"Like many people, I thought breathing was just something we did naturally....until I took some voice lessons, and learned a little about breathing correctly. Your Optimal Breathing Kitis teaching me much more. Trying to breathe deeperjust kept getting in the way."

Ann Hurt

I, (Mike White) at age 11 was asked to sing acapella for my 500 grade school student body members. The next few years I experienced severe trauma via beatings and a sledding accident. I lost my singing voice and spent the next 40 years yawning, unable to catch my breath and mostly in a hurry. My breathing was the issue. This is what got me into studying breathing as a life's purpose and showed me how little knowledge there was about healthy natural breathing development

Mike White

Just wanted to express my deep appreciation for your great help in improving both my health and singing ability. As a young woman I had had a professional career in both opera and concert. Although I had had excellent teachers and coaches in New York, Vienna, Austria and Milan, Italy, I had never been completely happy with my breath support. After marriage and having two sons, I settled back into singing in church and

more local jobs. Then, about three years ago I discovered your web site and ordered your Better Breathing Exercises 1 & 2, as well as the manual. Well, they are truly marvelous! They've made me more aware of my posture, for every time I think of breathing deeply, it reminds me to stand more erectly. I had given up public singing except at family parties, or other such joyous occasions, but, as I began to practice in the shower with my new breath support, the voice was much steadier, and with a lovely tone. So-o-o, the next time I was asked to sing in church, I did, and they really liked it. Since then, I've been singing solos and duets quite frequently, and it gives me enormous pleasure. Why is this so amazing? Well, though only my family and close friends know (because I look about 60),1 confess that I'm 75 years old. Just married my childhood sweetheart 20 months ago. (We hadn't seen or even heard from each other in over 50 years), but he is the love of my life. Your CDs and DVDs have also helped improve my health. Although I've always been into holistic health, eating nutritiously, exercising,and the power of prayer, positive thinking and gratitude, your help with better posture and deeper breathing has been the added fillip that I needed. I especially love your "Better Breathing Exercise 1". It's so relaxing...marvelous before meditation, or before any possibly stressful situation. In fact I sometimes work with it when I wake up in the middle of the night, and have difficulty returning to sleep. I just turn it down low so that I can just hear your voice, and pay no attention when you tell me to keep my eyes open (if! tend to fall asleep.) Usually I am off to dreamland before the Tibetan singing bowls begin their chimes. Then, when I know there's an especially busy day ahead, I love your "Breathing Exercise #2" to get the energy flowing. One ofthese days I hope to be able to take one of your classes.

Joy T. Jacobs -Cordova, TN

Our modern medical paradigm bases pulmonary function on factors that relate to the anatomy and physiology of the lungs. At times, the mechanical relationships of the chest cavity and of the diaphragm are considered important, but for the most part, they are rarely considered in the ordinary management of most pulmonary diseases such as emphysema, asthma, and restrictive lung disorders. The bulk of our management of these kinds of disorders is aimed at pharmacological intervention. While this is a reasonable approach that often is quite valuable, it fails to appreciate the potential role of posture, rib flexibility or diaphragmatic excursion as independent factors that can improve lung function. This can be life saving to people with severe pulmonary insufficiency. It would be unheard of in the development of opera singing, powerful public speaking, or world class athletics to ignore the importance of respiratory faults, accessory breathing muscles, and breathing coordination. When the pulmonary reserves of these highly trained specialists are examined, they are clearly superior to that of the average, untrained population. There have been but few clinical studies undertaken to explore the seemingly obvious benefits of this kind of training.. It seems prudent to me to explore this safe, non-invasive, and easily taught approach, to patients who are willing to invest a minimum of money and time especially when the potential for a negative effect with selected exercises is zero. When conventional therapies have little or nothing to offer, searching for additional possibilities becomes our responsibility.

Len Saputo -MD

I would like to share with you what has happened over the last two years since I began to use your products, suggestions, and materials. I considered myself pretty healthy, until I contracted a virus in my heart sac, pericarditis, from drinking milk. I forced myself to a local doctor. He scheduled an EKG immediately thinking I was having an heart attack. By mistake, the nurse thought the doctor wrote something about giving me a breathing test. In turn, the nurse tested my breathing volume and pressure. The doctor laughed, but said since I have these results I will tell you about them. He said that my inhale was slow and that I was not breathing right. I thought to myself, I have been singing since I was five. How can I not be breathing right? This was the start of my adventure to learn more about breathing. 

After little time on the internet, I came across www.optimalbreathing.com. I called you and asked you what product I would need. After a few minutes of talking to me, you said, “slow down, you are too anxious.” You began to question me. I rambled with untrue answers because I was unable to see I had a problem. Finally, I began to tell you I wore my belt tight to look thin. You said, “Now, you’re talking.” You immediately began to read my life with statements like, “You get anxious too easy,” “You have difficulty with premature ejaculation,” etc. I was floored. You suggested that I start with Breathing Kit, so I did and faithfully commented myself to the suggested exercises. I saw some results, yet I later called you again. You still heard a little anxiety in me. So, you told me to put down the phone, inhale, hold it, bend down, and do a yoga roll back up, then release the breath. You asked me how I felt. Still not satisfied with my answer, you told me to repeat it. That I did. Unsatisfied again, you suggested that Iorder the Blue Velcro Strap. I did and wore it religiously. Although it felt like a bra, I wore it.! After some time, I began to sense a change. First, I my voice colored with tone and breathing pauses in my sentences were precise when speaking. My family and friends wondered what happened to me.

It wasn’t long until I called you back to praise you. You recommended that I use the Diaphragm Strengthener and get The Watching Breath CD. I did. Tremendous results happened!! Everything began to fall in place! After listening to the C.D. twice a day, I began to sense my breath or breathing consciously throughout the day. During the moment on the CD when you said breathe through your toes and feel the breath all the way to your head, it hit me. I realized I could feel the pauses on my exhales and inhales, the rise and fall of my diaphragm. Also, I have ejaculation control. Public speaking and singing has become easier. With singing, there is a flow from head to chest registers. I can sense when I am not sitting correctly. Meditation and yoga is relaxing, not tiresome. Mike, thanks for sharing, “The Light of Breath” with me. I will forever be grateful to you.

Patrick H -Kentucky