Breathe with Me
6 weeks Online coaching
Life just keeps life-ing! and it can be exhausting. Between work, Social, Gym, Kids, emails, keeping a home and then trying to get your 10,000 steps a day in while eating perfectly. It can be too much. Its no wonder we feel fried as we get older, we just keep doing more.
And somewhere along the line we forgot how to switch off. So when you do have a few hours or a weekend to yourself, you feel guilty relaxing.....Because theres always something that needs doing right?
That guilt, thats the nervous system stuck.
That inability to relax and be still in your own company, thats the nervous system stuck.
That poor sleep, yup, thats the nervous system too.
Not forgetting the procrastination.....
Im not saying that improving your breathing will magically make your life perfect, i mean it might, but chances are it wont. What it will do is give your body a chance to repair, rest and feel more energised to get on with your day.
You will be learning techniques not only to calm and soothe your nervous system, but also to strengthen it so you can handle more without feeling overwhelmed.
This course isn't about giving you more to do in your already busy lives, its about optimising what you are already doing all day every day ......Breathing.
If you're breathing around 22000 times a day ........
Learning to optimise those 22000 breaths you take each day can help you with
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Better sleep quality
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clearer thinking and clarity
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less stress
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reduced anxiety and a calmer nervous system
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more energy
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physical exercise to feel less tiring
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Increased lung capacity , due to a fully functioning diaphragm
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to have a positive impact on your heart health
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reduced Asthma Symptoms
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to help manage menopause symptoms
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Better performance in Sports and Exercise
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Reduce or eradicate snoring
This just names some of the benefits that can be experienced.
Better breathing is also what can give you the edge over other Athletes when competing.
When i started this work my coach said to me "start at the beginning with where you are" , I struggled with this. I struggled because in my head i was still 30 and incredibly fit when in reality i was in my 40s, healing form PTSD and in Peri Menopause. I kept pushing myself as i would have done when i was 30....it didn't work, i just kept crashing. So once i took his advice and went back to basics, started tailoring the practices we were learning to suit my body and my nervous system today, i started feeling the benefits.
My ego struggled to accept what my body felt.
This is why we will start at the beginning, take it back to basics and build on that.
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We start by assessing the breath patterns and identifying dysfunctional patterns.
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We learn about the breath, the science behind it and how to optimise it.
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We integrate practices into your life and start to re train the breath.
Its not dramatic, its not offering you some quick fix solution to all of life's problems. What i am offering you is a deeper understanding of your own body, your own nervous system, how you cope with stress and how you can train to optimise all of this.
Lasting change wont happen overnight, it's often not a dramatic shift, but nothing will change if you don't start now.
My Job isn't teaching you how to breathe, your body already knows that part. My job is to help you recognise unhealthy breathing patterns that have built up over time, and help you re-pattern your natural breath.
Its very simple when you know how, but the problem is no one taught us how. The breath is often (until very recently) the last thing you would think of when you exercise, unless you have Asthma or or similar conditions and its holding you back. Its not something we pay that much attention to. But your unique BreathPrint says a lot about your health, both mental and physical.
In this 6 weeks together we will be
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assessing and re-patterning your breath, back to its beautiful, natural, functional patterns.
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Learning how your nervous system relates to the breath (directly).
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How breathing is influenced by hormones and how better breathing can help with PMS and Menopause
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Understanding the three pillars of breathing. Bio chemistry, Bio Mechanics and Psychophysiological.
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Practical exercises to help improve all three pillars.
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A whats app group for support and encouragement (and that bit of accountability we all need sometimes)
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Practical Exercises to help soothe and calm the nervous system and ones to strengthen its ability to cope with stress.
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A one hour one - one session with me at the end of the course.
The one to one is where we can go over and refine any of the exercises and tailor them to your specific goals.
Plus, You will also have access to my two hour Breathing for Menopause workshop
I will be sending out pre assessment forms to everyone who signs up so i can create the course to fit you.
If this sounds like something you are ready for (because when will there be a better time) , Join up Now by Clicking this link SIGN ME UP
Esther
Client Testimonial
Meet Lizzie, a wonderful woman i worked with recently.
It is no exaggeration to say that working with Esther has been lifechanging.
What started off as a quest to be able to improve my breathhold for diving quickly turned into learning to calm my reactive nervous system and change my relationship with anxiety through a range of techniques Esther taught me.
All the while building my tolerance to CO2 and the feeling of air hunger and working towards my goal of being able to dive for scallops :)
Esther is an amazing teacher, she is very insightful, understanding, patient, kind and fun! She genuinely cares about me and my progress and has been so supportive during and between our sessions.