16: Breathwork Expert: You’ve Been Breathing Wrong Your Whole Life | Stuart Sandeman

Matt & Corisande sit down with Stuart Sandeman, breathwork expert, founder of Breathpod and author of Breathe In, Breathe Out. Stuart went from a would-be Olympic judo player to a maths graduate, then to a finance job in Hong Kong, then to touring the world as a DJ. None of it prepared him for losing his girlfriend to cancer. After a Mother’s Day breathing class he only went to for his mum, he found what years of “big boys don’t cry” had kept locked away.

They get into why your breath is the unconscious record of everything you haven’t let yourself feel, how conscious connected breathwork can collapse time so the past and future meet in the present, and the simple carbon dioxide test that shows how stressed your system really is. Matt and Corisande also try the test live.

Matt & Corisande, with Stuart, discuss:

• The aftershock in Japan that made Stuart quit finance, and the breathing class that changed everything after his girlfriend’s death
• Why the real problem with Stuart’s grief was a belief he’d held since childhood: big boys don’t cry
• How conscious connected breathwork “collapses time,” and why that makes it such a powerful tool for manifestation
• Why the magic happens on the outbreath, and what surrender actually means for the overthinkers
• How Stuart can read what’s going on in someone’s life just by watching where their breath isn’t flowing
• Nose vs mouth breathing, why Stuart tapes his mouth at night, and the £2 chemist tape he swears by
• The carbon dioxide tolerance test you can do at home, and the one breathing exercise Stuart would keep if he could only choose one

Chapters

00:00:00 Intro
00:01:33 Intro to Stuart Sandeman
00:02:50 Where Did Stuart’s Journey Begin?
00:04:32 The Earthquake That Made Stuart Quit Finance
00:05:55 Losing His Girlfriend to Cancer
00:07:05 The Breathing Class That Changed Everything
00:10:14 How Breathwork Unravelled Stuart’s Beliefs
00:11:48 The Different Schools of Breathwork
00:14:04 Your Breath and Your Nervous System
00:19:02 How Breathwork Collapses Time
00:21:28 Breathwork for Overthinkers
00:24:32 Where to Start If You Have Anxiety
00:27:03 How Stress Changes Your Breathing
00:30:11 Stuart’s Go-To Technique for Anxious Breathing
00:36:36 Does the Breath Itself Heal?
00:43:35 How Stuart Reads People Through Their Breath
00:48:22 Emotional Release in Breathwork
00:50:43 Join the Beyond Community
00:51:31 Where to Start: Observing Your Breath
00:56:17 Nose vs Mouth Breathing and Mouth Taping
01:05:02 The Carbon Dioxide Tolerance Test
01:10:58 Box Breathing Explained
01:13:45 Why Your Nose Is a Built-In Filter
01:16:15 What Kids Can Teach Us About Breathing
01:19:16 Breathwork as Therapy Without Words
01:20:37 How to Connect With Stuart
01:21:30 Community Q: Does Air Quality Matter?
01:23:39 Community Q: If You Could Only Do One Practice
01:27:11 Community Q: Involuntary Movements in Breathwork
01:28:50 What Does ‘Beyond’ Mean to Stuart?

About  Stuart Sandeman

Stuart Sandeman is a breathwork expert and the founder of Breathpod, a community and app that helps people change how they think, feel and show up in the world through their breath. A former judo competitor, finance professional and touring DJ, Stuart found breathwork after losing his girlfriend to cancer, and has since guided thousands of people through it. His Sunday Times bestselling book, Breathe In, Breathe Out, brings together the science and the deeper, more spiritual side of breathing. Stuart runs in-person events in London and Scotland, as well as corporate sessions.

Buy Breathe In, Breathe Out: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Breathe-Out-practical-management-improved-ebook/dp/B09R94G897/

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Download the Breathpod app: https://www.breathpod.com/signup

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About Matt & Corisande Cooke
Matt is a manifestation coach, researcher, speaker and the author of Beyond Wanting: The Art of True Manifestation. For years, he has explored the intersection of manifestation, consciousness and the quantum world, helping people understand how to work with their thoughts, emotions and intentions to create their future.

Corisande is a creative director with a deeply intuitive approach to life and business. Through meditation, she often experiences remarkably vivid glimpses of what’s ahead, seeing ideas, spaces and possibilities in extraordinary detail, sometimes long before they become reality.

Together, they bring two different perspectives to Beyond: Matt’s endless curiosity for understanding how the unseen might work, and Corisande’s instinctive ability to feel and see it before it arrives.

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