"Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?" Mary Oliver
Consulting Page
Michael
Grant White - Charlotte NC 28262
OBDMT, Holistic Health and Personal
Development Coach, Nutrition Consultant, NCLMBT License #1724
The Optimal Breathing Coach
Founder: The Optimal Breathing School
I have developed a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets:
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power
and magic in it. Begin it now!"
Our Office, Skype or Traveling Intensives
Private one on one breathing and personal development sessions and voice development . Customized individual practitioner trainings separate or together while using the client as a training example.
MULTI-DIMENSIONAL
CUSTOMIZED PROGRAMS
Overall focus is on
breathing development, voice development including singing, public
speaking, spasmodic
dysphonia, stuttering, anxiety, conversion disorder, attention, sleep, relaxation, energy, emotional
balance, high blood
pressure, depression, sports performance, nutritional advice and internal
cleansing.
Students and clients can expect to become more and more aware, more and more conscious of their inner and outer world. They will often experience a growing sense of freedom, safety, personal power, of wholeness and oneness. They can expect to get really good at relaxing, de-stressing, and re-energizing. They can expect to find more potential for comfort and pleasure, for enjoyment, even in the most difficult of circumstances and situations.
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Visits to our Sunhaven
home/office/retreat/intensive center includes breakfast smoothies
A comprehensive on-site gym provides all the equipment
necessary for key aspects of our breathing and personal development system.
Vibration Therapy |
We can pick you up at the airport if needed. You can bus to downtown in 20 minutes or rent a car to tour the area. The nearby Hilton will drop you off and pick you up at no charge. |
Individual Skype and Web Cam
Sessions
One hour minimum. 30 minute increments. $200.00 per hour sliding scale.
Sessions need to be prearranged via email or
phone. These can be VERY effective.
Individual
on site
Three to twenty four hours over 1-7 days
of private
sessions on case by case basis.
$125-500 per hour sliding scale.
Sleep Challenges
including
those wishing not to or unable to use mechanical breathing devices require a three
day to one week intensive. Local or Foreign.
Programs quoted on a
case by case basis. More about
Consulting for Business. Creating
programs that integrate Optimal Breathing® insights, statistics, techniques
and exercises. $500 per hour 10
hour minimum.
Spasmodic Dysphonia
or Stuttering In-Person Intensives and Skype sessions.
What I have learned from working with
over 100 SD and stuttering people is that developing breathing mechanics
are the most important aspect of recovery by approximately 50 to 1. I invite you to
work with me on a one on one basis. If you are working with a speech
specialist related to SD and stuttering you
will increase your chances of a faster and complete recovery. Without the breathing done properly, a
velvety fully functional voice will forever elude you.
Certification for Optimal Breathing Coach units. More about
Two
to twenty five hour custom private speaking, singing
development
for business and performance professionals.
Testimonials
General testimonials
Speech Testimonial
Sponsor a training in YOUR locale.
mike@breathing.com
Add to offsite trainings to subject line.
Foreign
travel - Individual or group. Case by case basis.
Call toll free with any questions and for assistance in choosing a program.
Email for those who are too voice challenged to use the phone.
mike@breathing.com
866.694.6425.
(866 MyInhale) Non USA and Canada 001 704.597.6775
Payment options
1. Pay for X hours over Skype or in person
intensive 1 hour to x hours over 1-3 days.
So we have a better idea of your situation, please
click here and
prepare for the consult by taking the
free breathing tests.
2.Pay for discounted 12 hour Charlotte NC intensive over 2-4 days.
3.Pay for discounted 15 hour Charlotte NC intensive over 3-5 days.
4. Pay for discounted 20 hour Charlotte NC intensive over 4-5 days.
5. Pay for discounted 25 hour Charlotte NC intensive over 5-7 days.
Travel requires a special
quote.
Below is a general outline.
We can customize to fit your needs.
This requires several days preparation for myself. If needed I can bring
an assistant at half of my personal rate plus air fair, food and
lodging.
