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A Gentle Path Back to Calm My own experience with anxiety and panic disorder is what first paved the road toward teaching people how to breathe better. At the time, I was seeking help for the intense feelings that would arise before public speaking and meetings, along with the nocturnal panic attacks that would wake me around 30 minutes after falling asleep. During one appointment, a Naturopath made an observation that would quietly change everything: I wasn’t breathing well.

The breath is one of the first things we experience when we’re born. At this early stage of our lives, our autonomic nervous system generally controls the breath in harmony but it’s when we start to experience stress, trauma and health issues develop our breathing can reflect this. Our breath is like a mirror looking back at our internal system, a reflection of our inner health. Dr Konstantin Buteyko, creator of the Buteyko Breathing Method, asked the question; ‘is the sickne

Finding rest again with better breathing. Unknowingly having your breath stop while you sleep is a daunting thought. Yet for many people, this is a nightly reality. Sleep Apnea is a condition where breathing repeatedly pauses during sleep, and a lot of people go undiagnosed. Many of my clients first become aware of a potential problem not only through a formal sleep study, but because a partner notices their breathing pauses at night. Often commenting that their breathing re

What is Functional Breathing We take approximately 20,000-25,000 breaths every day yet, do we truly understand what constitutes a ‘good healthy breath’? Maybe you’re not even aware that bad breathing habits such as shallow breathing and overbreathing could potentially be attributing to many health concerns. Maybe you don’t even realise your breathing has the potential to improve. With Functional Breathing, you learn how to reset breathing with techniques that cover the Bioch