The Power of Breath on The Struggles of Life with Hannes Bend - HHP#17

On this episode we have the super man Hannes Bend. Hannes shares his birth trauma story, the art of forgiveness, and how the power of breathing can turn you into a super human.  Hannes Bend started the company breathing.ai focusing on well-being with screen experiences using machine learning (deep breathing + deep learning).   Breathing awareness and deep breathing have enabled Hannes to overcome life-long stress symptoms and anxiety after birth trauma and cerebral palsy.    Hannes has been working as an artist and researcher internationally, recently in neuroscience at The University Oregon and published papers on Virtual Reality, visual stimuli, and meditation.   The studies of Bend’s team from The Institute of Neuroscience and Quantum Physics Alemàn Lab at the University of Oregon won “Best Presentation Award in the panel “Wellbeing Computing: AI meets Health and Happiness Science” at the Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Spring Symposia 2016 at Stanford University. Research and Augmented and Virtual Reality projects were also developed and/or presented at MIT Media Lab, Harvard University, Frost Museum of Science, The Rubin Museum of Art among others. Over the past five years, Hannes Bend has been working with 50+ scientists, psychologists, developers, and artists from renowned universities and created multiple continents for VR/AR biofeedback projects, also for Wim “The Iceman” Hof.   Hannes also guides mindfulness, yoga and breathing in schools (for the nonprofit Mission Be), offices (e.g. WeWork HQ), jail complex Rikers Island, workshops in yoga studios, private clients at year-round for his meetup "Breathe NY" at Elizabeth Street Garden.  Hannes believes a conscious experience and guidance of breathing can fundamentally improve life quality and peace in the world.    Connect with Hannes:   Personal Website|www.hannesbend.com/ Breathing guidance|http://www.webreathions.com/ Hannes Company| http://www.breathing.ai/   Instagram| @hannesbend   Linkedin| https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannesbend/   Meetup group in NYC| https://www.meetup.com/breatheny/   You can connect with us at: Website| http://hiddenhealthmedia.com/   Instagram| Jessie: https://www.instagram.com/jessiemegrelishvili/  Ruben: https://www.instagram.com/rubenrezz/   Facebook| https://www.facebook.com/hiddenhealthmedia    Check out the latest blog at:  http://hiddenhealthmedia.com/blog/