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The Breathable Body

Transforming Your World and Your Life, One Breath at a Time

Breath education with Robert Litman, drawing on the Buteyko Method and Continuum — for asthma, sleep apnea, anxiety, and the simple work of breathing well again.

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  • asthma
  • snoring
  • sleep apnea
  • anxiety
  • panic attacks
  • breathing in work & sport
Our approach
Breath and Body are inseparable.

We are born knowing how to breathe. Over the years we learn other ways of drawing air in — ways out of step with how the body is built. At The Breathable Body we take the complexity of breath and simplify it, returning you to balance and to choices that give back energy and health.

A breathable body is one that responds freely to the movement of breath. Becoming aware of how you breathe — and of what gets in the way — is central to complete health. The breath cycle is a process, and understanding it can quite literally change your life.

What We Teach

Working from the tenets of Continuum and the Buteyko Breathing Method, we teach the skills to regulate carbon dioxide — the gas that governs how much oxygen your body can actually use.

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The Buteyko Breathing Method

Retraining how you breathe, breath by breath. Structured programs for asthma, snoring, sleep apnea, anxiety, and panic attacks — restoring healthy rhythm through awareness rather than effort.

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Continuum

A movement and sound practice that meets breath in the body itself — the foundation beneath everything we teach, and a doorway into how breath moves through tissue and fluid.

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Courses, Seminars & Private Sessions

The Breathable Body offers Courses, Seminars and Private Sessions at every level of learning.

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The Breathable Body — the book

Robert Litman’s book carries the practice onto the page: how breath actually moves, what interrupts it, and the simple work of letting it return. Transforming your world and your life, one breath at a time.

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Meet Robert Litman

Robert Litman teaches breathing at The Vashon Breathing Center on Vashon Island, Washington, and is the author of The Breathable Body. His work joins the Buteyko Breathing Method with Continuum — in courses, seminars, and one-to-one sessions.

Insights

Essays, meditations, and notes on breath.

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The Breathable Body

Robert Litman
Vashon, Washington 98070

Phone: (206) 707-1639

Courses, Seminars and Private Sessions at every level of learning — on Vashon Island and beyond.