Breath As The Steering Wheel Of Life With Guest Jonathan Robert
Mon. Jan 19 AT 11:00 am ESTYour Healing Playground – Dr. Tina Koopersmith
Breath is life.
Breath is safety… or terror.
Breath is pleasure… or anxiety.
Breath is not just something we do — it is the steering wheel of the nervous system.
From our very first inhale to our very last exhale, breath is with us “til death do us part.” It quietly shapes our energy, our emotions, our thoughts, and the way we interpret every circumstance in our lives. And yet, in modern society, most of us are left entirely on our own with this most powerful tool.
No teachers.
No mentors.
No guidance.
In earlier civilizations — Native American cultures, yogic lineages, Tantric traditions — the power of breath was known, protected, practiced, and shared. Breath was understood as medicine, as prayer, as a bridge between body and spirit. Today, we are finally remembering what ancient wisdom has always known: breath has the power to heal — physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
On this episode of Your Healing Playground, I’m joined by Jonathan Robert, a breath work facilitator, retreat guide, and embodied leadership coach who helps people return to authentic alignment through breath, somatic awareness, song, and lived truth.
Jonathan’s journey is as powerful as his work.
More than 16 years ago, his life shifted dramatically — from addiction and disconnection in Las Vegas to a path rooted in yoga, embodiment, spirituality, and conscious living. His work bridges lived experience with practical tools for self-regulation, clarity, and conscious creation — helping people shorten the distance between who they are and how they live.
In this conversation, we explore:
- Why breath can instantly shift the nervous system from survival to safety
- How breath changes perception — not circumstances, but how we experience them
- The difference between practicing breath alone vs. in guided, communal spaces
- Why working with skilled facilitators can compress years of healing into minutes
- How breath reconnects us to embodiment, presence, and lived truth
Breath work is free.
It is always available.
And it is profoundly powerful.
But when we work and play with breath in community — guided by those who have walked the path — healing accelerates exponentially. What once took years can unfold in moments. What felt unreachable suddenly becomes embodied and real.
This episode is an invitation to remember that your breath is not just keeping you alive —
it is guiding you home.
Tune in to hear how Jonathan Robert transformed his life — and how breath may be the key to transforming yours.
Jonathan Robert is a breath work facilitator, retreat guide, and embodied leadership coach who supports people in returning to authentic alignment through breath, somatic awareness, song and lived truth.
His path includes a profound shift from addiction and disconnection in Las Vegas to a life rooted in yoga, spirituality, and embodiment, beginning over 16 years ago. Jonathan’s work bridges lived experience with practical tools for self-regulation, clarity, and conscious creation – helping people shorten the distance between who they are and how they live. www.livealigned.life
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~ More About Your Healing Playground with Dr. Tina Koopersmith ~
Dr. Tina Koopersmith has practiced Western medicine for over 30 years. But she is so much more than a physician. An integrative medicine and fertility specialist, she is a transformational healer and coach who not only brings life to her patients but reminds them that it is their responsibility and, in their power, to bring themselves back to vibrancy and vitality.
Root cause healing starts with energy, emotions, communication—between your cells and your soul.
As a speaker-coach-author as well as mother, nonconformist, and recovering perfectionist, she is dedicated to modifying our health care system from one focused on illness and sickness to one devoted to prevention and wellness.
She reminds us all that love, play, pleasure and purpose are the secret ingredients to wellness. She starts with the premise we all have the same parts and very similar DNA, and yet we all have different experiences and imprinting. Our unique signature means we are all wired to access safety and pleasure in a slightly different fashion; this diversity is to be praised and celebrated.
When our body feels safe, we can move from our “childhood” survival stress mode to our “Wise Sage Self”. Healing, recovery and regeneration thrive only when we stop resisting what is and celebrate all of life with acceptance of the NOW.
Health and Wellness is nourished with empathy, compassion innovation and connection—a total integration of the mind body, the heart body, the physical body and the energetic. ALL are worthy of self-care, self-acceptance and self-love.
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