How to Take a Breath

Reduce stress and improve performance by breathing well

Author: Tania Clifton-Smith

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Learn how to breathe well for reduction in stress and anxiety, better sleep, clearer thinking and improved performance in sports and at work, written by an experienced clinical expert in breathing function.

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Breathing well can bring about improvements in a surprising number of areas of your life. This skill is usually taken for granted. Surely you just breathe in ... and then you breathe out...? But experienced physiotherapist and breathing dysfunction specialist Tania Clifton-Smith has been helping people correct their breathing patterns for over 30 years and has seen at first hand what a difference it makes. Includes chapters on: * Why breathe well?

Self-awareness and self-checks
The stress connection
Meditation, mindfulness and breathing
Why does breathing change?
Recipe for breathing well
Breathing well at different ages and stages
Sports Performance and recovery
Voice production
Cough, hoick, spit
Pain management
Beyond the body and mind - a Maori perspective

About the Author

Tania Clifton-Smith co-wrote Breathe, Stretch, and Move: How to Beat Workplace Stress and Dynamic Breathing: How To Manage Your Asthma with Dinah Bradley. Both are co-founders of Breathing Works (www.breathingworks.com), the first independent Breathing Pattern Disorders clinic in Australasia, and the developers of the world-renowned BradCliff® Breathing method. Reviewing Dynamic Breathing in Healthy Options, the revieweridentified the authors’ ‘sound advice’ as making the book ‘a motivational gem’. Tania also co-authored Breathing Matters,with Dr Jim Bartley. She is a physiotherapist with postgraduate qualifications in musculoskeletal therapy, is a recognised treatment provider for High Performance Sport New Zealand, and sits on the medical board of Allergy New Zealand. There is a blog, via the website, and a BreathingWorks account on Facebook.

Product Details

Publisher

Random House New Zealand | Random House New Zealand Ltd

Published

20th July 2021

Pages

272

ISBN

9780143776413

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CUSTOMER REVIEWS

26 Dec, 2021

A very good book written by a credible and experienced therapist
By Donald

16 Nov, 2021

I can't believe how a simple thing like changing the way I breathe has helped in so many ways. I still don't get it right all the time and I now know exactly what the symptoms are. Easy read, very valuable advice.
By P

08 Nov, 2021

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