Free Your Mind Breathwork is the latest trend to get people off of pharmaceuticals and in touch with their bodies. “Since age six I had horrible chronic migraines,” Lindsay Balgooyen tells me. “I pretty much lived my entire life with a migraine.” Admittedly, I’m not expecting this. My interest in the idea of 16
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breathwork started when I interviewed comedian and psychedelics expert Shane Mauss last year. He described an intense, mind-altering experience, one that seemed more of a consciousness
expansion than healing. Considering the impressive resume of substances he’s experimented with, I took stock in his words, but never considered the curative properties of my own breathing.
“I grew up in Michigan in not exactly a progressive town and when I was 17 I had been on 50 different drugs,” Balgooyen says. “So I decided I was done with that.” Working with med-
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TEXT JAKE BROWNE
