Online Class: The Art of Breathing

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Course Description
The Art of Breathing is a course on utilizing your full breathing abilities in order to improve your day-to-day life.
Most of us don't employ our "breathing machine" fully -- and we will teach you how to do that. From breathing routines to yoga and meditation, through performance and emotional health breathing techniques, we will discover that there is no such thing as learning to breathe well, but rather, we will provide you with the tools that will allow you to relearn the Art of Breathing. Relearn?
Yes. We are all born masters in The Art of Breathing. For a variety of reasons, during the course of our lives, we start unlearning the good habits, and begin to increasingly soak up a number of bad habits, which are physical, mental and emotional. The Art of Breathing will teach you how to regain control over your breathing, which in turn will give you ownership of your body, thoughts and feelings. This will not only affect your own personal life, but will trigger positive changes in those around you. This is a journey of discovery, one that will little by little bring who you are and who you want to be ever closer, with hopes that they will eventually – and forever – become the same person.
Course Motivation
This course is not about learning how to breathe. (I expect you wouldn't be taking it had you not the ability to do so!) It is also not about a magical formula or mathematical breathing equation that will improve your life overnight. This course is also not a scientific approach to breathing.
But… given what it is not… what is it?
This course is about self-knowledge and exploration. It's about an intimate experience: that of breathing, that of being alive. It's about improving your life by learning about, and controlling, the one activity you perform continuously, and that provides life itself.
Though some of the lessons we will touch on very subjective aspects of your life (such as personality, work environment, relaxation, sensations, feelings and emotions), it must be said that the experimentations, exercises, and suggestions are not intended to be mystical, or magical (though you very well may approach it in that way, if you so desire). The art of breathing is to be experienced anywhere, at any time – from the most trivial (or seemingly trivial!) day-to-day activities, to highly significant moments.
The way we breathe has a much deeper connection to our bodies, feelings, and thoughts than we realize. Though this course deals mainly with breathing, it is impossible to separate it from the reasons why you want to have better control of your breathing, as well as from the benefits that will be triggered by breathing to your full potential.
In Lesson 2, we will have an objective look at how and why we breathe. You may be thinking, "It's easy: We breathe in and then breathe out, because if we don't, we can't stay alive." Well… you are right. But, what happens in your body just so you can breathe in and out, is a little more complex than you might imagine! This lesson is also especially important as it gives you a basic understanding of the muscles involved in your breathing. Without this understanding, it would be much harder to work on your breathing, because you wouldn't necessarily know what is happening in your body and exactly how you are improving.
Lesson 3 will talk about the importance of creating a breathing routine, and it will also teach you a basic routine to get you started. Throughout this course, we will learn that breathing well is something we already know how to do – we just run out of practice as we get older and collect habits we didn't even know we had. A breathing routine will start getting you in the right mindset to relearn how to be in control of your breathing, and consequentially, your body, thoughts and emotions.
In lesson 4, we will take a look at the reasons why being in control of your breathing is so important. We will discuss how the breathing process is directly related to the processes of thought and emotion, and how breathing fully will bring you closer to better accessing and controlling those thoughts and emotions. We will also have a look at some of the many benefits of breath-control, and the importance of one-pointedness – the ability to focus on one thing and one thing only, in order to relate to that thing in the best possible manner. Concentration, focus and discipline are key to mastering the Art of Breathing. But don't worry: it's fun too!
Lesson 6 connects breathing with Meditation. Whether you are an experienced meditation practitioner, or have never meditated before, this lesson will be equally useful. We will provide some meditation basics, teaching you what it means to meditate, the benefits of meditation, and some simple meditation exercises. We will also have a look at how breathing relates to meditation, and how this relationship is beneficially mutual: Meditating will help with your breathing, and breathing fully will help you meditate, triggering a series of positive effects in your day-to-day life.
In Lesson 7 we will look at breathing under a similar light to Lesson 6, but instead of relating breathing to meditation, we will relate it to Yoga practices. Though both Yoga and Meditation bring positive change to your life, and many times these effects are very similar in both practices, breathing for Yoga is quite different than breathing for meditation. While meditation breathing is relaxed and slow-paced, yoga breathing can be very rhythmic and dynamic. Just like in the last lesson, we will also look at the benefits yoga can offer, and how these benefits can last, not only during your yoga practice time, but also for years and years to come.
Lesson 8 will provide you with a practical look at how breathing can help with performance. Performance can mean any event in which you have an activity to do, and a goal you would like to achieve: from sports, to speaking in public, to singing, to acting, and more. The ability to perform at your highest level should not rely on luck, but rather on how prepared you are to perform whatever task is at hand. We will look at the value of preparation, and the importance of breathing both in relation to practice and performance. We will introduce you to the powerful practice of visualization, which basically leads you through an event before it has even started! Warming up is a big part of maximizing performance, and we will also have a look at a basic 10-minute warm up routine that will get you ready physically and mentally through your breathing.
