I found this video about Dr Karel Lewit, a Jewish-Czech physician who specialized in neurology and became a world authority in myoskeletal medicine, after hearing about him from the myoskeletal therapist Erik Dalton. The video is beautifully shot by Ales Urbanczik, entitled: Touching Feeling Understanding. Dr Lewit practiced what he called a “functional, relational approach” which, of course, includes a client’s way of breathing.
I think a functional, relational approach also works best for teaching breathing: sensing how breathing works in one’s own body, how the breath reacts to what one does or doesn’t do, how a person perceives her/himself and others.
It moved me to watch Dr. Lewit’s intelligent hands touch his client, his voice sounding through the images as if from another time, or maybe not another time but an attitude of searching and learning about a person’s body as an open-ended journey rather than a methodology or a prescriptive treatment.