The Art of Breathing - Basics of Healthy Breathing
Improve your own physical wellbeing and enhance your work
One-day workshop for yoga, Pilates, health, fitness and wellness practitioners
This workshop is designed for health and wellness
practitioners who are interested in breathing skills to
enhance their current modality of practice. Breath work
is an essential element of many health practices including
yoga, Pilates, fitness training, relaxation training,
psychology, physiotherapy and used in asthma
management and cardio-pulmonary rehabilitation.
We take for granted our ability to breathe. But we can
breathe well, or we can breathe poorly. A dysfunctional
breathing pattern underlies many disorders including
chronic cough, asthma, snoring, sleep apnoea, anxiety
and panic disorder; it is common in children, office
workers and athletes; it may well be present in many of
the people you work with.
We need to be aware that a client’s dysfunctional
breathing can inhibit response to the training/therapy we
provide and may underlie an experience of anxiety,
dizziness or discomfort during training. Understanding
the scientific and physiological background to what is
happening around breath can augment the practice of
many wellness modalities, e.g. Physio, Yoga, Pilates
Tess Graham, a physiotherapist and breathing educator,
presents a powerful and practical workshop to enable
health professionals to enhance their work around
breath and help their clients to improve their breathing
and wellbeing
This one-day workshop covers
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Basic physiology of breathing
The mechanical, physiological, psychological and
biochemical effects of dysfunctional breathing.
The connection between dysfunctional breathing
habits and issues such as rhinitis, mouth-breathing,
snoring, neck and shoulder pain, dysfunctional body
use, insomnia, anxiety, panic attacks, asthma and
breathlessness.
Myths and misunderstandings about breathing.
How to identify dysfunctional breathing habits.
The essential first steps to better breathing.
Application of physiologically normal breathing into
modalities such as yoga, Pilates, pulmonary
rehabilitation, relaxation and fitness training.
“I’m a long-time yoga practitioner and teacher. I found Tess
Graham’s workshop invaluable for learning what normal, healthy
breathing actually is - it is quite different to the assumptions most
of us hold with great confidence.”
GL- Sunshine Coast yoga teacher
“This course immediately changed my teaching of breath. The
day gave me a greater understanding of the physiology of
breathing and detail regarding mechanics, volume and speed. It
has helped me answer the question many clients ask, as to,
should they breath in/out through their nose or mouth, and then
importantly – why? I have carefully integrated what I learnt into
my teaching and I have seen the benefit to clients, to be a calmer,
more rhythmic breathing pattern, requiring less effort and
assisting their movements to flow.”
Jakki Tobin - physiotherapist, Pilates instructor
This workshop will enable you to
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Monitor and improve your own breathing
Enhance your work around breath
Identify dysfunctional breathing
Integrate optimal breathing practices into the
therapy/training you deliver
Teach strategies to help those you work with,
breathe better, sleep better and perform better
Workshop Leader
Tess Graham (BSc, Post Grad
Dip Physiotherapy, Dip BM)
has devoted over 20 years to
breathing retraining,
uncovering the essential
principles of good breathing
and applying them in the
simplest way to achieve extraordinary outcomes. She has
the highly-regarded diploma in the Buteyko breathing
method from Moscow and is author of the book, Relief
from Snoring and Sleep Apnoea (Penguin 2012). Tess is a
specialist in both the science and art of breathing.
Date and time: Saturday Feb 7, 2015; 9am – 4.30pm
Location:
Suite 2, 12 Kett St Kambah, CANBERRA
Fee: $250 ($195 early bird before Dec 20) (GST incl.)
Further info: admin@BreatheAbility.com.au
CPD: This workshop adheres to ANTA guidelines for
Continuing Professional Development accreditation. 6 CPD points
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Registration Form
Post completed form to Breathing Training Pty Ltd, PO BOX 4393 Manuka ACT 2603;
Or email to: admin@BreatheAbility.com.au
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Registration
I would like to register for the Basics of Healthy Breathing workshopSaturday Feb 7, 2015. Kambah, Canberra.
Standard Price $250; Early Bird Price $195 (payment required by 20 December 2014)
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BSB: 112 908
Account Number: 420845780
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Please make payable to: Breathing Training Pty Ltd. Post to: PO Box 4393 Manuka ACT 2603 Australia
General Terms and Conditions: Upon acceptance and payment confirmation, a tax invoice will be issued and sent to the email
address provided. A confirmed registration will be refunded in full if cancellation is requested four weeks prior to
commencement of the course. Cancellations within the four-week period will be refunded at 70% of the registration.
All cancellations will incur a $50 administration fee. All fees are inclusive of GST. Participants are expected to have appropriate
registration and Professional Indemnity cover.