Take A Breath Health and Lifestyle Show

An interview with Australian breath training pioneer, Riger Price on many things breathing, and his paradigm shifting work with professionals in the dental and sleep industry in Australia, the USA and worldwide...

In this episode of Take A Breath, we interview Craig Phillips the founder of clinical pilates about the relationship of breathing with postural stability and movement. Craig reveals that the advice to sucking navel to spine to maintain core stability has been transcended as to doesn't allow for natural diaphragm movement.

In this episode of Take A Breath, we interview world renowned yoga teacher and physiotherapist, Simon Borg-Olivier. Simon's accomplishments in his field include teaching yoga for over 30 years, founding Yoga Synergy in Sydney. Simon discusses hus progression with breath work from free diving as a child, to yoga and pranayama, his advice to yoga practitioners and the general public on breath work, as well as some fascinating experiments he performed in the lab with breath holding and breathing techniques.

The Use of Breath Training For Sporting & Surfing Performance  In this second part of our interview with Andy Van Bergen from Cyling Tips,  www.cyclingtips.com, we discuss the emergence of breath training as a key factor in gaining and edge in sporting performance, with teams such as the Trek professional cycling team now employing breath coaches. We go into more detail on the mechanisms and benefits of breath training for sporting performance.

In this episode we interview Andy Van Bergen on www.cyclingtips.com, Australia's largest cycling media outlet and up there with the biggest in the world of this type. Andy and two colleagues attempted an 'Everesting' attempt at Everest Base Camp, enduring extreme winds, altitude and temperature. We discuss the preparation, adventure, and the use of breath training to help with their perfromance, and to relax.

We interview Scott Townsend, a specialist in breathing, and Wim Hof Method instructor from New Zealand, who has a really catchy message to get people more conscious of their breathing.

We interview psychoneuroimunologist Dr. Craig Hassed and get his input on mindfullness and much more, including some fantastic tips on how to stay mindful and manage energy levels throughout the day.

In this podcast we breakdown the importance of carbon dioxide and the crucial role it plays as the limiting factor in energy production, vitality and health. It is far more than a waste gas that is an indicator of pollution. It is as important to respiration, and energy production as oxygen itself. So much so, that the respiratory centre in the brainstem measures mostly CO2 levels to regulate breathing (rather than oxygen). Find out why?

In this first episode, the first of what we call our ‘tech talks' we introduce you to the fundamentals of breathing (biologically and physiologically) where we take you on a trip with an oxygen molecule from the air that we breathe, through our nose and respiratory system, right down to the trillions of cells in our body in which oxygen plays a vital role in energy production.