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Private one on one breathing sessions (including asthma and COPD symptoms and chronic stress) and voice development (including singing, public speaking, spasmodic dysphonia and stuttering ). Customized individual practitioner trainings separate or together while using the client as a training example. 

Michael Grant White - Charlotte NC 28262

Michael Grant White (Mike),
LMBT, NE, OBDMT, HHP
"The Optimal Breathing Coach"

I have developed a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets:
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!"

MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CUSTOMIZED PROGRAMS
Overall focus is on breathing development, voice development including singing, public speaking, spasmodic dysphonia, stuttering, anxiety, attention, sleep, relaxation, energy, emotional balance, high blood pressure, depression, sports performance, nutritional advice and internal cleansing.

Students and clients can expect to become more and more aware, more and more conscious of their inner and outer world. They wil often experience a growing sense of freedom and safety, of wholeness and oneness. They can expect to get really good at relaxing, de-stressing, and re-energizing. They can expect to find more potential for comfort and pleasure, for enjoyment, even in the most difficult of circumstances and situations.

I am not a "doctor" but when it comes to breathing I like to think I make a comprehensive appraisal

Visits to our Sunhaven home/office/retreat/intensive center includes breakfast smoothies
A comprehensive on-site gym provides all the equipment necessary for key aspects of our breathing development system. Hot tub, far infrared sauna, EWOT, gym, treadmill, Total Gym, rebounder, recumbent stationary bicycle, Airstepper, Migun Medical Grade Massage Bed, Spinalator, three different vibration platforms including the Power Plate, optional (non medical model) sleep testing, karaoke and extensive health/medical DVD library and CD music collection.

We can pick you up at the airport if needed. You can bus to downtown in 20 minutes or rent a car to tour the area.  The nearby Hilton will drop you off and pick you up at no charge.

Individuals depending on your custom program and availability of space may be able to stay with us at Sunhaven.

Individual Skype and Web Cam Sessions
One hour minimum. 30 minute increments. $200.00 per hour sliding scale.
Skype handle is "breathmike". Sessions need to be prearranged via email or phone

Individual on site
Three to twenty four hours over 1-7 days of private sessions on case by case basis.
$200-500 per hour sliding scale. 

Use of proprietary breathing development equipment is free and additional hours over and above what you pay to work with Mike. 

Part of the one-on-one training is how to use it. You get trained to use it, we assess, you use it, we assess etc.    

Foreign travel - Individual or group. Case by case basis.

Two
to twenty five hour custom private speaking, singing development
for business and performance professionals. Testimonials   General testimonials   Speech Testimonial

Sleep Challenges
including those wishing not to or unable to use mechanical breathing devices require a three day to one week intensive.  Local or Foreign.
Programs quoted on a case by case basis.  More about  
 
Consulting for Business. Creating programs that integrate Optimal Breathing insights, statistics, techniques and exercises, oxygen generation. 25 hour minimum. $500 per hour 10 hour minimum.

Spasmodic Dysphonia or Stuttering In-Person Intensives and Skype sessions.
What I have learned from working with over 100 SD and stuttering people is that developing breathing mechanics are the most important aspect of recovery by 50 to 1. I invite you to work with me on a one on one basis. If you are working with a speech specialist related to SD and stuttering you will increase your chances of a faster and complete recovery. Without the breathing done properly, a velvety fully functional voice will forever elude you.

Certification for Optimal Breathing Coach units per contact hour.  More about 

Sponsor a training in YOUR locale. mike@breathing.com

Call toll free with any questions and for us to assist you in choosing a program.
Email for those who are too voice challenged to use the phone.  mike@breathing.com
866.694.6425. (866 MyInhale)  Non USA and Canada 001 704.597.6775
My Skype handle is breathmike.

Payment options

1.
Pay for phone or skype consultation fee.
    So I have a better idea of your situation, please click here and
    prepare for the consult by taking the free breathing tests.

