Full Power puts you in the driver’s seat so you can show up at your best as an athlete, partner, parent, student, business person, servant.
About this Event

Full Power puts you in the driver’s seat of life, through functional breathing, heart rate variability (HRV) training, physical training, mindset, community, healthy risk, knowledge, and self-awareness.

We point you back to you, show you your innate control knobs, and provide the structure and support for exploration and optimization.

Whether you are an elite athlete looking to squeeze that 10% improvement, or a chronic illness sufferer restoring basic breathing and heart rate and nervous system function, or anything in between, this program will move the needle for you.

Full Power is a scientifically grounded, proven program with daily check-ins and weekly group meetings for coaching, practice, sharing, support, and further education into what makes us tick.

The program builds across seven weeks, an ideal duration for learning, testing, adjusting, and building in foundational behaviors and habits, and a strong group identity.

These are not hacks; they are alignment. And that’s where you’ll find your full power.

A robust and rich team of guest coaches and experienced guides will be alongside, providing tools in their specialty, and leading us through deeper dives into mindset, stress management and and goal-setting, breathing and airway mechanics, and sustainable fitness and alignment with ancestral and circadian health.

You will be supported, and challenged, and throughout, I will remind you that you are always in control. And that we are here to have fun, and to fully express and live life!

And we get there through the body.

Benefits

Optimized breathing for effort, rest, and daily life

Embodied emotional and physical resilience

Improved performance, sleep, and focus

Increased awareness and control of your internal state

Lifelong habits and feedback for growth

A thriving community for supports and optimization

Alignment to nature, elements, and your innate programming

Your Commitment

If you’re already working out, expect an additional 30 minutes a day. Including some seated and some moving breathing exercises, and HRV biofeedback. As well as sleeping with mouth tape on. Or at least aiming to achieve that. Daily in-app communication with your buddy group. And eight one-hour Monday 7:00 pm EST Zoom group meetings.

The Breathing

Most athletes train everything except their breathing, leaving 10% performance on the table. Breathing is the remote control of your nervous system. And your nervous system determines your experience of life. Learn to control your breathing, and you learn to control your performance. The breathing component of Full Power is based on Oxygen Advantage https://oxygenadvantage.com/, designed to improve functional and performance breathing. Over the course of the program, we establish your personal breathing baselines, learn about the biomechanics, biochemistry, and psychology around breathing performance and improvement, build and execute a program to normalize and optimize your breathing, track progress and adjust as needed.

Exercises include reduced breathing, meditation, nasal-only workouts, mouth taping at night, cadence breathing (like box breathing), light and strong breath holds, breath separation, hypoxic hypercapnic training, and use of Buteyko Belt and SportsMask. To improve CO2 tolerance, O2 exchange, calm breathing patterns, and train you to relax into difficult situations. Each person’s program will be customized (and continuously recalibrated) to meet you where you are.

Communication

Daily text check-ins from me. You will also be paired with another athlete (or athletes) in the program, and a different one each week; we will talk about the value of peer support and accountability. It is powerful. You will miss a lot if you do not communicate. In fact, lack of communication is one thing that keeps people sub-optimal. And finding your voice opens the world to you.

The Team

I have been partnering with my favorite complementary practitioners, for greater depth and range of exploration, to enrich your understanding and tools for showing up fully in life. They will be providing sessions and workshops across the 7 weeks of the program. Exact participation TBA.

They are:

Coach, Fittest on Earth 2014: Primal Movement
Registered Nurse & Health Coach, Holistic Human Optimization: Good Energy
Functional Neuro Practitioner, Integrative Manual Therapist: Body Software

I am also blessed with excellent assistants, highly experienced guides who will be there every step of the way to reflect and provide wisdom:

Karla Weeks, veteran of the program and assistant since 2021; she has a deep understanding of how to guide you.
Shea Craighead, veteran of the program, professional photographer, intuitive guide.

Why is HRV a big deal? Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is a key indicator of the resilience of your nervous system. It tells you how ready you are to engage, or whether you need to recover.

A healthy heart and nervous system respond nimbly to your needs; your heart rate varies constantly and dynamically. An exhausted heart and nervous system become a metronome: very little variability. So we take a hard look at HRV.

HRV directly correlates to blood pressure, breath rate, and heart rate. Which correlate to state of mind, and sense of calm and peace. In this program, HRV measurement and biofeedback will be used to supplement and optimize breathing and performance targets. The goal is for you to achieve greater awareness, relaxation, and overall feeling of wellness and strength, as well as greater faith in your own body as a machine to propel you through the experiences you want in life.

Using the Lief device, will track HRV as well as learn to modulate it. To bring yourself back into a resilient state more quickly. Ultimately, so that you no longer need the device for feedback; you learn to feel your body’s states and can change them at will. Which is true freedom.

Why Biofeedback?

Because biofeedback is one of the most powerful technologies humans and nature have ever invented. It allows you to directly improve yourself, through your own signals, to yourself. You learn to recognize your own internal state, something many of us simply have become deaf to, or never learned to feel.

Learning About Lief

Full Power uses the Lief device for HRV monitoring and biofeedback. You’ll be wearing it for a few hours a day. It is a clinical grade EKG patch that sits on your left chest wall and directly reads your heart signals. It calibrates to your body’s specific HRV and uses haptic feedback to cue breathing changes when your HRV moves below a configurable level. You can’t manage what you can’t measure. And like driving without headlights at night, most of us aren’t aware of our state. HRV biofeedback will begin to move you into state awareness.

I will be offering 30-min zooms on HRV and the Lief device prior to program launch. I highly recommend you attend. My goal is that you have the Lief device working and ready and you are familiar with how it functions before we launch.

Reference

To get us started, here are introductory materials and a few extras for exploration:

Ryan Munsey’s Better Human Project podcast interview w Patrick McKeown

How to measure your BOLT score

3M Durapore tape - (for mouth taping)

Lief onboarding videos

My amateur but useful Lief orientation videos

You

The practices are simple but powerful. You will get out of them what you put into them. The most important things you bring to this work are a can-do attitude, consistency, and open honest communication. Everything else will take care of itself.

Intake

This is a widely applicable program; I titrate it to your level of overall health. Nonetheless, if you have specific health concerns, contact me directly to discuss. Always undertake any breathing or exercise program in consultation with your health care provider. I look forward to working with you!

Payment

$2000

Venmo: @Robert-Soulliere

Paypal: [email protected]

Weekly Group Meetings and Agenda

Proposed agenda, subject to change, but this is definitely the overall trajectory. There will very likely be additional optional practice drop-ins throughout the program.

All weekly meetings are on Zoom

All are on Mondays, 7:00-8:00 pm EST (Launch is 7:00-9:00 pm EST)

1/13: LAUNCH

Orientation

Who are we?

Breathing mechanics, chemistry, cadence, and mindset

Exercises

Demo and practice

Week 1 program

Q&A

1/20: Week 1 Seminar

Nose and Diaphragm