"Breath" translates as spirit or soul in Latin & Ancient Greek, representing an interface between conscious & subconscious processes

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My research at Sussex Psychology explores the effects of breathwork on mental health & wellbeing. It involves collaboration with the Breath-Body-Mind Foundation (who I trained with as a breathwork teacher), Othership (Toronto), Oxford & UCSF. I'm also part of the Brighton Sussex Medical School team exploring phenomenological & physiological effects of psychedelic-type therapeutic breathwork, & am a co-investigator on The Breathwork Survey launched by the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College 

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My first paper is published in Nature Portfolio journal Scientific Reports: Effect of breathwork on stress and mental health: A meta‐analysis of randomised‐controlled trials

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You can also check out our recent PsyArXiv preprint: High Ventilation Breathwork practices: An overview of their effects, mechanisms, and considerations for clinical applications

 

Ultimately, I hope my work can help build a larger evidence-based picture of the psychophysiological effects (& potential efficacy) of breathwork. I wish to set up a breathwork lab (& ultimately a centre) dedicated to breathwork research & practice (funders/donors reach out if interested!) & am open to advisory/consulting roles, including coaching. I have a growing interest in the innumerable applications of breathwork across all contexts of human recovery & performance, from health to sports

 

I'm a fellow of the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund, Tokyo, carrying out the first doctoral research funded by the Sylff Association in the UK. Sylff is a collaborative initiative of the Nippon Foundation & Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, & a global fellowship programme aimed at nurturing leaders who will initiate action to transcend differences & address issues confronting contemporary society. I have received an additional grant from Sylff along with PsyDAO, a decentralised organisation funding research at the intersection of psychedelics & mental health 

 

Thank you for reading (& breathing)! Find me @breath_Guy