Season 2 – Episode 12: Master Your Breath, Transform Your Leadership
In this powerful episode, I’m joined by Christopher August, transformation guide, master breathwork facilitator and co-founder of the Beats & Breathwork app. We dive into Christopher’s incredible story from a corporate career to a soul-led journey that took him to Tanzania with the Peace Corps, through near-death experiences, and into the heart of breath as a tool for healing and awakening.
We explore:
The spiritual power of your first breath (and why it matters)
Breathwork as a gateway to transformation and expanded consciousness
How trauma and energy are stored in the body—and how breath can unlock them
The future of leadership in a post-collapse paradigm
Human 2.0, solar shifts, the Gene Keys, and what’s coming in 2027
Why your vibration shapes your reality—and how to raise it through breath
This is more than a conversation—it’s a transmission for those navigating personal transformation and planetary evolution.
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Episode Transcript:
Cameron
On today's episode, I'm here with Christopher August. Christopher is a transformation guide, master breathwork facilitator and the co -founder of Beats and Breathwork app and wellness hub, who's on a mission to create a more conscious connected world, one breath at a time. I'm excited to share this space with you today. Welcome Christopher.
Christopher August
Yeah, thank you for having me. Appreciate you.
Cameron
Yeah, you're very welcome. We're going to get into your story, of course, in just a moment. But I pulled up your birth chart. Want to say a couple of things about your birth chart. And so have you ever had your birth chart read before?
Christopher August
I have. I've had a couple astrology readings over the years, which I find extremely fascinating, but haven't had my chart read in a little while. So it'll be great to hear whatever you have to say.
Cameron
Okay, we'll go with it. So I'll say a couple of things. It won't go too, too intimate for the audience, but I'll share some things with you. So, Sun and Capricorn and several planets actually in Capricorn in your 10th house. So your mission on this planet is pretty important to you. The work that you do achieving, leaving behind some sort of a legacy, however you understand that, is pretty important to you. The way in which you do your work is very unique.
and should be connected to sharing your voice, your ideas, your thoughts, your perspectives, your philosophies on things. You probably do like to travel and connect with cultures and people from all over the world. In fact, that's part of your work in some respects. You are someone who is quite spiritually gifted and has a sense that when people are around you, they sense optimism and good luck and good fortune, but there is something, I don't even maybe shamanic even about you that people feel when they're in your presence, which I think is pretty cool. You are someone that personal growth and transformation, a big part of who you are. You love it and you have a lot of power, personal power when it comes to any sort of personal growth journey and supporting others in that. Now I understand the work that you do and you'll share more about that. But for sure, personal growth and development, the Scorpionic themes of life and psychology are super important to who you are as a being. You also have a love for humanity and a love for all things below the surface and spiritual, non -physical transcendent of this particular realm. To say, I suppose you could say, you know, new earth guide in many ways. You really do love humanity and where we're going.
You actually have a grand trine in your chart, which is a pretty rare sort of connection here between, I won't say which three planets, but I will say that your voice is very important. Learning to harness the power of your voice is very important. And you're learning a lot of lessons around self and expressing yourself and showing up and creating and sharing your gifts with others. So how do we do?
Christopher August
I would say you're spot on. I would say that is extremely accurate. Yes, 100%.
Cameron
Yeah
Cameron
And so I'm gonna let you of course share how that story goes. But we'll start there actually. So what really marked the beginning of your spiritual journey and sort of your awakening?
Christopher August
Hmm. Yeah. You know, I think there's many catalyst points for me that I can think off off the top of my head. But, you know, really where it really kicked off was in about 2008. I was in college and during the during that time, there definitely was some. Expansive thinking happening where I was starting to question some things and, you know, I was always.
I would consider myself outside of the box, a little fringe in many ways, and always asking deeper questions that was always a part of my nature. But it really started to open up at that point. as I started to do so, I was gifted a book, which was sort of that, you know, everybody remembers kind of that first book within this realm, what kind of transpired as you read that. for me, that was Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian Weiss. And so it...
Christopher August
It just confirmed, yeah, for sure. And it just confirmed that, you know, there is more to this reality. There is this sense in what I believe to be reincarnation and where our souls are recycled through this planet in many ways. And we have these different experiences. So all of that was very validating and confirming for what I already had thought. And then to fast forward a few years, I was in the corporate world. I finished my master's degree and I was just numb.
You know, I was disconnected. I was having a good time. You know, I was 26. I was partying. I was having a lot of fun. But there was still just this emptiness that kind of like lived inside me, this void space. And without getting into all the details, essentially, you know, I was asking for a sign, asking for what is where am I supposed to be? Because here on paper at 26, I'm.
making good money, I'm climbing the corporate ladder, the vice president of the companies liking what I'm doing. You know, I'm have enough money to go have fun, take a vacation, you know, all these things that are great, materially, but spiritually, I was just very much sucked dry. There wasn't any sort of life in there. And so I asked for a sign and one day on the drive home, I was looking on the highway and there was a billboard say, are you ready to answer the call?
and on this billboard in the right -hand corner that's sponsored by the Peace Corps. And so was very intrigued by what's the Peace Corps? What is this organization? And am I ready to answer what call? there was an inner calling, but I just didn't know what it was. It was very mysterious in that way, but also very intriguing. And so I went home, Googled the Peace Corps, found out that it's an American grassroots.
Cameron
Yeah, what is the car you're talking about?
Christopher August
sort of organization sponsored by the American government. They send people to 80 different countries around the world to volunteer in many sectors of life, health, business, agriculture, teaching English and so on. And so I was immediately infatuated with this idea because there was a depth of me that wanted to help people, wanted to travel the world, wanted to find deeper purpose and meaning. All of these things that were calling me, I just didn't know how that would transpire.
