Breath4Stress

Breath-Body-Mind© (BBM) is a mind-body trauma-healing practice that includes simple movement, breath practices, and meditation to help restore balance to the nervous system.

BBM combines evidence-based techniques to relieve stress, anxiety, sleep problems, as well as symptoms of PTSD, resulting in greater calm, self-regulation, improved mood, and resilience. Long-term benefits include increased stress resilience, reduced inflammation, improved cardiovascular and respiratory function, resolution of trauma, improved relationships, reduced anger, improved emotion regulation, improved attention and learning, healing and recovery from chronic ailments, and improved academic, athletic, and artistic performance.

BBM represents over 40 years of medical research carried out by Dr. Richard Brown, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry from Columbia University, and Dr. Patricia Gerbarg, Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at New York Medical College.  Dr. Brown and Dr. Gerbarg clinically studied the effects of BBM’s essential breath practice, Coherent Breathing, along with several ancient practices from Indian yogic traditions, Zen Buddhist practice, Japanese and Chinese martial arts and a form of breathing led by Russian Orthodox Hesychast monks, distilling the most effective practices into the three-part program they named Breath-Body-Mind.

BBM has successfully benefited veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, formerly enslaved people from South Sudan, survivors of mass disasters (including Haiti’s massive earthquake, Hurricane Katrina, and the Asia Tsunami), genocide survivors from Rwanda, survivors of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, as well as first-responders, ER doctors, domestic violence survivors, humanitarian aid workers, social entrepreneurs, and social justice activists.

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