Every breath you take has the potential to improve your life in more ways than you can imagine.
From the way you sleep to your overall health,
stress levels,
mood,
cognitive abilities,
physical performance,
sense of well-being,
and your capacity to thrive –
your breath plays a pivotal role.
It’s time to take a deep dive into the art of conscious and deliberate breathing that you can practice anywhere, anytime.
Welcome to the Healing with the Breath course, a 6-week program that will teach you how to access the remarkable potential of your breath.
Every breath you take has the potential to improve your life in more ways than you can imagine.
From the way you sleep to your overall health,
stress levels,
mood,
cognitive abilities,
physical performance,
sense of well-being,
and your capacity to thrive –
your breath plays a pivotal role.
It’s time to take a deep dive into the art of conscious and deliberate breathing that you can practice anywhere, anytime.
Welcome to the Healing with the Breath course, a 6-week program that will teach you how to access the remarkable potential of your breath.
The program is offered as Online or Group classes or Private consultations.
This program isn’t just about inhaling and exhaling; it’s about understanding and working with your breath in synergy with mind-body techniques and lifestyle strategies.
You’ll learn to:
- Improve Your Breathing: Learn how to breathe better, with greater awareness and control.
- Manage Breathlessness: Know what to do to get your breathing back under control.
- Tame Stress: Learn breathing techniques for your stress management toolkit.
- Maintain Peak Health: Use your breath to get more health benefits from exercise.
- Aid in the Treatment of Various Conditions: Discover how breathing training can complement treatment for various health issues.
Negative Effects of Dysfunctional Breathing
Many of us harbour less-than-ideal breathing patterns due to structural issues, lifelong health concerns, or the weight of accumulated stress.
Dysfunctional breathing can manifest in various ways, such as:
- Mouth breathing
- Shallow upper chest breathing
- Chronic hyperventilation
- Sleep-disordered breathing
- Vocal cord dysfunction
- Unexplained breathing discomfort (dyspnea)
When your breathing goes awry, it can wreak havoc on your health and perpetuate breathing difficulties and discomfort. Dysfunctional breathing can complicate the treatment of numerous health issues, including:
- Asthma
- COPD
- Anxiety disorders
- Voice problems
- Sleep-disordered breathing (including obstructive sleep apnea and upper airway resistance syndrome)
- Long COVID
- ME/CFS
- Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome
- Chronic neck and back pain
- Pelvic pain
- Functional gut disorders
- TMJ pain
The Benefits of this Program covers so much!
This program is a comprehensive 6 week program that provides a structured and individualised approach to optimising breathing.
Functional breathing retraining aims to:
- Rehabilitate nasal breathing
- Improve upper airway function
- Improve efficiency of diaphragm and respiratory muscle function
- Correct hyperventilation (optimizing oxygen and carbon dioxide levels)
- Correct hyperinflation or breath stacking
- Relax the hyper-aroused nervous system and improve vagal tone
- Improve efficiency of cardio respiratory interaction
- Reduce breathlessness including feelings of insufficient or unsatisfied respiration
Our next Online course dates
Monday 15 July – Monday 19 August
Included is a weekly coaching call, and a post-course assessment
Cost
Classes: Classes are one and a half hours each week for 6 weeks.
Assessment: the initial assessment involves completing a comprehensive Breathing Assessment form. You may also need a personal appointment if your condition is more complex, it takes about an hour.
Some things you will learn in this program
- what correct breathing actually is and how it relates to conditions like asthma, COPD, snoring, sleep apnea, anxiety, depression, chronic illness, insomnia, exercise performance
- how to improve breathing pattern and optimise the use of your diaphragm and breathing muscles
- how to improve your ability to breathe through your nose
- how to recognise and correct hyperinflation and hyperventilation
- how to use breathing techniques to control symptoms
- how to use breathing to calm the nervous system improve the function of your vagus nerve
- breathing, relaxation and mind-body practices to use during formal practice, at rest and during daily life to improve health.
Breathing assessment
The initial assessment
You will complete an initial comprehensive Breathing Assessment form. You may also need a personal appointment if your condition is more complex. This takes about an hour including lung function, hyperventilation and breathing pattern evaluation, health history to evaluate symptoms and causes of breathing issues, and costs AU$210.
We record baseline measures so that your progress can be monitored.
Dr Courtney can then advise if this program is likely to be helpful and/or refer for other treatment or to other health professionals if necessary.
The follow-up assessment
After the 6 sessions it is recommended that you are re-assessed to evaluate progress and advised if any other treatment is needed.
The next step
To book an initial assessment please call the clinic.
To register for therapy classes see the class schedule.
Or please contact Dr Courtney if you would like to discuss how this revolutionary program could help you.