So I went through the application process and I found myself about a year and a half later boarding a plane to Tanzania, Africa, where I lived there for two years. So that in itself was the catalyst to get me to sort of question even deeper and to discover myself. But I'll pause there before I go any deeper than that.
Cameron
Yeah, because I definitely want to explore Tanzania for sure. actually, I do want to explore if you remember, obviously you saw this billboard, what's this call? Call. Life's good, but maybe there's something in me that says I want more. Would you say that this might have been one of the first times that you were like learning to listen to your higher self or your guides, your soul, however you might want to speak to that or?
Were you kind of familiar with this feeling?
Christopher August
I would say that I've always been intuitive without maybe saying that word intuitive, but there's been like this, I can sense energy and I can sense, I can just tune into myself when something resonates with me. So maybe I wouldn't have put the same language or terminology around it as I maybe I would now, but there was this sort of sense within me when I knew something within myself. I'm like, okay, I need to follow this. I don't know what this is, but I need to follow.
Cameron
I've talked about this with different people in the show before and my own life, I would describe as I've had many trust falls with the universe, we'll say, where you get this like, this is a calling and I don't understand at all why or like where this is going, but I can feel it and I know it. And for me, you know, moving across the country from Massachusetts to San Diego, that was one of them. When I received guidance to move from San Diego to Maui, that was one of them.
Christopher August
Mm.
Cameron
when I received guidance for many months about moving to Los Angeles, that was one of them. All of mine were connected to moves in some way, but there have been others as well, where there's these deep like, I know this inside of me. I feel it in my gut. I know it in my being. And I'm just going to jump and kind of see what happens. Now I've been shown multiple times or every single time actually that the universe will support you and you'll be shown what comes next.
I've learned to live my life in this way. And my listeners have heard stories before, but I'm curious what that trust fall was for you moving to Tanzania.
Christopher August
Yeah, you know, I can very much resonate with what you shared there. For me, moving and having lived in many places, there's always that calling. It just kind of happens, right? And, you know, for me, there was it was a big, big decision, obviously, because, you know, I had been living in Buffalo, New York. I had my comfort zone of all my friends. You know, I had this secure job to leave all of that to move to.
not only in other country, but a place where everything's very primitive, right? There's no electricity. There's no modern amenities. It's 8 ,000 miles away from home. You know, it's a pretty big monumental decision. you know, overall, the fear that maybe have, you know, came up and some anxiety that came up at the time, I knew that if I didn't make that decision, then I would live in regret. And that's the last thing I want from this incarnation is to live in
Any sort of regrets I'm like no fuck it like let's do this. So that's the sound I'm kind of an all -in type of person I'm pretty intense like that. Just kind of like let's let's see what happens the worst case I can come home, right?
Cameron
Exactly. Worst case you can come home. Well, that's your Pluto and Scorpio, which is generational for us. That's the millennial generation, but where it is in your chart. Yeah. You like to push yourself, to the point of absolute growth. Phoenix rising. We'll call it that. interesting. So then when you were in Tanzania, what were you doing there?
Christopher August
Yeah, so I was a health and business volunteer. So essentially to break that down in simple, straightforward terms, I was teaching at the primary school some different things about nutrition and basic things. I also built and had a rainwater catchment tank put in at the school so they have some level of clean water. I had solar panels installed and then I did a
business project where I work with nine community members, these women in the community that had a problem where all of their crops, you know, they had them left over. They would try to sell them in town, but, you know, they couldn't sell all of them. So they have all this extra crops that they couldn't do anything with. And so we started a little village eatery in my village and where people can come and get a plate of rice and beans, know, chicha, which is spinach and some other basic Tanzanian staples.
And so that was a great project as well. So yeah, I did several things, but really at the end of the day, it's like all about just, you know, creating relationships. That's like what the whole experience is about. It's like just creating relationships with people and, you know, that in itself was extremely profound to live amongst the community in this way, you know, whereas coming from the Western world, it's very individualized and stagnant.
any form of community, you know, it's very difficult in that way. So yeah, all in all, that was pretty much it.
Cameron
Yeah, well, in Buffalo, New York, you got a lot of snow, so you stay inside your home, In the winters, yeah, of course. So I grew up in New England and Massachusetts, but it's not Buffalo. Although we get plenty of snow too. Okay, so you went and sought to have some sort of experience of self, wanting to know more about who you were and your purpose. And aside from community, which sounds like an extremely important lesson that came from.
Christopher August
In the winters, yes.
Cameron
What else did you discover about yourself?
Christopher August
Yeah, there's many things there. know, I, aside from working, you know, it was a very much a self -reflection period, you know, two years living primally, no electricity, like I mentioned, no running water, know, modern amenities, you know, cooking over a charcoal stove or a wood, wood burning, you know, clay pot. There was a lot there that I learned about myself, of course, and
you know, having to live this daily life within this community. but you know, it really allowed me to go inwards and it was there, you know, I picked up different forms of meditation and yoga and, you know, there wasn't much else to do, but read, write, meditate, and just, you know, be amongst the elements in nature. So it really was a great reflection time for me to really, you know, start to understand or understand, you know, what it is.
that I'm here to do on this planet. Cause I had just left the corporate world. Now I'm here with these questions, these deep questions. Why am I here? What is my purpose? How can I serve? All of these things. it was a lot of inquiry met with a lot of challenge. There's a lot of emotional instability, a lot of deep, deep process of working with and moving through many fears. There was a really big
emotional makeover, mental makeover for myself, spiritual makeover overall. So yeah, it was very powerful.
