July Winter2006

From the 1st August 06, B R E A T H I N G WORKS will be operating a North Shore clinic for those north of the bridge. As well as 437 Remuera Rd, we will be at:

North Shore clinic:
Contact the North Shore branch of BW at www.flexaclinic.com

After the excitement of Jim and Tania's book, Breathing Matters, coming out, life at BW has settled back to normal. We were flooded with calls. Denise, our admin/receptionist does a wonderful job and we all really appreciate her calm can-do manner. The feedback from readers has been wonderful. It's great to have this resource to add to the growing body of information about the role of balanced breathing in the maintenance of good health.

Winter Blues have struck many

We continue to be amazed at levels of stress some people live under in their working lives. Many firms are being really pro-active in looking after the health of their employees, now that it has become part of New Zealand work place legislation.

We have had many requests to talk to office groups. The other group that gives us huge concern is college students - and their teachers! May you all make the most of the holiday break.

Common to both groups is dreadful work/desk postures, which makes breathing efficiently, almost impossible.

Once those bad patterns become established, and uncomfortable or scary symptoms kick in, health really suffers. Sadly, by then there's no quick fix. It will take time and expert help to change back to ‘normal'.

When patients get the message that breathing poorly is a major stress all by itself -- and how much extra energy they waste when they habitually breathe inefficiently -- it can be mind blowing. ‘Wow it's really changed my life' ‘ But it's so simple' ‘why hasn't some-one told me this before' ‘why isn't this being taught in schools' - we hear this all the time. BW's simple techniques are so easy to weave into a normal working or school day. And they work.

We are in the process of upgrading our North Shore service. We will be announcing great new premises with excellent parking in the heart of Northcote -- handy to those north of the bridge. We have two new experienced staff members starting soon, to help both in Remuera, and on the Shore. Watch this space….

Even though the commonwealth games are a distant memory, we would still like to congratulate all the participating athletes.

The BREATHING WORKS team worked with many of our country's top athletes in preparation to the games.

In particular the gold medal winning swimming team - the thanks and feedback from the athletes on our programme has been very gratifying.

The New Zealand biannual Physiotherapy conference was held in May this year. Two of our staff members presented papers: Dave Nicholls, an invited keynote speaker, presented Pandemoniums of Vice - illustrating the history of physiotherapy and what makes the profession it is today. This is part of his nearly completed PhD.

And Janet Rowley presented - the RoBE-Rowley Breathing self Efficacy scale on which she based her Masters paper. This questionnaire is aimed at helping diagnose breathing pattern disorders. Well done to both of them. A great achievement!

Keep warm, keep well, be calm and be clever

Breathe Nose Low & Slow.

Tania, Dinah and the BW team

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