For example in Sydney Australia I worked with world-class group of
tutors who are able to bring a 75 IQ person up to 140 IQ after two years
of 5 day training weeks. I worked on the practitioners as well as a
few clients including Australia's leading Feldenkrais teacher who was
deeply impressed with the change I made in his breathing and state of
being as well as his daughter's breathing (she was one of the tutors).
In Singapore I worked on a wealthy client and trained his personal
wellness team for 7 days and charged $2,500.00 per day (no assistant)
plus food and lodging plus $750.00 each 24 hour period (times two days)
for travel (plus business, first class or suite air fare if more than 8
hours of flight time) and one extra paid travel day(s) for jet lag
recovery resting days after arrival per 8 hours of time zone change plus
cost of optional props and tools (approximately $1,000.00) to remain
with the client or practitioners. It cost this group about a third of
what it would have for them to come Charlotte plus the client was able
to take care of business from his home base. It also allowed for a few
of his colleagues to be worked on as well.
If there are no medical support people in the immediate area and
depending on the severity of the breathing condition I may need to stay
in the area (or return) until I locate, qualify and train others to our
mutual satisfaction. Add one to three weeks or more.
Wherever possible it is good to have a few difficult/chronic cases to
work on observe progress.
We could if wanted and at no additional cost add an introduction to
optimal breathing development to up to several thousand people at once.
The themes we can focus on include.
1. Deeper Stronger Easier Breathing
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
2. Anxiety and trauma resolution.
Mild
Moderate
Severe
3. Shortness of Breath
Mild
Moderate
Severe
4. Sleep
Better Sleep
Insomnia
Wake up not breathing
5. Increased Energy
6. Lower Blood Pressure
7. Pain Reduction
8. Speaking or Singing
9. Sports Performance
10. Weight Control
11. Weight Training
12. Improved Meditation and Calming
13. Pain management
14. Mental Focus With Relaxed Concentration
15. Mental Focus With Energized Concentration
16. Personal Power
Let me know the number of people I will need to work with in order to
justify the above expenditures.
I will create a program to your satisfaction around the above. The
introduction to hundreds or thousands would be included in my daily
fee.
We can Skype about the particulars as well as have some post training
follow up sessions via Skype.
TESTIMONIALS
A
champion swimmer wanted to improve her
ease of breathing and recovery times for multiple general race days and
triathlete events. An opera siinger was losing her high notes and sought
psychotherapy but eventually just learned to breathe better and her high
notes returned. A classical singer was losing her mid range and regained it
with optimal breathing techniques. An emphysema victim learned that
breathing was not what he thought is was, for over 50 years. It had become a
permanent misunderstanding even to the point of doing it improperly when
shown the proper way. Several sessions were needed to change this person’s
breathing. An asthmatic was retrained to breathe easier and the symptoms
disappeared. Stuttering and spasmodic dysphonia can reduce or disappear when
one learns to breathe optimally. A shy young lady learned to breathe better.
Her shyness lessened and "I met a man and got married". Some eliminated
their sleep problems, hypertension, type "A" responses, wimpy ways of being.
Some increased their energy many fold, told off their suppressive boss, told
the truth to their spouse, opened up to loving themselves, and set
boundaries where needed. Some healed from illness or near death. There are
thousands of stories like the above.
Dear Mike:
I don't know if you remember me, I came up from KY with my
husband Richard. It has taken me long to write this email, but I
have thought often how grateful I am to have found your help. I
was very depressed and full of anxiety when we met, and I
thought I would never be able to function without
anti-depressants, but thanks to what you taught me, I feel
normal again, I have faced many challenges, but I have done so
with my own strength, I am totally free of meds, and it feels
great! All those doctors didn't know at all how to help me with
my breathing, they had no answers, what a waste of suffering and
money! You understood so well my distress and knew how to fix
it. Sure there is still room for improvement, I know that if I
were more diligent with your training I could be so much better,
but I guess I am a little lazy, and I have taken it a lot
slower, still my life is so much better!
The way I see it
is people can go weeks without food, days without water,
and only minutes without air. We put endless amounts of
time talking about the fuel efficiency of our cars but
the majority of us don't give time of day to the fact
that oxygen is a primary fuel of the body.
