mechanics (eg understanding “surfactant function in the alveoli” with deep breathing and so much more. - WHM = conscious, diafragmatic breathing in one fluid motion. 🤷🏻♂️
The WHM néver went about “tolerating the cold” and “holding the breath” longer … If you were a WHM instructor, you should know this back than too. - So no, you didn’t add “awareness” and “consciousness” to the WHM, the whole mindset pillar of the WHM deals with awareness, recognition of Life intelligence and life power that just need to be reawakened by the breath and the cold (which are both hormetic stressor) … - All these things are integral parts of the WHM 🤷🏻♂️
Thank you for this. I know if you were not aware you could not go this far 🙏 What breath work method you recommend for sleep? I feel my body is too hot to fall a sleep. Thank you.
I think many guys like you - who have always been in the sports / practices - go wild about WF who has never been in there up untill a certain age and even now looks like he is an addict... ))) But life is life ! Let go, Kitaro! Invent your own method instead of earning on someone else's ...
🤷🏻♂️ - it’s just a conscious reinforcement of the inhale that is already happening by our innate life force (you also breath in your sleep) - the exhale is just letting go!
If you want to learn more specific breathwork and mindfulness techniques, then get my NEW free 15-day breathwork course here: kitarowaga.kit.com/15-day-breathwork-course
I’m happy you exist
OK, this is interesting. You’re the first person I’ve come across to a) acknowledge that both heat and cold stress are hormetic stresses and follow the ‘upside down U’, but more interesting still, you b) point out that the stress with an ice bath is front-loaded and immediate, yet it’s very much back-loaded in a sauna. You’re the first person I’m aware of to elucidate that distinction 👊🏻
Kitaro, you are a teacher of mine in your own right. It takes nothing away from Wim and my other teachers.
Thank you for your work.
Kitaro, you changend the way I look at this great Method. I'm from Germany, so please don't judge me for my terrible english. I used to start the Method 2 years ago with some interruptions. When I started It increased my energy levels extreme and my emotions where not as overwhelming as before. It also hepled me to get rid of my panic attacks. But as someone who tends to a unhealthy desire for perfection, I started to track my breathholds an was focused on the tingeling an the "high" feeling after the retention time. I started to get really sad and angry because I wasn't able to enjoy the sessions anymore. Thats wy this video defenetly changed the way how I will performe this Method in the future. Thank you Kitaro, your videos changed the way how I see it as a whole. Keep going my friend. I love your videos! Keep breathing and greetings from Germany :)
So much value... massive respect to you my man, i think you're an absolutely amazing dude! You deserve all the success you get🙌 all the best to you and yours... 🎉❤😊
You rock! Thanks for the great comment! Thanks for watching
your videos bring me life, thank you so so much Kitaro. you are to me the most down to earth and authentically sharing true experience without extra fluff to sell something. you honestly give me hope and I share your videos with a lot of my friends as I recommend anyone who enjoys Kitaro's work do as well. don't give the RUclips algorithm all the power, actually share this with people you love!!!
Your two arrows metaphors is what I wrote about in The Wedge as well. Glad you are still here.
Two of my favorite ex-WHM RUclipsrs
The 5 power principles is a very good video. Well done on how you explain your PAUSE framework. The explanation of the unmet needs at 5:40 was very necessary for me and very valuable.
I've always felt this way. I've done the wim hof method for about 7 years. I've done qi qong and yoga for about 14 years. Just started tummo a few months ago. There are all tools, and im 43, and I'll be learning new toops until i pass to the next dimension.
Challenging for me but really blissful in the end. Thanks Kitaro for this.
Your voice is already so calming! So nicely explained!
This video is Fascinating! I feel if I employ some of the things you talk about, I will become a more balanced human being. Thank you for sharing this!🙏
Thank you for helping me through my mornings every single month. You are so special to so many! ✨
Thank you. One of the big strength of the WH method is that it’s as SIMPLE as powerful. Even if what you try to give us seems to be very interesting, it’s seems very complicate and confusing for me … I hope that I’ll find the time to watch the video a second time, but at the first listening, I’m lost (unfortunately, I’m French speaker and my English is far from perfect)…
it's rare for me to comment, but i want to thank you for your content, which gave me the "eureka" moment for an issue i was trying to solve. This video goes straight to my favs 👍
What a pleasure it is Kitaro to watch your videos and to learn from you. I hope to one day be able to participate in a class of yours face to face in person 🙏
Fantastic breakdown. You really show the depths ( or heights ) which one may delve into a practice. Plateauing is a tough one as life's challenges can get in the way of remaining on top of practices. Thanks for your insight !
