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This is what happened when Louis de Rohan
headed to Lanzarote to try Hollywood’s latest health
craze, with the man they call the Breath Guru
(he’s that guy to the right looking rather relaxed)
“I feel like I’m
on another planet.
I’m virtually
hallucinating. It feels
like every cell in my body
is blissed out”
I
’m a fit, healthy, successful, 43-year-old London
business owner. I grew up by the sea in north Devon
and normally get my release through watersports. But
2013 was tough: big life choices, emotional knocks,
postponed plans, midlife conundrums, family, finance
and business pressures all contributed to unsustainable
levels of stress, clinical depression and rotten sleep. Any
of this sound familiar?
Some 40-million Brits admit to stress and anxiety, according to
a Mintel report from 2010: “A third have the weight of the world on
their shoulders,” it says. Their main preoccupations? Money, friends
and family, health and work – and there’s still a stigma associated
with admitting problems, with only 6% seeking professional help.
Enter Alan Dolan, a 50-year-old globetrotting Mancunian
who purports to have the answer. At least, that’s if a growing
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