Improve Your Health with Biofeedback Breathing.
Biofeedback Breathing is a powerful tech solution to a challenge common in high stakes settings like schools and prisons: stress related to trauma
57%
decrease in anxiety symptoms within students who took part in biofeedback breathing
100%
of students wanted to continue the program after two weeks
100%
of students said their ability to calm down has increased since beginning biofeedback
Biofeedback
Breathing in Schools
In May of 2019, 12 students who were frequently referred to the office for behavior challenges were offered the opportunity to be a part of a biofeedback breathing pilot. Students did 10 minutes of biofeedback to start and end their school day.
“Biofeedback was simple and my students loved getting the space and time to do the breathing practice daily.”
Ms. Little
Middle School Teacher
World Class Technology in Community Settings
Biofeedback Breathing is a technology that helps individuals understand and control their nervous systems’ responses to trauma. Today, Fortune CEOs, astronauts, and professional athletes most often use these technologies to enhance performance in their respective fields. Our core innovation is bringing this technology to rural communities to support those who have much at stake: students, first responders, parents, and inmates.
The Biofeedback Breathing Program gives a cohort of community members access to this life-changing technology for 15 minutes a day over a period of two weeks.
This small amount of time has catalyzed transformative change in the individuals in the program and the systems they’re entangled in, shifting practices from punitive to restorative.
Download a Free Biofeedback Breathing Implementation Guide
This free resource offers a taste of what it takes to implement a Biofeedback Breathing Program in a community based setting like a school, nonprofit, counseling center. Use the guide to explore if Biofeedback may be a fit for your organization.
How It Works
Biofeedback Breathing technology helps users understand their Heart Rate Variability (HRV).
HRV is a measure of how evenly your heart beats, and it turns out, your heart is connected to the nervous system. The nervous system sends two contradictory signals to your heart. The Parasympathetic nervous system, which handles things like rest and digestion, tells your heart to beat slower. The sympathetic nervous system, which handles things like stress and excitement, tells your heart to speed up. Your heart responds to these two signals, decreasing your HRV when they are in balance, and increasing your HRV when they are out of balance.
Biofeedback shows users their HRV in connection with many different emotions. This helps you build a deeper understanding of your emotions and how they impact your body.
Biofeedback Breathing Program at Edgecombe County Detention Center
Biofeedback Breathing Partners
The Biofeedback Breathing Technology was developed by our wonderful partners.
Interested in Implementing Biofeedback Breathing at Your Organization?
ROI offers a full-service, technical assistance package to help community-based facilitate Biofeedback Breathing with the populations they serve.
Schedule a FREE 30-minute consultation to see if Biofeedback Breathing is a fit.
Meet Our
Biofeedback Coordinators
Jenna Moniz
Biofeedback Coordinator at Rural Opportunity Institute
Jenna is an educator of over 25 years, serving in various roles from classroom teacher to district administrator. She has served as a Peace Corps volunteer and taught in several countries abroad. Here in Broward, she has worked as a secondary teacher, district coach and administrator for the Multicultural & ESOL Department as well as the district’s Adult Education programs. She has helped to create Broward’s Mindfulness platform and resources and most recently started a school for teenagers seeking their high school diploma through a social-emotional approach.
Jenna has a Masters degree in Brain-based Instruction, is Nationally Board Certified, and has a certificate in the Science of Well-being. Jenna’s passion is teaching and learning about brain & heart coherence to help students and professionals achieve higher levels of resiliency and overall well-being. She is a mother of one son who is a student at the University of Central Florida. She enjoys reading, exercising, having fun outside, and enjoying time with the family.
Andrea Trank
Biofeedback Coordinator at Rural Opportunity Institute
I am Andrea Trank, e-RYT, Ed.S., M.Ed, Certified HeartMath trainer, Certified HeartMath Trauma Informed Clinical Coach, Certified Stress and Wellbeing Assessment provider, Certified Integrative Medicine and Health Coach, Certified Gentle Somatic Yoga Teacher, Certified Memory Maintenance Yoga Teacher, Certified Restorative Yoga Teacher,Former College Science Professor andHigh School science teacher. I suffered from anxiety, gut issues and burnout during my 30s and 40s and that led me on this current healing journey. I have incorporated many lifestyle changes and am happy to say that in my 60s I am healthier and happier than ever. I am now committed to helping others stay emotionally regulated and healthy no matter what they are facing in life. It is my passion to empower people with tools for their own healing. HeartMath has the tools to accomplish this.
Cierra Glaspie
Biofeedback Coordinator at Rural Opportunity Institute
Cierra is a current student at Pitt Community College seeking a degree towards Medical Office Administration, she is a current CNA II and a Certified Peer Support Specialist which aids in helping the mentally ill and substance abuse users. She is a current Biofeedback Coordinator in Training with Rural Opportunity Institute where she will then be able to help individuals learn and use our biofeedback breathing techniques within our program and be able to focus on the physical and mental health of individuals and also within herself.
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Resilience Offerings
building resilience in your organization or community.
Reconnect for ResilienceⓇ
Reconnect for Resilience® (RFR) is an in-depth, 14-hour trauma resilience training that covers seven body-based skills that promote resilience and wellbeing.
Resilience Cards
Our resilience cards teach simple, powerful ways to calm stress, refocus, and build resilience. Perfect for classroom settings, mental healthcare, and community organizations.
Breathing Cards
Our breathing cards teach simple, powerful breathing exercises to help students and clients heal from trauma.
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