I love what you're sharing here because I've been practicing this for some time ever since I was a little kid. If we choose adversities that are a bit more difficult than what happened to us randomly and spontaneously in life then it is a bit easier to flow and manage stress in how we either react or respond to situations and the people involved in them. 🙏✨️✨️✨️💖
This is one of your best videos and insights thus far. The ‘drawing’ of the wider picture is still sinking in. keep at it, you enrich the fewer with great insight
Keep moving us forward, Kitaro. 🙏🏽
Yet another well done video you made Kitaro, with excellent content. Great explanations and helpful frameworks. Thank you
Anyone else believe this guy could become a Jedi?
I thought he already was.
The padiwan becomes the master and now hes is doing the mind trick with the hand gestures and everything 😮
Saving this to watch later. I am immensely grateful to have found your work, your breathwork sessions are on a whole other level - I first reached the 2 minute retention with your sessions and they really helped me through a period of processing grief too. Here’s to your continued rising and success! Thank you ☺️
Thank you for your kind words. And I'm glad that my sessions or helpful for you.
Maybe two years ago, after having practiced the cold exposure for a couple of years, I discovered your videos teaching Wim Hof breathing and with their help added it to my routine. After a period of sticking close to your instructions, I found myself being moved to experiment with the technique such that a remarkable spontaneous sequence of changes in my way of practicing unfolded and produced an ever-expanding experience wherein one new wrinkle after another introduced itself in a continuing flow from one paradigm to the next. It continues to be a fascinating adventure as the body seems to know intuitively how to build on the benefits of each successive change. Thank you, Kitaro Waga, for your help in launching me on this marvelous journey! Your way of teaching inspires calm confidence.
Mix the following ingredients for access to amazing healing and tibetan monk abilities
1. Morning cold water exposure between 3-5am
2. Intermittent fasting
3. Deep mindful meditation 1 hr plus with a focus on heart mind coherence
4. Kundalini Awakening meditation
5. Finding a spiritual practice that involves service to those suffering more than yourself
6.use acceptance to harmonize the chaotic energies released from the previous 5 steps.
If you do this you will become something new.
Thank you, I am grateful ☯️🙏
I'm a WHM instructor myself and agree that mindfulness in the official Wim Hof method teaching can seem to come a little short - it's in there though. For me Vipassana meditation practice adds that element wonderfully. But Wim Hof brings that daily power and these incredible health benefits 🙏🏻
“The mindset protocol” as Wim always meant it, awareness, will soon be added to the syllabus - it has actually always been there. Wim talks about awareness, intention, trusting the bodies wisdom, life intelligence EVERYWHERE 🤷🏻♂️ - we now structured this in a protocol and is even much simpler than explained here 😉
@ This is amazing news! I'm very glad you'll include mindfulness in a structured way into the method, Wim Hof style. For the purpose- and intellectual-minded the depth will become even clearer that way 🤙🏻
@@bennubreath - exaclty - we are in-structors - We put in a structure that intellectual minded people can apply step by step and gives them the experience from this pathway too.
Mi Amigo Kitaro thank you!! 🙏Much Love 🙋🏻
It’s great to understand the breakdown of this, thank you, you are an inspiration ❤
Thank you for everything you do Kitaro
My pleasure!
Thanks for the great content....this is worth watching again, to absorb all your info. I'll be checking out your 15 day course. Been doing WH breathing daily along w/ cold finish shower for about 5 years now. Definitely plateaued but I'm 64 so not sure how much further I'm looking to go....I'll let you show me new techniques and go from there.
You are like a good friend I can only listen to ❤ I’ve known that heat is also a stressor but I haven’t thought sauna as a place to train your resilience to heat stress (now, it seems obvious)
Between Kitaro Waga's breathwork techniques and Henry Shukman's meditation guidance, I'm set.
Awesome info.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom. 🙏🏼 I always watch your videos and follow your breathing exercises every morning. ❤
Great quality video, as always Kitaro. PAUSE, is particularly of interest and something I will start to integrate into my life.
Amazing video, alot of insight! thanks Kitaro love your vids, i use them daily
Glad to see you your videos help me
Thank you for the deeper understanding and methods to make my life better.
Evolution and change are a constant. So moving onwards, leave the WHM academy and widening the path… is good ;-) I will continue being a follower of your content.
Great video 😊
Fantastic video Kitaro! Thank you =)
Great video as always...
Very informative Kitaro.. thanks, man. 🙏
Respect and thanks to you 🙏
Beast! Love the content and the fact that you’re standing on your principles. Fuck yeah dude.
