Breathing is Much More than HRV: Strategies for coaching and practices for healing and letting go with the use of an app
Erik Peper, PhD
Yuval Oded, PhD
1-day workshop
Date: April 8, 2024
Workshop Title
Breathing is Much More than HRV: Strategies for coaching and practices for healing and letting go with the use of an app
Workshop Description
Breathing is more than HRV and the breathing patterns will be analyzed by multi-channel physiological monitoring and the use a home trainer app, FlowMD. Discussed is the physiology of breathing monitored with lower abdominal and upper thoracic EMG, abdominal and thoracic strain gauges, blood volume pulse, and skin conductance. Breathing is a whole body process and includes how breathing is an abdominal pump to circulate lymph and venous blood and the important role of peripheral blood volume amplitude (BVA) as indicator of mind/emotion reactivity and experience of safety.
The workshop focus is on identifying and correcting factors that affect the mastery and generalization of effortless breathing (e.g., posture, clothing and cognitions/emotions) and teaching strategies to transfer the learned effortless breathing skill into daily life with the use of an app. Outlined is a six session detailed program how to use to coach clients to master effortless breathing that they can practice at home with an app. The breathing coaching includes tools for letting go that combines cognitive behavior technique, imagery, affirmations, posture changes and transforming inner talk as strategies to reduce hypervigilance/over arousal. This approach can be used an educational settings for teaching stress reduction or in clinical setting as part of the therapeutic intervention to reduce symptoms of stress, anxiety, dysmenorrhea, epilepsy, PTSD, trauma, headaches, IBS, etc. The workshop is experiential and participants will activity practice the skills that they may teach their clients.
Learning Objectives
1) Learn how breathing is a whole body process.
2) Demonstrate how to use a cellphone app to monitor breathing and HRV.
3) Practice effortless breathing with feedback.
4) Describe factors that affect diaphragmatic breathing.
5) Summarize clinical and educational applications such as reducing menstrual cramps, anxiety.
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.
About Yuval Oded
Yuval Oded is a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist and a biofeedback practitioner. Director of the Cognitive-Behavioral and Psychophysiological Clinic in Tel Aviv (CBT-BF™). CEO of Psy-Phi Advanced Psychological Solutions-providing and developing stress management and peak performance training – MentalGym™ . Co- creator of the Alive biofeedback comprehensive training platform. Co-founder of the IBNA (Israeli Biofeedback-Neurofeedback Association).
