Breathing exercises are for everyone. But not everyone has the time or capacity to research and teach themselves, as well as do the training. They need a coach. They need you!
Not only do people in high-pressure jobs and elite athletes benefit from working with a breath coach, functional breathing training is relevant to everyone. Oxygen Advantage courses and training make it easy for you to guide and train your community members in an easily accessible and programmed way.
When you become a Certified Oxygen Advantage Functional Breathing Coach, you join a growing international team that provides clients and students with a comprehensive functional breathing program. The best part is, Oxygen Advantage is there to support you and supply you with everything you need to become an OA™ Functional Breathing Instructor from the comfort of your own home.
For over a decade I’ve been teaching breathing exercises to people from all walks of life with all kinds of ambitions. From judges to psychotherapists, snorkellers to big wave surfers, high powered executives to insurance salesmen, and from weekend warrior cyclists to elite footballers.
Becoming a certified Oxygen Advantage® Breathing Instructor was one of the best things I’ve done to help everyone adapt and gain from the benefits that breathing exercises provide, through step by step techniques for enhanced functional breathing and mindfulness.
The breath is well established as the first and most basic autonomic function, influencing mind, body, and personal potential.
As a teacher or health professional, whether your specialism is yoga, Pilates, physical therapy, mental health, sports and wellness, public speaking or personal coaching, the OA™ Functional Breathing Instructor Training can provide you with the tools to:
The breath coach training explores functional breathing from a scientific, practical, accessible standpoint. Leaving you free to inspire your students, clients, or patients —whatever their needs.
Designed by Oxygen Advantage® creator, Patrick McKeown, and taught entirely online, this breath coach training contains a full introduction to the theory and practice of functional breathing.
For a one-off course fee, you will receive study materials comprising:
Complete the course from the comfort of your own home in just 10 weeks. No previous experience is needed — just an enthusiasm for learning and a strong belief in possibilities.
There are currently more than 200 instructors worldwide. They come from a wide variety of disciplines, including Pilates, military, yoga, strength-and-conditioning, Buteyko breathing, professional athleticism, and Wim Hof Method.
Some instructors teach Oxygen Advantage® as a standalone, while others integrate the method into their existing training and teaching methodologies.
The Oxygen Advantage breath coach certification will give you a deep understanding of breathing physiology. Physiology is the science of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical function of the body. It connects medicine, science, and health. And it gives us ways to measure our body’s response to stresses, physical activity, and disease.
You will study breathing physiology in terms of breathing muscles, functional airways, blood chemistry and gas exchange with the atmosphere. Once you understand these, it is easy to tailor your breath coaching to change your clients’ physiological response to breathing.
The breathing exercises used in the OA™ are designed to work with the body’s physiology and biochemistry. They are simple, safe, tried and tested. And they will restore functional breathing in your clients.
Become a breath coach with OA™. Start your functional breathing training today.
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