Founder/Facilitator/Mostly Just A Fun Guy.

I created this place to offer my own brand of the often very non-linear path to better living. Key to the conceptualization of The Flo Map was an aim to respect the non-linearity of your own path.

Foundational to learning how to address the last 40 years of my life, breathwork, quantum biology, and ancient mindfulness practices carried me when therapists were unavailable or out of budget. When health apps couldn’t address all the stored emotional sediment of my own bruised childhood, perpetually in tension and chronically signalling panic.

Along my journey, what I came across was far from new but new to me as an experience all the same. Only, my approach was turning my apartment into a research lab, my bed and headphones the test tube, me, the subject, and my journal the detailed analysis.

At first, inner sensing arrived. Over time, the more I paid attention, the more I found my intuition was increasingly accurate about the directions I was taking in my life, given the improvements I was seeing in every area. I knew something was working because I’ve had concussions and have struggled with memory and focused attention most of my life. It was not just one area I was addressing. It was every area, slowly improving, and with it, creating more space for some other area to get the next adjustment. I started to realize I was turning different gears in my life, each at random times, all based on how I felt on the inside. It felt like a map I simply needed to learn how to read. It was very subtle and extremely slow, until it wasn't.

I realized I found a working compass that was within me, some part of me that was becoming a far more reliable navigator than my ape brain’s trauma-induced biological reaction to the environment around me. We give this compass many names, and I respect every understanding for whatever respite it offers each. For me, I am as content to simply see this as inherently me. Tabula Rasa, but full of curiosity. Not just an intuitive curiosity, though. It became a reliable knowing. So, I had to experiment.

3 years on and 1’095 experiments later, The Flo Map was born as an idea. An intuitive map within our nervous system that we all have access to for recalibrating for a better, more confident, more resilient, and in every way, expanded life.

More than breathwork as a practice, it is a journey inward, a journey home. And, despite the immense value practitioners bring, it can be a search to find the right one, let alone one that directs you to every part of you with the same intuitive awareness of your own mind, your own body, and your own breath.

The Fun Guy Part:

I was burning through my life savings at an alarming rate while I refused to hold a job so I could work on this. Wouldn’t recommend it unless you’re starting a breathwork practice; it’s probably not worth the anxiety. I had to breathe through a lot. In fact, it was so stressful that I had to pause my psych degree if I were to ever finish researching and building this, before running out of money and being forced to finish my degree over the next 8 years instead of in 4. I scaled back on courses and ramped up the trial-and-error in my own life as a litmus test. I even booked myself into a week-long intensive tantric healing treatment, among other things. (Not what most assume this is, by the way.)

Final words…

The desire to be whole is a hungry beast until we realize we always were. Through it all, breathwork guided me mentally and physically, far more than I realized. In every sense, I began to feel far more. More resilient with pain, more confident around women. More libido (yes, that is one of many positive physiological side effects). More settled in the steady and slow but lasting change amidst prevailing uncertainty. All because I was finally grounded. Things are really good now, and I want this for you.

Thank you for showing up here. I am very glad you have!

Sincerely,

Marsh