
#028 Patrick Mckeown - Upgrade Your Breathing: The Oxygen Advantage for Performance, Reduced Anxiety, and Focus
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Patrick McKewon is a renowned breathwork educator, trainer, and founder of the acclaimed The Oxygen Advantage® Program.
He is a leading international expert on breathing and sleep and the author of bestselling books including The Oxygen Advantage. His focus — to empower more people every day to breathe better, feel better and achieve their potential. Patrick is deeply committed to communicating his knowledge to the people who need it. He is passionate about conveying the importance of breath therapy in traditional healthcare and sports coaching. And he is determined to break down barriers that prevent an accessible, holistic, empowering approach to well-being and performance.
For the last two decades, Patrick has provided breathwork training and breath-based sports, and mindfulness coaching to thousands of people. In that time, he has:
- Written bestselling books including Asthma Free, Naturally, Close Your Mouth, The Oxygen Advantage, The Breathing Cure, and his latest: Atomic Focus
- Been awarded a fellowship from the Royal Society of Biology in the UK
- Contributed to scientific journals including the Journal of Clinical Medicine
- Trained hundreds of breathing instructors
- Founded Buteyko Clinic International — the foremost Buteyko breathing clinic in the UK
- Been featured on many popular health and fitness podcasts, TedX, and in publications including USA Today, MindBodyGreen and Men’s Health
- Devised his own research-backed breathwork training program, Oxygen Advantage®, which continues to develop and grow in line with his clinical experience as a breathing coach, and with the latest scientific research
Many people first discover Patrick McKeown’s work by reading his 2015 bestselling book, The Oxygen Advantage. The book has an important place in the growing body of literature about the breath. It is referenced in James Nestor’s New York Times Bestseller, Breath, The Science of a Lost Art, which is shortlisted for the 2021 Royal Society Science Book Prize.
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