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Breathe Your Way to Better Health

Breathe Your Way to Better Health by Natasha Zolotarev. Photograph of Niraj Naik, founder of SOMA breath.
Photograph of Niraj Naik

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

From Pharmacist to Breath Practitioner, Niraj Naik explores an ancient and natural way to reclaim health.

While working for one of the largest supermarkets in the UK, Niraj Naik collided head-on with his fate — a tryst with an auto-immune disease that wasn’t getting better through conventional medicines. The ‘Renegade Pharmacist’, as he was popularly known, switched to the transformative power of meditation, yoga, and Ayurveda when he was left to choose between a rock and a hard place — a surgery to remove his colon entirely or to participate in a risky trial for an untested drug.

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