Welcome to Breathe Function Thrive
We are committed to protect, promote and champion clinical excellence and precision medicine as we find and address root causes.
Baby Jaws & Breathing Nose to Toes Master Class Curriculum
This advanced training is for pediatric focused PTs, OTs, SLPs, MDs, and DOs . Others considered on a case-by-case basis. Professional licensure information required to attend the course. We believe this 3-part course will facilitate a paradigm shift that will positively impact how you assess and treat every client.
Master Class 1 of 3 Available Now
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2 – Baby Jaws & Nose to Toes, Whole Body Connections. Online with Live Virtual Training. Get trained in 20 tools & techniques as you learn nose to toes connections key to optimizing airway, breathing, cranial-mandibular function & growth & their impacts on sleep.
3 – Advanced Techniques. Live in-person, hands-on, small group. Learn 4+ advanced techniques only taught in person with personalized hands on training to improve skill mastery of all Baby Jaws & Breathing Nose to Toes manual techniques.
Other Courses from Breathe Function Thrive
The Mouth Magic curriculum includes over 30 advanced cranial, mandibular, oral & respiratory tools & techniques that were created, organized & structured over 34 years. This game changing course, empowers professionals like you, with innovative and evidence based ways to assess, treat, integrate, and mobilize the jaw, cranium, face, mouth, and associated structures with the goal of optimizing airway, breathing, function, neural pathways, healthy growth & development.
Baby Jaws & Breathing Nose to Toes Master Classes 1 and 2 are prerequisites for Mouth Magic.
Why do some tongue tie surgeries succeed, yet others fail? This 28 minute tutorial reveals important reasons WHY a tongue might be tight or tied from a whole body perspective which is essential for better longer lasting results.
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Meet Your Instructor
Cynthia Peterson PT, CSOM, CST
Cynthia is passionate about early intervention & prevention and developed this course in honor of the amazing medical professionals that cared for her premature grandson “Finn”. Cynthia has 34 years experience and has helped thousands to thrive in innovative ways.
Cynthia works with all ages to identify and address root causes and underlying issues to optimize airway, breathing, sleep, and cranial-mandibular function. She strives to combine evidence & research, with clinical expertise & decades of learning from both failures & successes. She promotes ethics, respect for intellectual property and honoring scope of practice.
In 2022 Cynthia was awarded The Breathe Outlook Award for ”Extraordinary contribution to the foundation, research, and development of the FAIREST.org resources for screening patients for sleep and breathing challenges” of which Cynthia is the originator & co-author.
Cynthia started teaching “Jaw School” in 1990 which included healthy jaw function & postures including nasal breathing with lip seal and tongue-up on the palate and authored the top selling book on the subject before she even heard the now popular term “orofacial myofunctional therapy”. She is Certified in Orofacial Myology, Craniosacral Therapy & Breathing techniques and is trained in pediatric tools and techniques, with extensive training in the cranial nerves and nervous system, fascial & visceral work, and much more. Cynthia is passionate about helping patients function, feel, sleep & breathe better.
