14/11/2025
When the breath feels tight, shallow, or effortful… it’s rarely “just the lungs.”
Breath is how the body communicates with its environment.
Every inhale delivers informationparticles, light, microbiome signals, and the energetic “charge” of the air around us. In nature, this information is rich and coherent. It soothes the nervous system, opens the chest, and regulates inflammation.
But the air most of us breathe today is different.
It can be polluted, stagnant, low in vitality, and stripped of many of the living signals we’re biologically designed to receive - whether that’s from traffic fumes, indoor buildings, mould, chemicals, or simply spending too much time away from nature.
For sensitive lungs, that can show up as tightness, wheezing, or a breath that never quite lands.
This is one of the reasons we brought Forest Air into the clinic.
In wild environments, sunlight energises oxygen through a natural photonic process happening inside leaves and green plants. That’s part of why the air in forests feels so alive it carries a subtle but powerful, light-activated signal that the body recognises immediately.
Forest Air recreates that missing signal indoors.
It energises the oxygen in the room not by increasing oxygen levels, but by restoring the quality of air. This light-activated oxygen helps the body use oxygen more efficiently, calms the airways, and supports the autonomic nervous system.
Across respiratory studies, one theme keeps appearing: when the body can use oxygen more efficiently, the lungs soften and breathing naturally becomes easier.
We have seen some really good results so far with asthma, sinus congestion, long COVID.
If breathing has felt heavy lately if the air in your home, workplace, or daily environment feels flat come and experience a Forest Air session with us - or buy one for your home.
Sometimes the body doesn’t need more oxygen.
It just needs alive air again. 🌿
Sessions and rentals available at Inna Health.
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