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About Optimal Breathing
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Michael Grant White - OBDMT, NE,
NCLMBT License #1724
Author of:
- Secrets of Optimal Natural Breathing
- Building Healthy Lungs Naturally
- The Way You Breathe Can Make You Sick or Make You Well
- Sleeping and Snoring
Our mission statement is to help awaken the breathing consciousness of the world. 5 million emails and 6 years of helping thousands of people breathe better has helped us get closer to our goal.
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 beaten with a police belt physically abused 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 by decades and saved me a lot of frustration, confusion, 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 Life Force. If it was so important to all those spiritual disciplines, there must be many aspects including 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, without pharmaceutical drug distortions, confusing and expensive science or hidden spiritual agenda, could feel and measure on my own giving me a dependable sense of tangible day to day evidence that I was heading in the right direction.
From my research I found that the breath and breathing affects every aspect of our existence. One cannot understand the breath without making a study of it. And to really know it one must experience it feeling sense 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 in 1975 that my path became to study the breath. From this the Optimal Breathing System was born.
We have a school. Our students include a wide range of individuals, including health professionals, business executives, personal and spiritual growth mentors and seekers, amateur and professional athletes, public speakers and world class wind instrument players and singers.
My bio is:
Michael Grant White, LMBT, Health Educator, Personal Growth Mentor, Author, Breathing Development Specialist, public speaker, and 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. Founder and director of The Optimal Breathing School combining key elements of Christianity (does not support authoritarian conservatism), Tibetan, Hatha, and Kundalini Yoga, Pranayama, Chi Kung (Qigong), Massage therapy, meditations, Tai Chi, Karate, Reichian Therapy, Radiance Breathwork™, Rebirthing™, Meditation, Chanting, Toning, teachings of OSHO, 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.
Delivers lectures and workshops
worldwide and uses his Breathing Manual, training videos and
recorded breathing exercise cassettes to support the work. 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. Quoted in a Rodale book for women titled Natural Calm.
Optimal Breathing is listed in Rodale Press' book on
Alternative Healing titled Alternative Cures, Flood Your Body With Oxygen,
Conscious Breathing, Super Power Breathing, The Power of Emotion,
Free
Your Breath and Free Your Life, Free To Speak, T5T, and other leading
edge books. Co-creator of Integral Breathwork
www.integralbreathwork.com and
The
Free To Speak Spasmodic Dysphonia Clinic.
Individuals he has worked with can be found...
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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.
Mike and a very special
friend. John Bradshaw
Our Staff
Left to right: Mike, Kim, Kristy, Jan
Current Research
Just as Optimal Breathing
helps remove the barriers that prevent vocalists
and speakers from reaching their vocal 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. This is personal power on a moment to moment 24/7 basis. Optimal Breathing
has shown astonishing healing factors in various health conditions, and
further studies are being conducted to see how better breathing correlates 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
or personal growth approach.
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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