This sounds like apeshit(!)... sorry, name puns are great (and I am allow to make them!)

No, but honesty: BREATHE friends (#1422933, #1401093, #1383936). Best remedy there is to shut out crap.

"The beauty of breathwork is that within a few breaths you can alter your physiological state.""The beauty of breathwork is that within a few breaths you can alter your physiological state."

The premise of a breathwork class can seem, on its face, a little absurd. Breathing is something we’re born knowing how to do — it happens subconsciously, even in our sleep. Yet classes that teach people how to breathe are everywhere from Brooklyn to Bangkok, in settings ranging from five-star hotels to modest back-alley studios.

...because it's the bridge that connects the conscious and the unconscious, the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system.

Techniques vary widely. There’s alternate nostril breathing and other yogic pranayama practices that calm the nervous system, like ujjayi breath. Other methods, like kapalbhati— a series of rapid, punchy exhales — agitate and energize the body. (#863896)
You are not just thinking about relaxation; you are commanding your body to shift into it.

"Whatever the approach, breathwork holds a distinct appeal, particularly in today’s fractured digital age, where so much texture has been stripped from life""Whatever the approach, breathwork holds a distinct appeal, particularly in today’s fractured digital age, where so much texture has been stripped from life"

THIS sounds intense. I'm game... certainly RBG has some such retreat in his California backyard

I have also tried a 10-day silent vipassana retreat involving more than nine hours of daily seated meditation. Some of those sessions are “strong determination sits,” where even small fidgeting is forbidden, a raw confrontation with the dark matter of the mind.

Manoj Dias, who runs a mindfulness studio in Venice Beach (where else?!) says

“Breathwork, however, provides a very direct and instantaneous state shift. After just one session, you can feel a tangible change within your body.”

Breathwork has become at least part of my answer to navigating a disorienting world. I have friends who find their meditation in dance or surfing, but those strategies are little help during a testy run-in with an obnoxious stranger on the subway. Breathwork’s power is its portability. No matter where you are, you can always elongate an exhale. It doesn’t ask for belief or intellectual buy-in; it merely offers a simple, verifiable truth: You are here, and you are breathing. In a landscape of endless, accelerating abstraction, this is one fact I can always access.

Even reading this article made me conscious of elongating my breaths, slowing down my heart rate. Maybe performative, probably placebo.