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In the animal kingdom, the species that take the f

In the animal kingdom, the species that take the fewest breaths per minute are those who live the longest.
On average, a human being is breathing 12-16 times per minute, which is just in between the longest living animals and those with the shortest lifespan.

Although, an optimal rate for a human is 5,5 breaths per minute.

A diaphragm out of shape is the same as a hamstring out of shape. It becomes weak and inhibited.
The diaphragm is the muscle responsible for how well we breathe, and it needs strength and mobilization if we wish to keep a low heart, breathe fewer times per minute and uptake more oxygen when we inhale.

When we are actively engaged in physical activity, abdominal breathing gets inhibited. This means that the better we are at expanding our ribcage to keep the oxygen uptake to the upper part of the upper body, the better suited we are at utilizing this oxygen when performing.

Our facial structure, how we breath and how well o

Our facial structure, how we breath and how well our spine is aligned and integrated is deeply connected and dependent upon one another.

Issues in this complex structure may cause domino effects in its different components.

It’s easy to recognize a habitual mouth breather, and compression of the spine often reflects on both the neck and skull, which creates a tendency of obstructing the airways inhibiting nasal breathing.

Focusing solely on one issue rarely regenerates these interconnections, since they go hand in hand with each other.

A curved, disintegrated spine is a sign of poor tissue balance, which may force the neck to operate in a position, where the eyes will have to change their neutral point to look straight forward.

Try this exercise - and if you feel breathing congestion while keeping the chin down and the cranium on the wall, you likely tend to have an issue.

Most people operate chronically with a pelvis tilt

Most people operate chronically with a pelvis tilting improperly; the vast majority of people with a pelvis locked in an anterior tilt.

We always want to stay as close to neutral as possible regarding a balanced posture. But when issues occur, one must focus on the other end of the extreme to get closer to a neutral point.

A pelvis locked anteriorly may be the byproduct of a tense front and a weak butt, and results in a lower back on overwork.

In this video I’m demonstrating and guiding through an issue which 90% of people similarly have.
In every movement where one or both legs are extended behind the body, the glutes must unconsciously react to engage and fire up. To do this properly, there have to be a strong interconnection between the pelvis, spine and core to prevent the lower back from doing work it’s not supposed to do.

Balance is always key. And this is why posture is essential.

Been working, for the past 3 years, on a book that

Been working, for the past 3 years, on a book that would cover the problem solving aspect of my main interest in life: the human body.
It finally seems to reach a conclusive point, although the finishing part might take a lot longer than expected.

Holistic is a pretty abused work, but nevertheless illustrates the bigger picture of the work. I guess the overall topic can be defined as health, which indeed is the coherent function of man and the human species’ relation to earth and nature, which in truth is deficient at this point in history with a society in decline and despair.

The book is initially written in English, but will be available in Danish as well, and maybe also Spanish.

I. Introduction
- Distracted Society
- A Darwinistic Religion
- The Forgotten History

II. Man
- Biology of Man
- Secrets of Water
- The Human-Nature Interconnection
- Epigenetics & The Science of Placebo

III. Key nutrition
- Ancient Medicine
- Origin of Human Diet
- Western Culture vs. Indigenous Tribes
- A Complete Guide: Essential Nutrients and their Benefits
- A Complete Guide: Medicinal Mushrooms
- Distortion, Pollution & Illness
- Fasting

IV. Respiration
- The Epidemic of Poor Breathing
- Breath Less to Breath Right
- Nose Breathing vs. Mouth Breathing
- Ancient Yogic Practices
- Vagus Nerve Stimulation
- Muscular Response of Breathing
- Cold Exposure
- Meditation
- A Complete Guide: Breathing Methods

V. The Myofascial Network
- Myofascial Lines
- The Function of Fascia
- Fascia Hydration
- Therapy and Exercising
- A Complete Guide: Myofascial Releases

VI. Posture & Mechanics
- Skeletal Structure & Function
- The S vs. J-shaped Spine
- Postural Dysfunction
- Tensegrity & Decompression
- Corrective Exercising

VII. Healing & Recovery
- Obtain Homeostasis
- A Circadian Rhythm in Balance
- Heart/Brain Coherence
- HRV & Stress
- Sound Therapy
- A Complete Guide: Recovery Methods

2020 is soon long gone, and despite the amount of

2020 is soon long gone, and despite the amount of shit we’ve been forced to deal with, it feels like yesterday that we stepped out of 2019.
COVID has taught us that we are just as vulnerable as any other species on the planet.
At the same time, it directly reflects the way society is constructed. A place build on false principles, materialism and distraction.

Of every challenge, there is a message.

The message of 2020’s challenges is that health must be redefined.
If society keeps relying on security and guidance from politicians and the media, humanity will stay in the spinning wheel of despair and illness.

The psychology of a human being directly influences their genes and DNA.
We are the co creators of our own reality.

As long as we stay disconnected from earth, stay prone to manipulation from what we are told and dictated, stay concerned about fitting into boxes rather than doing unrestrained what we love, and stay intoxicated by sugar, alcohol and tobacco, we will steadily decline to Neanderthal states.

Pandemics won’t thrive in a collection of healthy organisms.

This is the principle I call the Internal Balloon.

This is the principle I call the Internal Balloon.

Although this is the most efficient way to breath and to create a rough measurement of breathing volume, most people breath oppositely - by expanding/popping out when exhaling and retracting when inhaling.

This creates the opposite effect preventing maximum amount of oxygen to be absorbed in the body.

Measure yourself by standing laterally towards a mirror in a relaxed position.
Inhale as much oxygen as possible and explore where your body expands.

The bigger a balloon you’re able to create, meaning the thicker, wider and taller you become in all directions, the more decompressed and better suited your are to utilize the air being inhaled from your nose.

