ALEXANDER STEWART

Founded Respiratory Fitness in 2009 in New York City.  Now also based in Oslo, Norway, working internationally.

Before this work:  world-class athlete, professional actor, performance and behavior consultant.  Forty years in performance.

In 2010, a life-threatening accident.  Six operations, months on morphine, four years of severe pain, nearly seven years not walking.  My own physiology … which had always been at peak levels … was broken.  My breathing was dysfunctional.  End-tidal CO2 had dropped from 40 mmHg to under 30 mmHg.  Symptoms I didn’t recognize as mine started appearing.

That’s where the work began.  Despite a lifetime of performance, I realized I didn’t actually understand breathing’s effect on health, function, or performance.  I went looking.

In 2007 I learned the breathing sciences and acquired my first CapnoTrainer instrument.  In 2013 I founded Respiratory Fitness Institute in Oslo.  In 2016 I earned a Master of Science in Applied Breathing Science.

The work draws on three fields:  respiratory physiology, behavioral science, and the deeper work of how people actually function underneath.  The aim is the same regardless of what brings someone in: identify what’s limiting them, and change it.

It is designed to identify what is limiting you—and change it.

TRACK RECORD

• Breathing Behavior Analyst, 16+ years
• Performance Consulting, 30+ years
• Behavior Consulting, 30+ years
• MSc, Applied Breathing Science
• Capnography Practitioner since 2007
• Has taught and lectured on capnography and the behavioral framework since 2008.