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The Institute offers a Certified Respiratory Fitness Educator program for healthcare practitioners, human service professionals, therapists, fitness consultants, life coaches, peak performance trainers, breath workers, and educators. The offering embraces the Institute mission of bringing behavioral physiology to the practical attention of professionals and ultimately of people at large. Few people, lay or professional, know that (1) breathing directly regulates body chemistry, including pH, electrolyte balance, blood flow, hemoglobin chemistry, and kidney function, and that (2) breathing is a behavior subject to the same principles of learning as any other behavior, including the role of motivation, reinforcement, emotion, attention, perception, and memory. Millions of people have unwittingly learned dysfunctional breathing behaviors that compromise respiration and acid-base balance. These habits may cause, trigger, exacerbate, and perpetuate a wide variety of emotional (anxiety, anger), cognitive (attention, learning), behavioral (public speaking, test taking), and physical (pain, asthma) changes that may seriously impact health and performance. Typically these symptoms and deficits go “unexplained,” or are mistakenly attributed to other causes. Restoring good respiration through learning adaptive breathing habits can bring about immensely beneficial physical, mental, and behavioral changes. The Institute has developed CapnoLearning®, a learning program for helping clients overcome dysfunctional breathing habits, based on self-regulation of carbon dioxide, the key player in moment-to-moment acid-base regulation. CapnoLearning is based on the principles of phenomenological exploration, behavioral analysis, behavior modification, biofeedback, cognitive learning, and awareness training. This is the basis of the Institute certification program. The clients of certified educators learn about how they have learned to breathe, how their breathing affects them, and how to effectively self-regulate breathing behavior based on learning rather than prescriptive exercise. Click here for a Certification Brochure, or click on one of the headings listed below for more information: Description Efficacy Objectives Requirements Webinars Dates, Times, Fees Faculty Registration Put me on the Institute emailing list.