scienced based Functional BREATHING RETRAINING
expand your breathing horizons
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Welcome to Breathscape. Where the breath meets nature. We all have the ability to tune back into our native breathing patterns that we were born with and I'm here to take you back there. To improve everyday life, to elevate your health and wellbeing.
While there's an array of areas that Functional Breathing Retraining can take you, my focus and deep passion is working with people that are living with; Sleep Disorders (Sleep Apnea, UARS, Snoring and Insomnia), Asthma, Anxiety, Panic Disorder, Stress and Brain Fog.
I offer online consultations for people located in Brisbane, Queensland or internationally, as well as in person appointments via The Shift Clinic in Milton, Brisbane.
breathing based on science
‘we’re not just retraining the breath, we’re retraining the mind’ - patrick mckeown
What is Functional breathing retraining
The word ‘Breath’ is the new ‘black’ on the health scene. So, let’s clarify what Breathscape offers; its not necessarily breathwork (no hyperventilation exercises here), or yoga pranayama although there are some similarities. Functional Breathing Retraining uses techniques to rewrite bad habits that may be attributing to your health concerns, allowing the breath to work for you not against you. I work to the principle that all breath cycles (in and out) should be thru the nose, followed by light, slow and driven by the diaphram (low).
The reality of overbreathing
People suffering from various health issues are often breathing in a way that is ‘dysfunctional’. This might be due to illness / disease, stress, disorders or trauma. The breath reflects this state of wellbeing and if it persists for too long the bad habits become habitual only adding or attributing to the symptoms of the underlying conditions. This can have a detrimental effect on our health and may even worsen your condition. This is where we need to take things back to basics and start teaching the body old tricks!
the geeky stuff
functional breathing v’s dysfunctional
More commonly, patients that I work with have one thing in common, they don’t realise the importance of nasal breathing 100% of the time. This often results in the air they’re breathing ending up in ‘dead space’, it doesn’t go down ‘deep’ enough into the lower airways (the lungs and Alveoli) where the magic of gas exchange takes place (i.e. where your Oxygen is offloaded and then delivered to your organs, tissues and brain).
Signs of someone breathing poorly is: the breath is noticeable, they’re likely breathing into their upper chest, its heavy and fast, and likely via the mouth.
The healthy or functional breather is quite the opposite, you don’t see that they’re breathing, you don’t hear it, the diaphragm leads the breath and its always through the nose, in sleep and even exercise too (where possible).