I can honestly say that breathwork has completely changed

We need modalities like breathwork to help

us to face the unpredictable situations that

If you have been living under a rock and you don't know much about breathwork, breathwork

has been around basically since man has been here. There's different

techniques to activate and to rest our

Welcome to Krystal Rowe Impacts, a space dedicated to

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for. Join me and together, let's inspire change. Kia

ora and welcome back to the Krystal Rowe Impact Podcast. And

today I have my amazing husband joining me and

we're actually going to share a little bit about the

breathwork journey that TJ has embarked on

recently to actually elevate the

work that I have been doing. So together we

are combining our modalities, we're combining

our experiences and we're combining our passion to

be able to bring to you just

an amazing experience. But before

we do that, if you haven't heard of Breathwork, I'm going to get TJ

to explain just briefly about what

it is and then we'll explain how it's actually impacted

Thank you, my love, amazing. Thank you for having me

here. And yeah, so if you have been living under a rock and

you don't know much about breathwork, breathwork

has been around basically since man has been here.

A lot of countries have been doing breathwork techniques

for tens of thousands of years. These

techniques help us

in so many ways. I first got interested in

doing breathwork because I was intrigued in it. And I've done a couple of

breathwork techniques with people, and I

just love the way it makes me feel. It calms

me, relaxes me, and stuff like that. So I dug deeper, got

into it, and yeah, so there's

different techniques to activate and

to rest our nervous system. So there's

the parasympathetic nervous system, which is these

breath works to help calm yourself. And then there's a

sympathetic nervous system exercises or

techniques, a bit like the Wim Hof techniques, where

you're activating your body. You're putting yourself in these uncomfortable

situations where And

then you use your breath to calm yourself down.

So what you're doing, you are basically retraining

yourself to be calm and peaceful in

uncomfortable situations in life. And I've

been loving this journey. I do this thing called dynamic breath

work every morning, and then can follow that with a cold shower.

And at first, I was like, ugh. But honestly,

you cannot have a cold shower and feel like shit when you get out. It's just

amazing. But yeah, all these different

modalities with the breath has really

impacted the way I live today. Yeah,

one of my main goals was to just create peace and

calm within. No matter what is going on on the outside world, I

just wanted to create this peace and harmony and calmness within

inside me. So yeah, I have

Yeah. And when you did get tested, it

was quite amazing to

see how this breath work had become a way of

So I've been doing this breath for quite a while, creating this peace and

calm within. Chris

and I went down to pick up pizza for our kids, and there

was a couple of drunk guys outside the pizza shop. So

I walked in, one walked straight into me. So do

that to me two years ago, it would have been such a different outcome. So

I sort of just looked at him and said, you all right, mate? He's like,

yeah, I'm all right. And I started beefing up, like wanted to go,

man. And I totally ignored him. I walked in, I grabbed the

pizza. And then as I was walking back to the car,

him and his mate sort of surrounded me and were

like just mouthing off all these, you know, nasty names.

