Assess your breathing fitness! How many of these 25 symptoms and behaviors associated with problematic breathing do you have?

Breathing Conditioning
for
Breathing Stamina

You Deserve To Breathe Easy

Breathing retraining is a self-management approach to identify and correct poor breathing habits that can underlie chronic illness and low stamina.

Discover a set of tools -- based on simple, scientifically-validated principles and exercises -- to condition and improve your breathing strength and capacity.

Most of the people who explore breathing coaching, experience breathlessness for some reason. Many are athletes who would like to move freer, faster and more comfortably. Others have breathing-related conditions like asthma, allergies, snoring and anxiety, and are under medical care.

Find out if you have poor breathing habits! Take the survey at the bottom of the page.

Or if you already know you need help, make an appointment with Coach Lisa.

For Many People, Healthy Breathing Doesn't Just Happen...It Has To Be Learned

There's a lot of information available about basic health practices such as what and how to eat, and how much water to drink.

It's not commonly known, but there's also a physiologically normal way to breathe too -- to get the most oxygen absorbed by the brain and body, and feel more energy.

We breathe 20,000 to 30,000 a day. When people breathe poorly, it can exacerbate conditions like asthma and allergies, snoring and other sleep disturbances, and anxiousness and stress. If you have one of those conditions, it's not guaranteed but very likely you can reduce symptoms by normalizing your breathing pattern.

Breathing Retraining Center offers coaching and trainings aimed at correcting poor breathing habits with self-help breathing exercises and therapeutic lifestyle changes.

Our services include:

Tools and processes designed to evaluate your breathing habits from a fitness perspective.
Education designed to show you the path to improving your breathing habits.
Training designed to improve your respiratory capacity for the enjoyment of daily activities, sports and optimal health.
Coaching to discover what you want for your health and stamina, and how to achieve that, on your own terms.

Our Philosophy

The four pillars:

Consistency: Do a minimum daily practice, anchored onto an existing habit, toward a specific goal.
Community: Regular contact to receive reinforcement and motivation.
Growth Mindset: Identify blocks and solve challenges.
Unstoppable Momentum: Generate enthusiasm through positive, regular action!

The Time Is Now

The program is flexible with varying levels of support depending on your time, budget and intensity needs.

Embrace the change you want to experience with support that works for you.

Private coaching includes Zoom video sessions with messaging available in-between, to provide exceptional presence and encouragement as you internalize the breathing skills that can correct the disruptive symptoms of poor breathing habits.

It's also fun and economical to explore and practice breathing skills with like-minded people in a community that meets regularly.The Healthy Breathing Habits Academy offers occasional classes and groups, and is available to organizations interested to sponsor events.

WHAT WE DO

1:1 Breathing Coaching

This is modeled after personal fitness training, where you see your coach once a week (or another frequency you prefer) and do recommended activities between sessions.

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Group Coaching
and Classes

We invite organizations and companies to sponsor a Healthy Breathing Habits Academy class for affordable team learning. We also offer periodic events.

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Public Speaking and Writing

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WHAT PEOPLE SAY

I highly recommend attending one of Lisa Bowen's Buteyko Blitz Weekends or classes that she offers. Lisa gave me many tools that I am slowly trying to incorporate in my life. Lisa is a competent, personable teacher who both provides information and then makes sure you understand what you are learning by having you practice various methods. I am confident attendees will benefit from this method.

CP

Oakland, CA

I've never had a breakthrough in my health as amazing as this! Lisa has shown me a light at the end of a tunnel of chronic illness and chronic coughs. Thank God for this place!

HH

Alameda, CA

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OUR BLOG

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Breathing Retraining Center offers individual and group training and coaching on self-management techniques to identify and correct poor-breathing habits. Breathing Retraining Center's educational products, courses and coaching are designed to improve breathing skills for people whose issues may be related to habits that have the potential to be improved, as a self-care/wellness activity. Breathing difficulty may be a warning sign of a life-treatening heart or lung condition, infection or other illness. Always check with your doctor about your own situation.

The Buteyko Breathing Technique and other breathing-retraining strategies we teach are an alternative approach and are not the practice of medicine, psychology or a form of psychotherapy, nor are they a substitute for seeking medical or psychological advice from an apporpriate professional health-care provider. We want to make the important distinction between using the Buteyko Breathing Technique and other breathing-retraining strategies for health and well-being and the practice of medicine, psychology or any other licensed health-care profession.

Breathing classes, coaching and other services from Breathing Retraining Center are offered by teachers who are not licensed by the State of California as physicians or other healing-arts practitioners unless so noted. We offer alternative non-medical/non-psychological techniques and our services are considered to be laternative or complementary to the healing arts that are licensed by the State of California.

Assess your breathing fitness! How many of these 25 symptoms and behaviors associated with problematic breathing do you have?

Get the Questionnaire

Assess your breathing fitness! How many of these 25 symptoms and behaviors associated with problematic breathing do you have?

Breathing Conditioning
for
Breathing Stamina

For Many People, Healthy Breathing Doesn't Just Happen...It Has To Be Learned

Our Philosophy

The Time Is Now