Oxygen Advantage
Workshops in Sussex, Hampshire & London
A scientifically proven breathing technique can help you become healthier, slimmer, faster, and fitter, with greater endurance and energy, and enable you to recover quickly.
This technique benefits not just sports performance but also day-to-day concentration, energy levels, rest, and sleep. It is suitable for everyone - from children to seniors, aspiring athletes, weekend warriors, professional sportspeople, corporate employees, and anyone looking to get stronger, happier, and healthier.
There’s a reason breathwork training is experiencing an explosion in popularity. It empowers us to manage preventable health conditions, balances physical and mental states, and creates potent physical adaptations that give us sporting superpowers and the best sleep ever.
Breathing well in daily activities – whilst at work, during exercise, rest, sleep has a huge positive effect on our daily life. You need to know how your breathing affects your health, energy levels, mental well-being and how to use that knowledge to feel much, much better every day!
Breath Holding
Oxygen Advantage emphasises efficient and effective breathing for activating the parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest) as well as building strength in the diaphragm, essential for spinal stability.
Efficient Breathing
Oxygen Advantage includes exercises that improve lung condition, capacity, oxygenation, and respiratory function.
Nose Breathing
Oxygen Advantage focusses on optimising breathing patterns for reduced breathlessness and improved respiratory function. While, increasing tolerance to carbon dioxide (which isn’t the waste gas we all think it is) to build resilience for improved performance, mental clarity and the management of stress and anxiety.
Light, Slow, Deep Breathing
The Oxygen Advantage® emphasises breathing through the nose for improved oxygenation and respiratory health.
Oxygen Advantage
6-Week Programme
Our 6-week Oxygen Advantage “Don’t Waste Your Breath” programme is a highly engaging, fun, interactive and a very practical course. Of course, there is some theory and science, but that is introduced to support the understanding of what is happening as almost all of the exercises are practiced.
Session 0: Pre-Course
Prior to attending the course you will have completed a comprehensive health questionnaire to enable Karyn and Dan to fully understand your current health, breath habits and any special notes we need to pay particular attention to.
Session 4: Down Regulation & Hormetic Stress
We frequently endure chronic stress beyond what is healthy. This session aims to soothe nerves and trial new breathing techniques for swiftly overcoming stress and anxiety. We'll investigate ways to enhance sleep quality and explore the benefits of positive stress on the body, employing breathing techniques for adaptation.
Session 1: Breath Awareness
This first session focuses on breath awareness and the benefits of functional breathing. We will examine breathing patterns and rates, and their effects on mental state, anxiety, stress, calming nerves, boosting energy levels, and improving sleep. We will also explore the Oxygen Advantage principles of breathing Light, Slow, and Deep.
Session 5: Recovery
This session focuses on using breath to aid recovery. We'll explore how breath improves performance, focus, and attention by examining metrics like Heart-Rate Reserve (HRR), Non-Sleep Deep Rest (NSDR), and Heart-Rate Variability (HRV). We'll also understand how sleep provides an invisible superpower.
Session 2: Biomechanics
This session primarily focuses on creating space for the breath and understanding its biomechanics, including the diaphragm, spine, and the relationship between breath, movement, and rest. We will delve into the principles of Light, Slow, and Deep breathing.
Session 6: Mind & Body & Bonus
In this session, we aim to connect with our bodies and explore how breath impacts mental state, energy levels, and sleep. We'll delve into the interconnectedness of breath, mind, and body, examining how intention, attention, and affirmation shape our breathing. Techniques for managing headaches, congestion, panic attacks, asthma and more!
Session 3: Biochemistry
While the session title may suggest a science lesson, grasping the Oxygen Advantage's impact on the body proves essential. We delve into the benefits of functional breathing, the significance of carbon dioxide, the drawbacks of over-breathing, and the Light breath as part of the Light, Slow, and Deep principles.
Post Course
Follow-up with Dan
The end of the programme is not the end of our interest in your journey. We will schedule a call with you within 3 months of the programme completion to check-in, offer any advice and answer any questions and you will always be welcome to attend one session of your choice on a subsequent course as a top up, to re-build the knowledge, if required.
Important Note
The Oxygen Advantage ® workout is perfectly safe for the vast majority of people. However, it does include some powerful exercises, similar to performing high-intensity interval training. Just as high intensity exercise is only suited to those with reasonably good health and fitness, those with medical issues should perform the workout only with the consent of a medical practitioner.
Certain exercises, such as strong breath holds should only be carried out if you have a minimum BOLT Score of 20. They should never feel stressful. Elements of this workout are not suitable if you are pregnant. If you are in any doubt, please contact us for more information.
