Practitioners

Jennifer Snowdon is an experienced Yoga Teacher, Buteyko Educator, and Integrative Breathing Therapy Practitioner living and working on the east coast of Canada in Moncton, NB.

Following her passion for movement and yoga, the recognition of the necessity for trauma education, and her curiosity about the chemistry of breathing, she was led to Integrative Breathing Therapy. She’s excited to be bringing IBT to her small local community, as well as spreading word of it through the broader yoga community where she teaches classes and leads trainings on the intersection of yogic and functional breathing.

Jennifer is currently studying yoga therapy, and is looking forward to incorporating IBT principles and tools in a therapeutic yoga setting.

Jennifer enjoys baking sourdough bread, knitting, has a black belt in Haidong Gumdo (a Korean martial art which uses swords), is a runner, and loves to spend time outdoors. She lives in Moncton with her husband, two cats, and one of her three children

Hege Svenningsen is a specialist in General Medicine and works as a General Practitioner at Hisøy Doctors’ Office on the south coast in Norway.

She was educated in Unity Therapy and resource based medicine by Dr. Audun Myskja.

Hege also works as a MediYoga instructor, and this spring finished her Ashtanga Yoga teacher training by Alexander Medin. Hege is devoted to learning different aspects of the breath and breathing, and finding ways to use and spread this knowledge.

Hadas Golan is currently working at the voice and swallowing center in Boston University Medical Center (BMC). Her clinical expertise includes voice disorders; care of the professional voice, and respiratory/upper airway disorders. She is also a provider in the long COVID Recover clinic at BMC

She received her Master of Science in Communication Disorders from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2002, and her undergraduate degree, a B.Ed.Music, from the Rubin Music Academy in Jerusalem.

Hadas is also a Buteyko breathing educator and trainer. She has developed breathing courses for speech and language pathologists and she continues to lecture on the topics of breathing and voice.

Hadas incorporates her broad training background of breathing, voice, and manual techniques into a holistic wellness model for voice and breathing rehabilitation. She is an active contributor to the research literature on the topics of Buteyko breathing and vocal cord dysfunction and has co-authored a textbook chapter on the speech-language pathologist’s management of chronic cough.

To better treat upper airway disorders with consideration of the whole respiratory system and other physiological systems, Hadas pursued the Integrative Breathing Therapy (IBT) course. Since the completion of the course, she has been using the IBT protocols with her most challenging patients, people with long COVID. These patients have reported improvements not only in symptoms of breathlessness, but also anxiety, exertion tolerance, fatigue, and cognitive function. They also report feeling empowered by the breathing practices.

Cynthia is a physical therapist with more than 30 years of experience teaching nasal diaphragmatic breathing, orofacial myofunctional therapy, and healthy sleep with balanced postures to optimize head, neck, jaw and whole body functions. Cynthia is author of The TMJ Healing Plan: Ten Steps to Relieving Headaches, Neck Pain, and Jaw Disorders; Cynthia is passionate about learning and addressing root causes. She is the originator and co-creator of www.fairest.org; which is dedicated to developing Functional AIRway Evaluation Screening Tools to improve the early identification & treatment of airway related disorders and co-author of peer-reviewed articles and book chapter on post-surgical myofunctional therapy . Cynthia is a certified specialist in orofacial myology, ergonomics, and craniosacral therapy with advanced training in breath re-education, osteopathy, craniofacial and TMDs, dynamic cranial nerve assessment, primal reflexes, visceral & fascial manipulation, NDT, dry needling, and cold laser. Cynthia lives and practices in Salt Lake City, Utah where she treats all ages. She loves sunshine, dark chocolate and wants to learn to yodel like her swiss grandmother.