The Hobson Institute breathing method is a simple, safe and scientifically proven method that transforms your breathing. It consists of a combination of myofunctional therapy and Buteyko breathing exercises which are designed to encourage proper breathing habits in proper posture. At Hobson Institute, we offer breathing clinics that combine myofunctional therapy, Buteyko breathing method and the Restorative Breathing method by Dr. Lois Laynee for both adults and children. During these clinics our certified practitioners will work with you to improve any or all symptoms and illnesses related to over-breathing—helping you live better and breathe easier.
If practiced diligently, the Hobson Institute Breathing Method reduces rhinitis, snoring and asthma symptoms—diminishing and/or eliminating the need for medication. By joining our breathing clinic, you’ll be returning your body to a healthier state of life through a holistic and drug-free approach that works.
The breathing techniques of the Hobson Institute Breathing Method will teach you how to correctly breathe through the natural defense of your lungs: your nose. This technique works effectively for both children and adults. Through this practice you will learn how to
In 1952, Konstantin Buteyko recognized that people often consume five to ten times more air than their body requires. This excessive amount of air creates an insufficiency of carbon dioxide in the lungs and bloodstream, which can result in the dysfunction of metabolism and the immune system.
A deficiency of carbon dioxide also impacts respiratory gas exchange, diminishing the amount of oxygen the blood carries to the brain, heart and kidneys. As a result, rhinitis, asthma, allergies, high blood pressure, anxiety, depression, cardiac problems and growth of polyps may develop.
After life-long research, Dr. Buteyko concluded that hyperventilation and incorrect breathing is a root cause in about 100 known diseases. This led to one of the most profound discoveries in the history of medicine and resulted in a natural cure to many common breathing-related ailments.
Dr. Hobson is also including in the breathing clinics the Laynee Restorative Breathing Method which re-synchronizes the cranial nerve system to improve its function and calm down the Sympathetic (fight or flight system) that we tend to be “stuck” in. This method has been instrumental in restoring all the cranial nerve functions of the body which are the automatic functions such as vision, breathing, swallowing and all the organ functions as well. Adding this to the breathing clinic has had a revolutionary effect on our patients’ health and quality of life.
Dr. Hobson has trained with Dr. Lois Laynee and the Laynee Restorative Breathing Method™. Dr. Laynee has developed a neurological approach to resetting the center of our brains that control breathing. Her teachings are incorporated in the third session of the clinic. The session focuses on the mind and sensory system. This training interrelates the functions of your nose and breathing with the cranial nerve system in the midbrain that governs our automatic functions of the body. In this session one will learn the ways to prevent bad habits and adjust patterns people develop over the years that create involuntary programming for how our mind and body work together. Many of us breathe shallow, too fast and through our chest instead of our diaphragm. She also believes that this unique neurological exercise approach has been very helpful for many of her breathing clinic participants.
Unlike other breathing re-training programs, after becoming a myofunctional therapist, Dr. Hobson became aware of the overwhelming airway issue that is prevalent with both adults and children. She had children herself with compromised airways due to swelling in the tonsils and adenoids caused from mouth breathing. By training her own children to breathe through their noses, they were able to avoid surgery. Dr. Hobson finds that the combination of mouth, tongue and throat training (myofunctional therapy) to be an important part of breathing training. Dr. Hobson helps train the airway by teaching throat and soft palate opening exercises and tongue to palate posturing to help support the position of the soft palate. By activating your soft palate muscles, one can help lift that region of the throat to help reduce the collapse that occurs in that region from an improper placement and use of the tongue in the mouth. This will start the process of reducing facial tension, snoring and reversing sleep apnea. Everyone should check in the mirror and look in their mouth and throat. If can’t see your airway space you are headed for trouble and need this education and training.
We are all meant to breathe through our noses at all times, except for when we are sick and have nasal congestion. Even during exercise, the people that can handle more closed mouth breathing have much more endurance without getting winded.
The benefits of nose breathing are:
Mouth breathing usually is not something that you realize that they are doing. That is one reason that it is overlooked by so many parents and adults. If your lips are slightly opened during all activities such as walking, exercising, or working, you are probably breathing through it. It is much easier to breathe through your mouth because the airway diameter is much greater than your nostrils. The volume of air through your mouth per minute compared to your nose is about 3x more than normal. What many don’t know is that sleep apnea and asthma patients all breathe 3x the volume compared to normal people. This will keep you accustomed to breathing at that volume and you will find yourself stuck in a vicious cycle of overbreathing that you may not even be aware of.
Dr. Hobson is on a mission to help others with her same issue. When she was 12, she was found to have crowding in her teeth and in those times, the commonplace procedure was to extract the bicuspid teeth (premolars) to create more room and allow straightening of the teeth to be easier. If you have children that are going through braces, it is highly recommended to NOT extract any teeth to make room, but to expand the palate and ensure proper tongue to palate space. What we are finding out now, is that these patients with bicuspid extractions are having difficulty breathing through their noses. As a 12 year old going through braces, Dr. Hobson had crowding due to a tongue-tie restriction in her tongue which was never detected. The tight lingual frenulum (tongue-tie) caused a low tongue position in her mouth which in turn caused a high narrow palate to occur. The high narrow palate only has one way to go which is up into the nasal cavity causing a deviated septum (without a nose injury) which narrows the nasal passages and limits nose breathing. She developed her craniofacial region with a mouth breathing pattern because she never knew she was mouth breathing as many never realize.
Dr. Hobson is now a nose breather after training herself to transform her mouth breathing to nose breathing. She has trained her nose for several years and has also gone through the process of having nasal septum surgery to correct her deviated septum and a Vivaer Nasal Airway Remodeling procedure to improve the upper part of the nasal passage. She has the experience and training to help many others that have gone through this type of orthodontic treatment where retractive orthodontics was performed. She is on a mission to help others that are struggling with the effects of retractive orthodontics. If you are out of state and would like some advice, you can schedule with Dr. Hobson via Skype or face-time for a 30 min or 60 min appointment. She can help guide you through the process and direct you to properly sequence your treatment.
