Under The Surface
Award-winning composer Toby Young discusses his creation of 'Under the Surface' with Jennifer Thorp.
Posts by Sarah McLusky
Breathing calmly in hospital yoga practice
Life of Breath researcher Krzysztof Bierski writes… We are sitting together on a hospital bed. You have your legs crossed…
Respiration as Inspiration
Professor David Fuller explores the ways in which breath inspires the writing and performance of poetry and literature.
Spirometry: Is ‘normal’ what it seems?
Spirometers, like other medical technologies, need a definition of 'normal' to quantify 'abnormal'. But how reliable is this baseline?
Durham exhibition photo tour
A photo tour of Catch Your Breath at Palace Green Library, Durham (24 November 2018 to 17 March 2019).
Kids in Museums Takeover Day
A video tour of Catch Your Breath at Palace Green Library in Durham by Coxhoe Primary School on Kids in…
Breathing like the Iceman
by Sarah McLusky, Project Manager In our Catch Your Breath exhibition there is a pair of shorts. To some they…
Policy Recommendations
For World COPD Day 2018 and the publication of Life of Breath’s new Policy Report, consultant respiratory physician and honorary…
Breathe better (with breathing exercises)
by Kate Binnie, Life of Breath Researcher A key theme of the exhibition is that the way we breathe can…
Reading Breath in Literature (Rose et al, 2019)
At a key moment in Hamlet’s duel with Laertes, Gertrude cries out that Hamlet ‘is fat and scant of breath’…
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