Oxygen/Breathing efficiency was something I greatly
overlooked before going to see Mike White. He has given
me a structure and an awareness about breathing that
will follow me the rest of my life.
To anyone over the age of 20: Improve the quality of
your life! Inhale all of Mike's information on
Breathing.com and then as you continue to be intrigued
by his work go and spend some time one on one with him.
Working with Mike was like meeting my lungs and
diaphragm for the first time.
Your always looking for information on what to eat, the
best exercises to do, and how to stay looking young. So
why not address things from the foundation. Breathing is
required for ALL of those things and they will ALL be
better utilized once you bring Optimal Breathing into
your life.
Mike White is Optimal breathing.
-Pat Astle
Age 20
NS, Canada
I’ve worked as a successful radio, tv &
corporate voice-over performer for over 30
years, and ran into vocal difficulties in recent
years.
In looking at what was happening, I sought an
ENT’s view, and learned there was no physical
damage, or condition. That settled, I came to
the stunning, surprising realization--a blind
spot, really--that I had never been
professionally trained, and had simply reached
the limits of being self-taught, and had been
harming my voice through on-going, regular,
uninformed practices.
Working with you over the weekend, I learned my
breathing is something I cannot simply take for
granted. It is--key. And there are rules.
I came to you, open, for insights and practices,
and left without disappointment. You are a very
good teacher--you had to be to get through to
me.
You have a depth of experience, wisdom from
which to share, and a high level of intuition,
and listening; the ferocity of a true master;
and the skills to deftly place those openings
right where they’re needed.
I learned to attend to my breathing in a certain, clearly defined range; tips on how to breathe; physical & vocal practices for opening up and warming up my voice; fun activities to get me to those places (not everything is clinical), and the recognition that the path to express myself, through voice, is, again, as wide and open as I wish it to be.
For the many bad habits I had gotten into, it
will take practice, intent, and patience, to
cause the new habits.
I’m thrilled, delighted, even relieved, to have
been referred to you, and had the blessings of
working together, closely, in a focused,
intensive way, to help launch the next era for
my expression.
Thank you, Mike, for helping me re-gain my
voice.
Best,
Josh Cohen
Arlington, VA
From Mike:
Josh presented with
symptoms very similar to
Spasmodic Dysphonia.
He had not been diagnosed but it sounded and
reacted quite like a combination of AB and AD
SD.
ENT
I am a 74 year old MD Ear Nose Throat specialist who developed
adult onset asthma and "non reversible" airway disease. I could not get any
real help except inhalers. I came across Breathing.Com from
Stephen Sinatra's Newsletter. I ordered the
176 program
and have had tremendous improvement. I do not get winded doing
simple tasks. I
also agree with Mike regarding the
raw food diet and drinking a
lot of water. I believe that chronic dehydration is another key
to aging and in my case lung disease. I plan to take the
breathing school this year and become involved
in helping people help themselves. Keep up the good work Mike.
Randall Langston MD
From Mike: He arrived at
our office with 1.5 liters of breathing volume as measured on the
Voldyne 5000 and left with 2.5 liters.
Proper breathing is the
first step in wellness but is
often overlooked.
More about
our office visits
Results
Boston Psychotherapist Ruth Molin
"I don't believe I was ever breathing correctly until now. I believe
there are millions of people out there just like me. Being one of Mike's
clients has inspired me to become a teacher of Optimal Breathing
development."
See her video here - 9 minutes
Preventive Medicine
I somehow knew that stress and breathing were related.
I noticed that I had become a shallow breather a good part of
the time probably as a compensation for stress.
I found out about Mike White
from another doctor friend of mine.
After some experience on my own and some excellent conversations
with Mike’s staff, I decided to fly down and for a 3 day stay to
have Mike work on me and fine tune what I realized was very
important work.
I made the right decision.
Even though I had very good lung capacity after Mike tested me,
I discovered I was not utilizing it as well as I could.
