Breathing To Thrive - by Shane Brennan

COURSE

Breathing To Thrive

With Shane Brennan

The breath is a fundamental pillar of our well-being but sadly it is often overlooked. This course will help you create a deeper awareness of your breath, move you towards more functional breathing patterns, and guide you through a range of contemporary and ancient breathing techniques. Each session is a combination of theory and practice, so you are confident with the ‘why’ and ‘how’ when it comes to breathing techniques. Understand the roles gases such as oxygen, carbon dioxide, and nitric oxide play in our well-being. How stress affects the breath and how we can use the breath to break stress cycles. Then, leverage breathing techniques to enhance contraction, aid sleep, and build resilience. Once you have the grounding these techniques will be something you will enjoy dropping into each and everyday, so you can meet the challenges of modern life.


Meet your Teacher

Having utilized yoga, meditation, and pranayama to reduce the pain experience associated with an autoimmune disease, Shane wants to share these techniques with others, so they can live with less suffering in their lives.

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8 Days

15.5k students

4.9 stars

15 min / day

Stress

English


Lesson 1

Breath Awareness

Develop a greater awareness of your breath in order to learn how to breathe more efficiently. Start to notice the muscles involved and how slowing down your breathing influences your nervous system.

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Lesson 2

CO2 Tolerance

The urge to breathe arises from CO2, not from a lack of oxygen. As a result, a key component in why many of us overbreathe is our relationship with CO2. Embark on a breathing technique that uses neuroplasticity to change our nervous systems response to CO2.

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Lesson 3

Strength

Start to enhance the ability of your primary breathing muscles. Today we use gentle resistance in the form of Ujjayi pranayama and alternate nostril breathing to get our diaphragm and abdominal wall firing.

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Lesson 4

Creating Space

Our lungs need space to fully expand. Modern postures, tight clothing, and tension in the body gets in the way of our lungs being fully utilized. Explore some techniques to gain space for our respiratory system to operate more efficiently.

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Lesson 5

Coherence

Combine the techniques you have already learnt to warm you up for coherent breathing. Coherent breathing uses the optimal breathing ratio to activate your vagus nerve and bring your nervous system into a state of calm.

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Lesson 6

Deep Relaxation

Leverage the practice of Bhramari pranayama to increase the nitric oxide levels for more efficient oxygenation of the body. This practice also creates deep states of calm because of the humming sound that resonates around the head.

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Lesson 7

Combinations

It's not often that something can be energizing and calming at the same time but try this combination of the previous practices we have explored. This session will oxygenate your body and mind while putting your nervous system at ease ready for the challenges that lie ahead.

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Lesson 8

Daily Practice

Continue to enhance your respiratory system and nervous system with this 20-minute daily practice.

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Recent Reviews

Elisa

January 25, 2026

I appreciated the different breathing techniques learned. I’ve tried incorporating them through the day in different scenarios to keep me aware of my space and feelings.

sandra

October 23, 2025

Thank you for a most wonderful experience! I will continue to use this techniques everyday.

Michael

September 19, 2025

Felt very powerful and calming to practice the different techniques in series and simultaneously. Thank you

Tatyana

July 15, 2025

Amazing course of breathing awareness to regulate the nervous system . It is very effective, very helpful . Much love and gratitude for sharing your knowledge .❤️🙏

Samuel

May 4, 2025

A very good introduction to breath work And practicing for Techniques that you can use every day.

Deb

April 8, 2025

Fab

Martin

March 3, 2025

my first lesson in this app! great teacher, learnt new breathing techniques calming voices, will greatly recommend

Pisca

February 17, 2025

Gratefully better breathing

Rajat

February 4, 2025

Amazing course. Learnt a lot about myself and which breathing techniques affect me the most. Loved it! Thanks so much for this. Will continue doing again and again.

Jule

December 12, 2024

Thank you! A great way to focus and relax.

Michael

December 6, 2024

Great course. I gained more awareness of my breath and how to control it, plus some excellent techniques. Thank you

Sally

December 2, 2024

Great course. Your explanations for how to do each technique and their benefits were very clear and simple and the sequencing and layering of techniques was very effective. Thanks for giving me a new morning routine that helps me feel calm and positive.

Laura

November 30, 2024

Great course! I enjoyed the soft voice, slow rhythm, the calm, and the information about the different techniques. I liked that the practice wasn't guided ut at your own pace. I really recommend it. Thank you!

Nat

August 31, 2024

Super soothing voice, and I learned a lot

Trai

August 28, 2024

His voice to me is tranquil. Therefore I can really lean in to the excercises. The variation of breathing techniques I think is very nice to

Josh

August 25, 2024

This series introduced me to a bunch of techniques that were unknown to me and increased my understanding of the one or two I was familiar with. I would recommend this course to anyone trying to get into meditation or get more aware of their body or mind.

Trish

August 13, 2024

Calming without too much talking 🤗

cindy

July 31, 2024

Excellent! Will come back to this often, grateful

Natanyah

July 25, 2024

Love this course and daily breath work!

Virginia

July 23, 2024

Super complete course, lot of techniques!!

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