Welcome to Breathe Function Thrive
Revolutionize the way you treat every patient! Learn why the ABC’S: Airway, Breathing, Cranial-mandibular and Sleep dysfunction must be top of mind for every professional. This course shares evidence-based research and teaches innovative tools and techniques to optimize breathing, sleep & respiratory function to transform your everyday focus, practice & individualized treatments.
We are committed to protect, promote and champion clinical excellence and precision medicine as we find and address root causes.
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Baby Jaw and Breathing Nose to Toes - Getting Started
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 and 2 are prerequisites for the follow-on course, Mouth Magic.
Master Class 1 – Breathing Nose to Toes™
Master Class 2 – Baby Jaws™, Orofacial Myofunctional & Whole Body Connections
Baby Jaws & Nose to Toes, Whole Body Connections $597. Online with live virtual whole body breathing, posture, and orofacial myofunctional therapy. Training in 20 tools & techniques as you learn nose to toes connections key to optimizing airway, breathing, oral-facial and cranial-mandibular function and growth & their impacts on sleep.
Master Class 3 – Advanced Cranial Facial Techniques
Advanced Techniques $197. Live in-person, hands-on, small group. Learn 4+ cranial facial techniques only taught in person with personalized hands-on training to improve skill mastery of all Baby Jaws & Breathing Nose to Toes manual techniques. The Baby Jaws Advanced Techniques class is taught in conjunction with the Mouth Magic courses, usually at the end of day 2. See the Mouth Magic information page for dates.
Pricing – Bundle and Save
Baby Jaws Complete Bundle – $897 (save $100)
Visit the Baby Jaws & Breathing Nose to Toes website for more information and pricing.
Continuing Education
This full course has been approved by the Utah APTA for 21 Credits. It has also been approved for CEUs in Texas for PTs, OTs, and SLPs.
Mouth Magic - The Next Course in the Breathe Function Thrive Journey
The Mouth Magic curriculum includes over 30 advanced cranial, mandibular, oral and facial 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.
Mouth Magic is completed over the course of several months and consists of 4 parts.
1. Science of Cranial Mandibular Oral Respiratory Systems: Online Self-Paced. Overview of anatomy, neurology and research.
2. Manual Skills & Clinical Correlation: 2-Day In-Person course. Taught in different locations.
UPCOMING COURSES
September 20-21, 2025 – Cedar Rapids, IA
January 23-24, 2026 – Altamonte Springs (Orlando), FL
March 21-22, 2026 – New Haven, CT
TBD – West Coast – Stay Tuned
COMPLETED COURSES
November 2-3, 2024 – Salt Lake City, UT
February 1-2, 2025 – San Juan, Puerto Rico
May 3-4, 2025 – Corpus Christi, TX
3. Skill Mastery and Clinical Application: Self-Paced application and practice of techniques
4. Clinical Collaboration and Peer Review: Online virtual classes via Zoom. You’ll present 2 cases and collaborate with peers.
Additional follow up Zoom meetings to check status and answer questions is also included.
Pricing – $1891
The Mouth Magic course is purchased in one package. Payment can be made at once, or broken into 4 monthly payments
Special Deal – Save $100
Save $100 on the May 3-4 Corpus Christi Mouth Magic Bundle
Visit the Mouth Magic website for information and pricing.
Continuing Education
This full course has been approved by the Utah APTA for 17 Credits.
Other Classes and Information
Solve the Tongue Tie Puzzle
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.
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.
Breathe Function Thrive Merchandise
Fun and useful merchandise to help you share your love of breathing!