The Breath Is the Master Key

Jules Horn on Healing the Nervous System and Remembering Who You Are

I’m here today with my good friend Jules Horn, and I want to share this conversation because it hits something that most people miss.

We talk about longevity every day in the health world. We talk about protocols. We talk about devices. We talk about supplements. We talk about biohacking.

But if your nervous system is running like you’re being chased by a tiger, none of that is the foundation.

Jules is one of those people who doesn’t do fluff. He tests things. He filters fast. He keeps what works and discards the rest. And the reason he’s become so impactful so quickly is because his entire work is centered on the one thing most people refuse to address.

The basics.

A lower back crisis that became a wake up call

Jules grew up in a small village in southern Germany. Simple background. Real work ethic. Then life took him into modeling for a decade, New York and everywhere in the world.

And like a lot of men, he lived in that push through mentality.

Go hard. Be strong. Do not slow down.

He told me he had lower back issues for years and he kept overriding them. And then, about two and a half years ago, he hit a wall. After a long run, he woke up the next day and couldn’t walk for five days. Immobilized.

That’s not just pain. That’s a message.

And it forced the real question. If you don’t change, where does this road end?

Fascia is not just tissue

That moment is what led him into fascia work and into Human Garage. He began applying it on himself. Then he began applying it with others.

But here is what I’ve seen in Jules that’s different.

He’s not just working with the body. He’s working with the nervous system. He’s working with safety. He’s working with presence.

And once you understand that, you realize why so many people stay stuck.

Because most people are not living in their body. They’re living in their head.

Most people are over breathing and they do not know it

Jules said something in this conversation that I wish every person on earth would hear.

Most people, even people who “teach breathwork,” are breathing in a way that keeps them stressed.

Too fast. Too shallow. Too much mouth breathing.

And when you breathe that way, your system is in overdrive. You cannot access intuition. You cannot access calm. You cannot access healing.

You are stuck in sympathetic dominance.

So you can meditate for 30 minutes in the morning and still be reactive and chaotic the rest of the day.

It is not about what you do for 30 minutes.

It is about how you show up for yourself for 24 hours.

The simplest practice that changes everything

Jules teaches what he calls the perfect breath.

Four second inhale through the nose. Six second exhale.

That is it.

If you dedicate time to that daily for 10 to 14 days, your autonomic nervous system begins to reprogram.

Your body starts to understand.

I’m not being chased anymore.

And once that happens, you begin moving back into parasympathetic.

You start to feel safe.

You start to be present.

You start to hear your own signal again.

Jules describes intuition as God speaking through us. Whether you define it that way or not, the point is the same.

If you’re never calm, you will never hear it.

Longevity is not a trend, it’s a terrain

Here’s the part that matters for longevity.

Jules said something that’s incredibly important.

If you’re breathing five to six times more air per minute than you should be, you are borrowing time from the future.

You’re burning your lifespan.

You can sit in a hyperbaric chamber for an hour a day and still be in a rat race the other 23 hours. That’s not longevity.

Longevity is a stable internal environment.

It’s nervous system regulation.

It’s learning how to return to the body.

Because every suppressed emotion shows up somewhere.

If it’s not resolved, it becomes pain.

If it’s not addressed, it becomes dysfunction.

In the worst case, it becomes disease.

The world is trained to chase external love

Jules also went deep on something most people don’t want to face.

He described a lifetime of external validation.

If you didn’t receive love properly growing up, you learn to search for it outside of you.

You become a performer.

A people pleaser.

You push harder.

You chase approval.

And eventually the body pays the bill.

That pattern doesn’t just destroy health.

It destroys relationships.

Because when you don’t have self love, you turn partnership into a transaction.

And a transactional relationship collapses under pressure.

What he is building now

In less than two years, Jules shifted his entire life.

He built a membership community with over a thousand members, and he’s aiming to 10x that.

He wants to host large in person events where thousands of people breathe together, bring God back to the center, and restore coherence through the nervous system.

That might sound big.

But I’ve watched his life change fast, because he is consistent and he’s real.

He sows, and he reaps.

And the results keep compounding.

The takeaway

This conversation is a reminder.

Health is not complicated.

It’s disciplined.

It’s foundational.

It’s honest.

If you want longevity, start with the things you cannot outsource.

Breath.

Presence.

Nervous system regulation.

Self love.

The rest builds on top of that.

Where to find Jules

You can find Jules across platforms at:
Instagram: Jules underscore horn
YouTube: Jules Horn
TikTok: Jules Horn
X: JulesHorn01

His website and membership are at: mindfulmovement.com

If you want the whole episode, listen to Jules Horn on Younger Than Yesterday and pay attention to the parts that feel too simple.

That’s usually where the truth is.