I'm not going to get into too much detail, but yeah, I

carried on walking to the car and they basically attacked

me. One gave me a king shot in

the chin. And even after that, I was like, still

Yeah, it was like watching a movie. It was like you did, you stepped

I stepped back and I was like, oh, okay. I felt like I'm

not reacting. What's wrong with me? And

then I still didn't react. So then I was just trying to, trying to

deter away from it. Like, you know, to calm it

And then before you know it, one guy had gone around the back of

the car and came for me from behind. Crystal yells at him and says, baby,

behind you. So as I turned, this other guy had a half

beer, schooner, a glass of beer, and

he actually threw it at my head. And

luckily, growing up on the streets where I grew up

on, I was able to defend myself. I didn't want to fight

or nothing like that because I had created this peace and calm within. But

I was able to defend myself with these two guys and get

away from the situation in one piece, except

So even then, even then though, like, I'm going to just

quickly but because it was a bit more dramatic than that. I

was sitting in the car and honestly, it was

probably it was like a movie. And so

when this guy has like, throw in this cup, it's

actually smashed on TJ's head, and

it exploded all over the car. Like, it was a big cup,

and there was glass on top of the car, over the windscreen, and on

the bonnet. And then from there, like he was saying, like downplaying

it a bit, he, you know, was able to defend himself, but

what happened was he, like, moved them, and he was fighting both

of them. And I'm watching, and this one's coming this

way, and he's fighting that way, and then that way, there's both of

them. But in a moment, one of the

drunker guys that, when we arrived, was barely able to

stand, he went over and flipped a trolley over to

try and take a wheel off, which seemed to, trying to

Long story short, we got in the car and we've noticed just

TJ's back of his head bleeding

like bad. And we ended up at

the emergency. You got five staples in

the back of your head. So it wasn't like a little scratch.

But from that experience, even through

that whole process, you seemed, from

I was calm. backtrack a little bit, we actually took the

pizza home and we sat down and had pizza with the kids at first. Wrapped

your head up? Wrapped the head up and had pizza with the kids and

We had to wait for somebody to come over so we could go and

And we told the kids we've got a work meeting at 8 o'clock at

We did went and tell them the whole story the next day but It

was in reflection, and I think this is the key point

to how powerful breathwork is,

that you used to be a scrapper. Is that fair to

say, my love? Like, any chance that you got, you'd be on the piss. Somebody

looked you the wrong way, you guys would fight. Like, I mean, that's the world today.

That's sort of the norm. You had to learn how to defend yourself.

And you've grown now to a point where you

were literally attacked by these two unpredictable

And honestly, I feel that was a test. Yeah. It was a test to

Like, because I haven't been in a situation like that for years, you

know what I mean? And it was a test and I took it and I

was quite proud of myself the way I handled it. And

Yeah. It's like proof that in

those high stressful situations that

you once probably would have reacted to out of enrage or

whatever that you were able, your body just took over in

a way. Yes, you defended yourself, but also your body took over in

a stressful, noticed a stressful situation and

And the calm down was like instant. Like I was completely calm

I was completely traumatized. But that's probably another

podcast though. The PTSD that

I experienced, I think it

took three weeks to get over it, but

I was traumatized. Like, I can even feel myself now,

like it was... But that was my opportunity to jump in and teach

her breath. And I had to use that, use

the... modalities and the

work and actually put it into play to

get through that, because it was terrifying and

it was not the situation as such, but

the what if. I think when we live in

a world today, we need modalities like breathwork

to help us to face the unpredictable situations

that we can be in at no fault of our own. You

know, we were literally getting pizza for an early dinner. It

was like seven o'clock at night. You know,

literally getting dinner for our family. And unfortunately,

that is the world that we live in. And you know, sometimes we are taught

to be prepared by how

you grew up, you know? Be tough, be this, be

that. Perceive this certain exterior to

face the world, but now we're living in such a dangerous world.

But yeah, in saying all that too though, that was even

like, that was a push for me to want to start these men retreats

for men like that, you know? I had no hate or

nothing towards these men as I was driving away. And

that's when I knew that I had changed as well. Like,

Yeah, you did. And that's the

Yeah. And I just want to acknowledge you for taking that journey to

be that beacon of

light for other men like yourself to

be able to experience and use these tools. use

this beautiful breathwork modality and this toolkit in

life to overcome and heal and be

I can honestly say that breathwork has completely changed

my life. Like I've even created this on my own little motto

that I tell myself when I get into tough or

difficult situations is, if I can breathe, I can choose. So

yeah, what if you were to go into a situation and you

haven't been doing any breathwork exercises or

techniques, just ask yourself, how

would the outcome be without the breath? How

would the outcome be if you haven't created this peace and calm within?

For me, I know if I hadn't done these breathwork techniques in

that situation, the outcome would have been a

whole lot worse, not for just myself, but for my

family as well. And family is my number one thing to

me and is important to me. So yeah,

the breath, honestly, we get life from our breath, but these

So whanau, you heard it here from the man himself that

breathwork can actually change your life. So make sure that

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along TJ's journey as well and get along

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