#020 with Stephane Navarro - Surviving Great Whites Solo, Shifting Joint Geometries, & The 100-Ceremony Ayahuasca Blueprint

Miko captures the raw magic directly after an intense training session to sit down with a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu blue belt, real estate entrepreneur, and dedicated spiritual seeker: Stéphane Navarro. Recorded live following a powerful training block at Scramble Academy in southern Spain, Stéphane opens up about completely re-engineering his movement patterns around a persistent knee injury. In this wide-ranging and deeply personal dialogue, they map out the high-stakes physical mechanics of hunting abalones solo inside Tasmanian great white shark sanctuaries, using intentional internal medicine to dissolve severe physical and emotional blockages, and why structured physical discipline serves as the ultimate mirror for personal evolution.What's Inside the Episode:The Structural Furniture Gap: Stéphane details navigating a complex twisting knee modification on the mats. He shares a powerful lesson about learning to tap sooner and compares his joint recovery path to the loosened tolerance gaps left behind when repeatedly assembling, dismantling, and resetting a piece of wooden furniture. The Friday Circuit "Amputation" Sparring: Miko takes a nostalgic look back at his early developmental training roots inside Gaijin Academy. He details an old-school Friday circuit method where coaches physically bound a student's dominant arm to their body using a BJJ belt, forcing them to calculate entirely non-standard leverage configurations against fully resistant partners. The Tasmanian Great White Hunting Grounds: Stéphane shares an unhinged, retrospective story about free-diving for abalones at the Bay of Fires in Tasmania. He recounts diving solo down to depths of 12 meters for hours without a license or support vessel, only to be informed by a tracking group of local campers that he was swimming unshielded inside a dense breeding ground for apex great white sharks. The 100-Ceremony Ayahuasca Brain Calibration: Stéphane structures his extensive spiritual track across South America, including deep isolation blocks inside the Putumayo jungle of Colombia. He maps out the gruelling 30-day dietary restrictions required to approach the plant, how the medicine acts directly on neuroplasticity to clear somatic cellular trauma, and his vision to build a dedicated training retreat merging BJJ with traditional Amazonian medicine. The 1.2-Kilo Cushion Constraint: Miko cracks open his hyper-consistent nutritional layout, revealing a massive intake of 1.2 kilograms of organic chicken every single day. He explains why standard commercial store-bought meat triggers an immediate inflammatory reaction in his system, and how packing his frame up to 84 kilograms successfully built an unshakeable structural cushion to protect his shoulders from past injuries.Memorable Quote: "When you are winning on paper according to the metrics of standard society—running a company, pulling in numbers, owning real estate—it is very easy to convince yourself that you are successful. But internally, you can feel completely hollow and sick. I had to step out of that loop, strip away the masks of my own ego, and use medicine to completely recalibrate the internal conversation happening inside my cells." — Stéphane NavarroEnjoy the episode and remember to subscribe to the podcast.Watch this episode's video on YouTube: ⁠Episode 20 on YouTubeRemember: Jiu-Jitsu Never Dies.Manto 🥋www.man.to/chokesCode: Chokes -15%Find me on:Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/chokes_and_more/⁠⁠⁠TikTok: ⁠h⁠⁠ttps://www.tiktok.com/@chokes_and_more⁠⁠⁠BJJ Fanatics: ⁠⁠⁠https://bjjfanatics.com/collections/instructional-videos/fighter_miko-hytonen⁠⁠⁠YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/@chokesandmore⁠⁠