I Found the Most Powerful Performance Tool of My Life in a Walmart Parking Lot. Here's Why I Built a Community Around It.

By Destinē | Energy of Creation

Introduction

I want to tell you a story. Not the polished version — the real one.

Because if you are here, reading this, searching for something that will actually move the needle on how you perform, how you feel, and how long you can sustain the life you are building — you deserve the real version. Not a highlight reel. Not a brand narrative. The actual sequence of events that led to Energy of Creation existing, and why Super Sunday is built the way it is.

And it starts in a Walmart parking lot in Round Rock, Texas.

The Night Everything Shifted

I was searching for something I could not name precisely.

I had tried the things high performers try. I had worked harder. I had read the books, followed the frameworks, optimized the morning routine, pushed through the difficult seasons with the specific brand of determination that people who build things tend to mistake for resilience. I was producing. On paper, things were moving.

But underneath the output, something was stuck. Something that thinking about it could not reach. Something that more strategy could not solve. I was running — performing, managing, delivering — with a growing awareness that I was doing it from a place of depletion rather than genuine capacity. That the gap between how I appeared and how I actually felt was quietly widening.

I was searching, specifically, for something energetic. Something that could shift what I was carrying at a level deeper than the cognitive. I stumbled across SOMA Breath. There was a LOVE Fest Zoom event happening that evening — a live breathwork session, online, available right then.

I joined from my car. In a Walmart parking lot in Round Rock, Texas.

I want to be honest about what happened next, because I have heard other people describe their first breathwork session in terms that sound almost mythological. That is not quite my story. What happened was quieter than that, and more permanent.

Something shifted. Not dramatically. Not with fanfare. In the way that some things shift — completely, in a direction you cannot come back from. I breathed in a way I had never breathed before. I felt my body respond in a way I did not know my body could respond. Something that had been stuck for a very long time began to move.

I drove home different than I arrived.

I do not know how else to say it. I drove home different.

What Happened Next

Within two weeks of that parking lot session, I was on a plane to Ibiza to train with the SOMA Breath community in person.

I understand how that sounds. It sounds impulsive. It sounds like the kind of thing that happens in a movie, not in the life of someone with real responsibilities and real reasons to stay put. But here is what I have learned about moments of genuine knowing: they do not negotiate. They do not wait for convenient timing. You either move with them or you do not.

I moved.

Ibiza was its own chapter. Its own opening — at a depth that took months to fully understand. What happened there confirmed everything the parking lot had started. I came home different from when I left. Not because the setting was beautiful, though it was. Because for the first time, I had put myself fully in the hands of the right tool, inside a community of people who were doing the same thing at the same time. The combination of practice and presence — the specific alchemy of doing this work with other people who were also doing it — produced something that the solo practice alone had not reached.

From there, the path kept opening. A 500-hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh — 13-hour days, six days a week, an immersion that dismantled every comfortable assumption I had about the relationship between the body and the mind. Then Bali, where ecstatic dance and DJ training deepened something about embodiment, about the relationship between music and movement and consciousness, that I am still integrating.

Each step felt like the natural next thing. Each step led somewhere I could not have planned from the one before it.

And all of it eventually led here. To Energy of Creation. To Super Sunday. To a Zoom room that opens every first Sunday of the month where I watch people breathe their way into something they did not know they were missing.

What I Learned About High Performance Along the Way

Here is the thing that none of the performance literature I had consumed had told me clearly:

The ceiling on your output is not your strategy. It is not your work ethic. It is not your vision or your discipline or your capacity for sacrifice. It is your nervous system — and specifically, its ability to regulate under pressure, recover between demands, and sustain genuine capacity rather than running on the cortisol and adrenaline that masquerades as energy until it stops working.

I had been optimizing the top of the system while the foundation was running compromised. Most high performers are.

The breathwork did not change my strategy. It changed the system the strategy was running on. And that changed everything — the quality of my decisions, the accessibility of my creativity, the depth of my relationships, the sustainability of my output. Not because I suddenly had more motivation or better habits, but because my nervous system was no longer the limiting factor.

