I can't tell you how beneficial your class was (and continues to be with daily practice!) I almost wrote "how much I enjoyed the class" but that doesn't capture how transformative it was.

I just wanted to thank you again for your class. I learned so much and have already noticed a change in my being.

You are a wonderful teacher and I appreciate your kindness and knowledge.

I've struggled with anxiety for many years, and for the last 3.5 years I've lived with a chronic pain disorder. I've been fortunate to receive consistent treatment and to study various physical modalities, including yoga. However, there seems to be a huge gap, in both clinical and fitness-related practice, about how to breathe properly. They say it takes few words to tell the truth.

When I heard you say "the number one thing to know about breathing is to breathe through your nose," a puzzle piece I've been searching for snapped into place. Your clinical experience and anatomical knowledge only further convinced me: this is why I haven't fully recovered. This is the daily practice I've needed, and I know many other people desperately need. I'm convinced your breathing teachings will tie my treatments together and help me move forward.

The other factor that was enormously beneficial was your "myth busting"! By that I mean your respectful but firm dispelling of "breathwork misinformation," such as popular but ineffective yoga techniques. When you said "more science, less yoga," I was all in.

I've taken yoga classes for years, as well as other fitness classes. I've studied and practiced so called "mindfulness" and "deep-breathing," as instructed by people I thought to be knowledgeable. I've had physical therapists and doctors, well meaning yet misinformed, treat me for every possible thing except breathing dysfunction. I realize now how much of my anxiety and chronic pain is related to dysfunctional breathing, and frankly I'm astonished at the utter lack of this knowledge in clinical practice.

Especially considering that your experience comes from an empirical and clinical branch of pulmonary medicine, as you told us, with licensure to prove it! I wonder how many people there are out there, like me, "doing the work" and kicking their own butts in treatment, but missing the "breathing dysfunction puzzle piece."