With the verbal guidance of the teacher, the client undertakes small, subtle movements designed to stimulate air exchange in and out of the lungs, to restore tonicity to the diaphragm, to release tension in joints and connective tissue, and to stimulate circulation.

   Ms. Gregory has been a breath educator for over twenty years, and was inspired by years of training with Carola Speads, former teaching assistant of Elsa Gindler and author of Ways to Better Breathing. Her writings on breath work includes "Breathing Into Contact" in the Gestalt Journal and "Brightening Proproception through Breathwork" in Gestalt Review. and has taught workshops on brightening the sense of Self through breath work in New York, San Francisco, Cleveland, Dallas, New Orleans, Montreal and Manchester, England.

   Breath education has been successfully practiced by

• persons in need of healing after accident or illness,
• artists whose work is with breath - including singers, actors and dancers,
• clients seeking ways to balance mood and overall outlook.

   Clients have included persons in the arts, post-surgery patients in need of breathing recovery, asthma and scoliosis sufferers, and clients seeking to eliminate anxiety and depression. Breath education can be a vital support to health recovery and creative success.