Cameron
Hmm. I definitely want to, I mean, I'm going to ask you how your story kind of progressed to do the work you're doing now, but this sounds like it's so foundational for you. I'm curious even today, perhaps you think about this, but what are the lessons that would you call this the undeveloped world or the developing world?
Christopher August
Perhaps developing, yeah. To be politically correct, I don't know.
Cameron
Okay, I'm not quite sure. Yeah, I don't know. well, experiences like that versus what is experienced in the developed world, because you're talking about having essentially a lot of space to kind of just be and be in nature and connect with whatever is present around you. Whereas in the Western world and in our modern lives, my God, distraction upon distraction upon distraction, which honestly can make the spiritual journey
for a lot of people unattainable. I would argue that's why so much of the distractions so that you become disconnected from self. But I'm just curious from your own experience, I don't want to put words in your mouth. What sort of spiritual lessons do you think we can gain? Maybe you gained from that time, but that we can learn in the West that perhaps we're not aware of because of our ways of being.
Christopher August
Hmm great question. Well, I don't know if I would call them lessons so much but more so teachings You are absolutely correct in saying that a lot of the reason in which we maybe Don't have that deep of connection and we've lost touch with ourselves is because of the distractions information overload all the time and that really creates a lot of
noise internally, mentally. And when you don't have that noise, when you don't have that interference, something else opens up. And what opens up is a new vista of possibility and potentiality listening to the voice of your soul versus the voice of your ego. Right. And that's really the difference is like that whole aspect just opens up completely when you have stillness, when you have silence and
You know, in the villages, you know, and living amongst these elements in this way, there is a very, very profound connection that you can have with yourself and with with the universe. mean, you look up at the sky and you see, I mean, you can see the Milky Way, you can see everything. It's like someone threw glitter over the sky. It's incredible. So there's a deep introspection that happens as a result of that. And through that, I learned
So many things, many things that still support me in this day, lessons of surrender, of acceptance, of trust, all of these things which are pivotal and fundamental to our spiritual development.
Cameron
Yeah, you're speaking to, I mean, this fundamental idea that our connection to nature and I would extend to the cosmos, you know, not the same, but my time in Maui was very transformative in a similar way in the sense that connection to nature, I mean, my goodness, the nature is alive, the spirits, the mana, the ancestors, is.
Christopher August
Mmm.
Cameron
literally potent, you breathe it, you go for a walk in the forest and you're like, my God, this place is totally alive. You know, the energy on the beaches and honestly, just the way that the Hawaiians are connected to nature around them and their understanding. So for me, it was deeply powerful in a similar way. And also being in the middle of nowhere out in the ocean, my God, the stars, I mean, the astrologer loved it because there were so many stars and
Probably similar, although we still had cities, but similar, glitter thrown up in the sky. like that. Here in Los Angeles, I'm lucky if I can see the moon, which is a little depressing for me. But nonetheless, I feel like I learned, I know that I learned so much about connection to nature and
really what that means about us spiritually. And then yeah, now being here, it's a very different experience altogether. So I definitely feel resonance there with you. So, okay, so after this experience, what happened next? Did you go back to your life and took another job or what?
Christopher August
Yeah.
Christopher August
Well, I did go back to Buffalo, which, know, in timing, in hindsight, the timing was really bad because it was going into winter. So it was just like super depressing. And I actually fell into a pretty deep depression for about six months. You know, I had what people may call reverse culture shock coming back and just seeing the consumerist nature of America and all of the bullshit, right, that people complain about. It's like this doesn't matter at all.
So I was really in this existential crisis once again, and really went into this dark night. yeah, overall, after pulling myself out of that, I had come back with my girlfriend at the time or my fiance, we had gotten engaged there. And she was very helpful in supporting me in this process because she was also...
you know, from the States was a Peace Corps volunteer, had her own turmoil and struggles. So we were kind of getting through it together, but went on to, yeah, I ended up working at an herbal shop. I was very interested in herbs. was getting my certification in herbalism. I was going for a certain other certification in breath work and, really just exploring these different realms that, for me, we're very interesting.
and something that I wanted to pursue, but just didn't really know how it looked. So between working at an herb shop, working and starting a podcast, which I ended up doing, there was, yeah, just some curiosities and some things I was doing to really explore this entrepreneurial lifestyle.
Cameron
you weren't going back to corporate America.
Christopher August
There was no way that I was doing that, but there was a little hitch in the story, which is a little bit later on. ended up going back to not corporate America, but actually having to utilize my master's degree for about a year and a half when my son was born, which was very interesting. But it was actually at my old university and it was like a very easy job. And I was able to build my business completely on the side doing that.
Cameron
Cool. Well, I do want to hear about the business and the work that you're doing now. I'm going to ask a question about breath work, but if this is a jump, you can pick up your story wherever you like. But, you one of the things that I share with all of my clients and we started this conversation with your birth chart. And when you're looking at a birth chart is that essentially it is a blueprint for your life and where did it begin? Well, the moment of your first breath.
And the idea is that your first breath on this planet, wherever you were, had an energetic signature, and that becomes part of who you are and how you navigate this world. And so I'm giving you a little open here to describe the power of breath, but essentially recognizing that our life begins and ends with breath. And it is such a transformative and powerful tool for spiritual discovery.
I'll let you go where you want to with that little opening and maybe we're not there in your story yet and you can tell me that, but I'm curious where the breath practice came in for you.
