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Mission Organization Certification Workshops About Breathing Professional services Instrumentation Business Opportunity Downloads Links Contact us Are you overbreathing? Which brain is yours?	DEREGULATED BREATHING BEHAVIOR IS COMMONPLACE. Based on surveys regarding ambulance calls, 60 percent of the ambulance runs in the larger USA cities are a direct consequence of symptoms precipitated by overbreathing. But, for every person who shows up in emergency, how many more show up in physician’s offices with unexplained symptoms? For every person who goes to see their physician, how many more simply go to work? And for everyone who reports a “medical symptom,” how many more suffer with unreported performance deficits, not even identified as health-related symptoms? Surveys suggest that 10 to 25 percent of the US population suffers from chronic CO2 deficits (hypocapnia) as a result of overbreathing. Half of the patients visiting outpatient clinics of the UK National Healthcare Services (NHS), receive a diagnosis of “functional disorder;” no organic factors are identified. And, unfortunately, they go from practitioner to practitioner without resolution. Hypocapnia may play a significant role in many of these cases, where it may mediate homeostatic deregulation attributed to stress. The effects of hypocapnia are profound and deserve full attention on the part of virtually anyone doing breathing training. BECOME A CERTIFIED BREATHING PRACTITIONER. Most everyone agrees that good respiration is fundamental to healthy physiology and psychology, but unfortunately only a few who do “breathing” training know much about breathing as a behavior and how it regulates fundamental physiology critical to good health and optimal performance. Knowledge is almost invariably restricted to the mechanics of breathing, such as the relaxation benefits of slow and diaphragmatic breathing, and does not include the underlying physiology and chemistry that truly account for the most profound effects of learned breathing behavior. Becoming a Certified Breathing Practitioner (CBP) through the Institute is about learning how to evaluate and to teach breathing behavior. The program is about integrating knowledge of respiratory chemistry with the mechanics of breathing, where emphasis is on the relationship dynamics of breathing mechanics for achieving good chemistry. It is about behavioral education and the application of learning principles to breathing behavior. It is about behavioral solutions to breathing mediated symptoms, deficits, and performance limitations. It includes: (1) Exploration: originating and sustaining factors and circumstances (2) Identification: dysfunctional breathing patterns, when and where (3) Phenomenology: the experience of breathing and its effects (4) Knowledge-learning: understanding basic breathing concepts (5) Mechanics-learning: play dynamics for teaching breathing as behavior (6) Somatic-learning: learning about the effects of good & bad breathing (7) State-learning: psychological changes, awareness, and consciousness End