03/06/2025
When Breathe & Rise Collective co-founder and President Jerica Love was a competitive runner and hurdler in college, her coach advised her to “inhale when you take off and exhale after you land.”
“My coach emphasized breath work. Tremendously emphasized. I will never forget this. It was like, wait, hold on coach. You’re telling me to breath a specific way now? And it changed my life. My breathwork started there,” Love told Deceleration.
Now Love is on a mission to embody unity through collective healing using the power of breath. Love and partner Justin Reed (aka J.) formalized what had organically taken shape as the Breathe & Rise Collective (BRC) in 2024. But Jerica’s path to empowerment through breathwork began when she started running track at age 13 to cope with the disintegration of her family in the midst of her parents’ divorce.
“I grew up watching my brother run track and field in high school. I loved it. I fell in love with the hurdles, like, how a body can move like that. And so, it became my safe haven. Track really saved my life. But I suppressed my emotions that way. I thought I was dealing with it, but really I was suppressing it.”
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