How Breath Can Retrain Your Nervous System for Healing - Featuring Campbell Will, Breath Coach and Master Practitioner.

Gutsy Health | Nutrition and Medicine

Did you know that breath informs the nervous system's response to stress?

In this powerful episode, Juanique sits down with breathwork expert and physiotherapist Campbell Will to uncover how your breath holds the key to healing your nervous system and transforming your health.

Here’s the thing: your breathing patterns aren’t just about oxygen—they’re directly tied to your mindset and how you show up for your healing journey. When you understand and optimize your breath, you’re literally retraining your nervous system to feel safe, calm, and resilient.

They dive into:

•How dysfunctional breathing impacts your mental and physical health.

•Campbell’s ACO Framework (Awareness, Control, Optimization) to help you take back control of your body and mind.

•Gentle practices like sighing and intentional breathing to shift you from stress to calm.

•Why mindset and breath go hand in hand as the first step in healing.
Healing starts in the mind, and breathwork is a powerful tool to help you rewire your thoughts, emotions, and nervous system. By calming your body, you open the door to deeper healing in every area of your life.

Listen now to discover how mastering your breath can set the foundation for your self-healing journey.

Take a deep breath, hit play, and let me know—how is your mindset impacting your healing?
1:08: intro Campbell Will and the podcast topic and how breath is the course work for the nervous system

3:25. Champbell’s journey as a physiotherapist and his training on breath

5:25 how breath influences the nervous system

5:45 the diagram is the most important part of the physiology of breathing

6:15 what proper breathwork is

6:54 slow breathing biomechanics

7:15 the diagrams role in breathing and the nervous system.

8:15 breathing in our modern world. Reduced lung capacity

9:25 ways in which breathing informs the nervous system.

10:40 how do you retrain a wrecked nervous system?

11:31 how our dysregulated states keep us alive and how our nervous systems like predictability.

13:13 why relaxation feels uncomfortable.

15:47 trauma and compensations we developed through breath.

16:14 how to practice breathwork when it feels uncomfortable.

19:15 the different types of breathwork.

23:45 the nervous system and exercise.

25:40 why you put weight on when you exercise.

26:34 the ACO framework

30:20 my Peace is my own. Changing our environment within to handle the stress without.

34:56 different types of breathing. General rules.

36:30 ideal respiratory rates

42:30 daily practices for self care and regulation. How to check in with your nervous system. The A.I.R practice to shift your nervous system.

47:00 a way to practice breathing. S.I.R technique.

49:00 sigh neurons and sighing to regulate yourself.

50:55 yawning is wonderful for the brain and can increase alertness.

52:55 how to get courses and more info.

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