Using the strapping techniques and other techniques that Mike
uses with his personal clients, I was able to find and utilize
area of my lungs that I was not using.
Also, I was able to use my rib cage more which in turn helped me
to use my lung tissue more fully especially the lung tissue on
the sides and in the back area.
Mike helped me to understand and make use of other techniques on
program #176 so that I could go home and help to strengthen my
lungs over time specifically the techniques used to strengthen
the diaphragm, lungs and the Diaphragm Strengthener itself.
Lastly, Mike has state of the art computerized programs that
deal with the rate and rhythm of breathing which documents
breathing against the norm in real time.
This is an eye opener.
I am very grateful that Mr. White has made breathing his
specialty for over 3 decades.
Sincerely,
Jim has to be one of the most amazing and successful people I know. Check out his latest venture.
Jerry Harmon Appalachian Singer Songwriter, Storyteller Mountain Gypsy and very interesting man.
"I have sang and played
music for 35 years. I had no idea I was capable of singing with such
strength, control, confidence and ease as I have been until after working
with Mike for only 5 hours."
From Mike: In Berkeley I got to work with gospel, opera, jazz, blues and
pop singers but over the past 6 years having until recently been so isolated near the Great Smokies as I
was, it was not often I got to work with musicians. When I do
it is always such a treat. It's like working with a very unique and special
musical instrument all by itself. You can listen to his "old" voice
here. The new stronger, more clear, naturally expressive voice is being
recorded and will appear soon.
Jerry Harmon
Jerry Nelson, Muppeteer
(Puppeteer of several Muppets, including
their voices)
The Count, Lou Zealand and many others.
Video clip
Learning to breathe under the guidance of Mike White has
not only saved my life but profoundly altered its quality.
I
the first training session, Mike address my restricted breathing, which
was steadily becoming worse, despite the inhalers I was using three and
four times a day. He taught me the
Optimal Leg Lift, a
deceptively simple and powerfully effective breath which stopped within
days my chronic coughing, and began to clear and relieve lungs and
bronchial tubes desperate for air.
He also used
carefully controlled hand pressure and other techniques to "wring out
and soften hard and atrophies lung tissue. This
"re-birthing" of my lungs has affected my entire being. The
relief from asthma turned out to be only an introduction into fuller and
more vibrant participation in life. In the process of learning to
breathe more deeply and easily, old fears and insecurities are
beginning to dissolve. I am discovering the joyful calm that
supports life at its base.
I believe Michael Grant White's work with
the breath is a critically important contribution to an area of scientific
research still in its infancy.
Marie D. California.
Recommended
program
A recent private session client arrived with high anxiety, high blood pressure (medicated), poor sleep, low energy and sub-par blood oxygen. 3 days later his blood pressure had normalized (un-medicated), sleep was great, anxiety way down to "relaxed", and resting blood oxygen up 4 points.
I would like to thank you so much Mike.
When I came to you I felt like I was on a verge of having a heart attack
or losing mind. I drove 4 torturing hours, it was well worth the 4 hours
drive. On my way home I had no panic attacks, which is amazing, I cannot
drive in a car for 30 minutes without a panic attack and I drove 4 hours
with none. I feel like you have given me part of my life that I thought
was gone forever. These panic attacks have been a journey for me, but
for once in my life I feel I am on the road to recovery. Thank you
again,I will definitely be back .
Ms. Nicole T. Atlanta, GA
Choir Leader
I’ve been a singing professional for years but you
showed me a new way. My power, singing ease and flexibility increased
incredibly and I handle levels of voice, fear and energy that would have
crushed me just a short while ago.
– Linda Webb Kakaba, Published and Touring Singer/Songwriter
Flautist
Breath is life, but for the flautist breath is
also art. Working with Mike freed tensions that had built up through
years of playing so I was able to recover my full capacity, control
and ease of expression. I recommend him highly to anyone who wants to
maximize his or her breathing capability.
Leslie Newman, Toronto Symphony
Orchestra
"Not one of the many doctors whom I asked about my breathlessness could give me any help, but you did At age 92 better breathing is a very big deal." John Cooper
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