Christopher August
No, let's roll with it. I love that as well. Thanks for sharing that. Well, I'll back up a little bit. When I was in Tanzania, went to a New Year's Eve party in Zimbabwe. There was like a music festival and I had traveled there. And when I was there, there was many different experiences happening. One mostly adrenaline filled experiences where on the Zambezi River, which is like
Gorgeous place. They were doing whitewater rafting and for some reason my Myself my higher self told me that's a good idea go rat raft on the Zambezi River you never rafted in your life and Which is like if you know about the Zambezi, it's one of the more chaotic rivers in the world actually and they're known for their really extreme rapids and so I ended up signing up for this whitewater rafting trip and
That experience was another pivotal point in Catalyst where, you know, moving into about the 12th or 13th rapid, it was a class five rapid. I was in the front left of the boat and we had hit the first rapid on that entire rapid, which was very long. And I had got ejected from the boat and fell into the water and rode the rapid all the way through. And
If you can imagine a Class 5 Rapid, which is really reserved for professionals, it's very intense. And so I was...
Cameron
Yeah, this is like close to death scenario, yeah?
Christopher August
It was. Yeah. Yeah. So it was the edge of death for me. So I was I actually pretty much drowned in that experience. And I was very rapidly. hit these rocks. I don't even really fully remember. this kayaker yanked me out of the water and pulled me on onto the boat or onto the kayak. And he was just like pumping my chest. And I was like coughing up all this water. And so
That was the moment. The reason I share that is because that was the moment where I had lost my breath. I had almost died and I then regained consciousness, regained my breath. And from that point, it was like, whoa, I needed to, I didn't think this in the moment, but you know, down the line, as I reflected on this, I needed to have that experience to know that never take your breath for granted, you know, and your breath is
the most powerful tool that you have, yet it's the most underlooked and overlooked by society. We just take it for granted because it's a survival function, a mechanism that keeps us alive and that's automatic. But when we actually tune into it, when we bring conscious awareness and intention to our breathing, then we actually discover that it's much more than just this
Function this fundamental force of keeping us alive. It's it's a gateway. It's a key. It's a you know, it's it's a key to liberation. It's a key to freedom and there is a lot of beautiful powerful transformative experiences you can have by just using your breath and in fact, I'm in the process of getting my book edited which is called many Master your breath transform your life
And the whole concept of this book is to bring awareness to the power and the potential of breath for healing, for awakening, for expansion, for manifestation. Pretty much you can tie it into everything. So yeah, I'll stop there for a second. I can keep going, but we'll leave it there.
Cameron
It's perfect. Well, we don't have to interrupt the breath. Let it go. Actually, I'm curious though. You are sort of answering it, but I want to be more explicit maybe for listeners who are not familiar with breath work. So what is that? And you have been talking about it, but how would you define it? And why would anybody care on a spiritual journey?
Christopher August
Yeah
Christopher August
Mm -hmm. Yeah.
Christopher August
Yeah, great question. So breath work, as I define it and will define it very simply here, is just the conscious act of breathing. It's an active meditation in which we begin to allow our awareness to expand as well as to improve our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well -being. And the way in which that happens is all through the way in which we regulate ourselves, which is
directly correlated with the nervous system. So with breath work, you're essentially breathing in different rhythms. There's sympathetic breathing. There's really two types of breathing. There's different practices and styles, but there's two types of breathing, sympathetic breathing, parasympathetic breathing. Sympathetic breathing is active, energetic, fast -paced breathing to induce in a certain state, which can be found in...
the likes of holotropic breath work, rebirthing breath work and so forth, which I'll get into in a bit. And then on the parasympathetic side, it's more slow, steady breathing, which is more so to calm the fight or flight response in the sympathetic nervous system and create a parasympathetic state where we're more relaxed, grounded, present, connected, clear, peaceful, joyful and so on. That all comes from that experience of
parasympathetic breathing. Now, most people are stuck in a fight or flight response, which means that most people, all people have endured some level of wounding, of trauma, of conditioning, of programming, which has all resulted in a dysregulated breath pattern. And that dysregulated breath pattern manifests oftentimes as shallow breathing from the chest,
holding the breath and you'll find this out very quickly when you just start to bring awareness to just a few deep breaths. You start to feel, wow, I've been holding my breath or I've been breathing shallow from the chest. know, most people take about 16 breaths per minute, which is way too much. And that is, you know, equated to 23 ,000 breaths on average we breathe a day. So think about this, when you bring
Christopher August
just a small fraction or percentage of awareness to your breath, you can really begin to shift things. But when we're unconscious and we're breathing, we don't notice until we actually find that, when I begin to work with my breath, everything begins to change. Because essentially what you're doing is shifting your state energetically, vibrationally, and that reverberates through your emotional body, mental body, and physical
Cameron
So much to share in response to that. I'll share a bit from my own experience and then obviously have you respond. But the power of breath, I noticed just the other day, mean, I actually just in our conversation when you said 16 breaths per minute, I instantly noticed my body slow down his breath. Like my body was like 16, then I must do less.
Christopher August
Beautiful.
you
Cameron
But to be honest, the last few weeks for me have been very big, a lot of change, a lot of growth, a lot of inner patterns that I'm recognizing, a lot of work. I've spent a lot of time in front of a computer and I've noticed just general sort of tightness in the body. And the other day I was in the shower and I was like, wow, my breathing is so shallow right now. And I really honestly recognized it.
