LIBERATING THE NATURAL BREATH
2025 Announcement:
We just launched our new platform and community for Liberating the Natural Breath and Air Hunger Help!
Please join us at:
www.AirHungerHelp.com
to participate in our weekly live group calls, 10-week course, community spaces, and more!
Please note: All our current Air Hunger and Natural Breathing resources now live at www.AirHungerHelp.com
Finding freedom from Air Hunger and Chronic Breathing Tension
Coming home to your Natural Breathing
Liberating the Natural Breath
is an online breathing journey and community created specifically to help people experiencing non-medical breathing dysfunction—such as Air Hunger, Chronic Breathing Tension, and Chronic Hyperventilation—find their way toward easeful, natural breathing. Created by a psychotherapist who found his way through Air Hunger earlier in his life and a breathing-specialized Alexander Technique teacher (see the two bios below), Liberating the Natural Breath is an innovative, thorough, and holistic approach that is founded upon long-established bodies of work. We are committed to providing a path forward for people with non-medical Air Hunger and breathing dysfunction—people who feel they can’t get a full breath—by helping them rediscover that their body does know how to breathe and can reestablish its inherent, easeful breathing if given the right support.
“I cannot thank Simon and the team enough for putting this course together and encourage anyone reading this brief testimonial to embrace this course with open arms. It’s a godsend and for me almost a life saver.”
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Who is Liberating the Natural Breath for?
LNB is for anyone seeking freedom from non-medical breathing dysfunction, such as Air Hunger, who is prepared to be in a process with their breathing. For most people, getting through Air Hunger involves a process of progressively releasing accumulated tension and interference and reawakening the natural movement of the breath. LNB provides what you need to be in this process. Occasionally, it may be possible to find relief simply through understanding and a shift in perspective, which is one reason we provide free resources on our new website. However, most people find a more involved process is required in order to find their way to the other side of Air Hunger. That’s why we created LNB. The resources included in this program provide the support needed for this process of restoring your natural breathing.
“This course has been beyond helpful in every way. I really hope any person who is experiencing air hunger finds this wonderful community. ”
About the online course and community:
Liberating the Natural Breath
Liberating the Natural Breath was carefully designed by Simon Spire, a psychotherapist, and Amira Glaser, an AmSAT-certified Alexander Technique teacher who is also certified in Jessica Wolf’s Art of Breathing, an acupuncturist, and Simon’s life partner. The program is designed especially for those experiencing moderate to severe non-medical air hunger or breathing dysfunction. Many of the understandings and practices explored are also highly applicable to less pronounced cases and to natural breathing in general. The course and community are hosted on a community and learning platform named Mighty Networks for an easy, engaging, and supportive experience for participants. To learn more, please visit our new website!
“I cannot fully express how Simon’s program changed my life and how grateful I am for it!”
About your facilitators:
Simon Spire is a licensed psychotherapist, contemplative teacher, interdisciplinary researcher and writer, and founder of Liberating the Natural Breath, a program that helps people with dysfunctional breathing and Air Hunger restore their easeful, Natural Breathing. He has been on an intentional journey with his breathing since 2000 and an avid student of natural breathing and the Alexander Technique since 2008.
Through the bodies of work he has founded and developed—Emergent Inquiry, the Emergent Quest, Soulcentric Psychotherapy, and Liberating the Natural Breath—he accompanies individuals and groups in their processes of healing, unfolding, and apprenticing to their authentic journey. His work is informed by 20 years of contemplative inquiry; a corresponding commitment to academic and intellectual inquiry; 10 years of counseling and facilitation experience with individuals and groups; several years serving in leadership positions for organizations active in economic and societal innovation, international social entrepreneurship, and mental health; and his long experience with artistry and the creative process.
Raised in New Zealand, his career as a songwriter and recording artist led him to the shores of Los Angeles and New York before transitioning to his current life in North Carolina. Simon holds degrees from the University of Auckland, Columbia University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has completed in-depth studies in Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing-Oriented Therapy, eco-depth psychology, and with Thomas Hübl and his Academy of Inner Science. His music and writing have been featured on major radio and TV networks in New Zealand and the US, in major songwriting competitions, and in outlets such as MTV, AOL, Voice of America, the Ecozoic Journal, and Kosmos Journal. He currently lives near Chapel Hill, NC, where he appreciates the rivers, misses the ocean, and enjoys writing about himself in the third person.
Amira Glaser is an AmSAT-certified Alexander Technique teacher who holds additional certification in Jessica Wolf's Art of Breathing and has taught the technique within university programs in New York and North Carolina. She is also a North Carolina-Licensed Acupuncturist and a Diplomat of Oriental Medicine (Acupuncture & Herbology) with the NCCAOM. Amira holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, a BS and MS from Pacific College of Health and Science, and AmSAT certification from The American Center for the Alexander Technique. Her post-graduate certificates include Jessica Wolf’s the Art of Breathing, Jeffrey Yuen’s Chinese Dietary Therapy, and NAHPCA Hospice and Palliative Care Acupuncture. She is currently in trainings with Heiner Fruehauf/The Healing Order and with Thomas Hübl/The Academy of Inner Science.
Amira is an holistic health practitioner whose practice serves those on a journey of healing and self-discovery. She creates her practice from a deep respect and love for human nature and our innate ease and capacity for healing. In her own journey with artistic expression, back & neck pain, auto-immune dis-ease, and a love for nature and organic self-expression, Amira found her way to becoming first a teacher of the Alexander Technique, then an Acupuncturist and Chinese Medicine practitioner. She bridges these Eastern & Western understandings of health, balance, and the power of non-doing, and draws on their transformative teachings for each individual’s unique needs.
The videos appearing on this page are educational videos about how the Alexander Technique and self-awareness can be used to reduce habits of interference in the body’s natural ease and coordination. Neither these videos nor any text or the associated course are intended to address medical conditions or mental health conditions. These materials and any associated services are for informational purposes only and are not a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice, examination, diagnosis, or treatment. Emergent Inquiry, LLC recommends that you consult your physician regarding the applicability of any information to your individual situation and utilize the guidance contained in the course Liberating the Natural Breath before attempting to apply these principles to your own breathing. Full terms of service can be viewed here.