Pneuma
Welcome to Pneuma—your wellness, reimagined.
I’m Daniel, a PT and health guide. On this show, we explore how to flourish physically, emotionally, and spiritually—blending practical tips with timeless wisdom to help you thrive in every way.
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- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 117
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
How to Deal with DISTRACTION with TS Eliot
“Distracted from distraction by distraction”
Look around: we’re in an inescapable loop of distraction.
How do we liberate ourselves from this endless cycle?
Borrowing from the great poet TS Eliot, th…
The “Burning Babe” Who Makes Your Heart GLOW (Christmas Episode!) | Pneuma Nuggets
“As I in hoary winter night stood shivering in the snow,
Surprised was I with sudden heat which made my heart to glow;
And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near
A Pretty Babe all burning …
“A man travels the WORLD in search of what he needs and returns HOME to find it” | Pneuma Nugget
“A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it”.
- George Moore
I hope that you enjoy this bite-sized Pneuma Nugget!
Please consider sharing this episode with a frien…
Don't Live An IMAGINARY Life In The Mind of Others
“We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others…”
Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician, inventor, and …
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad | Fall Asleep With Me
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) was a Polish-English novelist.
He was born in 1857 and died in 1924.
His twenty years spent as a sailor in the British merchant navy inspired man…
A Reflection on FRIENDS & Remembrance of Things PAST
The inspiration for this episode is a sonnet–a Shakespearean sonnet–with which you’re unlikely to be familiar;
Sonnet 30, you see, isn’t commonly ranked among Shakespeare’s finest works. It’s neither…
A Meditation For A RAINY Day: Tracing The “History Of A Single Raindrop”
“How interesting (it is) to trace the history of a single raindrop!”
In this guided meditation, we’ll join the American outdoorsman, conservationist, and writer John Muir as we contemplate the dramat…
Four Quartets by TS Eliot | The Great Poems Of All Time
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 - 1965) was an Anglo-American poet.
A devout Christian, Eliot was an important figure in the Modernist movement that sprang to life in the first quarter of the 20th century…
“Footfalls Echo In The Memory”: How To Think About And Deal With REGRET
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Toward the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden.
This is an excerpt from the first poem of TS Eliot’s masterpiece, “Four Quartets”…
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë | Fall Asleep With Me
Charlotte Brontë (nom de plume "Currer Bell") was an English novelist.
She lived between 1816 - 1855.
She was the eldest (and most gifted) of an immensely talented trio of sisters, which included Emi…
How to Think About and Deal with REMORSE, The “Poison Of Life”
“Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.”
In Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 masterpiece, “Jane Eyre”, Mr. Rochester issues this stark warning to young Jane, the n…
Alternate Nostril Breathing: Simple and SOOTHING (Tutorial and Practice for BEGINNERS)
Join me for an Alternate Nostril Breathing Session!
This simple breathing technique, to which I commit a few minutes every single day, is deceptively powerful.
Not only does it invigorate me with fre…
Middlemarch by George Eliot | Fall Asleep With Me
George Eliot (the manly nom de plume behind which Mary Ann Evans cloaked her true identity) was an English novelist.
She lived between 1819-1880.
Her most famous work, “Middlemarch” is also one of the…
What If You Had to Relive Each Moment Of Your Life Again And Again (Forever?)
What if you had to live your life not only once, but innumerable times over?
Would this be a blessing? A curse?
Would you delight in the opportunity to live it again?
Or, if you haven't lived such a …
Hidden Inside Each One of Us Is An Unimaginable “I”. Where Is Yours?
The concept of the Unimaginable “I” is one to which, so far as I can tell, the Czech-French writer, Milan Kundera, is chiefly responsible for having given life.
Kundera, twice expelled from the Czech…
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh | Fall ASLEEP With Me
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Hello everyone!
Welcome to this latest installment of “Fall Asleep With Me”.
In this series, I read classic bedtime stories and great works of literature to which you can (and most assu…
How To Breathe As Nature Intended: (Deeply) With Your DIAPHRAGM!
To breathe deeply into the abdomen with the diaphragm–that’s precisely the way in which Nature intended us to breathe!
And yet…
We’ve unlearned this simple technique (for which a remedial lesson is ur…
We’ve Surpassed 50k Downloads! And It's All Thanks to YOU!
Since its inception in Autumn of 2022, Pneuma has accumulated 50,000 downloads (almost exclusively on Spotify)!
I just want to take this opportunity to THANK everyone for supporting this channel and f…
How To MASTER Your EMOTIONS! (It's Easier Than You Think!)
Are you ready?
Here’s the secret:
Gaining mastery over your emotions is as simple as replacing one word with another.
When angry, do you say: “I am angry”?
Try this: the next time that you’re visited…
A Guided GROUNDING Meditation | My Personal Technique (ADVANCED)
Grounding (or mindfully connecting your bare feet to the earth) is one of the simplest, least expensive, and most powerful things that you can do for your health.
And guess what?
With a little guidan…