Shane & Angie

Shane & Angie Breathing wisdom for modern life. Helping individuals and professionals improve health and wellness. https://www.o2collective.com/link-in-bio

Shane and Angie Saunders - Founders of Breathe Me, Award Winning Authors, Executive Breathing Coaches, International Speakers, and Hosts of The Breathing Edge Podcast. Shane and Angie Saunders are qualified Executive Breathing Coaches, who founded their company Breathe Me to help busy professionals feel better – naturally.

“Breathing is not just for survival… it is the gateway to success in feeli

ng better, the foundation for personal evolution and spiritual satisfaction.”

With Shane’s thirteen years experience in the Australian Defence Force and Angie’s Hollywood background, the two share a passion for the principles of high performance in high-pressure environments. For over a decade, Shane and Angie have worked with some of the most influential entrepreneurial players, CEOs and executives in simple techniques that work to lower stress, improve sleep, and stabilise energy throughout the day. Together, Shane and Angie are committed to equipping leaders with on the go tools needed to show up at their best for their business and most importantly for their family

24/06/2026

There is no perfect breathing.

Life is dynamic, and so is our breathing. It moves with the moment. It changes with the day.

The body knows how to regulate. What gets in the way is the idea that it shouldn’t look a certain way.

18/06/2026

A lot of us have the knowledge.

We've read the books. We've done the courses. We know what we're supposed to do to feel better.

And we still don't feel better.

The gap between knowing and feeling is one of the least talked about parts of personal development. For me, breathing was what finally closed it.

Roughly 60% of emergency ambulance calls in major US cities trace back to one overlooked cause. Not a disease. A breathi...
12/06/2026

Roughly 60% of emergency ambulance calls in major US cities trace back to one overlooked cause. Not a disease. A breathing habit (Fried, 1999).

Most people think breathing is mainly about getting more oxygen in.
For most healthy bodies, that is rarely the issue.
The body is rarely short on oxygen.

It is more likely to be short on carbon dioxide.
And CO2 is what allows the body to actually use the oxygen it already has.

Overbreathing quietly lowers CO2, which limits how well oxygen reaches the tissues and tips the blood's pH out of balance.

The symptoms can range from mild to severe. Mild enough to brush off as stress, or severe enough that people call an ambulance believing they are having an emergency.

Most of the time, the person has no idea it is linked to breathing.
It gets blamed on something else, or put down to another issue entirely.

This is one of the most overlooked facts on breathing, and one of the most worth understanding. We go into the full background of breathing and behavioral science on our latest blog.

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For over a decade, performance anxiety followed me everywhere. On stage, before a talk, in the middle of singing a solo....
07/06/2026

For over a decade, performance anxiety followed me everywhere. On stage, before a talk, in the middle of singing a solo. For years I thought something was wrong with me.

What I understand now is that the breath was at the center of it.

The usual assumption is that anxiety changes the breathing. Often it runs the other way. Under stress, the body reaches for a way of breathing it has used before. That breathing lowers CO2, and the drop creates real sensations. A racing heart. Tingling. A tight chest. The body reads those sensations as danger and breathes harder still, and the sensation becomes the next trigger.

This is the loop, and it can run on its own long after whatever started it has passed.

What keeps it running is how the sensations get read. Recognized as the body doing its job, the grip begins to loosen.

We go into the full science on the blog.
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This week one of the participants in our Behavioral Breathwork Training shared an experience of sighing and yawning a lo...
30/05/2026

This week one of the participants in our Behavioral Breathwork Training shared an experience of sighing and yawning a lot from a recent breathing practice.

It took me back to a memory from five years ago.

We had just moved into this house. The moving truck was half the size we'd booked. The cleaning company we'd paid in full sent one person who did half the job.

By the end of that week, I was exhausted and furious. Not because of the work. It was the dishonesty. The lack of integrity. There was a sadness underneath that kind of frustration that sat heavy in my body.

That whole week I was sighing constantly. Big, dramatic sighs. In my case, the sighs were reflexive. The body responding to genuine stress.

The thing is, this is exactly the kind of period when unhelpful breathing habits get learned. The body finds a pattern that works under stress and quietly carries it forward. A week becomes a month, becomes a year.

Without the awareness I have now, the stress would have passed... but the body would have kept stress-breathing for years.

Feeling stressed long after the stress was over.

Is sighing and yawning a sign of a problem? The answer is... It depends.

I write more stories like this each week, comment or DM the word NEWSLETTER and we'll send you the link to check it out.

A sigh can mean two very different things.Sometimes a sigh is the body resetting itself. The body offers it on its own, ...
29/05/2026

A sigh can mean two very different things.

Sometimes a sigh is the body resetting itself. The body offers it on its own, it comes, and then it goes. Nothing else attached to it.

Sometimes a sigh is a habit the body has learned to run as a coping mechanism. Often picked up during a stressful chapter and quietly carried forward long after the stress is over.

These two sighs can look the same from the outside. Underneath, they are doing very different things.

The body knows the difference.
The mind can learn to recognize it.

The work is learning to tell them apart, because this is how the body communicates what it needs.

Is there a right way to breathe?It's one of the most common questions we hear. People want a clear answer. A technique. ...
29/05/2026

Is there a right way to breathe?
It's one of the most common questions we hear.

People want a clear answer. A technique. A protocol. Something they can follow.
The honest answer is that the body already knows what to do.

There's a reflex running in the background, all day, every day. It regulates respiration moment to moment based on what's happening in the body. No technique needed.

Most of us have spent years interrupting this process with breathing practices without realizing it. The effects often show up later as anxiety, fatigue, brain fog, sleep issues, or feeling wired and tired. These usually get blamed on something else.

It's worth understanding.

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28/05/2026

I'll say the unpopular thing:

If your breathwork isn't grounded in respiration science, it's choreography. It might feel like something in the moment, but feeling something and changing something aren't the same.

After years of training elite operators and then bringing this work to everyday people, I've watched the difference up close. True transformation happens at the cellular level first. Everything else follows.

Is sighing and yawning a sign of a problem?The honest answer is: it depends.Sometimes a sigh is the body resetting itsel...
28/05/2026

Is sighing and yawning a sign of a problem?

The honest answer is: it depends.

Sometimes a sigh is the body resetting itself.
Sometimes a yawn is the body doing necessary work.
And sometimes both are survival patterns.

Patterns that started during a stressful time & quietly continued running as a habit in the background.

It is common to believe that sighing every few minutes is normal. It can actually be a sign of something deeper going on…

The work is learning to tell the difference.

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and we'll send you the link to the full article.

My reactivity stopped running the show... I am a peacemaker in our family. Both growing up, and in our current family.An...
26/05/2026

My reactivity stopped running the show...
I am a peacemaker in our family.
Both growing up, and in our current family.

Anytime conversations had a charge to them, a disagreement with Shane or an argument between the kids, anything that felt like confrontation, I would do what I could to try to fix it quick or avoid it somehow.

When I couldn't avoid it, I'd go foggy.
Sometimes it was like I was having whole conversations underwater.

It wasn't until I started pulling myself out of the fog that I realized it was a breathing problem.

When I started observing how the breath was reacting,
and then allowing it to settle on its own,
I stopped reacting.

I started letting the situation unfold naturally, leading with curiosity instead of control.

I remember standing in the kitchen, in the middle of a confrontation, and for the first time... I wasn't stressed out about it.

And that was big for me.

I write more stories like this each week, comment or DM the word NEWSLETTER and we'll send you the link to check it out.

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