Breath-Energetic Practice of Interaction with the Elements and the Forces of Nature

Message from the Founder

My many years of experience allowed me to formulate one breath-energetic practice, as well as a meditative-spiritual methodology consisting of several levels of study. This practice is part of my method of spiritual technologies, which I use to help people.

There is an infinite number of breathing practices in the world, and all of them work. For the most part, they act on the physical-somatic and regulatory level, helping influence the functions of the body: blood pressure, heart rhythm, and the general condition of the organism. But very few consciously include work with energies in such practices.

Yes, work with energies is always taking place automatically. But when more conscious elements are included in the practice — images, sensations, and inner states that a person directs mentally — the result becomes stronger.

I have always tried to create methodologies that are as universal as possible. The kind in which, within a unit of time, the maximum therapeutic effect and a fast positive result are achieved.

Everyone knows: where we direct our attention, energy flows there. Understanding this, it is easy to see why a person often does not have enough energy even to make it through the end of the day: their attention is unfocused, scattered in many directions, and energy is constantly leaving through different channels.

In this practice, we will use not only attention, but also sensations — real sensations on the bodily level. If, at first, the sensations are weak or almost absent, begin at least by imagining and visualizing them. This will help you enter an altered state — a state that a person rarely experiences in ordinary life.

First, the sensation of the body will begin to change: it will become lighter, more relaxed, more mobile, and more energetically charged. Then the perception of consciousness will change as well: it will become clearer, more expanded, and more lucid.

At first, this practice may seem a little difficult. But if you practice it diligently, over time it can replace many other less effective practices and become one universal practice that you will do constantly.

The goal of this exercise is to teach the body to breathe in this mode constantly. You need to give the body a command and retrain it. This should not be a practice for only 5 minutes a day, although that is exactly how you can begin. Over time, it is desirable that such a mode of breathing become more and more natural and constant.

Preparation for the Practice

Ideally, the practice should be performed on the shore of a body of water: an ocean, sea, river, or lake. Best of all — standing on the ground so that your feet touch the water. It is desirable that the sun be shining and that it be warm and comfortable.

If such an opportunity is not available, you may also do the practice at home, in a room. It is good if the air in the room is fresh and the space is ventilated, but this is not a mandatory condition.

The exercise is performed standing. If dizziness begins during the practice, you may sit down on a chair.

Stand or sit comfortably. Close your eyes. Imagine and feel that you are standing on the shore of the ocean, on a warm sandy beach. The water gently washes your feet. The earth warms you, gives stability and comfort. The sun is shining on you. You feel a slight movement of the wind, the sea breeze. You may even recall the smell of the ocean.

Enter this state as deeply as possible. Feel with every cell of your skin how your feet stand on sand or small pebbles, how the warm water touches your feet, how you inhale the scent of the ocean, how the sun touches your skin. For now, the breathing remains free.

If you enter this state deeply and correctly, the nervous system will begin to calm down automatically.

The breathing will become slower, deeper, and calmer. The body will remember those moments of rest when you were by the ocean, in the forest, in the mountains, or simply in a park.

It is important to remember the very best state you have ever experienced in your life. Let us call it a reference state — a state in which, physically, emotionally, energetically, and spiritually, you were at the highest and most comfortable level. Different memories may arise — that does not matter. Only one thing matters: to enter this state completely and allow it to fill your body.

When you feel that you have entered this state deeply, imagine that you are on the shore of the ocean. Your feet touch the water — perhaps you are standing with your feet in the water, knee-deep, waist-deep, or even chest-deep. Imagine how comfortable you feel. The sun is shining on you. You feel the wind, the sea breeze, or the scent of a forest lake. The main thing is to feel all four elements with which we will work: Earth, Water, Air, and Fire in the form of the Sun.

Before beginning any practice, it is always necessary to greet the forces with which you will interact and ask them for permission to make contact. It is also important to state your kind, open, and positive intentions and goals. After this, we begin the practice.

