Written by Destinē, Minister of Love | SOMA Breath Transformational Coach | 500-hr YTT | Co-Founder, Energy of Creation Last reviewed: April 2026

Energy of Creation began in a parking lot — in a Walmart in Round Rock, Texas, during a lunch break, on a Zoom call. One breathwork session. Something ancestral moved through. Two weeks later, the first flight. Then more. Then a community built from everything those years produced. EOC is the culmination of two founders' lifetimes of learning — and the generations before them both.

I wasn't looking for breathwork.

I was looking for reiki. I was carrying something I couldn't name — a weight that had been building for years across a corporate career that praised me loudly and paid me quietly, across wellness work that genuinely changed people's lives inside an organization that treated wellbeing as a talking point. I was searching for a way to clear what I'd started to think of as energetic blocks — things that had settled into me that I couldn't think my way out of.

I don't remember exactly how I found the session. I just remember that one night I ended up on a Zoom call with a group of people doing something I hadn't heard of — a LOVE Fest event, happening online — and I sat in my car in the parking lot of a Walmart in Round Rock, Texas, opened my laptop, and breathed.

One session.

That's all it took. Something ancestral moved through me. Something that had been locked opened. I didn't have words for it afterward — I still don't, fully — but I knew with a certainty I couldn't argue with that I needed more of whatever that had just been.

And I wasn't alone in that knowing. At home, on the same Zoom call, Victoria Thompson was dancing on camera. She came to tears watching what was happening — sensing a vision of a life she wanted to live. Two people. One session. The same door, opened at the same time.

Less than two weeks later, I was on a plane to Ibiza.

The Session That Changed Everything

A single breathwork session in a parking lot in Round Rock, Texas, was enough to make clear that something real had just happened. Not a relaxation response. Something ancestral. Something that had been locked opened. The certainty that arrived in that session was not a decision — it was a recognition too clear and too complete to argue with.

I've tried to describe that first session many times, and the description always falls a little short of the truth. What I can say is that it was the most direct experience I'd had of my nervous system actually letting go — not because I had worked harder or thought my way to a better mindset, but because I'd given my body a direct input it could actually understand.

That experience — that specific quality of release — is what I was chasing when I booked the flight to Ibiza two weeks later. Not the certification. Not the credential. The thing itself. And the thing itself turned out to be a doorway into a much larger room than I had any framework for at the time.

If something in you has ever moved in a way you couldn't explain — in a session, in a moment of stillness, in an encounter that seemed too precisely timed to be accidental — you know what I'm describing. You know the feeling of something opening that didn't close back. That feeling is the thread. Following it is what built everything that came next.

What Ibiza Actually Taught Me

Ibiza was where the science answered the questions I'd been carrying for years — about my energy, my anxiety, my inability to truly rest. The Bohr Effect, CO2 tolerance, the relationship between how we breathe and how the nervous system functions — all of it landed not as abstract information but as lived experience. And then there was the music.

The physiology of breathwork — why slowing down and structuring the breath changes what the body can access, why breath holds matter, why CO2 is not a waste product but a signal — answered questions I hadn't even known how to ask. It explained the afternoon crashes. The anxiety that didn't match my circumstances. The sleep that never fully restored me. Not as symptoms to manage, but as a system that was running an inefficient pattern — one that could be retrained.

But the part I didn't anticipate was the music.

I had spent years in the club scene before eventually leaving it, because I wanted to dance without alcohol, without chemicals, without numbing out to feel the music. I wanted the genuine experience of sound moving through a body that was actually open — and I didn't have a container for it until Ibiza.

I experienced ecstatic dance for the first time there. I felt what music could do when your nervous system was open and your body wasn't braced against sensation. And I understood in that room that breath and music and movement together were not separate tools — they were one medicine. And I had to learn how to give it.

Victoria made her own first solo trip to Ibiza during that training — and on the final day, she came to Casa Soma. She witnessed a live session. She met Niraj Naik. She stayed for dinner. Two people building toward the same thing, arriving at the same place by paths that had been converging for years.

Then Rishikesh

Five hundred hours of yoga teacher training — thirteen-hour days, six days a week in Rishikesh, India — was where I learned what asana is actually for. The physical practice most people think of as yoga exists to prepare the body and mind for meditation. Meditation exists as a path toward samadhi: union with something larger than the individual self. The poses are preparation, not destination.

This was culture shock in the most clarifying way. Learning something ancient in the place it came from — absorbing not just the technique but the understanding underneath it, the philosophy that gives the technique its purpose — was different from any training I'd experienced before.

What I learned that I couldn't have learned anywhere else: the physical body, practiced with discipline and care, stops being an obstacle and becomes a vehicle. After years of running on depletion — of pushing through a body that was braced and depleted and just barely keeping up — I discovered what it felt like to be genuinely strong. Not performance strength. The kind of strength that comes from being deeply in your body and no longer at war with it.

That discovery — that the body, given the right conditions, is not the problem but the path — is underneath everything Energy of Creation teaches.

Then Bali

Bali was where the pieces became a picture. The 5Elements Dance Activation training gave me language for what I had been doing intuitively — using music as a tool for embodiment and healing. It was there that I understood: the parking lot, Ibiza, Rishikesh were one continuous thread. That thread became Energy of Creation.