Great video, love your content! Thank you :)
Thank you, very informative
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent ❤
Hi 👋 thanks for the video. Quick question: do you do the Tummo breath/Wim Hof breath by breathing in through your nose and out of the mouth, or do you do the inhale and exhale through the mouth as Wim Hof has shown? I've been doing it ~3 hours before bed to help drop my heart rate lower as I sleep. Though I don't necessarily sleep great, my heart rate drops quite low, which is good. Anyway, thanks for any feedback!
I inhale through the nose. There are rare cases where I inhale through the mouth. I wouldn't recommend the WHM in the evening. Try coherence breathing instead. I have a free 15-day breathwork course where I guide you through different breathing techniques.
@KitaroWaga Thanks ✌️ Yes, I agree WHM isn't great in the evening, but it seems to be working for lowering my HR when I finally do goto sleep. I'll check out Coherence Breathing 👍
Kitaro, with all do respect - I teach the WHM at the Academy - a lot of things you’re saying here that supposedly are missing, are simply not true; eg about the breathing technique (awareness is key in doing the breathwork begore, while and after; more precisely to reawaken life intelligence and intention) - Interoception was studied in MRI studies of 2024 - The meaning of breathing in WHM has the deeper goal of reawakening gut feeling/heart voice (mindfulness) etc etc etc
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WHM breathing phase = hormetic stress
-
WHM retention phase = becoming aware of “just being” and doing absolutely nothing
-
Looks like you were not up to date at all.
-
Awareness before the breathwork, deep intention to reawaken Life Force as Wim says, before the breathing, to do it mindfully with intention, is all part of the WHM breathing.
-
Kitaro, the Mindset pillar (wim calls it the science of your soul) IS the deep and infinite foundation where the Breathing and the cold exposure are rooted in. It deals with Life intelligence, awareness, recognition of infinite consciousness and unconditional love that is already there and needs to be recognised and dis-covered with the breathing and the cold exposure
-
Or you never truelly understood the Mindset pillar of the WHM, or you deny that it has always been there.
-
The WHM is definitely enough if you understand the Mindset pillar …
-
As well the breathing as the cold exposure are hormetic stressors.
-
It has been studied and detected in the brain (insula and ACC) in the brain (interoception) en in the executive networks (orbitofrontal cortex)
-
No problem with you sharing your idea’s with your metaphores and frameworks, but just don’t deny as if the WHM misses these parts (HEIR = hormetic enhanced Interoceptive refocusing was studied because of the WHM)
-
The insights of the WHM mindset part are life changing already, even without the breathing and the cold.
-
The breathing and cold are the tools to reawaken and reactivate this body intelligence & Life activation consciously.
-
Eg the retention phase has the goal (set up front) to experience the deeper being (by doing nothing, not even breathing) and just being with whatever arises (physical symptoms, emotions, etc)
-
Or you never understood the Mindset Pillar, or you are consciously and supposedly “adding” things that were not there. 🤷🏻♂️ - up to you.
-
So please, teach your things the way you want after your WHM period. But don’t pretend or act like this is absent within the WHM …
-
I’ve learned nothing new and can add a lot more stuff to breathing mechanics (eg understanding “surfactant function in the alveoli” with deep breathing and so much more.
-
WHM = conscious, diafragmatic breathing in one fluid motion. 🤷🏻♂️
Hi Kitaro, I am the 800 like yeee
thank U
The WHM néver went about “tolerating the cold” and “holding the breath” longer … If you were a WHM instructor, you should know this back than too.
-
So no, you didn’t add “awareness” and “consciousness” to the WHM, the whole mindset pillar of the WHM deals with awareness, recognition of Life intelligence and life power that just need to be reawakened by the breath and the cold (which are both hormetic stressor) …
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All these things are integral parts of the WHM 🤷🏻♂️
What a Chad 🔥💯
Thank you for this. I know if you were not aware you could not go this far 🙏
What breath work method you recommend for sleep? I feel my body is too hot to fall a sleep. Thank you.
Respect
I prefere Kitaro Method :)
I think many guys like you - who have always been in the sports / practices - go wild about WF who has never been in there up untill a certain age and even now looks like he is an addict... ))) But life is life ! Let go, Kitaro! Invent your own method instead of earning on someone else's ...
1:52 ill hold the grudge against WHM for you due to their business practices and lack of ethics
man is not a machine. therefore no method or technique is sufficient.
wim hoff technique is practicial and scientfic but it takes long to master it
🤷🏻♂️ - it’s just a conscious reinforcement of the inhale that is already happening by our innate life force (you also breath in your sleep) - the exhale is just letting go!
If you try too hard to master your emotions, you're doing it wrong~ give it to the J man! God
I have to agree wim hof lacks any spiritual acumen…only ego.
Than you never understood the mindset part of the WHM brother … 🤷🏻♂️
Getting rich off peoples ignorance
love you man...
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