About

How a didgeridoo changed everything

The story of how a single instrument opened a door into physics, physiology, and the architecture of human experience.

Ryan reuniting with the woman who sold him his first didgeridoo

The short version

I'm a father, a musician, a researcher, and a builder. I spend my time studying how the human body actually works, not the simplified version, and teaching people to notice what their own systems have been doing all along.

I run weekly group trainings in sound, breath, movement, and interoception. I've built frameworks for understanding how environments act on tissue, how the senses integrate experience, and how the body processes time. I wrote a book about what happens when you take your own light seriously.

And I play ukulele on one leg.

Nothing's wrong with you

Most of what passes for help is someone handing you their answers. A protocol. A program. A plan. You follow the steps, white-knuckle your way through, and when it stops working, you assume something's wrong with you.

Your body already has its own answers. The problem isn't a missing solution. The problem is interference. Too much noise. Too many layers between you and the signal your own system has been sending since before you could talk.

None of the work here involves pushing, forcing, or overriding. There is no ideology. No guru. No one standing between you and your own experience. What there is: a set of tools for reducing the noise. A way of paying attention that lets the signal come through on its own. The rest tends to take care of itself.

That's the approach behind everything here, from the Ten Laws of Emergence to the weekly group trainings. Increased self-awareness is the intervention. When you learn to notice what your body is already doing, the corrections tend to emerge on their own.

How it started

Twenty years ago, I picked up a didgeridoo. I had no idea what I was doing. What I found was that circular breathing, the technique you have to learn to play the instrument, changed how my entire nervous system operated. Not metaphorically. Measurably. The vibration, the breath pattern, the resonance inside the skull and chest cavity. It was a full-body physics lesson disguised as a musical instrument.

That led to studying vibration. Vibration led to fascia. Fascia led to the tongue (which connects to everything). The tongue led to balance. Balance led to interoception. Interoception led to infrared. And infrared led to the physics of how living systems emit, absorb, and exchange energy with each other.

Every door opened the next one. The Six Inputs framework, the Ten Laws of Emergence, the concept of experiential capacity, all of it came from following those threads honestly.

Ryan Today performing ukulele at Biohackers World

Where this work lives

The work isn't contained in one room. It shows up in half a dozen projects, each one a different expression of the same underlying architecture. From TheTongue.com (live classes on the most overlooked organ in human development) to Relax Infrared (the physics of semiconductor far-infrared technology) to Games of Coordination and Map of One.

If you want to see how it all connects, start with the framework or just show up to a session.

Get in Touch

Curiosity is the master key. If you're curious, reach out.