Respira Weekly Gold: Your Weekly Dose of Flow, Inspiration, and Connection

Introducing the Respira 2025 weekly newsletter — your Sunday ritual for insights, tools, and inspiration, a "just like a walk in the forest" experience.

Introducing the Respira 2025 weekly newsletter format

Welcome to your weekly dose of inspiration and practical tools for creators in the wisdom economy and beyond. Each edition is a blend of these topics, less or more, offering insights, updates, and resources tailored to support your creative journey.

Table of Inspiration

1. 🌳 Inspiria - in-breath – Respira build-in-public log entry

2. 🌞 Whispers from the Forest – crème de la crème from Respira creators.

3. 🌐 Fresh Tools for Your Creator’s Belt – New tools to help you grow your craft and simplify your work.

4. 🧠 Breathing Smarter with AI – Natural intelligence on using Artificial Intelligence.

5. 🌲 Forest Finds – Weekly recommendations to spark creativity

6. 🌬️ Exhalia - out-breath – Encouraging action and connection by sharing with others.

🌳 Inspiria - in-breath. Respira build-in-public log entry.

I'm building a system for creators in the wisdom economy. These are people who use their embodied knowledge—wisdom—to guide others: teachers, coaches, facilitators, therapists, etc. They help others transform their lives through their experience, insight, and unique gifts. While it’s built for the wisdom economy, this system also applies to creators in other fields—anyone turning their knowledge or craft into meaningful, sustainable work.

Being a creator often feels overwhelming. Budgets for tech tools, strategic support, and execution quickly spiral out of control. A solid setup with platforms like Kajabi and Circle, editing tools, payment processors, and client management systems can easily exceed €1,000 a month.

That’s before you factor in the time it takes to actually learn and manage them all.

Some months, revenue flows in. Other times, it doesn’t. But those expenses? They never stop.

I call this system Breathspace. Respira's work is moving in this direction, and creating the legal and fiscal framework for it requires incorporation, a possible investment, and other necessary steps. Schedule a call if you are interested in discussing this further.

🌞 Whispers from the Forest.
Crème de la crème from Respira creators

🌻 Stephanie Canavesio is currently on day 5 of her 10-day silent meditation retreat. This unique challenge is open for anyone to join for free. If you're curious about exploring mindfulness and presence, you can find the details here: Free 10-Day Silent Meditation Challenge.

Free 10-Day Silent Meditation Challenge: Embody Presence

🌻 Melissa Louise has launched a new addition to www.respira.courses:
She The Oracle. This intimate journey explores the mysteries of feminine cycles, offering profound insights and practical tools for living in harmony with your natural rhythms.

🌻 Melissa Louise is hosting a free 2-hour webinar, Master Your Sexual Presence, on Saturday, January 25th, at 10 AM CST. This transformative masterclass is designed for men who want to reclaim their sensual confidence, deepen their intimate connections, and experience true sexual presence. The session includes guided practices and practical tools to help participants embody their natural sexual energy and create lasting change. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from one of the leading experts in intimacy.

🌻 Dirk Nellens has shared a thoughtful reflection on the transition out of the Rave New Year and the start of Season 2 of his podcast brough in a refreshed layout for his Substack. Dive into his insights here: Embracing the Transition – Insights.

Embracing the Transition: Insights into the End of the Rave New Year

🌻 Additionally,

Dirk Nellens

will be live on Zoom on January 21 to discuss what 2025 brings from a Human Design perspective. Don’t miss this enlightening discussion—mark your calendars and join via this link: Zoom Event – Human Design 2025.

🌻

Melissa Louise

has released a new episode of her podcast, Inside the Pleasure Studio, where she dives into the power of the "Dark Moon"—a sacred pause before menstruation. Melissa shares how honoring this time can be a revolutionary act of self-sovereignty, disrupting the culture of relentless productivity. She also offers a free "Dark Moon Diary Prompt" to guide this practice. Listen to the episode and download the free resource here:

The power of a Woman's Dark Moon

🌻 In the Romanian

SUUNA

community we have been focusing on local workshops in Brasov, see lu.ma/suuna for the details.

🌻 In the local community, we started a good vibes events calendar here: lu.ma/brasov

🌻 After building a landing page, I deployed a NAS community platform for

Unconditional Men

’s leadership program. This initiative kicks off with a FREE Introduction Session: Redefining Leadership - tomorrow January 13th, where participants will explore transformative leadership through a Socratic Dialogue. In light of today’s systemic challenges—from climate crises to crumbling infrastructures—this session aims to redefine what effective leadership means in turbulent times.
Grab your seat, it’s free: Event Link.

🌐 Fresh Tools for Your Creator’s Belt
New tools to help you grow your craft and simplify your work.

Descript: A powerful tool for video and audio editing, making it easy to edit content like you would a document. Its powerful AI can enhance your audio to studio sound or hunt the best parts and automatically make a highlight reel or several clips from your longer format content. Using that paired with ChatGPT is extremely powerful.

Disclaimer
Some tools featured in this newsletter may contain affiliate links. Additionally, all tools shared here will be listed on the dedicated tools page for easy reference and future use.

🧠 Breathing Smarter with AI
Natural intelligence on using artificial intelligence.

We all use AI but the results are directly proportional to the quality of our prompting. Today I am suggesting a technique called Inverted Prompting: In inverted prompting, you instruct the AI to ask you the right questions it needs to gather all the necessary information. By responding to these questions, you ensure that the final output is tailored, precise, and aligned with your goals.

Example Prompts:

"I want to create an engaging headline for my new meditation course. Ask me all the questions you need to craft a headline that is inspiring, specific, and speaks directly to my target audience."

Meta inverted prompting prompt:

always improve my prompting by asking any necessary questions to make your output the best one possible, taking a deep breath before you write, think it through much more than usually

🌲 Forest Finds

🌲 Gary Vee highlights daily content and interest-driven platforms like TikTok and YouTube Shorts as keys to 2025 social media success:

🌲 The Telepathy Tapes premise is that there are a few scientists and therapists who are throwing their credibility on the line to surface a knowledge that has been hidden for decades: that non-speaking autistic people may be communicating telepathically.

🌲 For my Romanian readers - my friend,

Ariel Constantinof

launched pasul.ro - a project designed to help more people start their therapeutic journey.

🌲 Weekly Substack recommendation:

🌬️ Exhalia - out-breath
Encouraging action and connection by sharing with others

This week, I am reflecting on this thought:
"The more you help other people become successful, the more success finds you."

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