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$page_title       = 'About Big Joe | Big Breath';
$page_description = 'Former NFL athlete. 15,000+ guided sessions. A global footprint spanning Bhutan, Saudi Arabia, Japan, India, and Oman. The story of Big Joe and the Big Breath practice.';
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    <span class="bb-label" style="color:var(--bb-cream);margin-bottom:var(--s-3);">About</span>
    <h1 class="bb-hero__title" style="color:var(--bb-cream);font-size:var(--t-hero);">The man behind the breath.</h1>
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        <span class="bb-label" style="margin-bottom:var(--s-6);">Origin</span>
        <h2 class="bb-display" style="margin-bottom:var(--s-6);">From the field to the fire.</h2>
        <p class="bb-body" style="margin-bottom:var(--s-5);">Big Joe's path began on the professional football field. As an NFL athlete, he learned that sustained performance is not purely physical. The players who kept going, season after season, were the ones who had mastered what most athletes never train: the nervous system, and the breath that governs it.</p>
        <p class="bb-body" style="margin-bottom:var(--s-5);">When his playing career ended, the education deepened. He traveled. He studied with masters in Asia, the Middle East, and the subcontinent. He brought what he learned back to the people who needed it most: high performers under pressure, people in transition, and anyone searching for something real.</p>
        <p class="bb-body">His voice has never needed a microphone. That is not a detail. It is the practice. Big Joe ignites people with presence, with breath, with a loud and grounded conviction that the body already knows how to heal itself. The work is remembering.</p>
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    <span class="bb-label bb-reveal">Global Footprint</span>
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    <h2 class="bb-display bb-reveal" style="margin-bottom:var(--s-8);">15,000 sessions. 15+ countries. One method.</h2>
    <p class="bb-body bb-reveal" style="margin-bottom:var(--s-6);">Big Joe has guided breathwork in the tiger-sanctuary mountains of Bhutan, in the royal facilities of Saudi Arabia, in the meditation halls of Japan, at Ayurvedic centers across India, and in the luxury wellness retreats of Oman. He has worked with special forces units, professional sports teams, Fortune 500 leadership teams, and people who simply want to feel alive in their own bodies again.</p>
    <p class="bb-body bb-reveal" style="margin-bottom:var(--s-6);">Every location is different. The method is the same: breathe deliberately, breathe fully, and let the body remember what it has always known. Activating before it is calming. Fire before stillness.</p>
    <p class="bb-body bb-reveal">Vulnerable but strong. Power and openness held at the same time. Most practices ask you to choose one. Big Breath holds both.</p>
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        <span class="bb-label" style="margin-bottom:var(--s-6);">Philosophy</span>
        <h2 class="bb-display" style="margin-bottom:var(--s-6);">The breath does not lie.</h2>
        <p class="bb-body" style="margin-bottom:var(--s-5);">In a world of optimization stacks and performance dashboards, Big Joe's position is grounded and direct. The most powerful tool in the human body costs nothing and requires no device. It is the breath. Everything else is downstream of it.</p>
        <p class="bb-body" style="margin-bottom:var(--s-5);">Big Breath is not meditation. It is not passive wellness. It is the white of new life and spirit, carried on a loud and booming voice that ignites people before it soothes them. The ember within is stoked first. The taming comes after.</p>
        <p class="bb-body" style="margin-bottom:var(--s-8);">Ember. Flame. Mastery. That arc is available to anyone willing to breathe deliberately enough to travel it.</p>
        <a href="/contact" class="bb-btn">Work with Big Joe</a>
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