The 5Elements Dance Activation DJ certification gave me what I'd been reaching toward since I left the club scene: a framework for using music intentionally, as medicine. How frequency, tempo, and structure move people through physiological states. How sound creates the conditions for the body to open, to process, to release, to arrive somewhere it couldn't reach through thinking alone.

I left Bali with that — and with something I hadn't expected. A deepened understanding of what it means to be in a body on this planet in a way that is conscious and present and grateful and connected. Not as an idea. As a felt reality, rooted in a place that holds that reality with extraordinary clarity.

Bali is where the story of Eat Pray Love ends. I didn't know when I started this journey that mine would trace a similar arc — different countries, different order, the same quality of each step leading irrevocably to the next. Standing there, I understood that the parking lot in Round Rock, Texas, and the training in Ibiza, and the thirteen-hour days in Rishikesh, and the music in Bali were all one continuous thread.

That thread is Energy of Creation. Victoria Thompson and I did not plan this the way you plan a business. We followed it — each step naturally, almost inevitably, to the next — until what we were building had its own name and its own shape and its own mission: Breaking Cycles, Building Futures.

Why I'm Telling You This

Not because this story is extraordinary — but because most people reading it have their own version. A moment that shifted something that didn't shift back. A pull that didn't make logical sense. A practice that found them at exactly the right time. Your version is yours. I'm sharing mine so you know who built this — and why it was built the way it was.

Not a brand. Not a wellness industry persona. Not someone who found the perfect system and is now selling access to it.

A person who found this in a parking lot. Who has been to the places and done the training and lived the transformation — who knows from the inside what it feels like to have a body that finally understands it's safe, to have a community that doesn't require a twenty-minute preamble, to operate from a baseline that used to feel impossible and now just feels like home.

Everything offered at Energy of Creation — the 21 Day Awakening Journey, Super Sunday, the retreats, the coaching, the full ecosystem of practice — comes from that thread. It was built from lived experience and it is offered from exactly that place.

The work is real. The community is real. The transformation is available.

And if something in you is saying yes to any of it — I trust that. That yes is worth following.

You can read more about what 21 days of this practice actually produces, week by week, in this piece.

Frequently Asked Questions: Conscious Breathwork and Personal Transformation

What actually happens during a transformative breathwork session?

During a structured conscious breathwork session, rhythmic breathing and intentional breath holds shift CO2 levels in the blood, temporarily altering blood chemistry in a way that produces a measurable electromagnetic shift throughout the body. This creates access to states of expanded awareness, emotional release, and deep nervous system regulation that are difficult to reach through thinking or talking alone. The experience is different for every person and every session.

How do I know if breathwork is right for me?

If you have been doing everything right on paper — the routines, the self-care, the work you're proud of — and still feel like something essential is missing or off, breathwork is likely right for you. It is particularly effective for people whose burnout, anxiety, or depletion is rooted in nervous system dysregulation rather than circumstantial stress. The most direct way to know is to experience a session. Super Sunday is held the first Sunday of every month and is donation-based.

What is the difference between a breathwork experience and a breathwork practice?

A breathwork experience is a single session — powerful, sometimes life-changing, and temporary in its effects. A breathwork practice is a consistent, progressive retraining of the nervous system over time. The experience opens a door. The practice builds a new baseline on the other side of it. Energy of Creation is designed around practice — not just experience — because lasting change requires repetition, not just revelation.

What is Energy of Creation and who is it for?

Energy of Creation is a 508(c)(1)(a) faith-based nonprofit wellness community based in Temple/Belton, Central Texas, co-founded by Destinē and Victoria Thompson. EOC serves everyday high performers — people doing everything right and still running on empty — through conscious breathwork, Ayurveda, sound therapy, embodiment yoga, ecstatic dance, and A Course in Miracles. It is explicitly inclusive and radically community-centered.

How is Energy of Creation different from other wellness programs?

EOC is system-based, not experience-based. The work builds on itself over time inside a genuine community container, rather than offering isolated sessions or one-off retreats that feel good and produce no lasting change. It addresses the root — a nervous system regulated in survival mode — rather than the symptoms. And it is built by two people who found this practice in a parking lot and followed it all the way around the world before coming back to build something they needed themselves.

If Something in You Is Saying Yes

That yes is worth following.

Energy of Creation's 21 Day Awakening Journey is where that following begins — 21 days of guided conscious breathwork, three weekly live calls, an eight-lesson pre-course foundation, and a community of people practicing in real time alongside you. It is the most structured entry point into everything the thread that started in that parking lot eventually became.

The May 4 cohort is the final opportunity to join at the founding contribution of $497. Beginning May 5, the program investment moves to $1,497.

If you're not ready for the full 21 days, Super Sunday — our monthly breathwork gathering, held online the first Sunday of every month — is always open. Donation-based. No barrier. The same quality of practice. A door that stays permanently unlocked.

All contributions support Energy of Creation, a 508(c)(1)(a) faith-based nonprofit wellness community. All donations are final.

→ Join the 21 Day Awakening Journey: go.energyofcreation.com/21-day-awakening

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