Anthea W talks about Breath Easy

Anthea, in terms of your work with Breathe Easy, what do you do, what do you offer to people? With Breathe Easy we have meetings once a month where we invite specialists to come and talk to us about their views on what they can offer to help us with our lungs. The Breathe Easy group that I belong to is run at Charing Cross Hospital and we are all composed of people with varying different lung conditions and I think I am one other of the only two at the moment with bronchiectasis which comes under the umbrella of COPD. Other people have got asthma and various other variations. What we do is we try and participate in groups that these visitors run, there's a walking group that meets, I think, in the country once a month, and otherwise they exercise for not only for lungs but it also helps people with arthritis and other difficulties, quite a lot of disabled people, but other than that, during the week on Tuesdays, three o'clock in the afternoon at Jarrah Cross Hospital, we have a singing group, and it's singing for breathing. And it's run by Adam Laund, who's the senior physiotherapist, and we We have a conductor, you might say, a leader who is a musician and we learn breathing techniques and with using those techniques we learn to sing and then we learn probably one or two new songs every week. In my point of view, I was brought up with classical music, but I've been educated in pop music for the last three years. Sounds very much like breathe easy is a huge amount for people with breathing problems. Yes, absolutely brilliant.