And it was a beautiful indicator of just my state of being. Now on the podcast I talk about, and we'll get into this too, being centered leadership and what it means to actually become aware of your being. And one of the most powerful ways to do that, become aware of your state of being is to recognize your breath and whatever other sensations are going on in the body, but your breath. And that's when it was very clear to me that night. I was like, okay, I need to.
shipped this because first of all, it just doesn't feel good. And it's affecting my state of being and my thinking and it feels stressed and whatever. I was like, okay, I need to do something intentional to shift this. But I think about, know, I grew up a singer and so I was a singer in the choir very young. And then even into my teen years, I became a choir director and I was a cantor and I was paid to sing and I did
Christopher August
Mmm.
Cameron
vocal lessons, and I was in several musicals, and I actually sang behind stage for the leads. So like singing was always really important to me, and the experience of creation that happens through the voice with breath. And all of that is about breath. I mean, if you're doing any sort of vocal work, and if you've ever done any sort of vocal work, then you know that essentially everything about singing is breathing.
Christopher August
Yep, precisely.
Cameron
and controlling breath and recognizing the breath and honestly, learning to use your diaphragm and well, not just that, but your diaphragm and other cavities to sing in certain ways. And it was very interesting because I have just recently been working with a body worker where we've been doing some really interesting work around where I'm holding energy and trauma and things in my own body. A lot of that being kind of up here.
For those of you who are listening, I'm pointing to sort of my clavicle area chest and then also in and around the abdomen. And I'm aware of what these particular patterns are and what I'm holding onto and all that. But as we were doing this work, he actually said to me, goes, honestly, the fact that you have as powerful a diaphragm and your ability to sing the way that you do is astounding because you're holding so much in this area.
And all to say, you know, the breath is the entry point for all of this. And it's not just about like, okay, yeah, you came into this world and you're breathing and there's that, but this is a thing that most of us aren't bringing conscious awareness to, as you mentioned, because it does happen.
Christopher August
Hmm.
Cameron
without us thinking about it. But when we bring conscious awareness to breath, we can shift a lot of things. And rather than reality happening to us, we actually can very literally create our reality by altering our state of consciousness in breath work. So I mentioned singing and for me, I do like breath work. Although in the past I've had my own.
hangups about it. Honestly, I thought it was kind of boring until I found some practitioners I was very interested in and I've had some extremely powerful experiences with breathwork that are otherworldly, that are transcendent. I've seen my guides, I've seen Christ, I've seen so many other beings through breathwork. And I've never, I've not to this point felt drawn to do any sort of plant medicines.
Christopher August
Hmm.
Cameron
deeply sensitive, psychically anyway, so it just has not been the moment for that. But breath has always been an access point to these other things. And as you said, this is right here in our bodies. It's right here with us. So I said a bit here, but I'll let you respond. However, maybe you've heard people talk like this before.
Christopher August
No, I appreciate you sharing all of that. And yeah, just, you know, mirroring back, reflecting back what you shared. Like, yeah, the breath is instrumental in using our voice and how we speak, how we sing, how we, whatever it might be. And interesting enough, my business partner in Beats & Breath, who creates all the music and journeys for our breathwork sessions, Johnny, he's a professional beatboxer.
And that's another aspect of like really using your breath, really understanding the mechanics of breath. So yeah, I mean, the breath really spans across, it plays into various and many different aspects of our life. But to your point as well, know, most people are holding and storing some level of trauma within their bodies. The body is a repository for memories and for information and things that we've experienced in our lives will hold on to that.
as the stored energy that, you know, unless released will begin to cause all sorts of problems and what we would call dis -ease is all manifestation of the energy that's been stored in our body. So, you know, most of the time we look at the Western medical system and you see
just symptoms trying to be fixed en masse and trying to fix it from a physical level, but it's not on the physical level. It's energetic. The physical is the last manifestation of the energetic. So it's like when you work energetically with your breath and with other tools such as body work and so forth, you get to then dissolve and transmute those patterns, therefore freeing the life force within you
And that life force is the actual healing force that heals your body.
Cameron
My audience is going to be very familiar with what you just said, of course. And some of the work that I do is quantum healing hypnosis technique or QHHT, is directly, Dolores Cannon, yeah, which is directly related to this idea, of course, that your body is essentially a big storage device for memories, for energy, and your DNA does store this.
Christopher August
Beautiful Dolores Cannon.
Cameron
just awareness to things great because your body's talking all the time. If you're overweight or dealing with a chronic health issue or whatever it might be, there's something you are holding on to or dealing with or not dealing with that needs to be paid attention to and through something like a past life regression or many other modalities. QHHT is past life regression but...
we can come to understand what those things are and what those symptoms are showing. I've had extremely powerful experiences, know, actually speaking of breath with a client who had lung cancer and a tumor on her lung. And in one session, mind you, we figured out her higher self came through, her subconscious came through and told her exactly what this came from. And essentially she was surprised holding her breath.
and feeling suffocated in a relationship and needed to speak her truth, essentially. And she needed to have an experience of being cared for versus caring for other people. And so her consciousness quite literally created the experience in her body of cancer so that she could learn these things about herself. And when she did, I mean, this was one of the best,
Christopher August
Yes.
Cameron
as client sessions, but when she understood the root of these things and when she took the action that, you know, her higher self gave her, within three months, she cured herself of her cancer. Her doctors were like, what the hell happened to you? One hypnosis session and boom, all of this is gone. And she was thrilled, of course, three months in saying, you know, my doctor said that the tumor is practically gone and da da da.
and within six, she was cancer free. Now, what is that? It is what you're saying here, that our consciousness is created, excuse me, other way around, our body is created by our consciousness. Our consciousness is what's actually creating our physical form. And if you're experiencing a symptom, as you said, that's the end of the line. Like you've actually missed something along the way.
Christopher August
Wow. Yeah, I believe it. That's powerful.
