17/11/2025
How SOMA Breath began — the real story behind founder Niraj Naik:
• As a pharmacist, Niraj watched people walk in with a prescription and return month after month with bigger bags of pills. Symptoms were being managed — but people weren’t healing. The deeper cause of their suffering was never being addressed… and in most cases, it still isn’t.
• Meanwhile, stress, burnout and disconnection had pushed his own body to crisis – to the point it started attacking itself. Niraj was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, a severe autoimmune condition that left him housebound and internally bleeding for over a year. Doctors told him it was “incurable” and presented two options: life-altering surgery or an experimental drug trial with unknown long-term effects.
• Faced with the bleak options and seeing the limitations of the system first-hand, he chose a different path. He travelled to Asia and immersed himself in pranayama, yogic breath mastery, visualization, meditation, rhythmic breath cycles, Ayurveda and sound therapy.
• What followed was a profound transformation in his wellbeing – a turnaround that went far beyond what he’d been told was possible for an ‘incurable condition’. That journey inspired the creation of SOMA Breath, bringing ancient breathwork and modern music together so others could access the same inner power.
SOMA is known to support:
- Stress & anxiety reduction
- Improved focus & brain function
- Emotional balance
- Nervous system regulation
- Increased vitality & inner peace
You can choose the path that reconnects you to your own power — instead of the path that keeps adding more pills to the bag.
Book a SOMA Breath session for yourself via the link in our bio or through our website:
www.ganesha-retreats.co.uk
Much love and positive energy 💗
Team Ganesha 🐘
