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• Secrets of Optimal Natural Breathing

• Building Healthy Lungs Naturally

• The Way You Breathe Can Make You Sick or Make You Well

• Sleeping and Snoring

In 1978 I had spent years trying to regain a singing voice I knew I had as a child. It was not about my voice changing, it was about having been verbally abused and beaten as a child to the point that I could not even scream, let alone sing. This emotional  and physical abuse while growing to full sized adulthood caused restrictions and distortions to my breathing mechanics and implanted body/cellular memories of pain, and anxiety.

Singing, as well as speaking, requires great breathing and eventually I realized there was something wrong with the way I was breathing. It has taken almost 25 years to discover what was wrong and how to make it better. During that time I spent a fortune looking for answers in all the wrong places. I discovered what did NOT work. Knowing what I do now would have shortened that time considerably and saved me a lot of frustration, confusion, relationship problems and money.

Concurrently I had spent years of studying different spiritual and psychological disciplines. I discovered that almost every well known or broadly accepted spiritual approach, had within it one or more specific ways of addressing the way that someone used the breath and breathing. If they had one thing in common it was a strong respect for prana, chi, ki, elan vital, spiritus, pneuma, kundalini or what I call Optimal Life Force. If it was so important to all those spiritual disciplines, there must be many secrets kept about it that could benefit the human condition.

My father was a police detective and always counseled me to look for the common denominators. The common denominator became more then the simple fact we breathe, but rather why, how and in what way? This idea of the way, the how and the why pointed me towards something I could, without  pharmaceutical drug infested, confusing and expensive science or hidden spiritual agenda, feel and measure on my own giving me a dependable sense of tangible evidence that I was heading in the right direction.

From my research I found that the breath affects every aspect of our existence. One cannot understand the breath without making a study of it. And to know respiration, the breath and breathing, one must experience it all directly and preferably be guided by one who is familiar with the internal terrain of sensing and feeling, awareness and optimal function.

So it was because of this quest to regain my singing voice that my path became to study the breath. From this the Optimal Breathing System was born.

Michael's students include a wide range of individuals, including business executives, personal and spiritual growth seekers, amateur and professional athletes, speakers and world class wind instrument players & singers.

Michael Grant White, LMBT, Health Educator, Personal Growth Mentor, Author, Breathing Development Specialist, public speaker, & vocalist has successfully helped thousands transform their lives through correct breathing and nutrition.

Mike is a somatic educator using the breath as a focal point for stress management, optimum health, emotional balance, self expression, and personal power. He is the founder and director of The Optimal Breathing School.  He has combined key elements of Christianity, Tibetan, Hatha, and Kundalini Yoga, Pranayama, Chi Kung |(Qigong), Massage therapy, meditations, Tai Chi, Karate, Reichian Therapy, Radiance Breathwork™, Rebirthing™, Meditation, Chanting, Toning, Operatic and Public Speaking training, and nutrition. He is a member of the American Holistic Medical Association; American Holistic Health Association;  founding member of Association Of Humanistic Psychology Somatics Community, a former member of Unity Center Walnut Creek California and The Health Medicine Forum of Walnut Creek.

He delivers lectures and workshops worldwide and uses his Breathing Manual, training videos and recorded breathing exercise cassettes to support his work. He has appeared on national cable TV 's Lifetime Channel. Articles published by him have appeared in Massage Magazine, Women's Sports and Fitness, Boardroom Reports, a children's book created by the Disney Channel book company. He is quoted in a new (2001) Rodale book for women titled Natural Calm. Optimal Breathing is listed in Rodale Press' newest book (2000) on Alternative Healing titled Alternative Cures. Individuals he has worked with can be found at www.breathing.com/results.htm 

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BREATHING AND RELIGION

I believe that breathing is generic to all humanity and definitely non-sectarian. I honor all forms of spirituality. We are all one people. We all breathe the same air and in the same way. 
And Breath is life. 

Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays. Your choice more about

Mike and a very special friend.  John Bradshaw  
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Current Research
Just as Optimal Breathing removes the barriers that prevent vocalists from reaching their performance potential, it can help remove those barriers in all of us, allowing us to better achieve our maximum potential in whatever it is we do. Optimal Breathing  has shown astonishing healing factors in various health conditions, and further studies are being conducted with various health conditions.

Originally designed as a personal growth development technique, Optimal Breathing realizes a much wider potential for accelerating many self healing processes as well as being an important adjunct to almost any therapy modality.

Today, we at Optimal Breathing are working with some of our nation's top physicians, behavioral and alternative health specialists, personal trainers, and teaching professionals to expand the use of Optimal Breathing in new and exciting areas of therapy, sports performance, self expression and personal growth.
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