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10 Songs About Breathing

April 6, 2013
Here's an interesting article by Danielle Hark, that was also published in Huffington Post. 
http://healthmedicinet.com/i/danielle-hark-the-top-10-songs-to-help-you-breathe/

It was recommended to her that she do controlled-breathing exercises for anxiety and to quiet her active mind, but she was finding it hard to even sit down and do it for 5 minutes at a time!  So she put together this playlist and created an enjoyable break rather than a chore.


Whatever it takes.  I felt similarly for a while -- quieting down brought up all the emotions I "didn't have time to feel" so I didn't want to do it.  Then I started working with a Frolov device that allows me to listen to audio books and lectures while I increase my respiratory fitness.  

We're living in a much different environment than Dr. Buteyko..  His research lab was in Sibera, is my understanding, for most of his career!  His patients were probably mostly understimulated, not overstimulated!  I'm eager to talk to older Buteyko educators who were alive longer pre-Internet for their opinions.

Meanwhile, here's Danielle's playlist:
  

1. Keep Breathing – Ingrid Michelson
2. Breathe In Breathe Out – Mat Kearny
3. Breathe – Alexi Murdoch
4. Air That I Breathe – K.D. Lang
5. Breathe – Télépopmusik
6. Breathe In – Frou Frou
7. Breathing – Kate Bush
8. Take My Breath Away – Berlin
9. Breathe – Taylor Swift feat. Colbie Caillat
10. Breathe (2 AM) – Anna Nalick
 

The Financial Argument for Breathing Retraining

February 20, 2013

I’ve been wanting to put this together for a while.  I finally did yesterday after I got a call from someone who was interested in one of our Buteyko Breathing Technique courses but didn’t want to pay for it because she belongs to Kaiser Permanente, a health-maintenance organization that offers more-or-less comprehensive health care for a monthly price.  Here goes:

#1  The cost of learning breathing retraining is probably a fraction of the cost of drugs a person might need to manage chroni...


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Can someone hyperventilate without knowing it?

February 14, 2013
Unfortunately, many people hyperventilate without knowing it.

Before I learned about breathing retraining, I noticed that I became very breathless and uncomfortable when I read my toddler daughter several stories in a row.  "Wow, I'm just sitting here and I'm getting winded," I told myself. "Am I out of shape or what?!"

Well, yes.  And that was despite my asthma being controlled with steroid and reliever inhalers.

Dr. Konstantin Buteyko, who developed the Buteyko Breathing Technique starting in ...
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What's the difference between meditation and breathing retraining?

February 6, 2013

Where we are located in the San Francisco Bay Area, most people have had some exposure to meditation, usually Buddhist meditation.  There are thousands of meditation styles, and most of them are directed to training the mind as a spiritual discipline-- through awareness, concentration or visualization. 

Buddhist meditation techniques have been increasingly employed by mental-health professionals to help alleviate a variety of health conditions such as anxiety and depression.  In fact, Dr. J...


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What is Breathing Retraining?

January 29, 2013


Breathing retraining is changing unconscious breathing patterns that may be hurting your health and well-being. As students practice breathing awareness and toning exercises, their respiratory fitness improves and more oxygen is able to be metabolized in the body and brain. All the organs function better and thinking becomes sharper.

The reason we call it breathing ‘retraining” and not breathing education is that most of us started out breathing fantastically and somewhere along the way...


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Back to Basics: Why Do We Breathe?

January 29, 2013

 

Breathing brings in the oxygen necessary to metabolize the food we eat.

Because energy production is a nearly constant activity in the cells, breathing is nearly constant too.

Oxygen is transported to the cells via hemoglobin in blood.  However if a person is hyperventilating, or breathing too much, the hemoglobin gets sticky and won’t release the oxygen it’s carrying.  It’s part of a complex relationship between oxygen and carbon dioxide you can read more about here if you like. The...


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2012 Year In Review

December 22, 2012
What a year it has been!

Breathing Retraining Center started in January 2012, with a vision to bring breathing to the forefront as a means in and of itself to improve health -- especially for people who suffer from respiratory conditions like asthma, allergies, chronic colds, anxiety, snoring and other sleep disorders.

We teach self-help, self-care skills designed to show students how to tune in to their breathing and adjust the pattern as necessary to feel better. This seems to be especially...
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San Francisco Chronicle picks up story about Buteyko Breathing class to reverse snoring and sleep apnea later this month in Berkeley

October 3, 2012


For the full-size story see:
 http://www.sfgate.com/business/prweb/article/Breathing-Retraining-Center-Offering-First-Class-3913718.php


 

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We're in the news for International Nose Breathing Week

September 12, 2012
Check it out here:
Shut Your Mouth When Inhaling and Exhaling This Week, Because It's International Nose Breathing Week
http://news.yahoo.com/shut-mouth-inhaling-exhaling-week-because-international-nose-201307768.html
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Why Mouth-Breathing Is A Disaster For Children's Health

September 10, 2012


I’ve got a 7-year-old daughter whom I discovered is a mouth-breather after I took the Buteyko teacher training a year ago.  And it’s not like I realized it the week I got back.  It took me some time to notice, mostly because she doesn’t have asthma and allergies like I do. 

In her case, because of stressful circumstances at her birth, her sympathetic "fight-or-flight" nervous system has always been overly engaged, which probably started her hyperventilating as an infant.  Also, I was a...


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Lisa Bowen I'm a Buteyko educator and I'm honored to help you breathe easier.

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