Kirill: Biohacking, Breathwork and Migration

My guest today is Kirill Sivy. Kirill is a young entrepreneur, co-founder of  Shiftspace. Shiftspace is building and sharing human centered technology for the future of work. This focus is also a good description of Kirill himself. From a young age, he has been interested in Personal Development, the human mind and how we show up in the world. Kirill is a firm believer that our planetary, social & personal problems are caused by human behaviour. Inner development - for him - is the key to putting our world on a better course. In our conversation we talk about Kirill’s early life experience in Belarus and Germany. About his fascination with self-help books and biohacking, which later lead to a deep interest in personal development, involving -among others - breath work as well as psychedelics.

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Being Underwater is a project about inner life in the digital age. Hosted by social entrepreneur and anthropologist Joana Breidenbach, this series of interviews tries to uncover the language we use to describe our inner worlds, as well as the tools or practices that help us decipher them. These conversations are important to engage in at any time, however with the onset of the digital age, they present a new urgency. As machines and algorithms threaten to know and understand us better than we do ourselves, we are faced with an evolutionary pressure to expand our consciousness and comprehend greater amounts of complexity. We must understand who we are, and what it is that we want, in order to define our relationship with technology, rather than allowing technology to define us. The project was conceived by Joana Breidenbach and edited by Siena Powers. Angus Sewell McCann composed the main theme music, and Vincent Augustus mixed the second theme. All visuals were created by Florentin Aisslinger.