Become an Oxygen Advantage certified instructor with @timolampenin Who is Timo Lampen? I’ve been interested in sports since I was little. First came football and hockey until I found chess and Thai boxing in the early 90 s. Thai boxing took me away and soon I competed for the first time. At the same time […]
Patrick McKeown has only gone and done it again…check out his latest book The Breathing Cure > https://oxygenadvantage.com/the-breathing-cure/ How we breathe directly affects how badly something hurts. Beyond factors such as postural control and muscle tension, breathing pattern disorders can play a role in the amplification of pain. For instance, respiratory alkalosis caused by over-breathing […]
We’re huge fans of the Oxygen Advantage, perhaps naturally! Now you can become an Oxygen Advantage Certified Instructor Online with Daniel Palsson @flowswitchmind BTW Daniel has a background from professional tennis and financial trading on Wall Street, ran a handful of ultramarathons, long experience in yoga and currently trains crossfit almost daily. An avid practitioner […]
The scientists who ended up studying breathing, never actually meant to start! It was only when they discovered that our capacity as human beings to breathe optimally had disintegrated over time (since the industrial age) that they recorded it created a laundry list of chronic illness. As paraphrased from the excellent book by James Nestor […]
Last week we celebrated #AromatherapyAwarenessWeek with local therapist Nina Lipman. Thankfully, increasing scientific research has evidenced and substantiated Aromatherapy’s health benefits. Now regarded more than ever broadly in medical circles as a key therapeutic intervention in healthcare, pity it took a pandemic to do that! Three years ago, the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Integrated Healthcare […]
Are you carb craving? Ever put it down to how you breathe? It’s unlikely that lay people in general would make that connection. Dysfunctional breathing reduces C02 levels. Red blood cells send an insufficient amount of oxygen to cells, so you adjust to anaerobic respiration which only uses carbohydrates for fuel. Want to know more? […]
Overcoming mild, moderate or severe CHS is a complicated process and requires commitment and lots of positivity. The route to recovery is very much based upon breathing education. The breathing centre of all CHS sufferers I’ve helped had become unbalanced, out of sync and people were living/operating in sympathetic nervous system mode. When questioned, many […]
CO2 levels, breathing exercises and retraining holds the key to recovery YOU HAVE to breathe to live. But if you breathe too much you may end up in a psychiatric clinic suffering from panic attacks or agoraphobia, or being rushed to hospital with a suspected heart attack. You may even find yourself referred to some […]
A little post about habits and their impact on our mental health. Dysfunctional breathing and the symptoms that come with it can often be a result of bad habits in your life. I appreciate some of you reading this will be unaware you have dysfunctional breathing and won’t recognise that the symptoms come from this […]
Everywhere I look, I mostly see references to breathing measures to combat a variety of conditions described as deep breathing. As my brilliant colleague Melody Mitchell will tell you, ‘deep’ implies an increase in volume and to fill the lungs with more air and super long inhales. Deep should denote the location as in low […]
This A-to-Z book includes a glossary of new words for children and short notes about better breathing for parents. Slow down, relax and read this book with your children to find out how you can all breathe better and improve your health.
