Breath and Posture Feedback to Reduce Anxiety, Headache, GI Distress and Pain
Erik Peper, PhD
1-day workshop
Date: TBD
Workshop Title
Breath and Posture Feedback to Reduce Anxiety, Headache, GI Distress and Pain
Workshop Description
Breathing patterns and posture tends to overlooked as a significant factor in illness, health and performance. Respiration is more than just gas exchange. It is a hydraulic pump that circulates lymph and venous blood in the abdomen, activates spinal movement, balances blood pH, and modulates the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems while affects breathing patterns, cognitive performance, and emotional states. The workshop focuses on pragmatic breathing and posture biofeedback approaches that can reduce the symptoms of anxiety, acid reflux, irritable bowel syndrome, headaches, neck and shoulder pain and depression.
Learning Objectives
- 1) Attendees will be able to summarize how posture affects respiration.
2) Attendees will be able to describe how stress can affect posture and breathing.
3) Attendees will be able to describe how breathings acts as a hydraulic pump that circulates lymph and venous blood in the abdomen, activates spinal movement, balances blood pH, and modulates the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems.
4) Attendees with be able to describe how to use posture feedback and breathing to improve health and may reduce symptoms of stress such as neck and shoulder pain, GI distress, and headaches.
5) Attendees will be able to describe short somatic practices by which participants can induce symptoms and reverse them.
6) Attendees will be able to describe how to use posture feedback as a homework practice and combine this with slow breathing and cognitive reframing.
About Erik Peper
Erik Peper is an internationally known expert on holistic health, stress management, and biofeedback. He is a professor at San Francisco State University, where he was instrumental in establishing the Institute for Holistic Health Studies, the first holistic health program at a public university in the U.S. He is president of the Biofeedback Federation of Europe (BFE), former president of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology (AAPB), and has a biofeedback practice in Berkeley, CA at BiofeedbackHealth. He is an author of numerous scientific articles and books such as Make Health Happen, Fighting Cancer-A Nontoxic Approach to Treatment, and Biofeedback Mastery. He publishes the blog, the peper perspective-ideas on illness, health and well-being (www.peperperspective.com). His research interests focus on self-healing strategies to optimize health, illness prevention, optimizing respiration and posture, and self-mastery with biofeedback.