In Lesson 9 we will talk about Voice and Breathing. Voice is nothing more than vibrating air, and it would not exist without breathing. Being in control of your vocal abilities is a key aspect of being in control of your emotions and thoughts, and the way you express them. We all want to be understood and to communicate truthfully, but we seldom realize how vital it really is that our voices have the adequate assistance needed from our breathing. We will look at the two main things we need to pay attention to when we want to be in full control of our voices: Breath supply and breath support.
Lesson 10 will talk about the dozens, perhaps hundreds, of habits we acquire through our lives. We will focus on the not-so-helpful habits, the ones that limit and damage our ability to breathe fully and freely. Are you aware of your own habits? Most people are not. We will suggest an exercise that will help you become conscious of the body biases you may have "soaked up" throughout your life, so you can start working on unlearning them. This way, you will be able to restore your balance and neutral alignment, which, in turn, will immensely improve the quality of your breathing.
In Lesson 11, we will allow ourselves to digress a little. What does it mean to be a breathing being? How does our breathing affect not only ourselves, but also the people around us, and maybe even the people far away from us? In this world of cause-and-consequence, your breathing is one of the tools that you can actually control and positively influence our planet. All through the art of breathing? You bet.
Lesson 12 will provide you with a list of useful breathing exercises, some of which we had suggested during the course, and some of which are new. With this list, you can refer back to the exercises any time you want, according to your needs at a certain moment. From warming up, to stretching, to relaxing or becoming aware of the tensions in your body, here's where you will find them!
- Completely Online
- Self-Paced
- Printable Lessons
- Full HD Video
- 6 Months to Complete
- 24/7 Availability
- Start Anytime
- PC & Mac Compatible
- Android & iOS Friendly
- Accredited CEUs

Course Lessons
Lesson 1 : Course Introduction
Lesson 1 Video
Lesson discussions: Reasons for Taking this Course
Complete Assignment: An Introduction
Lesson 2 : Breathing, The Physiology (Or How It Works)
Lesson 2 Video
Complete: Lesson 2 Assignment
Assessment: Lesson 2 : Breathing, The physiology (Or How it Works)
Lesson 3 : Creating a Breathing Routine
Lesson 3 Video
Complete: Lesson 3 Assignment
Assessment: Lesson 3 : Creating a Breathing Routine
Lesson 4 : Controlling Your Breathing
Lesson 4 Video
Assessment: Lesson 4 : Controlling your Breathing
Lesson 5 : Breathing and Emotional Health
Lesson 5 Video
Assessment: Lesson 5 : Breathing and Emotional Health
Lesson 6 : The Basics of Breathing and Meditation
Lesson 6 Video
Assessment: Lesson 6 : The Basics of Breathing and Meditation
Lesson 7 : The Basics of Breathing and Yoga
Lesson 7 Video
Assessment: Lesson 7 : The Basics of Breathing and Yoga
Lesson 8 : Performance Breathing
Lesson 8 Video
Assessment: Lesson 8 : Performance Breathing
Lesson 9 : Giving Voice to Your Breathing
Lesson 9 Video
Assessment: Lesson 9 : Giving Voice to Your Breathing
Lesson 10 : Avoiding (and getting rid of) Bad Habits
Lesson 10 Video
Complete: Lesson 10 Assignment
Assessment: Lesson 10 : Avoiding (and getting rid of) Bad Habits
Lesson 11 : A Philosophical Look
Lesson 11 Video
Lesson 12 : Some Exercises
Lesson 12 Video
Lesson discussions: What do you think about this course?; Program Evaluation Follow-up Survey (End of Course); Course Comments
Complete: Lesson 12 Assignment
Learning Outcomes
- Describe the rationale for taking this course and how it can be beneficial.
- Summarize the physiology of breathing.
- Demonstrate creating a breathing routine.
- Demonstrate methods for controlling your breathing and identify why this may be necessary.
- Describe breathing and how it can affect emotional health.
- Summarize the basics of breathing, meditation, and Yoga.
- Describe what performance breathing is.
- Demonstrate giving voice to your breathing.
- Identify methods for avoiding (and getting rid of) bad habits.
- Identify breathing exercises you can use to calm and help you in life.
- Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.
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Student Testimonials
- "Thank you for making this course available. I learned a lot about breathing and the how breathing is so connected to our health. Learning to focus on my breathing has brought me closer to the heaven within. Thank you again." -- Donald E.
- "The course material was straightforward and even though I have done a lot of work with breathing, there was information here that was new to me. The instructor was very motivational and the whole experience motivated me to make some changes." -- Shannon M.
- "The instructor was responsive, informative, and available. The self-paced learning permitted question and clarification without pressure." -- Mary S.
- "The instructor was very helpful and able to assist with my questions." -- Julianna S.
- "A great course that I am delighted I undertook, thanks again." -- Eveleen R.
- "Eston was a great instructor. I would love to take more classes with him." -- Lynn B.
- "I have only good things to say." -- Gloria M.
- "I seriously enjoyed the learning in this program." -- Gwendolyn H.
- "It was probably the best option for a first class I could have taken." -- Jamis L.
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