Return to Rhythm
Feb 25, 2026
I had today’s email all planned out in my head as I was going to bed last night…And I woke up this morning with none of it.
Just three words looping in my head:
כחי ועצם ידי
I haven’t thought of those words since I had to memorize psukim for my (very short) stint in high school.
The illusion that power is ours.
In the transitional space I find myself, graduating one Azamra cohort as I interviewed five early applicants for the next, it's this line that keeps haunting my awareness.
Because endings and beginnings force reflections.
Who is Azamra?
How is Azamra Breathwork different?
What does Azamra represent?
Since coming home from training, I’ve held both the beautiful and the disturbing.
The “facilitator” who didn’t screen for relevant history and his client who emailed me in desperation after.
The client who “learned to breathe” on YouTube and was hospitalized with a seizure.
And also, the woman who had the most stunning breathwork birth with an Azamra trained facilitator at her side.
Being in this field longer than most, I'm thrilled that thrilled that breathwork is reaching more people than ever.
And I’m deeply concerned.
At the misinformation and recklessness.
The “push harder, go bigger, break through at all costs” mentality.
I didn’t step in to teach Azamra because breathwork needed more hype.
I stepped in because breathwork needed more integrity.
It genuinely mystifies me that someone can be “licensed” to facilitate breathwork in three days. Or even two months.
...When our next Azamra breathwork cohort is expanding from twelve months to eighteen. And I still feel like there is more to teach.
This work isn’t about techniques.
It’s about who you are when someone is cracking open in front of you.
Every early applicant I interviewed this week told me a version of the same line, “I’m doing this for me.”
Extraordinary facilitation is about self-development, personal responsibility, and a commitment to higher values. It’s about inner alignment, not outer credentials.
They each plan to step into their role as facilitators, but more than that, they are prepared to do whatever it takes to be a better person in this work and in the world.
The breathwork that I see emerging out there is powerful stuff.
And also, it’s overpowering something far more precious.
The G-d given rhythm of the human body.
The point of breathwork is not chasing psychedelic experiences.
It’s not intensity for intensity’s sake; it’s about restoring rhythm, the song of Creation.
Trauma cuts us off from that rhythm.
Breath brings us back.
The “breathwork” I get calls about generally is about power.
כחי ועצם ידי
Breathe harder, faster, louder.
If you’re not sweating, you didn’t go deep.
If you’re not vomiting, crying, or screaming, you didn’t get the full experience.
Azamra breathwork is the opposite.
We’re about the surrender.
What I love about breath is that it's the doorway between conscious and subconscious.
The Human and the Holy.
It’s the one process we can influence, but never fully control.
Azamra breathwork teaches facilitators and breathers how to honor that humility.
To hold without hijacking.
To trust that the body already knows its way back to G-d.
To release that control so we can once again know our place in the higher order of Creation.
The men and women laying the foundation for our next cohort are more than I ever dared hope for when I launched Azamra two years ago.
I didn’t launch Azamra to fill a market gap. I launched it with a vision of who I hoped the Torah based breath facilitators would be in five years.
We made it there in two.
Imagine who we’ll be in five.
After Purim, I’ll be hosting an intimate Azamra breathwork clarity call.
The only way to get invited to that call is to join our Azamra waitlist here.
Please read through the site carefully. You'll find that most of your questions have already been answered.
The upcoming call will not be recorded and is for you if you’re serious about stepping in to become a world class facilitator.
If your sense is not, “I want power,” but rather “I want to be worthy of honoring it in another,” then I’d love to meet you in our cohort.
If you’re feeling it; not from ego, not from כחי ועצם ידי, but from a place ready to recognize something much greater, join the Azamra waitlist.
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Great news:
The Vessel Journals are back in stock!
I'm bowled over by your excitement and by how fast we'll have to reorder.
Every day can be the first day of the rest of your life. Start where you are.
The person you're about to become will thank you.
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Are you on the Azamra waitlist?
Because the link for our Clarity Call will only be sent out there.
If you're ready to join the next cohort of Azamra breathwork facilitators, meet us here.
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