Breathwork can help chronic illness in several ways. Firstly, is if there is a pattern of overbreathing which can easily pass undetected and is often overlooked. By correcting dysfunctional breathing patterns and increasing CO2 tolerance, you can immediately reduce physical symptoms and nervous system activation, and significantly boost your energy levels.
Secondly, by working with, and becoming intimate with one’s own breath, we can directly settle the nervous system down and increase its resilience and capacity. There is increasing evidence that regardless of what initially triggered a person’s chronic illness, a hyperreactive nervous system is a large part of what can perpetuate chronic conditions. Breathwork, and particularly the gentler aspects of the Oxygen Advantage approach, can directly increase resilience, facilitate releasing stuck patterns, and help a person live more in a calm, capable mode rather than in some version of fight, flight, freeze or shut down.
I have also trained in coaching, hypnotherapy, NLP, neurofeedback, Open Focus awareness and Pain Reprocessing Therapy.
I currently live in London, UK and conduct sessions via Zoom.