From Panic to Power: How Practice HORA Helped Yevgeny Frolov Reclaim His Life

From Emergency Room Visits to Executive Success: The Practice HORA Method That Changed Everything

I recently gave an interview about Practice HORA and what it did for me. Written by Joe Pelligrini

Today, we are currently living in a serious mental health crisis in our counSidtry and around the world. Currently, around 1 in 5 adults in the US are struggling with some kind of mental illness, with numbers only getting worse in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and other global events.

Some of the most debilitating experiences many people struggle with today are panic and anxiety attacks. Accumulated stress and pressure can have devastating effects on the mind, even for people who are physically healthy otherwise. Having to go to the hospital for a panic attack is a terrifying ordeal and it can be a serious detriment to work and family life, not to mention individual mental health.

This is the state one Practice HORA® leader Yevgeny Frolov found himself in as stress from his life built walls around him. At that time, Yevgeny was a relatively new parent, had a lot of responsibilities working in investment banking, and was finishing his MBA program. All of these things put so much pressure on him that he would end up in the emergency room from having anxiety-induced breathing problems every three months. “I was saturated with stress,” he said. The experience was so intense Yevgeny wasn’t sure if he could continue to live in that state.

“I was hoping I would survive until my son was five or six so he would remember me, I did not know at the time if I would live another three years. I was looking for a method to help me survive.”

While Yevgeny was experiencing this level of suffering he sometimes felt hopelessness, but fortunately, he found a way out. As Svetlana Baklanova, Practice HORA leader, said in her TEDx talk, “when you’re looking for a solution in life, it will come to you.”

In 2004 Yevgeny took his first Practice HORA class, and within the first 15 minutes he started feeling a dramatic difference.

“I felt like I had the body of an 18 year old at peak physical condition,” he said. “As I was doing it, I recognized that it was transforming my body and abilities in real time.”

The feeling brought him back to his own experience of training martial arts for decades. However, Practice HORA expanded his view about what skills need to be trained to be physically, intellectually, and psychologically successful in today’s world.

“I haven’t had these anxiety attacks since I started Practice HORA around 17–18 years ago, and I’ve never had to go back to the hospital for this experience.”

This was the start of an upward trend that would eventually completely transform Yevgeny’s life and set him up for increasing growth and success. After two years of training, the possibility of having an anxiety attack was no longer a worry for Yevgeny.

While Yevgeny’s personal life saw huge improvements, his life at work also took off with his training as well. Before Practice HORA, Yevgeny struggled with effective communication at work. “I wore my emotions on my sleeve. I believed there was only one right answer,” he said. “That did not always work well in a corporate environment. I almost got fired twice.”

Training in Practice HORA revealed to Yevgeny how this was holding him back from being successful in the workplace. “It was a wake up call for me, that whatever I was doing was not sufficient for success,” he said. Yevgeny realized he had to learn to control his emotions in the moment to become the best he could be.

The trance-gravitational method of Practice HORA taught Yevgeny new skills that helped him calm his reactions to think more about his words. “I learned how to focus and direct my inner attention — this helped me recognize my feelings, the state of my physical body, and the state of my mind,” he said.

The training of concentrated attention eventually reshaped Yevgeny’s perspective and helped him become more patient, allowing him to dramatically increase his productivity and ~ quadruple his income.

“It enabled me to start being more patient and attentive. I live with the principles of empathy,” he said. Yevgeny now manages a team of around few dozen people and he started originally with just one.

Self-assessment of transformation of skills before and after participating in Practice HORA training

Yevgeny’s story is one of the most inspiring examples of how Practice HORA can radically transform one’s life and set them on a course for sustainable success. Yevgeny went from being totally incapacitated by stress to now having continuous personal growth and career success.

Right now, Yevgeny is working with the community of the greater Chicago area to create a youth movement to share the Practice HORA method. “Practice HORA is a tool that can change or enhance personal capability at any age. It can change one’s view about what it means to be a professional human,” he said. “And then it can lead us to change how we treat the Earth, nature, and how we treat each other.”

Practice HORA leaders wish to help change people’s lives and promote the same type of growth Yevgeny experienced. If you’ve found yourself to be overwhelmed with anxiety and stress like Yevgeny was, then Evolutionary, Trance-gravitational Practice HORA might be for you. Take yourself to the next level, become more productive, calmer, and capable. Be you, even better.

If you are in Chicago metro area, the time is now to take your first complimentary class with us. Check out our website today and watch the TEDx talk given by our US leader.

Important links:

yf.practicehora.us basic.practicehora.us workteams.horatrancefit.us (for companies) horatrancefit.us (for individuals)

Publications: Journal of Psychology, 2024 Improvements in Physical Tension, Mental Tension, Anxiety, and Mental Sharpness/Focus Were Reported after Participating in 20-Minute HORA® Trance Fit and HORA® Trance Sport Training