4 x group coaching sessions parents and children Monday afternoons at 4.30pm for an hour including the Breathing Mastery for Kids and Teens online programme.
If your child suffers from asthma, breathing difficulties or anxiety, you will know how distressing it is when they can’t catch their breath. These symptoms have been linked to something known as “chronic hidden hyperventilation”. This is when we breathe a little bit too much all the time, for what our body requires. It might mean our breathing is constantly a little bit too fast or shallow or big breathing, which might not be that obvious – which is why it is known as “hidden”. It may mean we are breathing more than 12 breaths a minute at rest in the upper chest or mouth breathing due to a blocked nose. Our nose and airways can block just because our body is trying to slow the breathing down to regain balance in our body functioning.
The good news is breathing is a behaviour, and it is one of the easier behaviours to retrain. It takes 4 weeks to retrain your breathing habit and for you or your child to improve their breathing behaviour.
You will be guided through a series of daily exercises designed to move you and your child away from mouth breathing and upper chest breathing associated with asthma and anxiety.