That is the insight Energy of Creation was built around. Not that breathwork is a nice wellness practice to add to your stack — but that nervous system regulation is the foundational performance variable that most high-performance frameworks do not address, and that addressing it changes the return on everything else you are already doing.

Why I Built a Community, Not Just a Program

Here is the other thing the parking lot taught me, though I did not fully understand it until much later:

The session itself was powerful. But what sent me to Ibiza was not just the session. It was the existence of a community — a group of people who had found the same thing I had found, who had built a practice around it, who were doing this work together and holding space for others to join them.

That community made the practice real in a way that a recording alone could not. It gave me somewhere to take what I had experienced. A context that could hold it, validate it, and extend it.

And in Ibiza, I felt directly what it means to practice inside a community rather than alone. The difference is not subtle. Your nervous system co-regulates with the people around you. You go deeper because the room is going deep together. You feel less alone in what the practice surfaces — and for a high performer who has been white-knuckling their way through difficult internal terrain in private for years, that felt like putting down something incredibly heavy.

When I came home, I knew that whatever I built would have community at its center. Not as a feature — as the mechanism.

Because here is what I have watched in years of facilitation: the people who sustain transformation are not the ones who had the most dramatic breakthrough. They are the ones who kept coming back. The ones who built a practice inside a community that expected them and held them to it.

Solo practice will take you somewhere. Community practice will take you somewhere you cannot reach alone.

The Three Things That Were Actually Stopping Me — And Most High Performers I've Met Since

Looking back with the clarity I have now, I can see that what I was navigating in the Walmart parking lot — and in the years that followed — was not unique to me. It is the specific constellation of challenges that accumulates underneath sustained high performance, and it shows up with remarkable consistency in the people who find their way to Energy of Creation.

Dysregulation. A nervous system stuck in chronic sympathetic activation — fight or flight running as a background operating state — that quietly erodes decision quality, sleep, creative capacity, and relational presence. The symptoms get normalized because they accumulate gradually, and because everyone around you seems to be managing the same thing.

Isolation. The specific loneliness of doing difficult things in environments that were not built to hold the complexity of what you are actually carrying. Not loneliness in the absence of people — but the loneliness of feeling like the full truth of your experience is not something you can put down anywhere without it being misunderstood or minimized.

Confusion. The cognitive overwhelm that comes from consuming more information about how to feel better than you have the bandwidth to integrate. Too many protocols, too many frameworks, too many conflicting recommendations — and underneath all of it, the quiet anxiety that you are doing the wrong thing or not doing enough.

Energy of Creation was built to address all three — not sequentially, but simultaneously and in community, which is the only way the resolution actually lasts.

What Energy of Creation Actually Is

I want to be clear about this because I think the word "community" gets used in ways that have made it mean almost nothing.

Energy of Creation is a hybrid ecosystem — in-person and online — designed specifically for high performers navigating dysregulation, isolation, and confusion. It is built around integrated practices: breathwork, movement, sound, embodiment, meditation, and lifestyle support. It is held together by genuine community — people who are building in the same direction, who show up for each other across the ordinary months and not just the extraordinary experiences.

The work we do here is grounded in ancient wisdom and modern science. The practices we use have been tested in our own lives — mine and Victoria's — before we ever offered them to anyone else. We do not teach theory. We teach what worked when everything else failed.

And we built the ecosystem intentionally — so that wherever someone enters, there is a clear path deeper if and when they are ready. Super Sunday is the first step. The Monthly Social Club brings the work into in-person community. Challenges create focused momentum sprints. Retreats create the environmental shift that accelerates integration. BIG VISION is the long-form container for people ready to do this work comprehensively across every dimension of their life.

You do not need to think about any of that when you walk through the door. You just need to show up on one Sunday morning and breathe.

The Part I Need You to Hear

If you have made it this far in this article, something in you recognized something in what you read. That is not an accident.

