Breathing Group Classes
Breathing Assessment & Treatment Group Classes for Physiotherapy Clients at Move Authentically Physiotherapy
with Christine Campbell, MScPT
4 Monday evenings, 6:00pm to 7:30pm, upstairs at KIHC
These small in-person group classes are recurring, and designed for current clients of Christine Campbell. Participants will leave with an individualized treatment plan (and sometimes homework!) pertaining to that class’s main topic of discussion. For more information, please contact Christine directly or speak with her during your next appointment. Space is limited to 6 participants.
Your class slot is scheduled and billed as a follow-up appointment, which is $85 per session.
Please note that though KIHC is very happy to continue hosting Christine’s excellent group work, all scheduling and details are being managed by Christine Campbell directly, from her new location.
Breathing Group Class Syllabus
June 16th, 2024: What’s your breathing pattern?
Understanding why our breathing is important, is essential to changing it! In this session we’ll take an in-depth look at how breathing plays a vital role in our health. We’ll discuss how maladapted breathing patterns directly impact our nervous system, our muscle tension, chronic pain, and even the pH of our whole body. We’ll take preliminary measurements of how well each participant breathes, and monitor our breathing measurements for improvements over each session.
July 15th, 2024: Adapt your breathing for optimal health
In this session, we’ll use the baseline measurements from session one, to develop a treatment plan for each participant. We’ll explore breathing retraining exercises, nasal health, stretches and strengthening movements. An in-depth discussion on habit building will help set participants up for success!
Aug 12th, 2024: Advanced breathing exercises
In this session, we’ll progress the breathing exercises with advanced tools and exercises that will allow participants to further challenge their breathing in a safe and effective manner. We will also continue to explore the breath with mindfulness practices.
Sept 9th, 2024: Posture & Breathing
Our posture directly affects our breathing mechanics. We’ll spend time determining your ideal positioning, and discuss how exercise can improve our breathing mechanics. Each participant will leave with an individualized exercise plan.
**Photo by Saad Chaudhry on Unsplash
In many ways, your breathing pattern reflects your health status and health resiliency. It’s a gateway to your nervous system, cardiovascular system, and your body’s biological homeostatic mechanisms (how the body maintains balance). A Breathing Pattern Disorder can be subtle but extremely impactful: They show up in a variety of seemingly disparate symptoms and undermine many people’s attempts to heal chronic illness. Addressing Breathing Pattern Disorders is one very important way we can strengthen your entire body and help you heal.
Have you noticed that you’re short of breath? Or perhaps sighing or yawning a lot? These are common symptoms of a Breathing Pattern Disorder (BPD). BPD is an umbrella term that describes inappropriate breathing with no apparent cause, which is persistent enough to cause symptoms. A relatively common diagnosis under this umbrella, is Hyperventilation Syndrome. 
“Just breathe!” This is often much easier said than done! There is a great deal that goes into healthy breathing, especially given the stressors of the twenty-first century. Breathing is foundational to our health and yet many of us are not breathing well.