Bryce Lupoli 

Tenor, Breath Facilitator & Meditation Teacher

Bryce Lupoli is a breathwork facilitator, sheng zhen meditation teacher, and tenor. His calling is towards union: the state of being in which body, mind, heart, soul, and world are one harmonious whole.
 

Bryce was first driven to this path by necessity, when his health started eroding at a young age. Now he shares the skills that have healed and enriched his life, as he continues to deepen his own practice and understanding.

 

An outline of Bryce’s pertinent bio-psychospiritual challenges/gifts:

 

• Age 16: Onset of clinical depression, suicidal and existential in degree and nature. Chronic fatigue and food sensitivities soon followed.

• Age 19: An adverse reaction to medication caused significant cognitive impairment. This forced Bryce to take a leave of absence from college for 3 months due to losses in memory, processing speed, focus, emotional association, physical coordination, and depth perception.

• Age 22: Appearance of dupuytren contacture (an auto-immune related growth and contraction of tissue in the hand and fingers). Bryce had to stop pursuing his passions in piano, rock climb, lift weights, and other activities that require strenuous or dexterous use of his right hand.

• Age 23: Systemic auto-immune related pseudo-arthritis, which inflamed, weakened, and sensitized most of the joints in his body.

 

After nearly two years of living with debilitating pseudo-arthritis, during which his life was defined by grief and searching for medical solutions, Bryce decided it was time to accept the fact that he would probably be handicapped indefinitely.

 

With the intention of learning how to be at peace with his illness, Bryce devoted himself to meditation. He briefly attended Deer Park Monastery in California, then was accepted to live at Monte Sahaja Ashram in Portugal for five weeks.

 

In Monte Sahaja, Bryce discovered what he had been looking for during the previous eight long years. To his amazement, when his mind was quiet and his heart was open, meaning and joy came flooding in. He discovered that he didn’t need to do anything in order to be happy; joy and connection to life would arise of their own accord, if he only created the right conditions for them. 

 

After Monte Sahaja, Bryce sought a practice that could bring more peace and health into his body, now that his mind and emotions felt nourished. He discovered Sheng Zhen Meditation (a beautiful practice of moving meditation that involves qi gong) and attended a 36 day retreat. At the retreat, he was encouraged by the founder of Sheng Zhen, Master Li, to begin teaching. He completed a teacher training program several months later and began sharing Sheng Zhen with the world.

 

Bryce began studying the breath when he noticed that it was hard for him to focus on his breath in meditation. Something about breathing didn’t feel good, didn’t feel right. Little did he know, his discomfort was associated with a tongue tie and related breathing dysfunction.

 

He threw himself into the art and science of breath when he experienced how it could improve his sleep, increase his energy levels, calm him before public speaking or performing, prevent sore throats, strengthen his immune system, relieve his chronically cold hands and feet, and more.

 

Through meditation, Sheng Zhen, and breathing practices, Bryce’s depression dissolved and his auto-immune conditions have mostly healed or gone into remission. He can now go for long beach walks, trail run, surf, and do many of the activities that he had enjoyed as a teenager. He feels happier, healthier, and more free than ever before.

 

Bryce has trained under Master Buteyko Instructor Patrick McKeown, founder of the Oxygen Advantage. He has completed the Breatheology Fundamentals Course, created by world record freediver Stig Severinsen. He has completed the Breathwork Intensive Course, created by Our Breath Collective, and he is soon to receive a teacher certification through OBC.

 

Bryce has given lectures at University of California Northridge, University of California Santa Barbara, The Breathe Institute, and taught a workshop at the International Vocal Artist Academy of Payerbach. He has led multiple breathwork sessions for the worldwide breathing app Re/Mind. He frequently teaches at Santa Barbara’s favorite yoga center, Yoga Soup. He leads weekly classes in via Zoom, where he combines breathwork with Sheng Zhen Meditation. Bryce also works 1:1 with visual artists, coaches, CEO’s, corporate consultants, opera singers, school teachers, and others to help them discover peace in their minds, love in their hearts, and strength in their bodies.

 

In addition, Bryce is a classically trained tenor. He began singing when he joined the high school choir, then started studying classical voice at the Music Academy Of The West with Agatha Carubia. He received a BA in Music from Hamilton College, with a focus in Vocal Performance. At Hamilton he performed the role of Randy Curtis in Kurt Weill’s Lady In The Dark. He has performed in the chorus of The Bartered Bride with The Music Academy of The West. He attended the International Vocal Artists Academy of Payerbach from 2017-2019. Bryce studied under the great Russian baritone Vladimir Chernov and his masterful wife Olga Toporkova from 2016-2020. He has taken notes during hundreds of their vocal lessons, apprenticed under them, and in 2018 received their encouragement to begin teaching voice.”