The First Element — Earth

Feel the Earth as a living organism. As that from which our body is also made. All the elements that exist on Earth are also in us. After physical death, the body will once again decompose into elements and return everything to the Earth.

We are not separate from the Earth. We are deeply connected to it. You may imagine the Earth as a huge battery that charges and nourishes us.

Take an inhalation for 4–6 slow counts. During the inhalation, imagine, visualize, and feel how a stream of energy from the center of the Earth enters your body through the soles of the feet, through the perineum, through the palms and fingers of the hands.

After the slow deep inhalation, make a small pause for 2 counts. Then exhale very slowly and calmly for 6–8 counts.

On the exhalation, feel and imagine how you exhale all accumulated negative energy, thoughts, emotions, pain, heaviness, and tension. On the exhalation, all of this goes into the center of the Earth.

Then make a breath retention for 4–6 counts. Those who practice more deeply may, over time, hold the breath after the exhalation for the maximum comfortable amount of time possible.

Before the next inhalation, make a few more short exhalations, as if finishing the exhalation of the air that remains in the lungs. The lungs should be emptied as fully as possible.

Now direct your attention inside the body. Feel where tension, negative emotions, density, compression, pain, and heaviness have accumulated. And again: on the inhalation, breathe in the Earth's power from its center, fill those places from which you have just exhaled tension and pain, direct energy, restoration, support, and the necessary elements there.

You yourself can give the body an inner command: let the energy of the Earth produce a positive, healing, and restorative effect.

Repeat the exercise 10–15 times. After completion, be sure to thank the Earth and the center of the Earth for the interaction and exchange of energies.

The Second Element — Air

Now shift your attention to the air. Feel the air as a living energetic structure, without which life is impossible. Feel the atmosphere of the Earth as a living essence that gives us the possibility to exist.

Here it is important to slightly defocus the attention and imagine that the body absorbs the energy of the air the way a sponge absorbs water.

The breathing rhythm remains the same: inhale for 4–6 counts, pause for 2–4 counts, exhale for 6–8 counts, hold after the exhalation for 4–6 counts.

During the inhalation, imagine that every cell of the skin is breathing, and through the entire surface of the body the energy of the air enters within. The body is filled with everything necessary and beneficial.

On the exhalation, exhale accumulated tension, negative emotions, pain, heavy states, and psychosomatic reactions. Then hold after the exhalation. Before the next inhalation, once again make two short exhalations, fully emptying the lungs.

Repeat the cycle 10–15 times. After completing the exercise, be sure to thank the forces of Air.

The Third Element — Water

Now we move to Water. It does not matter whether you are actually standing by the ocean or are in a room in a high-rise building. The main thing is to feel how the water touches your feet and to feel the entire volume of the world ocean existing on planet Earth.

The world ocean is the largest living organism on the planet. Seawater is very close in biochemical composition to human blood plasma. By our structure, we are very deeply connected with water.

First, greet the forces of Water and ask for permission for contact and interaction.

The breathing rhythm is the same: inhale for 4–6 counts, pause, exhale for 6–8 counts, hold after the exhalation.

Engage your sensations as fully as possible. Imagine that quiet, warm, clean water touches your feet. You may imagine that you are standing in the water knee-deep, waist-deep, or up to your neck. Try to embrace the entire world ocean with your attention.

Realize that a human being is not a separate unit, but a drop in the world ocean. Try to release the habitual rigid identity of yourself as a separate personality and feel yourself as part of the water element.

On the inhalation, fill the entire body with the energy, microelements, and macroelements of the world ocean. Fill painful places, organs, the skin, and every area where pain and tension are seated.

On the exhalation, imagine as if you are a sponge soaked with water and are now squeezing everything unnecessary out of yourself. Through every cell, through every pore of the skin, pain, tension, negative emotions, heavy states, and psychosomatic reactions leave. Let all of this dissolve in the world ocean.