Cameron
You've been missing the messages to the point where your body is starting to physically show you what's going on, right? Kidney issues, probably dealing with the ancestral. Lung issues, probably dealing with breath or holding your breath or grief, right? Or things like grief usually. If it's cancer, it's usually anger that's being stored in the body that hasn't been processed, right? And
Christopher August
Brief, yeah, yeah.
Cameron
You know, we're not necessarily told that this is what's happening, but when you start to see it, it's pretty darn clear. Like, the body is showing me that this is happening. And ultimately we talk about hypnosis, which is just an altered form of consciousness or state of consciousness. How did we get there? Through breath. Essentially by slowing your breath down enough to shift your consciousness so that you're in a theta state in that particular case.
so that you have access to these other dimensions of your being, but it's exactly what you're talking about here.
Christopher August
You absolutely now on that for sure. That's it. And, you know, to just extend one more level further, essentially to kind of complete the energy conversation. We, when breathing consciously, slowly and intentionally are shifting. Like I mentioned this word state, we're shifting our vibrational state and our vibration is what dictates everything. Right. That is essentially where
everything comes from and created from is our vibrational energy frequency that we're putting out into the world. So if we are stuck in a lower vibrational state, meaning perhaps under the hooks and guise of shame or guilt or, you know, deep grief or anger or rage or any of these things, fear, all of that is eating away.
at us and creating the manifestation of that disease. And so when we breathe and we make this a practice, we shift our state and raise into a higher state of energy in which then that becomes our reality. So it all begins on that.
foundational level of energy and then it reverberates through all aspects of our life experience because essentially this is one grand projection of our consciousness this video game we call life.
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Cameron
So I'm gonna shift our conversation slightly to an aspect of that game that we call leadership. And so as a central focus to my work is really about supporting people in understanding and living, but also leading from their soul's purpose. And whether people think that they're a leader or not officially, right, with some title, some external title. If you're connected with your soul's
like your soul and your purpose. And if you're in your healing journey, my argument is that you are leading by default because your energetics, everything you just said is going to influence those around you. And so the conversation that we have on this show a lot and that I teach is around, you know, being a centered leadership. So recognizing our being, doing that first and honoring the beingness of others so that essentially we influence and we can.
have an impact, not because we're manipulating and controlling, but because leadership is a natural expression of our being. And so I'm really curious how you see the intersection in your work, how you see the intersection of spirituality and leadership, but maybe more specifically, breath and leadership. I'm curious for you.
Christopher August
Yeah, it's a great introduction to a really multi -dimensional topic. But to break down leadership and how I view leadership is very much on the same page as what you just shared. And a really solid leader, right? What we see in the world today is not leadership. We may call them the free world leader. They aren't leaders. They're essentially just
Cameron
controllers and actors.
Christopher August
Yeah, exactly. And puppets to this game that we're playing. And there's no leadership capacity at all. It's void, actually. A true leader is extremely self -aware, is understanding of one's perhaps strengths and weaknesses, gifts, talents, abilities, and is then proactively living in the world from this place of soul, from this place of heart.
Cameron
puppets.
Christopher August
and is in service to something greater than themselves and is giving back and supporting humanity to grow, evolve and expand. And really what we will begin to see after this turning point, and we're already starting to see it, but more so in the next five, 10, 15 years, is that we're gonna have to be called these
these of us, those of us that are doing this work, inner work, mean, to step into a capacity of leadership. Because the old structures and the systems are dying, right? We're in the crumbling phase right now. And so on the other, on the back end of this is gonna need to be new structures, new innovations, new things being built, and more importantly, people that are in positions of true leadership that are
really serving from this greater place. And there's a term in the Ginkis, which is a system that I very much am involved in, and it's called, Synergy. And Synergy is a way in which the future may look in terms of how we view leadership. It's more horizontal. There's many leaders in one that are making decisions on the better half of the whole versus the hierarchy
which is oftentimes rooted in many shadows in which we see many of the corporations being led and the country being led and everything else being led. It's a top -down style where basically one person is calling the shots. They may have board members and other people helping with those decisions, but overall it's a very skewed level. We need to get back to true coherence and collaboration and synarchy.
and the manifestation of leadership through that lens is gonna be totally different and more holistic.
Cameron
Yeah, totally. I mean, that's what my work is about. There is so much resonance in what you just shared. I am curious more to say something about the gene keys, but we are watching the end of this era of that top down, frankly, toxic masculine, which by the way, that phrase, I'm not as people overuse that one too, but I'm speaking about a very toxic energetic that is just not helpful. I'm not saying that.
toxic, to be clear, for anybody listening. But this paradigm of manipulation and control and that you are just a pawn in my game and I just need to do this and it's very egoic, frankly, it's a consciousness of separation and of division and of, you know, taking and controlling and essentially power. That consciousness is leaving this planet and we're seeing this through our humanity's awakening.
And it's happening in different ways. I mean, first of all, this conversation, the fact that people are listening to it is just evidence of it. But we're seeing, especially since 2020, the number of people who, you know, don't want to work for a corporation anymore, who are creating their own businesses, who are leading the way in their own sovereignty.
who are expecting more, who are creating compounds for food and whatever, community organizations. And a lot of Gen Z coming through, now they're getting a bit older and they don't see the world at all like this. They're not accepting it like this. I even see my nephews who I don't know technically what generation they're in, but they're six, five and seven.
Christopher August
Generation Alpha.