2. Pay for X hours over Skype or in person intensive 1-3 days.

3. Pay for discounted 15 hour Charlotte NC intensive over 3-5 days.

4. Pay for discounted 20 hour Charlotte NC intensive over 4-5 days.

5. Pay for discounted 25 hour Charlotte NC intensive over 5-7 days.

6. Pay for Practitioner Training Fees

Travel requires a special  quote. 
For example in Singapore where I worked on a wealthy client and trained his personal wellness team for 7 days was $2,500.00 per day plus food and lodging  plus $750.00 each 24 hour period (times two days) for travel (plus business, first class or suite air fare if more than 8 hours of flight time) and extra paid travel day(s) for jet lag recovery resting days after arrival per 6 hours of time zone change plus cost of optional props and tools to remain with the client or practitioners. 

It cost this group about a third of what it would have for them to come Charlotte plus the client was able to take care of business from his home base. It also also allowed for a few of his colleagues to be worked on as well.  If there are no support people in the immediate area and depending on the severity of the breathing condition I may need to stay in the area until I locate, qualify and train others to our mutual satisfaction. Add one to three weeks.

Video from Danielle Rose MD

A champion swimmer wanted to improve her ease of breathing and recovery times for multiple general race days and triathlete events. An opera siinger was losing her high notes and sought psychotherapy but eventually just learned to breathe better and her high notes returned. A classical singer was losing her mid range and regained it with optimal breathing techniques. An emphysema victim learned that breathing was not what he thought is was, for over 50 years. It had become a permanent misunderstanding even to the point of doing it improperly when shown the proper way. Several sessions were needed to change this person’s breathing. An asthmatic was retrained to breathe easier and the symptoms disappeared. Stuttering and spasmodic dysphonia can reduce or disappear when one learns to breathe optimally. A shy young lady learned to breathe better. Her shyness lessened and "I met a man and got married". Some eliminated their sleep problems, hypertension, type "A" responses, wimpy ways of being. Some increased their energy many fold, told off their suppressive boss, told the truth to their spouse, opened up to loving themselves, and set boundaries where needed. Some healed from illness or near death. There are thousands of stories like the above.

 

Dear Mike:
I don't know if you remember me, I came up from KY with my husband Richard. It has taken me long to write this email, but I have thought often how grateful I am to have found your help. I was very depressed and full of anxiety when we met, and I thought I would never be able to function without anti-depressants, but thanks to what you taught me, I feel normal again, I have faced many challenges, but I have done so with my own strength, I am totally free of meds, and it feels great! All those doctors didn't know at all how to help me with my breathing, they had no answers, what a waste of suffering and money! You understood so well my distress and knew how to fix it. Sure there is still room for improvement, I know that if I were more diligent with your training I could be so much better, but I guess I am a little lazy, and I have taken it a lot slower, still my life is so much better!

Mike you are a God sent, thank you so much, from my husband as well!

Veronica W
 

The way I see it is people can go weeks without food, days without water, and only minutes without air. We put endless amounts of time talking about the fuel efficiency of our cars but the majority of us don't give time of day to the fact that oxygen is a primary fuel of the body.

Oxygen/Breathing efficiency was something I greatly overlooked before going to see Mike White. He has given me a structure and an awareness about breathing that will follow me the rest of my life.

To anyone over the age of 20: Improve the quality of your life! Inhale all of Mike's information on Breathing.com and then as you continue to be intrigued by his work go and spend some time one on one with him. Working with Mike was like meeting my lungs and diaphragm for the first time.

Your always looking for information on what to eat, the best exercises to do, and how to stay looking young. So why not address things from the foundation. Breathing is required for ALL of those things and they will ALL be better utilized once you bring Optimal Breathing into your life.

Mike White is Optimal breathing.  


-Pat Astle
 Age 20
 NS, Canada


 

Mike—

I’ve worked as a successful radio, tv & corporate voice-over performer for over 30 years, and ran into vocal difficulties in recent years.

In looking at what was happening, I sought an ENT’s view, and learned there was no physical damage, or condition. That settled, I came to the stunning, surprising realization--a blind spot, really--that I had never been professionally trained, and had simply reached the limits of being self-taught, and had been harming my voice through on-going, regular, uninformed practices. 


