Chris Marhefka - Training Camp For The Soul

<p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, our guest is Chris Marhefka. He’s got this thing called training camp for the soul. He learned how to go into so many different spiritual aspects of his breathing, called breathwork and somatics work. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[5:27]</span> <strong>Why should we listen to you? </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I speak authentically. I’ve been through the wringer myself. I’ve been through breaking everything from my physical, mental, emotional, spiritual body and everything in between. I’ve pushed myself to the edges and honestly found myself at 30 years old checking every box of what I said I would do in my life.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[7:16]</span> <strong>There’s more than what this person is doing</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Every time I would have a goal, I would just put my head down, and it was all about suffering and hard work. And it taught me the gift of discipline. But that man that was putting his head down towards that goal wasn’t seeing anything outside of it. The downside to it was that every goal would just be followed by another one—bigger or more. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[8:29] I’m grateful for that time of fitness. I was a competitive athlete, but I pushed the limits, and it really taught me about commitment to practice and commitment to a daily routine.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[10:06]</span> <strong>What was the catalyst moment?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It was a moment that lasted about six months. The moment was I was competing at a high level in CrossFit, and I had a traumatic brain injury where the capillaries in my brain literally exploded. I felt like a grenade went off in my head, it was painful, and it stopped me in my tracks. There were many signs that my body was giving me up until that point to slow down and pay attention. I put on somewhere aro