Understanding Breath: For Stress, Resilience & Performance (Workshop)
Understanding Breath, Stress and Breathlessness for Resilience and Performance
Breathing shapes how we think, feel, and perform — yet most of us misunderstand it. Oxygen is rarely the limiting factor. Carbon dioxide plays a central role in how oxygen is delivered, how stress is regulated, and why breathlessness often appears even when oxygen levels are normal.
In this Growth Lab Live workshop, we explore the science of CO₂ tolerance, nervous system regulation, and the hidden link between breathing patterns and anxiety. You’ll learn why overbreathing can lock the body into a stress response, and how simple adjustments to breath can restore balance in real time.
The session combines clear physiology with practical tools. We’ll cover nasal breathing, slowing the exhale, reduced breathing techniques, and simple assessments like the BOLT Test and walking breath holds to evaluate breathing efficiency and recovery.
Join us for an evidence-based, grounded approach to using breath as a lever for stress regulation, resilience, and everyday performance.
Agenda:
Doors open: 7.00pm
Workshop starts: 7.30pm
Q&A session: 8.30pm
Drinks & Networking: 9.00pm
About the Speaker:
Macarena Musante is the founder of Ocean Breath Barcelona, has traveled to more than 50 countries studying yoga, breathwork, freediving, and cold exposure. It was after a serious motorcycle accident in Thailand, three surgeries to recover her knee, and a rehabilitation process to walk again that she became passionate about the healing power of breathing.
She dedicated herself to exploring different breathwork techniques in Bali and the power of apnea and freediving, earning her certification in the Canary Islands. Due to the chronic pain she experienced, she trained in cold exposure and ice baths.
All this knowledge, combined with her Master's degree in Neuroscience, allowed her to give a scientific basis to her courses and training. She is currently based in Barcelona and teaches courses in Europe, Latin America, and Asia.
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