No, I’m not Steven Bartlett’s girlfriend or wife
You may have noticed Steven Bartlett increasingly talking about breathing recently…
I hosted 2 breathing workshops at Ideas Fest 2022 where Steven Bartlett spoke about breathing a lot and mentioned his girlfriend who has recently become a breathing coach.
After his talk someone asked me, "Are you Steven Bartlett's girlfriend?"
The funny part? When I laughed and said no, she almost didn't believe me. After all, a the time he had never disclosed her identity on The Diary of a CEO podcast.
Jane Tarrant is a leading breathing habit educator, TEDx speaker and author. She is married with 1 child.
In case you are wondering, “who is Steven Bartlett’s girlfriend?”
Here's a key difference between myself, Jane Tarrant, and Steven Bartlett's girlfriend, Melanie Vas Lopez or Melanie Vas Lopes (even the press aren’t sure, as her identity has only been revealed in the media from about May 2022):
Steven’s girlfriend is a ‘Breathwork Coach’.
I am a ‘Breathing Habit Retrainer, Educator & Speaker’.
What’s the difference?! Breathwork vs Breathing Retraining
Breathwork is super powerful but it is a hack. It is about conscious breathing techniques to alter your body. It is a specialism in itself. It can use slow breath or hyperventilation.
Breathing retraining utilises breathwork but it is about retraining how we breathe all day and all night. Improving the quality of over 20,000 breaths a day and untraining over-breathing which can cause a whole host of problems. It focuses on spending as little time as possible finding time for extended breathwork, focusing instead on changing breathing habits gradually.
How To Optimise Your Breathing Habits
Tongue in the right place, comfortably using the nose, optimal diaphragm use, retraining CO2 tolerance, retraining flow and rate of breath and an entire awareness of breathing, as well as toning up the ‘flappy bits’ if a snorer.
Breathing retraining works really well for:
as well as a whole lot more.
For those struggling with stress or panic attacks for example, breathing retraining helps learn how to feel in control in the moment and quickly get back to feeling safe, but it also helps to avoid panic attacks coming on in the first place. If we are more aware of our breath all the time and are doing it better, by not over-breathing, we can stay away from the ‘top of the breathing staircase’ as I call it, where we are breathing shallow and fast, reflected by our nervous system being in a stress state.
In addition to this, breathing retraining is the gateway to other areas of health, bringing awareness to so many subtle body changes. I provide awareness coaching because for one-to-one clients we dive in deeper than just breath, connecting the mind to what is going on in the body and making better, informed choices based on how we feel and what we notice.
When I met Steven Bartlett at Ideas Fest 2022, he said “I think you’ve found a really good niche in a growing market”.
I’m excited to see how Steven and his girlfriend bring on this movement of breathing coaching and I’m so excited to be helping lead the way. After all my mission is to lead global education on healthy breathing and breathing retraining, in a simple, accessible way. I could do with all the help I can get.
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How can you work with me?
One-to-one breathing retraining & awareness coaching.
Family breathing retraining (working simultaneously with parents and children).
Professionally pre-recorded online courses with weekly live group support calls via Zoom.
Corporate speaking, courses or coaching.
Public speaking events.
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