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People learn dysfunctional breathing habits that seriously compromise respiratory function and that directly and negatively impact multiple physiological systems. Compromised respiration can rapidly and profoundly result in serious and often debilitating symptoms and deficits, usually mistakenly attributed to other causes by clients, patients, and practitioners.

Dysfunctional breathing habits may have profound immediate and long-term effects that trigger, exacerbate, perpetuate, and/or cause a wide variety of emotional (e.g., anxiety, anger), cognitive (e.g., attention, learning), behavioral (e.g., public speaking, test taking), and physical (e.g., pain, asthma) changes that may seriously impact health and performance.

Up to 25% of the US population may suffer from the effects of learned dysfunctional breathing habits. And, surveys show that 60% or more of the ambulance runs in major US cities may be the consequence of acute symptoms brought on by dysfunctional breathing habits. Although the immensity of this problem is staggering, it has been only superficially addressed.

Professionals are rarely trained to identify dysfunctional breathing habits and their patterns, much less how to help their clients learn new habits consistent with good physical and mental health. Millions of people worldwide study breathing, but little of what is taught or learned is rooted in the textbook sciences of physiology and psychology. As a result, “breathing practices” are often based on pseudoscience prescriptions, misinformation, misconceptions, and lack of knowledge about the relevant sciences.

The Graduate School of Breathing Sciences was formed in 2012 to provide for a synthesis of the relevant applied sciences, which in the right professional hands can result in highly effective, large scale, practical solutions to the problem. This synthesis is the Master of Science degree in Applied Breathing Sciences, which includes physiology, neuroscience, biochemistry, psychology, behavioral science, counseling, and medical technology. The Graduate School of Breathing Sciences is currently seeking accreditation with an agency recognized by the US Department of Education.

The MS degree training provides for a practical integration of biological and behavioral sciences based on the principles of behavioral analysis and behavior modification and their application to dysfunctional breathing, including its physiology, origins, effects, causes, triggers, sustaining factors, and self-regulation learning solutions.

The MS degree program was designed for professionals most likely to succeed in establishing breathing services within their existing businesses or new parallel businesses specifically organized to offer these services. Students are colleagues, and include healthcare practitioners, human service professionals, athletic/fitness coaches, corporate trainers, educators, performance consultants, breath workers, and others. Comprehensive large-scale solutions are necessarily interdisciplinary.