What happens when you stop collecting tools and techniques, and begin stepping into the quiet, integrated authority of your own path?
In this episode, Suks sits down with Vinay, bodyworker, craniosacral therapist, and breathwork spaceholder, for a deeply grounding conversation about the messy, necessary journey of true integration.
Honest, tender, and rich with the kind of recognition that happens when two spaceholders speak the same unspoken language, together they explore what it means to hold space with discernment, the relief of letting go of spiritual "special effects" in favor of pure presence, how childhood patterning continues to speak through the body, and the primal wisdom found when we trust the intelligence of the collective field.
Whether you are here as a student of breathwork or a professional drawn to the Decolonizing Breathwork Facilitator Training by Inspire Breathwork, come sit with us. Because healing was never meant to happen alone. And it starts with one breath.
Vinay Swaminathan is a facilitator and practitioner whose work is centered on welcoming all of life: growing our capacity to remain open, connected and responsive through the beautiful, mundane, difficult and unknown.
At the heart of his work is a belief in the genius within each person, and in creating the right inner and outer conditions for that genius to blossom.
Deeper than technique or certification, he believes the quality of the work depends on how much we are willing to live and embody our own healing and transformation.
He is passionate about creating high-integrity spaces that are safe enough to go deep, coherent enough to trust, and strong enough to hold what unfolds.
Connect with Vinay:
Website: www.vinayswaminathan.com
Transcript:
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inspire breathwork and the wonderful teachers and people there for like because I tune in beyond this podcast I feel I don't know I feel the essence of this space in in its holding and it feels really precious and it feels really needed yeah just want to take a moment also to to thank Inspire Breathwork and yeah I think there are one person who who who kind of incepted this what's her name >> she's called Hannah Hannah Kandaru and she's the only one right now actually who's doing all the
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courses and yeah powerhouse UA powerhouse yeah >> so I feel I feel grateful for Hannah feeling grateful for her mission I feel grateful for her like a big like big big energy big like a indomitable spirit and yeah just wanted to name gratitude for her and yeah I want to name gratitude for you Kriti um for stepping into this, for choosing this, for choosing yourself, for um meeting me, for inviting me and um for showing up with vulnerability and honesty yourself and being willing to work through the kinks. I think that's
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one of the valuable the values I really appreciate like there can be kinks and don't don't don't don't be shady and hide them like let's bring the kinks out and then let's work them up you know. So I I really respect that. I think I appreciate it but also really respect that about you. It it it helps me trust more than anything else uh the willingness to speak uncomfortable things and move through them. So yes. Um so yes yes and >> elated hearing all of thank you so much.
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Like slightly blushing and also elated and also like yeah super grateful and thankful that this exists. >> Yeah. And um so I'm about to step out of town like I told you on on Sunday for a couple of weeks and it's my birthday next month on the 18th. And so that's that's when I will be launching and so when I'm launching my this thing I'll reach out to you and then we can we can figure out how yeah um we can yeah so I just wanted to say that yeah I received you and we'll we'll
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see how that goes. >> Yes. >> So yes that's that's me. And and I want to thank myself. I want to thank myself for showing up. >> Yeah. >> Um I had resistance on Saturday. Um and the resistance was because I had a super full week. I already knew it. And um but then when I was about to message you, the wisdom of my body, my instinct was like no. Just if it needs to shift, let the communication come from her. And then when I just and and so when you and then when you sent me the message on
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mon like on Tuesday just confirming the thing on Thursday, I was like thank you. Thank you for not sabotaging this because it it it yeah, it's been yeah, I think a part of me is in shock but there are good kinds of shock also like when some something really powerful has happened. Is this what just happened is good but it's also feels a lot bigger than I think I'm feeling right now. So yeah, thanking myself for showing up and taking space also and giving space as well. So yes, I thank myself.
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>> Thank you for leaning in. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> You know that feeling at the end of a conversation where you've gone somewhere real, where you've actually been somewhere together and you need a moment before the ordinary world just rushes back in and distracts you. That's where I am right now. And so leaning into a poem as I always do to seal my practice. Today's gem is by Subramanya Bharati. He was a Tamil poet, freedom fighter and visionary who lived and wrote in the
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early 1900s right here in South India, not far from where Vinay and I are sitting. His work encompassed a wide range of themes, including fervent patriotism, love for language, evils of the caste system, and the equality for women. He was considered so dangerous by the British colonial authorities of his time that he spent years in exile, and he kept writing anyway. This poem is called The Jewel of Stars. And after everything Vinay and I have just moved through together, I want to offer it to you as a place to
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land. The Jewel of Stars. Moonlight, the stars, and the wind. By placing them in front and drinking the honey thereof, a poetic frenzy seizes us. That atomic thing called mind, we shall let it roam free. Should one wonder at the bee that sinks while embedded in a tasty fruit? Oh mind, go hence to join the Jewel of Stars. Hmm. To quote a line, that atomic thing called mind, we shall let it roam free. And breathwork, the kind Vinay practices, the kind that doesn't prescribe or rush or bypass is exactly
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this. Moonlight in front of you, stars, wind, and the invitation to just drink the honey of it. To let the mind go where it needs to go without interference. Just being present with it. Bharati wrote this in South India in a time when both his mind and his people were being told to stay contained. And his answer was a bee singing inside a fruit it has found its way into. Not because anyone told it to, because that is simply what a bee does when it finds something sweet. And that's what I want to leave you with
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today. Not a prescription, not a method, just the image of a mind finally given permission to roam. And the reminder that somewhere in you, underneath everything that was handed to you, everything that was forced, everything that accumulated over the years, there is still a bee still looking for the fruit, still when it finds it, inclined to sing. So just let it. If something in today's episode is still moving through you, if Van A's story touched something in you that you want to explore further, his details are in
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the show notes. Reach out. He's a gentle and serious practitioner and the work he does is worth finding. Subscribe to the Inspire Breathwork podcast wherever you listen. Each episode this season is part of a longer journey and I would love for you to receive it all. Share this with someone who needs to hear that the difficult years are not wasted. That what we survive can become in time the very thing we offer. So pass it on. And if you'd like to leave a review or a comment, every single one helps this
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work find the people it was made for, the ones who are still in the middle of it, the ones who haven't found their way to the breath yet. So once again, thank you for being here. Thank you for listening all the way till the end. Until next time, find your bee, rest in its grace and let it sing. Take good care.
