BREATH OF LIFE
Enhance your mental and physical health. Improve your overall well-being.
A science based training program designed to retrain your breath for better sleep, health and wellbeing.
Breathing is essential to life. Good breathing is essential to a good life. The oxygen you take in with every breath circulates around your body, fuelling your brain and other organs.
But how well do you actually breathe?
You may never have considered how better breathing can improve sleep, functional movement, balance your autonomic nervous system and reduce stress.
Those of us with narcolepsy or other sleep disorders face extra challenges in life already. It’s vital to get the basics like breathing right.
Functional breathing training will help you build respiratory fitness, optimize your sleep and enhance your physical and mental well-being.
Does this sound like you?
You struggle to get back to sleep.
You’re breathless during exercise, or rest.
You’re frequently stressed or anxious.
You struggle with focus and attention.
You suffer from brain fog and low energy.
You suffer from a range of chronic illnesses.
Sleep better and increase your energy.
Minimise or eliminate asthma.
Breathe more easily and effectively.
Improve aerobic and anaerobic capacity.
Enhance blood circulation to the brain.
Imagine instead if you could…
Reduce episodes of sleep apnea.
Reduce stress and build resilience.
Reduce brain fog and improve attention.
Improve your overall well-being.
Increase oxygen delivery to your cells.
INTRODUCING
Breath of Life
The Breath of Life training program teaches scientifically proven methods and breathing exercises to help you sleep better and to reduce stress and anxiety. It will help you become fitter, healthier and stronger. So you can improve recovery from illness and live more fully with chronic conditions.
The course is an On-Demand Program consisting of 6 sessions, over 5 weeks. The program consists of a combination of lesson videos explaining the science of breathing as well as multiple breathing exercises for each module.
Every breathing exercise is demonstrated and explained in short easy to follow videos.
You will learn…
The Oxygen Advantage® technique - understanding the three dimensions of breathing.
How to breathe the right way - the way your body was designed to breathe.
How to harness the breath to reduce sleep disturbances and promote better rest.
How to use the breath to reduce physical, mental & emotional stress.
How light, slow and deep breathing can prevent and reduce a range of common illnesses.
How to optimize your breathing for sports performance and improved fitness.
The importance of nose breathing to optimise health and well-being.
How breathing can boost energy, sharpen focus and cognitive function.
About The Program
The Foundations
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- The Role of Breathing in Health
- The Respiratory System
- The Role of Carbon Dioxide
- The Regulation of Blood pH
- The Role of Nitric Oxide
- The Bohr Effect
- The Effects of Overbreathing
- Body Detoxification
- Regulation Of Breathing
Module One
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- Dysfunctional Breathing
- The Body Oxygen Level Test (BOLT)
- The Role of Nose Breathing
- Thirty Functions of the Nose
- Addressing the Effects of Mouth Breathing
- Breath Hold Training: The Science
- Why Breath Hold on the Exhale
- 3 Steps to Increasing Your BOLT Score
- Mouth Taping
- Nasal Dilators
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- Performing the Body Oxygen Level Test
- Warm Up and Recovery Breathing
- Breathe Light: Biochemistry
- Decongesting the Nose
- Breathe Light: Finger Under Nose
- Breathe Light: Hands Cupping Face
- Breathe Light: Walking (10min)
Module Two
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- The Diaphragm
- Understanding Deep Breathing
- Airway & Blood Vessel Dilation
- The Impacts of the Modern Diet
- Sleep Disordered Breathing
- Nasal Breathing and Sleep
- Breathing for Insomnia
- Sleep Apnea Phenotypes
- Enhancing Sleep Quality
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- Breathe Light: Biomechanics
- Breathe Deep: Walking
- Breathe Light: Before Sleep
- Diaphragm Activation: Breath Hold
- Diaphragm Activation: Complete Exhale
- Diaphragm Activation: Lying On Back
- Diaphragm Activation: Lying on Front
Module Three
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- Paced Breathing: Enhancing Efficiency
- Timing Your Breath: A Fundamental Error
- Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
- Stimulating the Vagus Nerve
- Anxiety and Panic Disorder
- Immersing Attention Inside Your Body
- Managing Stress: Up Regulating
- Managing Stress: Down Regulating
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- Breathe Light: Paced
- Warming Up For Exercise
- Breathe Slow: Walking
- Slow Breathing: Hands Cupping
- Breathing Recovery: Sitting
- Recovery: Increasing Breath Hold Time
- Breathing: To Destress
- Box Breathing: 4 seconds
Module Four
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- Integrating Breathing into Everyday Life
- The 3 Dimensions of Breathing
- Functional Breathing
- Women's Breathing
- Using a Buteyko Belt
- Using a Buteyko Belt During Sleep
- Using a Buteyko Belt During Exercise
- Using a Sports Mask
- How to Access Flow States
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- Breathe Light: Three Dimensions
- Breathe Light: Advanced
- Breathing to Destress
- Functional Breathing: During Walking
- Breath Hold: Walking (5-10 Paces)
- Get Out of Your Head
- Breathe Slow (4 Variations)
Module Five
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- Nasal Breathing During Exercise
- Using Pulse Oximetry
- Exercise-Induced Asthma (EIA)
- Breathing & Functional Movement
- Breathing Pattern Disorder in Sports
- Co2 and Injury Recovery
- Natural Doping
- Get In The Zone
- Maximum Breathlessness
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- Functional Breathing: During Walking/Jogging
- Preparing for Altitude Training Simulation
- Simulation of Altitude Training
- Advanced Simulation Altitude Training
- Breathe Light: Using Buteyko Belt
- Breathe Light: Walking With a Sports Mask
- Breathe Light: Jogging With a Sports Mask
- Rapid Fire Breaths
- Catana Breathing
- Shark Fit
- 30min Breathing Training Exercise
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
Join the program now!
Breath of Life
$30 usd
Read the FAQ’s
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This is a 5 week course and is designed to progressively build each week to develop your respiratory fitness.
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This is self-paced, on demand program, available in the Academy App - Kaizen Life Academy.
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Yes. The Oxygen Advantage® Functional Breathing technique is underpinned by rigorous science and references. The technique has been developed by Patrick McKeown, one of the leading world experts in this field.
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This training requires about 15 to 30 minutes a day of consistent practice to develop your respiratory fitness.
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Many breath work techniques like the Wim Hof Technique teach stress adaption through breath holds.
The key difference with the Oxygen Advantage® Functional Breathing Technique is that the stress adaptation is taught in a gentle and controlled way.
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Of course! Please feel free to contact us and we would be happy to answer them.
Ready to learn more?
The Breath of Life Program is included as part of the Kaizen Life Academy monthly and annual memberships.
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