help us fund the future of stress and anxiety education
Sponsor the Future of Stress and Anxiety Education
Your donations allow us to present to students on tools to: A. Partner with education leaders to update curriculum. B. Present directly to students. C. Offer professional development to educators. D. Carry out research related to breathing disorders and the anxiety response by getting involved at one of our sponsorship levels today.
Sponsorship Levels:
Supporter: $100 or $10 per month
Influencer: $500 or $50 per month
Game Changer: $1000 or $100 per month
Thank you for donating below, and here’s to a new conversation on youth mental health, mental fitness, and human performance!
Friends, your donations allow us to present the latest science on anxiety mitigation to students in Maine and beyond.
We truly appreciate your contributions to Physiology First. All donations go directly to anxiety mitigation seminars for students, parents and faculty. Please visit the the Paypal link below to contribute and thank you again for your support!
Gratefully,
- The Physiology First Team
What we do
Seminars
We love sharing our free "Breathe to Perform" seminar with schools and universities throughout New England. We are currently setting up our 2019 seminar schedule!
Group Training
We offer individual and small group training for students and teams at our training facility in Freeport, Maine. Contact us to schedule a group training session!
Get the Free Breathe to Perform app!
We are partnering with pioneering neuroscientist Dr. Jose Herrero on the Breathe to Perform app. Guided breathing exercises set to music to help to reduce anxiety and peak mental focus. Now available for free on Apple Ios!
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Research + Resources
Breath and The Brain:
This study details the work of one of our partners, Dr. Jose Herrero. Dr. Herrero is studying the effects of various breathing patterns on cognition, memory retention, and anxiety.
Breath, stress and High Performance SCENARIOS
In January of 2018 our coaching team traveled to Stanford University to take part in the following experiments around fear, anxiety, and mental performance using virtual reality technologies. We share some of this experience, as well as the key lessons learned, in the Breathe to Perform seminar series.
Breathing and sports performance
This video by Patrick McKeown, author of The Oxygen Advantage, demonstrates how breathing exercises can improve Vo2 max.
Latest research on Breath and mental performance
Read the latest New York Times article on the cognitive benefits of nasal breathing.