Working with you over the weekend, I learned my breathing is something I cannot simply take for granted. It is--key. And there are rules.

I came to you, open, for insights and practices, and left without disappointment. You are a very good teacher--you had to be to get through to me.

You have a depth of experience, wisdom from which to share, and a high level of intuition, and listening; the ferocity of a true master; and the skills to deftly place those openings right where they’re needed.

 

I learned to attend to my breathing in a certain, clearly defined range; tips on how to breathe; physical & vocal practices for opening up and warming up my voice; fun activities to get me to those places (not everything is clinical), and the recognition that the path to express myself, through voice, is, again, as wide and open as I wish it to be.

 

For the many bad habits I had gotten into, it will take practice, intent, and patience, to cause the new habits.

 

I’m thrilled, delighted, even relieved, to have been referred to you, and had the blessings of working together, closely, in a focused, intensive way, to help launch the next era for my expression. 

Thank you, Mike, for helping me re-gain my voice.

 

Best,  

Josh Cohen

Arlington, VA

 

From Mike:

Josh presented with symptoms very similar to Spasmodic Dysphonia.
He had not been diagnosed but it sounded and reacted quite like a combination of AB and AD SD.



ENT
I am a 74 year old MD Ear Nose Throat specialist who developed adult onset asthma and "non reversible" airway disease. I could not get any real help except inhalers. I came across Breathing.Com from Stephen Sinatra's Newsletter. I ordered the 176 program and have had tremendous improvement. I do not get winded doing simple tasks.  I also agree with Mike regarding the raw food diet and drinking a lot of water. I believe that chronic dehydration is another key to aging and in my case lung disease. I plan to take the breathing school this year and become involved in helping people help themselves. Keep up the good work Mike.  Randall Langston MD  
From Mike:
He arrived at our office with 1.5 liters of breathing volume as measured on the Voldyne 5000 and left with 2.5 liters.  Proper breathing is the first step in wellness but is often overlooked.  
More about our office visits Results
 


Preventive Medicine.  

I somehow knew that stress and breathing were related.  Being in the medical field, there is a lot of stress and exam taking that you have to through.   

I noticed that I had become a shallow breather a good part of the time probably as a compensation for stress.   
 

I found out about Mike White from another doctor friend of mine.  I got product number 176 and started doing the exercises and realized how out of shape I was and how I took breathing for granted.

After some experience on my own and some excellent conversations with Mike’s staff, I decided to fly down and for a 3 day stay to have Mike work on me and fine tune what I realized was very important work.   

I made the right decision.

 

Even though I had very good lung capacity after Mike tested me, I discovered I was not utilizing it as well as I could.

 

Using the strapping techniques and other techniques that Mike uses with his personal clients, I was able to find and utilize area of my lungs that I was not using.

Also, I was able to use my rib cage more which in turn helped me to use my lung tissue more fully especially the lung tissue on the sides and in the back area.

 

Mike helped me to understand and make use of other techniques on program #176 so that I could go home and help to strengthen my lungs over time specifically the techniques used to strengthen the diaphragm, lungs and the Diaphragm Strengthener itself.

 

Lastly, Mike has state of the art computerized programs that deal with the rate and rhythm of breathing which documents breathing against the norm in real time.

 

This is an eye opener.  I could see my progress in real time before and after.

 

I am very grateful that Mr. White has made breathing his specialty for over 3 decades.  He has helped me to breathe better and more fully.