The human species uniquely adapted to the gravitat

The human species uniquely adapted to the gravitational force of earth putting us in a constant battle with the compression it provides.

When we stop adapting to cooperate with this force, i.e. due to inactivity, poor breathing habits, bad sleeping posture, sitting work positions and improper physical training, it reflects in our standing posture.

As all negative emotions are expressed as some sort of physical flexion in our bodies, there’s a clear correlation between the global mental state of the human species and its posture, which indicates states of depression and tension.

Decompressing the body to more sufficiently cooperate with and fight gravity, is therefore not merely a matter of physical exercising, but rather a holistic approach in treating both the psychology, neurology and day-to-day habits of an individual.

If you can’t do it slow, then how are you suppos

If you can’t do it slow, then how are you supposed to do it fast?

An appropriate question in a society where everything happens in the speed of light, and the art of in depth exercising in human mechanics is rather ignored, since most people act with mediocrity in everything they do.

The reason why I admire human mechanics to such a degree is due to the allowance of going deep into a problem and working with its core components to create a solution.

Working to improve a vertical jump for instance is pretty basic when thinking in contemporary terms of improving strength and power into the output of a higher jump.

In this section I’m applying biofeedback to essential parts of the body, which tend to compensate in crucial motions.
The interconnection between the adductors and glutes are often missing in most people, which inhibit their tension relationship and locks certain joints in improper positions.

Reestablishing the functionality of the pelvis and core by slow concentrated movements will create a more profound foundation before even considering improving - for instance - the vertical jump.

The human body follows certain mechanical principl

The human body follows certain mechanical principles; the same principles being applied in any other type of mechanics (slide 2).

If we respect these principles and mechanical rules, we’d be able to perform optimally and stay pain free.

Our physical vessel is a solid structure undergoing constant compression from earth’s gravitational force.

Depending on where and how external load is applied as well as how we move through 3D space, we will always follow these mechanical patterns of either compression, tension, shearing, bending or rotating.

We are, in essence, an elastic pillar.

Problems occur when this elastic pillar repeatedly puts on additional compressive forces to the body ignorant of the art of decompression, which, as a result, will squeeze together the bricks of the body instead of separating them by creating space.

The contemporary standard of human posture is to b

The contemporary standard of human posture is to be described as severe compression.
This is a biproduct of traditional training methods (and societal tendencies in general), which in principle is making us shorter, narrower and weaker.

To avoid misconceptions, this has nothing to do with human average height, muscle mass etc.
Rather it’s revolving around the fact that compression is inhibiting our health and performance.

Compression at the neck and above affects airways, chewing function, cognitive abilities, breathing etc.
Compression in the torso and below is a result of a restricted and disconnected muscular system, poor biomechanics and the very outdated idea of placing heavy loads at the central and vertical midpoint of the body; the spine.

We are creating overactive, tense muscles, which may look good, but serves very little functional purpose.

We are creating postural tendencies that appropriately reflect modern social tendencies: depression and weakness.

In the video I’m presenting a feedback technique, which is creating the compression force that most of our species find themselves in.
To escape this force, one must engage the exact muscles that are disintegrated due to this compression.

Accidentally discovered the picture to the left th

Accidentally discovered the picture to the left the other day, being from a standing neutral roughly 1,5 years ago.

The picture to the right being from September this year.

Learning and discovering from practice is a great approach, maybe the best and most efficient.
Always incorporating and experiencing on myself prior to consulting my practice to others.

If you take a close look at the area of the neck and mandible, you’ll discover clear indications of decompression in the cervical spine (neck) and a structural change in the bones of the jaw and chin.

Having a beard can create some visual disturbances, although the angular changes cannot be mistaken.

Conscious choices of eating habits, breathing approaches and posture can create tremendous changes in the structure of the neck and face.

These are everything but just visual changes.

These are signs of airways becoming less obstructed, a better integrated spine and tongue posture as well as a more massive jaw as a biproduct of better chewing, which further creates more space in the mouth to naturally fit all teeth and resolve the man made problem of crooked teeth.

Fasting as a Spiritual Practice for Personal Growt

Fasting as a Spiritual Practice for Personal Growth:

“Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick is to feed your sickness." - Hippocrates

Just finished my second water fast, which I’m planning on completing once a year. Consuming zero calories for approximately 72 hours and only pure water. Also cutting out as many toxic chemicals from my environment as possible to gain more physical results from a detoxification perspective.
Considering a psychological view point I’m forcing myself to deal with as few stimuli as possible during the fast. This can be TV, social activities or anything where being engaged in external activities that removes focus from oneself.

There’re several ways of fasting and several benefits to achieve.

When stripping of one of the main human qualities of life, being food, the body is left with an enormous amount of time not to think about what to eat, when to eat and to digest the food you’ve been eating.

The discipline gained from deviating from the process of constant hunger is unique. If you can go on without eating, even if your mind keeps revolving around food, then there’s very little you can’t do in life.

The gratitude gained from knowing that you have access to food every second of your life is unique, when you let your taste buds crave for a prolonged period.
After all, gratitude is key to an enlightened life.
Everyone should try, at least once during life, to taste and feel the nutrients in your body after a prolonged fast. You will never think of food the same way again.

From a biological perspective, there’s a state called autophagy, which, in simple terms, is cell regeneration.
“Auto” means self and “phagy” means eat. So, the literal meaning of autophagy is “self-eating.”
This is the evolutionary self-preservation mechanism where the body is cleaning out damaged cells, in order to regenerate newer, healthier cells, which can be activated when no nutrition is coming in.

At least, I continually feel more and more tuned. More in touch with my intuition and less susceptible to manipulation and false information. That’s what we should all, at some point, aim for.

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