Cameron
Okay, so they're alpha and even just hearing the stories about them in school, it's super clear to me that they're either not going to finish school or schooling is going to have to change dramatically because they are just not having it. They are quote, not behaving and they're not fitting into the system. But all of this to say this energetic is happening.
inside of humanity in varying degrees, of course, and in different generations, energetically differently, but it's requiring us to reconsider what leadership actually is, which is essentially what you're talking about and what I am, that leadership, you we have to ask ourselves the question, what is this for? Because what we've seen in 2020 to now we're recording in 24 is just a whole bunch of manipulation and control and this paradigm of leadership pushed way far.
Christopher August
Yeah.
Cameron
to one end that is not serving people in the slightest. The only thing it's serving is somebody's corporate gain, someone getting rich, but not humanity as a whole. And we're waking up to it and we're realizing it. And so it's requiring us to now look at not only the bigger questions of why are we here, but what is this for? And what is leadership really supposed to be about? And I'm totally aligned with what you're saying.
that it is about service to the collective and learning to recognize that I'm not operating from ego. If I actually want to serve and want to lead and want to influence in a way that is for the betterment, I actually need to be tapped in to myself. I need to have a connection to source, God, oneness, Adonai, however you understand your connection with source itself. But without that, there isn't leadership in the future, in my opinion.
Christopher August
Hmm.
Christopher August
Couldn't have said it better. Beautiful eloquently stated. yeah, know, overall, what's, you know, just to kind of put a cap on that sort of topic in that conversation, unless there's further, you know, inquiry or questions you have there, I would say that overall humanity is undergoing the biggest perhaps ever metamorphosis where we are, it's all starting within. It's all
as we said, you know, the projection of our own consciousness. It's all coming from within. And there is the Jinkis even speak to this in the 55th Jinki, which is very interesting. So there's these three convergence points. 1987, year I was born, 2012, which we know about in the sort of Mayan calendar and the sort of correlations there, and then 2027. And essentially, these are three very massive catalyst points for
the evolution and awakening of what the Genki's and Richard Rudd describes as human 2 .0. And the manifestation of that comes through the solar plexus. So there's a mutation that actually happens in the solar plexus. And maybe getting a little fringe, but it's actually maybe worth the conversation is that how I've tied this back because over the years, you know, for me, I'm just kind of, I always like looking at all information available. And there's been this sort of talk.
Cameron
Let's do it.
Christopher August
topic matter that was discussed. think I heard this theory back in 2015, but what someone had called the solar flash. And essentially the solar flash, what has been theorized is a mass coronal ejection from the sun that either is experienced individually, right, with our, and what we can say is the sun actually lives within us and that sun is the
transmutation of our solar plexus, solar sun energy. That's an individualized event as we expand our consciousness. Or it's been theorized that this is a human experience and a global collective experience in which there is an external solar flash that actually upgrades our consciousness, but not without destroying pretty much everything in its path and having these three days of darkness.
where there would be this time and introspection, there may be fear for many, but a time to go within and allow this new consciousness to take place where it essentially is rewiring our genetic code and our DNA. So there's two theories there. I don't know which one is true or, you know, for me personally, there's been a lot of synchronicities around this flash in this year, 2027 and disclosure and.
galactic life and you know, there's a very, there's a lot of interesting threads that tie into it. but overall there is no question we are going through some massive change and people, you know, better be ready because it's, it's going to get, it's going to get a little chaotic for a bit. and it needs to, frankly, the shadow needs to be seen and the underbelly of the beast needs to come out and we need to face that because all of that is, is just a manifestation of what we're experiencing internally.
Cameron
Totally, and talk about the ultimate in leadership, which is leading ourselves through this transformation.
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Cameron: There is so much I could say on this topic and I could totally geek out with you, but I did want to point out that we're talking about the solar plexus and just a little bit ago, I was describing when we were talking about breath and my body and the diaphragm, what was I pointing to but the solar plexus area, which I think is very interesting.
So it's totally a synchronicity I wanna play with here. I actually think both of these theories as you described them that you presented, I think both are true. If we are one with the universe, then both would have to be true. That there is something internally happening and something externally mirroring much like, in my practice with astrology, I don't believe the stars or the planets.
Christopher August
That's it.
Cameron
are banging around up there like a billiards game causing things to happen within us, but that they represent natural energetic cycles that are happening as above so below, right? As within so without. And so everything is interconnected. So is one causing the other or are they both happening or where's the source of it? If it's all one, then it doesn't really matter. Both are happening, right? But I do...
Christopher August
This is true. This is true.
Cameron
love what you describing, because I do talk about it, but I haven't, not explicitly in the way I'm about to on this show, that we are moving through a massive shift in consciousness on the planet, and you can see it. And I'm someone who is extremely sensitive. My physical body is sensitive to all kinds of energy. It's what makes me deeply psychic. But I will say,
lot of solar activity is happening and I see it, and there's reports about it, but when I go outside and I feel it, and then my body has struggled through, it seems every time there's some sort of a solar flare happening, more so than normal, my body goes through some real changes, discomfort, whatever. And actually, just a few weeks ago, I suffered from
heat exhaustion or basically near heat stroke, which I never in my life experienced that. And what happened was I was kind of tired that day and I went for a hike here at Griffith Park in Los Angeles and it was sunny, but it was only like, you know, 82 degrees or whatever. At three o 'clock people told me that was a mistake. Maybe, but the point was I went up there and it was warm. I felt tired, but what I know happened.
Christopher August
Wow.
Cameron
is that I actually took in so much light and so much sun. And I was actually quite sick for the next day. I mean, my body couldn't even regulate its temperature. I had a fever, which really sucked. I felt like my insides were burning. I did nothing but sleep for a whole day. And it took me honestly about two weeks to get over that and feel better. And I'm actually on the other side of it now.