Sometimes a real sensation may arise that something is flowing down the skin or that something is coming out from certain parts of the body. This is good. Do not be distracted; simply observe.

Repeat the exercise 10–15 times. After completion, be sure to thank the forces of Water.

The Fourth Element — Fire

Now we connect with the forces of Fire. First, greet the forces of Fire and ask for permission to make contact.

The Sun is the main source of fire, warmth, and light on Earth. Without it, life is impossible. It also fills and charges our inner battery.

On the inhalation for 4–6 counts, imagine how from the center of the Sun a ray of energy, warmth, light, and everything luminous enters your body through the crown of the head.

This ray passes through the brain, the muscles, the internal organs, all tense and painful places, and everything where heavy energy could have accumulated.

After the inhalation, pause for 2–4 counts in order to distribute this energy throughout the entire body.

Then make a slow, calm exhalation for 6–8 counts. On the exhalation, breathe out tension, negative energy, and everything you no longer need. Send it back along the ray into the center of the Sun.

After the exhalation, hold the breath for 6–8 counts or for the maximum comfortable amount of time possible. Before the next inhalation, make two short exhalations, fully emptying the lungs.

Repeat the cycle 10–15 times. After completion, be sure to thank the Sun and the forces of Fire.

The Union of the Four Elements at Once

Now you need to imagine all four elements at once. At the same time, hold in your attention the channel from the center of the Earth entering through the legs, the channel from the center of the Sun entering through the crown of the head, and also the defocused sensation of Water and Air around the body.

That is, you are doing two opposite actions at the same time: you focusedly hold two vertical channels — from below and from above — and defocusedly hold the entire perimeter of the body, through which the energies of Water and Air are absorbed.

Continue to breathe. On the inhalation for 4–6 counts, imagine simultaneously how the energy of the Earth pours into the body through the soles of the feet from the center of the Earth, how the energy of Fire enters through the crown of the head from the center of the Sun, and how the energies of Water and Air are absorbed through the pores of the skin and every cell of the body.

After the inhalation, make a pause and distribute the energies throughout the whole body. Look to see where tension still remains.

On the exhalation, send everything unnecessary at once in four directions: into the center of the Earth, into the center of the Sun, into the world ocean, and into the atmosphere.

Repeat 10–15 cycles, or a number that is comfortable for you. After completion, be sure to thank all the elements and all the forces with which you interacted.

Expanded Explanation: How the Practice Acts on the Body and State

What the practice does physiologically:

It slows the breathing and lengthens the exhalation, and this usually shifts the organism from a state of constant mobilization into a state of greater regulation and economy.

A small breath hold after the exhalation gently raises the level of carbon dioxide and creates a brief adaptive stimulus. Central and peripheral chemoreceptors monitor CO₂, pH, and oxygen and reset the respiratory response.

CO₂ is not a waste product that must be completely blown off. It is one of the key regulators of respiratory drive, acid-base balance, vascular tone, and the delivery of oxygen to the tissues.

With a moderate rise in CO₂, the Bohr effect becomes stronger: hemoglobin gives up oxygen to the tissues more easily where it is needed. This does not mean that there is suddenly more oxygen; it means that the conditions for its release into the tissues become more favorable.

An increase in CO₂ is associated with vasodilation of cerebral vessels and changes in cerebral blood flow. Therefore, with proper and gentle practice, people often feel clarity, warmth, a change in depth of perception, and a sense of inner expansion.

Why the hold is important specifically after the exhalation:

After the exhalation, the body cannot hide inside its usual automatism. For a short time, excess respiratory noise disappears, and the nervous system encounters a cleaner signal from the internal environment.

It is precisely in this phase that tolerance to CO₂ increases most noticeably. The organism learns not to react with panic to a small lack of comfort, but to preserve manageability and inner composure.

For many, this is the key to the 'defrosting' of the body: a chronically tense system stops living only in superficial defense and begins to release muscular, autonomic, and emotional constrictions.