The person who is searching for something like Super Sunday, something like Energy of Creation, is not someone who lacks effort or intelligence or drive. They are someone who has applied all three, at a high level, for a sustained period of time — and who is quietly aware that the approach they have been using is no longer returning what it used to. That the gap between their capacity and their output is widening in the wrong direction. That something in the foundation needs attention.

That awareness is not a weakness. It is the most honest form of performance intelligence available to you.

What you are looking for is not a new tool to add to an already-overwhelmed stack. You are looking for an environment — one where the tools are right, the community is real, the practice is sustainable, and the results are measurable. One where you can stop doing the most important parts of this work alone.

That is what Energy of Creation was built to be. That is what I was looking for in a parking lot in Round Rock, Texas. And that is what I found — not in a single session, but in the practice and the community that grew from it.

Super Sunday is where it starts. One hour. Every first Sunday. Live on Zoom. Come and feel what happens.

If something shifts — even slightly, even in a way you cannot fully name yet — that is your system recognizing an environment it was built for.

Reimagine what your life looks like inside a community designed for sustainable peak performance.

👉 energyofcreation.com/super-sunday

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Energy of Creation and how did it start? Energy of Creation is a hybrid wellness and performance community — a 508(c)(1)(a) nonprofit — built for high performers navigating dysregulation, isolation, and confusion. It was founded by Destinē and Victoria Thompson, both of whom built it from lived experience rather than theory. The origin traces to a single SOMA breathwork session that permanently shifted Destinē's trajectory and led to years of training across multiple continents before the community was formally established.

What is Super Sunday? Super Sunday is Energy of Creation's monthly community SOMA breathwork session — held live on Zoom every first Sunday of the month at 10:00 AM CT. It is one hour, facilitated by EOC's co-founders, and is the most accessible entry point into the Energy of Creation ecosystem. Sessions are built around a specific topic drawn from the real, lived experience of high performers. Registration is at energyofcreation.com/super-sunday.

What is SOMA breathwork and why does EOC use it? SOMA Energized Meditation is a complete breathwork system developed by SOMA Breath that combines rhythmic pranayama breathing, breath retention rounds, and brainwave music to produce measurable shifts in nervous system regulation, cognitive clarity, HRV, cortisol, and cellular energy. EOC uses SOMA because it is grounded in both ancient yogic practice and modern physiology, it produces results that participants can feel in a single session, and it compounds significantly over consistent practice.

Why is community central to the EOC model? Because transformation in isolation rarely lasts. Human nervous systems are designed to co-regulate — to be influenced by the nervous systems of the people around them. Practicing in community produces physiological outcomes that solo practice cannot replicate. Beyond the biology, community addresses the isolation that accumulates in high performers who are doing difficult internal work without a context that can hold it. The community is not a bonus feature of the EOC model — it is part of the mechanism that makes the transformation stick.

Who are EOC's founders? Energy of Creation was co-founded by Destinē (they/she), Minister of Love, and Victoria Thompson (she/they), Minister ASii. Destinē brings expertise in holistic lifestyle guidance, breathwork facilitation, integrative wellness coaching, and strategic behavior change. Victoria specializes in embodiment mentorship, somatic work, and deep nervous system healing. Together they designed EOC as the support system they wish they had had — and every element of it has been tested in their own lives first.

What is the Energy of Creation ecosystem? The EOC ecosystem includes Super Sunday (monthly community breathwork), the Monthly Social Club (in-person community experience), Challenges (focused nervous system sprint containers), global Retreats, and BIG VISION (the premium long-form integration container). Each entry point is designed to meet people where they are while connecting them to a deeper path. Learn more at energyofcreation.com.

Energy of Creation is a 508(c)(1)(a) nonprofit hybrid performance and wellness community based in Temple/Belton, Texas. Co-founded by Destinē and Victoria Thompson. Our mission is Breaking Cycles, Building Futures.

Start with Super Sunday: energyofcreation.com/super-sunday