Christopher August
Hmm.
Cameron
where I'm still kind of feeling tired to be honest, but I've always been sensitive to changes with the sun, solar activity, all of that. But I think this experience showed me firsthand that the sun, which we know scientifically, you can go look at NASA's information, all that is changing energetically, but that the sun affects us. It is quite literally the source of all life. And I had a really big experience of that. And not only was I quote sick,
for two weeks and I'm air quoting here. What happened was deep rest. Like I had to stop and I had to like stop thinking, stop moving. A lot more meditation, a lot more psychic awareness. I recognized a lot of patterns from my past. A lot of familial stuff was coming up. It was like a major period of purge and healing that was correlated with the sun and my exposure to it.
Christopher August
Hmm
Cameron
And so I share all of this because when we talk about humanity's ascension and shifting in consciousness, there is a correlation quite literally to our solar system and what is happening with where we are in the cosmos. And it's all connected. And as we learn to integrate more light into our being, as you said, our DNA is actually changing. The reason I felt sick was because quite literally my body was...
overwhelmed with light and there was having some sort of effect. And I know there's people listening going, my God, I can relate to this. I feel like I'm sick and this, that, and the other thing. And people think they have COVID and they think they have that. And no, you don't. Actually, your body is shifting and releasing dense consciousness and it's healing. And this is what it looks like. But if you're not aware that this consciousness shift is happening on planet earth, you think, my God, I'm sick, I'm dying and I'm losing my shit.
you may be losing your shit, but it's all old shit that just needs to like, let go. But anyway, I love that you brought up the topic because I could say so much about it, of course. But this is what Ascension looks like. And it doesn't come without the psychic component, right? The recognition of like, I'm carrying this old pattern and this ancestral fear and this thing that needs to go because my physical body.
Christopher August
Hmm
Christopher August
Yeah, for sure.
Cameron
can't carry it anymore if I'm shifting my frequency, right? Like this, physically this density can't stay with me anymore. So it's a very physical thing. I know a lot of people when they talk about spiritual enlightenment or ascension or whatever, it's this idea of I can just meditate my way out of my body and just, know, be with, you know, the ascended masters somewhere up there. And the reality is our ascension, our shift,
It's in the physical body. Like we are souls that came into the body.
Christopher August
We have to descend to ascend.
Christopher August
We have to descend it to ascend. Descension is the first process and that's the dissension as you're saying into the body, into the patterns, into the grief that we don't allow ourselves to feel and experience to then ascend and clear that energy. So absolutely 100 % to what you're saying.
Cameron
Yeah, and it's gonna be an interesting period the next, I mean, I know this astrologically and my audience knows this. It's gonna be an interesting period the next, I'd say decade or two, but certainly the next three to five years, because our entire world is going to change the ways in which we relate to each other, the ways in which we create systems, the ways in which we lead, which is why we're having this conversation. And I actually invite you to.
Pay attention to your breath as I'm saying this, because if it's shallow and you're feeling fear and constriction, that's important to recognize. But maybe you're feeling expansion and excitement around that. Either way, it's going to happen. And we need this because the ways in which we have existed on planet earth.
can't service any further.
Christopher August
Couldn't agree more.
Cameron
Hmm. I love that you brought that topic up. my God. Could geek out on that forever. But, I think as we close up our time together, I want to, well, first of all, just say to everyone, pay attention to your breath as you move through shifts, right? But I actually want to invite you to do something. I don't know why I'm doing this, but it's what's being invited. Oftentimes when I do workshops or I work with my clients, I ask them to.
pause, think and reflect and close in one breath. And so I want to invite you to sort of share your final parting words in one.
Christopher August
So what I feel called to share and what is coming through right now is that one of the things that we often... It's very foreign to us, just put it this way, is this level of trust. As I had talked about earlier, trust is such a pivotal component in this journey of life. To trust yourself, to trust the universe, to trust the unknown, to trust the intelligence of life.
It is a big hurdle for many of us because we have played victim to our lives where we perceive that things are happening to us and that we live in a benevolent expression of the universe, which is actually quite the opposite. We live in a benevolent universe and everything is happening for you and it's actually happening through you.
to allow you to grow, heal, to expand, evolve into a greater expression of yourself. And so when we begin to breathe deep, when we begin to allow our breath to guide us, we are guided into a place of support, into a place of trust where we can then open ourselves up to receive life. What are we doing when we're breathing? We're receiving life. There's this flow that's happening.
And we can't receive life through a constricted tense body. We can only receive it through a light, a very clear energetic field. And so when we begin to breathe and we have this reciprocal giving nature with our breath back and forth, we are taking and drinking in life. And through that, we are guided to exactly where we need to be when we need to be there.
And when we begin to instill this level of faith and trust within us, we can know that there are absolutely no mistakes and that we are exactly where we need to be at all times. And to trust that, to trust yourself and to trust the higher universal flow is the ultimate lesson and where all of our peace lies.
Cameron
Beautiful message. Thank you, brother. Also, I'm going to pick on you. You must have crazy breath retention. One breath. So I'll give you this space because by the way, that message was beautiful. So thank you for that. But maybe in one breath, how would you leave?
Christopher August
in one breath.
Cameron
in one breath.
Christopher August
breathe.
Christopher August
Thank you.
Cameron
Beautiful. Thank you. Thank you for sharing this time with me today. Our conversation was amazing. I loved it. So thank you so much. I'm sure listeners do as well. And if you'd like to connect with Christopher and know more about his work, you can find more details in the show notes. So thank you for being here with me.
Christopher August
Appreciate you.