If the New Year has made you think about creating a healthier version of you, then there’s no better place to begin than with the way you breathe, because how you breathe really does shape how you feel, rest, calm and perform. Better breathing isn’t wellness fluff, it’s supported by respiratory science showing that slower, nasal, diaphragmatic breaths influence our nervous system, oxygen delivery, stress levels and resilience.  Healthy breathing follows a few major principles, we can teach...

Following the publication of the second part of the NHS England ADHD Taskforce Report yesterday, as a Buteyko Breath Coach working with children, I strongly support the joined-up approach that is called for, but I believe the pathway is missing a CRUCIAL biological link: how children breathe and sleep. https://www.england.nhs.uk/2025/11/nhs-england-responds-to-adhd-taskforce-final-report/ Asking a few simple questions that could make a big difference: Does the child snore or breathe through...

Most of us never think twice about how we breathe. It just happens — in and out, thousands of times a day. But the way we breathe...