Idahome Breathing Academy - Breathing Technique

What about breathing technique?
Technique, as defined in the Oxford dictionary is: "A way of carrying out a particular task, especially the execution or performance of an artistic work or a scientific procedure."

Breathing technique is then a way of carrying out breathing.

Breathing is the most important thing we humans individually do. It is the foundation of life. If we do not breathe, then we cannot use oxygen for our metabolic processes to live. Whatever the situation we find ourselves in, we should be able to modulate how (much) we breathe at a moment's notice. Depending on what kind of tasks we are carrying out, we need to match our use of our breath to them. Breathing technique is the beginning, middle, and end of being able to do that. How we breathe is innately programmed into our physiology since we were born. Breathing technique then for us was automatic. We just about did anything we wanted to, and our bodies, including our heart and lungs, reacted and executed a symphony of combined and coordinated actions of our individual body parts to help us breathe the way we were supposed to. Throughout time, we have lost the ability to execute breathing technique through our societal pressures of adopting poor postures in extended sedentary learning and working conditions. Intertwined, and having compounding effects on each other, the lack of quality sleep, poor nutrition, and our constant connection with social media resulting in a heightened sympathetic (flight or freeze) mental and physical state, we as a society today have defaulted to poor breathing mechanics, physiology, and technique. Our goal is to unlearn improper breathing technique and relearn proper technique in order to truly function as rested, healthy, and rational human beings. Just like teaching and learning how to do a push-up or squat the right way, we can teach and learn how to breathe the right way, and in what amounts, according to the laws of nature, and based on our human anatomy. There is a standard we follow in order to teach and learn movement/breathing technique, and any deviation from that standard prevents us from our goals of living fit and healthy without pain.

Why do we care so much about it?
We care so much about breathing technique because it is the question and answer to so many of the issues our society is dealing with, including anxiety and depression. For example, why do so many individuals suffer from asthma or sleep apnea? The first question to ask would be, "how are they breathing," or "what's their breathing technique like?" The answer to that would be "let's look at their breathing technique." It is most of the time, if not, all the time, the issue with how they are moving and breathing that is contributing to the cause of these chronic conditions. Because of how as a society we have adapted to sitting in chairs and seats, and sleeping in beds in poor postures, eating an exorbitant amount of carbohydrates resulting in ruined metabolic flexibility, and being always connected through the Internet (especially through social media) causing untold amounts of mental stress, we have degraded our bodies’ abilities to breathe properly. We have changed and shifted our perceptions of how bodies are supposed to function. We have also changed and shifted our perceptions of how we are supposed to be breathing. More time spent in poor body positions have relegated us to improperly using our whole bodies to breathe effectively, efficiently, and safely. Amidst all the stress we are experiencing and the struggle we endure using our broken-down internal machinery, we have lost the ability to sense how to execute proper technique. With this, we create the conditions that cause and exasperate the chronic negative mental and physical conditions we are experiencing as a society.

What kind of activities does it apply to?
We cannot last more than a few minutes without breathing and air. It does not matter whether we are sleeping, sitting, walking, running, lifting, swimming, cycling, or even doing bodyweight exercises. Any and all activities require us to breathe with proper breathing technique, so we can do those to our highest and best abilities, and without pain and injury, and to stave off anxiety, depression, asthma, sleep apnea, and many other conditions.

We can teach and learn breathing through a systematic way. A method of teaching and learning this takes time and requires a great deal of patience and focus. Both the teacher and student need to have both patience and focus, just like for any other skill we learn. 

We are here to teach and learn and we are here to stay, to help others live fit, healthy, and without pain.

If you have been dealing with anxiety, depression, asthma, sleep apnea, side-aches, chronic mental stress, and even pain and injury, or are looking to break through seemingly unbreakable plateaus in training and competition, then reach out and help us help you improve so that you can indeed live fit, healthy, and without pain. 

Improve your Breathing Technique to burn fat, reduce anxiety, and even beat sleep apnea by:

1. Improving your breathing mechanics
2. Knowing when and how to use your nose and mouth to breathe
3. Coached in person 3 times per week for 4 weeks

Tuition: $720

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