ABOUT US

Our joint story began in the 1980's when we met as foreign language students on our year abroad at a German university. The story didn't resume until the new century by which time each of us had experienced a degree of fulfilment from our respective careers, but our personal lives were a little less remarkable and not only that, but our immersion in the standard western way of life, and most especially the diet, meant each of us had built up a variety of health problems. More recently we realised that a number of our health issues were likely further exacerbated by disordered breathing. We outline in our personal accounts what these health challenges were and how reversing them involved a progressive return to a way of eating and breathing that aligns with human physiology. For us this is whole plant foods and functional breathing.

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Having studied with two of America's most exceptional plant based doctors, we've filled in some of the missing parts in our knowledge and learnt things we never knew were missing. We detail here why it is our joint mission to drive what we see as the vital Conversation about plant based nutrition.

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Additionally, we are The Vegan Breathing Coaches. We each continue to apply breathing techniques to ourselves, and we  share this much-needed breathing retraining with others. There's more about this in the Breathing Space.

Why The Vegan Breathing Coaches? Quite simply, we are Breathing Coaches who are Vegan. The reason for the name is to define who we are so that you know something about us from the outset.

If you value any of the following, then we have some shared priorities:

• Human health: our version of veganism revolves around whole plant foods

• An appreciation of, and a willingness to support, the natural world

• Respect and compassion for all of life

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Our individual stories are under our names: Graham and Annette

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We are proud to be Health Practitioners for the Salus Fatigue Foundation. We provide breathing re-education and plant-based nutrition workshops both for the beneficiaries of Salus and as part of programs offered by Salus externally.

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We each actively participate in online discussions with the Plant Based Health Professionals UK as public members, and as an affilate organisation (see below). Their mission resonates powerfully with us:

"Plant-based health professionals UK provides education and advocacy on whole food plant-based nutrition and lifestyle medicine for the prevention and treatment of chronic disease, as well as for supporting planetary health."

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