This phase should not be forceful. What is beneficial is a comfortable hold, not a struggle with the body. Overly aggressive breath holds increase the risk of unpleasant reactions and do not make the practice deeper.

How CO₂ may be felt subjectively:

Some people experience a feeling of warmth, heaviness, or density in the body, and then a wave of relaxation.

Some feel that the body is letting go of a deep armor: the face, diaphragm, abdomen, pelvis, and shoulders soften.

Sometimes the perception of time, depth, or space changes briefly. This may be experienced as a 'drop,' a brief switching off of excess inner noise, or a moment of very deep reset.

Scientifically, it is more accurate to describe this as a brief breathing-induced change in the state of consciousness and autonomic tone. One cannot promise an instant 'rewiring' as a guaranteed effect, but some practitioners describe this experience in exactly that way subjectively.

Potential benefits of the practice:

Physical body: a calmer breathing pattern, reduction of excessive hyperventilation, better bodily sensitivity, reduction of muscular defensive tension, support for self-regulation after stress.

Energetic level: a sense of fullness, a reduction in scattered attention, growth of the subjective feeling of inner resource and inner collectedness.

Psychic level: a reduction of inner fuss, greater resilience to the impulse of anxiety, a sense of support and return into oneself.

Mental level: a clearing of perception, reduction of noisy thinking, strengthening of the ability to hold attention and observe without immediate reactivity.

Spiritual level: the experience of being included in a greater space of life, nature, and being; a feeling of connection, gratitude, meaning, and inner attunement with the world.

What else the practice does in a holistic approach:

It teaches the body to tolerate discomfort without collapsing into chaos. This is an essential skill not only for breathing, but for life as a whole.

It unites image, sensation, breathing, and attention into one contour. Because of this, the practice acts not only on physiology, but also on psychosomatics.

It helps move a person from a scattered state into a state of axis: first support appears, then silence, then clarity, then fullness.

Rare reactions and precautions:

In rare cases, dizziness, ringing in the ears, pronounced warmth, tingling, a feeling of a brief drop, altered perception of space, or a wave of strong emotion are possible. Usually, this means that the load is too great for the current state; the practice should be shortened, softened, or stopped.

This practice is not suitable for being performed in water, while driving, at height, in pronounced weakness, after alcohol, or after sedative substances.

Special caution or prior agreement with a physician is needed during pregnancy, in cardiovascular diseases, uncontrolled hypertension, arrhythmias, COPD, asthma in an unstable phase, epilepsy, panic attacks with fainting, and any conditions in which breath holding is contraindicated.

It is mandatory to stop in case of chest pain, growing shortness of breath, bluish discoloration, loss of consciousness, severe disorientation, or intense fear.

Brief scientific note:

CO₂ participates in the regulation of respiratory drive and acid-base balance; when CO₂ rises, the concentration of H⁺ rises, which affects the respiratory centers and vascular tone.

An increase in PaCO₂ is associated with the dilation of cerebral vessels and an increase in cerebral blood flow; a decrease in CO₂, by contrast, may cause vasoconstriction and symptoms of hyperventilation.

The Bohr effect describes the decrease in hemoglobin's affinity for oxygen when CO₂ rises and pH falls, which makes the release of oxygen into the tissues easier.

Brief, dosed hypoxic and hypercapnic stimuli are considered in research as a possible pathway of adaptation, but the effect depends on dose, context, and health condition; this is not a universal therapeutic guarantee.

Scientific grounding and review note:

This block uses modern physiological data on the role of CO₂, the Bohr effect, respiratory drive, cerebral vasoreactivity, and brief hypoxic-hypercapnic stimuli. The formulations are intentionally cautious: the practice may support self-regulation, but it does not replace medical diagnosis and treatment.

The phrase about a 'brief drop' or a feeling of 'rewiring' is left only as a possible subjective experience of some practitioners, not as a guaranteed or universal scientific effect.