Your Vision Lives in Your Body: Breathwork + Living Fully with Jamie Janko
Your vision doesn't live in your mind. It lives in your nervous system.
That's the idea Jamie Janko has built her entire life and practice around.
In this episode, I sit down with Jamie Janko, founder of ReWild Breathwork, somatic educator, practitioner trainer in over 25 countries, and one of the most nomadically adventurous humans I know, for a conversation about breath, vision, the nervous system, and what becomes possible when you finally come home to yourself.
Jamie left a 12-year career in Major League Baseball, a marriage, and the country — all after one breathwork session in Venice Beach that showed her exactly where her life was supposed to go next. She didn't believe it. She thought the universe was talking to the girl next to her, but she followed it anyway and this is where it led.
This one is also personal for me. I shared about my own experience with breathwork opening things that years of therapy couldn't reach. I think it'll land for a lot of you too.
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Key insights:
Baby Jamie failing a physical exam for cheerleading tryouts and discovering breath at age 12 before the internet
What conscious connected breathwork actually is and why it's nothing like you expect
Why it's similar to a psilocybin experience — there are actual studies on this
The difference between functional breath and conscious connected breath — and why both matter
Your vision lives in your nervous system, not your mind — what that means and why it changes everything
Nervous system flexibility vs. regulation — why the goal isn't calm, it's range
Email apnea: the way you hold your breath every time an email comes in without realizing it
Building ReWild: staying in your lane, giving back globally, and learning it's safe to be visible
Going nomadic: leaving LA for Ireland, Spain, and Bali — and doing it scared
Do it scared. And if you don't like it, you can always come back.
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The conversations don’t end here, they ripple into real life.
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