 

Sincerely,   Robert Sklovsky Pharm. D., N.D.   Milwaukie, Oregon

 


Yoga Instructor Tina Taylor

 


"Dear Mike,
Thanks for being there when I needed you.  While walking on the beach I was struck with an inability to breathe.  This was 4 years ago.  I was initially diagnosed with Emphysema at the emergency room.  At 43 years old, I thought this was the end.  I had been a smoker for 20+ years.  Finding your site on the internet, I called you right away.  You gave me the information I needed to make it through that weekend and when your package arrived, the exercises and testimonials gave me great reassurance that their was hope for my condition.  When I flew out to see you for a day of therapy, your insights and knowledge helped me understand that I did not have emphysema and I have since verified this with a pulmonologist who determined I have asthma. I use the knowledge I learned from you every day.  I do not have panic attacks and am able to lead a very happy productive life.  I just kayaked a class 4 whitewater river and have perfected the elusive "Combat Roll".  I ski double black slopes and work out daily.  It has taken several years, but my breathing has almost returned to normal.  I will never forget your friendship, availability, or the fact that you helped me so much during a very difficult and worrisome time in my life.  I use your exercises still and have learned to take each day without so much worry and stress.  
 
My life is GREAT again. 

 
James Griffith.
On a real good day I can do the number count to 600!  450 on a regular day." 

Jim has to be one of the most amazing and successful people I know. Check out his latest venture.

 


Jerry Harmon Appalachian Singer Songwriter, Storyteller Mountain Gypsy and very interesting man.

"I have sang and played music for 35 years. I had no idea I was capable of singing with such strength, control, confidence and ease as I have been until after working with Mike for only 5 hours."

From Mike: In Berkeley I got to work with gospel, opera, jazz, blues and pop singers but over the past 6 years having until recently been so isolated near the Great Smokies as I was,  it was not often I got to work with musicians. When I do it is always such a treat. It's like working with a very unique and special musical instrument all by itself. You can listen to his "old" voice here. The new stronger, more clear, naturally expressive voice is being recorded and will appear soon. mgw  Jerry Harmon


Jerry Nelson, Muppeteer
(Puppeteer of several Muppets, including their voices)
The Count, Lou Zealand and many others.  Video clip


Asthma

Learning to breathe under the guidance of Mike White has not only saved my life but profoundly altered its quality.
I the first training session, Mike address my restricted breathing, which was steadily becoming worse, despite the inhalers I was using three and four times a day. He taught me the Leg Lift and shhhh breath, a deceptively simple and powerfully effective breath which stopped within days my chronic coughing, and began to clear and relieve lungs and bronchial tubes desperate for air. 
He also used carefully controlled hand pressure and other techniques to "wring out and soften hard and atrophies lung tissue.  This "re-birthing" of my lungs has affected my entire being. The relief from asthma turned out to be only an introduction into fuller and more vibrant participation in life.  In the process of learning to breathe more deeply  and easily, old fears and insecurities are beginning to dissolve.  I am discovering the joyful calm that supports life at its base.
I believe Michael Grant White's work with the breath is a critically important contribution to an area of scientific research still in its infancy.
Marie D. California.  Recommended program


A recent private session client arrived with high anxiety, high blood pressure (medicated), poor sleep, low energy and sub-par blood oxygen.  3 days later his blood pressure had normalized (un-medicated), sleep was great, anxiety way down to "relaxed", and resting blood oxygen up 4 points.


I would like to thank you so much Mike. When I came to you I felt like I was on a verge of having a heart attack or losing mind. I drove 4 torturing hours, it was well worth the 4 hours drive. On my way home I had no panic attacks, which is amazing, I cannot drive in a car for 30 minutes without a panic attack and I drove 4 hours with none. I feel like you have given me part of my life that I thought was gone forever. These panic attacks have been a journey for me, but for once in my life I feel I am on the road to recovery. Thank you again,I  will definitely be back .

Ms. Nicole T. Atlanta, GA


Choir Leader
I’ve been a singing  professional for years but you showed me a new way. My power, singing ease and flexibility increased incredibly and I handle levels of voice, fear and energy that would have crushed me just a short while ago.

– Linda Webb Kakaba, Published and Touring Singer/Songwriter


Flautist
Breath is life, but for the flautist breath is also art. Working with Mike freed tensions that had built up through years of playing so I was able to recover my full capacity, control and ease of expression. I recommend him highly to anyone who wants to maximize his or her breathing capability.

 
Leslie Newman, Toronto Symphony Orchestra


"Not one of the many doctors whom I asked about my breathlessness could give me any help, but you did  At age 92 better breathing is a very big deal."  John Cooper


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