Tess Graham | BreatheAbility & Buteyko Method | Breathing Retraining
Online Breathing Course, Resources, Information
Helping people improve the way they breathe since 1993
INTRODUCTION TO BETTER BREATHING & TESS GRAHAM'S ONLINE BREATHING COURSE - BreatheAway
– By Tracey Anderson Askew
Online Breathing Course
Welcome to BreatheAbility and our resources dedicated to helping people improve the way they breathe
How can we help?
Do you SNORE, MOUTH-BREATHE or have ASTHMA, SLEEP APNOEA, BLOCKED NOSE, CHRONIC COUGH, ANXIETY, PANIC ATTACKS, INSOMNIA?
Do you wake up with a dry mouth and feel like you haven’t slept at all? Has your snoring seen you banished to the spare room?
Do you have brain fog, or trouble concentrating during the day? Do you often feel on edge, panicky and unable to relax?
Do you get short of breath easily, lack energy, and your exercise capacity is down?
Often these conditions and symptoms relate to the WAY you breathe - your (often unconscious) breathing habits. This is where breathing retraining can help.
BREATHING RETRAINING addresses the everyday faulty breathing habits that typically underlie and may trigger, aggravate and perpetuate breathing-related conditions.
The goal of breathing retraining is to return you to breathing as nature designed -silent, nasal, easy, rhythmic, slow, light and relaxed - when awake and asleep, and which is comfortable and efficient during exercise and speaking. It's about getting your ‘everyday’ breathing right.
Extraordinary benefits may result from getting this fundamental body function right.
How do you breathe? Have you ever had your breathing pattern checked?
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Breathing Training Resources
Your breathing matters - find ways to educate yourself and others
Online Breathing Course
The BreatheAway course is the online version of the breathing retraining programs that Tess Graham has delivered to over 6000 people since 1993. It takes you step-by-step through the breathing retraining process. First results typically seen within 24-48 hrs.
Video lessons, handouts, checklists
Books & Companion Products
The books have easy-to-follow explanations and step-by-step guidance in the 9 healthy breathing habits. Each book has information on all of the most common breathing-related conditions for which people seek help from breathing educators. Companion products: Workbooks and MP3 instruction audio
Health Professional Mentoring
Support and access to Tess Graham's decades of experience in breathing retraining. Explore aspects of working with breathing you need help with; shorten your learning curve; boost your ability to effect positive change in clients
Do you breathe too much?
COULD YOU BE DEPRIVING YOUR BODY OF OXYGEN?
Breathing is the first thing we do in life, and the last. It affects our physiology and blood chemistry, and the function of all our body systems. Yet many people get it wrong around 20,000 times per day.
The typical fault is chronic OVER-breathing/ chronic hyperventilation - that is habitually breathing too fast and/or too much air per breath (breathing too 'deeply'). Snoring, yawning, sighing, heavy (especially mouth-)breaths are all examples of high-volume breaths.
This scan shows a 40% reduction in oxygen in the brain after 1-min of overbreathing/hyperventilation
Red, yellow and pale blue areas correspond to higher O2 saturation.
[Image courtesy of Dr PM. Litchfield, Grad School of Behavioural Health Sciences, Wyoming USA. (1999)]
You've got questions. We've got answers
Learn More About
Correct breathing
What is the correct way to breathe; Why breathing matters; Why 'deep' breathing is a problem
Breathing assessment
Faulty breathing quiz;
Symptoms checklist
Buteyko Method & Breathing retraining
Science and art of breathing retraining; How, why it works; BreatheAbility and Buteyko Method
Conditions helped
FAQ
Breathe Away Online Breathing Course
- Course
- 16 Lessons
- 90-day access
TESS GRAHAM
Physiotherapist and Breathing Educator
Not long after I graduated and began working as a physiotherapist, I started to question the rising incidence of breathing-related disorders such as asthma, snoring and sleep apnoea. I also questioned why, at least in the early stages after diagnosis, some people could be free of the symptoms of these conditions for days or weeks or even months at times, and then the symptoms could come back sometimes without an obvious trigger.
When two of my children developed asthma, I was very concerned. I closely observed their breathing patterns and symptoms day and night, and observed that even when they didn’t have acute asthma symptoms, they breathed differently to my child who didn't have asthma.
They habitually “over-breathed", and more so when they were exposed to triggers.
I did extensive research around asthma and eventually I found the work and research of Ukrainian-born, Russian medical doctor and researcher, Professor Konstantin Buteyko, who offered a common sense and physiologically sound explanation to what I had observed. In addition he had developed a method - the Buteyko Method of breathing retraining - that addressed a fundamental cause of asthma. My children benefited enormously from learning to breathe better.
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Invited speaker
Tess Graham has been an invited speaker and workshop presenter at conferences in Australia, USA, UK, New Zealand and Taiwan. Here is a sampling of the conferences that have featured her expertise.
Featured In
Tess Graham’s many media appearances include TV documentaries and major news channels, radio interviews, and features in many print publications in Australia, USA, UK, and New Zealand. Here is a sampling of the media outlets that have featured her expertise.
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