Pacific Pulse Fitness, Yoga, and Wellness - Max Szredni

Madeira Day 4: cliffs, waves, and succulents

Madeira Day 3: sunrise doing things before the big hike begins

Madeira Day 1-2: flora, fauna, fortresses

Hello Autumn 👋🍂🧡🎃

I am excited to announce I will now be offering Breathwork, in addition to personal training, as a regular service, having completed my facilitator training through the this week, a course I highly recommend to those who are curious.

Conscious Connected Breathwork is a tool we use to explore our inner selves, renegotiate with trauma, and rediscover the beauty and power of our sacred essence. With every inhale and exhale, our nervous systems repattern, giving us the opportunity to let go of maladaptive cycles and embrace new ways of being. Drawing influence from ancient traditions across the globe, Conscious Connected Breathwork offers a path to healing, wholeness, and renewal.

For more details on this offering, please DM, text, or email me, or check out my business website, pacificpulsefit.com.

How this started:

My breathwork journey a year and a half ago, during a particularly rough stretch in my life. Although I was doing many of the “right” things in my day-to-day life, I did not FEEL right. Exercise, yoga, meditation, time in nature, sobriety, therapy, literature—these were all pieces of the puzzle for me, keeping me treading water, but despite my efforts, I was angry and isolated and went to bed many nights wishing I would pass away in my sleep so I wouldn’t have to face the next day. I had lost sight of myself; lost sight of my light.

I needed help, and I found this help in the form of a breathwork facilitator named Krystal Charlotte ( on IG), whom I discovered via a random internet search.

Our breathwork sessions together slowly resuscitated me. I saw her once a month and each session brought with it a sense of self-discovery/self-REdiscovery. Emotional blockages eroded, compulsive and impulsive urges ebbed, insight and inspiration swept through me, and my heart opened. During one breathwork session, I felt a very sudden and real desire to become a facilitator and pay forward this gift.

In the words of naturalist Charles Dubois: “The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.”

My adventure is Now. And yours is too.

“Life exists without any argument and truth needs no proofs; it needs only your heart, not arguments, but your love, your trust, your readiness to receive.”

—“Tantra”, Osho

“As the ego dissolves into the arms of God, the mind dissolves into the will of God, no longer trying to control your life or make it work out in a particular way, you stop living and start being lived. You merge with a larger purpose — you become the Way by getting out of the way.”

—Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior, Dan Millman

“‘Zen’ is the Japanese equivalent for the Dhyâna, which ‘represents human effort to reach through meditation zones of thought beyond the range of verbal expression.’ Its method is contemplation, and its purport, as far as I understand it, to be convinced of a principle that underlies all phenomena, and, if it can, of the Absolute itself, and thus to put oneself in harmony with this Absolute. Thus defined, the teaching was more than the dogma of a sect, and whoever attains to the perception of the Absolute raises himself above mundane things and awakes, ‘to a new Heaven and a new Earth.’”

—“The Way of the Samurai”, Inazo Nitobe

“One of the difficulties in treating trauma has been the undue focus on the content of an event that has engendered trauma. Trauma sufferers tend to identify themselves as survivors, rather than as animals with an instinctual power to heal. The animal’s ability to rebound from threat can serve as a model for humans. It gives us a direction that may point the way to our own innate healing abilities. We must pay attention to our animal nature to find the instinctive strategies needed to release us from trauma’s debilitating effects.”

—“Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma”, Peter A. Levine with Ann Frederick

Switzerland Final Day: odds and ends…and already excited for the hiking trips to come :)

Switzerland day 8: winding things down with French castles, snails in melted butter, and bone marrow

Switzerland Day 7: and the trek ends…back to Switzerland after a brief visit to Chamonix, France