Speaking

Health & Wellbeing Speaker

Tess Graham

Think achieving better health and wellbeing is always too complicated and solutions expensive, time consuming and unpleasant?
The information Tess Graham delivers will make you think again.

These content rich, high impact and practical seminars get to the very core of common health and lifestyle issues. Participants will learn how better breathing habits can help them sleep well, get healthy, get fit, and stay calm and energised.  And it all starts during the presentation! Because you are breathing all the time you can start making improvements even while you are listening. It is as natural as taking your next breath . . . differently.

Tess Graham is an expert in the field of breathing health and one of the world’s most prominent speakers on the subject. Nothing she teaches is rocket science. Everything she teaches is backed by science.

Speaking topics

AVAILABLE IN CUSTOMISED KEYNOTE, SEMINAR AND WORKSHOP FORMATS.

  • So you think you can breathe?

  • What I wouldn’t give for a good night’s sleep

  • Breathe-in chill – cool, calm and in control 

  • Customised for your event and participants

Profession specific topics

  • Wellbeing practitioners: Looking after you while you help others

  • Dental: Good breathing, good sleep, and good looking faces

  • Fitness: Heart happy exercise – avoiding heart attacks on the treadmill 

  • Psychology:  Calming the anxious and soothing the sleeper 

  • Childbirth: Breathing for pregnancy, birth and beyond

  • Teachers and Parents: Breathing for better sleep and better focus 

Enquire to have Tess speak at your event

Send an email message to Tess@BreatheAbility.com or call 0401368197 . International +61 401368197

Speaker Bio

Physiotherapist, breathing educator, author, trainer, speaker

Tess Graham, founder of BreatheAbility International has been helping people all over the world to better health and wellbeing simply by changing the way they breathe. As an experienced clinician, educator, and speaker at the top of her field, Tess is highly sought after for her insight, inspiration and her ability ‘to make change happen’.

Tess established Australia’s first dedicated breathing clinic in 1993 and did pioneering research with asthma, sleep disorders and sports performance. Tess has a powerful message: Getting your breathing right is the single most important thing you can do to promote robust physical and mental health, get quality sleep and protect yourself from stress-related illness.

Tess’s presentations are informative, relevant and practical. She shares with her audience the tools to make positive changes in the way they breathe. They can begin by simply taking their next breath … differently. Tess’s unique approach is easy, uncomplicated and doable for busy people. Participants leave her events inspired and already reporting benefits, such as less nasal congestion and more focus.

Tess has addressed over 500 audiences in Australia and abroad. Her message is broadly relevant and powerful – it’s for every breath you take.        

Audience Feedback

Peter Thompson, writer, filmmaker, film critic

There’s not a single living (breathing) human being who doesn’t need to hear Tess Graham’s powerful message. Tess is a superb presenter who has honed and refined her delivery of a revolutionary breakthrough in breathing health. She brings passion, skill and wisdom to the challenge of changing lives for the better. 

Bernie Wicht, (former) Chairman MacPac

I listened to Tess Graham speak in Christchurch, on better breathing to help with anxiety and sleep issues – so prevalent here post-earthquake. The hall was packed; in fact the presentation was repeated twice. Tess was inspiring and engaging, and I’m sure most people would have benefited from her knowledge as I have personally. As an employer, I can see that learning how to breathe properly would help my staff to deal with stress and anxiety issues.

Karen St Clair, Director (Ret) Saluté Consulting Pty Ltd

I wholeheartedly recommend Tess Graham to you as an accomplished speaker and educator. Her message is a powerful one, and Tess delivers this message with a delightful mix of humour, passion and easy-to-understand science that is engaging and thought provoking. She debunks some long-held beliefs about breathing. The audience cannot help but take her message on board, for they cannot help but take their next breath differently. 

Chris Bauman, President, Buteyko Breathing Educators Association, North America

Tess Graham has great knowledge, understanding and experience in her field. Her ability to express herself as a speaker, trainer and facilitator is second to none. She is funny, passionate and articulate. She has presented to our group several times, including being our main speaker at our annual conference in 2014 and again in 2024. The feedback received from delegates continues to be outstanding. Tess has a gift for clarifying complex subjects and providing materials, and tools to her audiences that are relevant and useful in their professional and personal lives. She would be a wonderful drawcard and outstanding conference speaker for any organization. 

Joy L. Moeller, BS, RDH, Board member AAMS, CA USA

I have heard Tess Graham speak on two occasions and both times I came away feeling inspired and empowered with new, exciting information that I could use for myself as well as my patients. I have recommended her for many international organizations to speak as she captured the audience and had standing ovations afterward. Tess is truly an asset to any organization to transfer information in a direct, organized, inspiring manner. I look forward to seeing her speak at the AAMS (Academy of Applied Myofunctional Sciences) Congress in September in Los Angeles, along with researchers from around the world.

Conference speaker, presentations, past clients include:

  • National Institute of Integrative Medicine (NIIM) Conference, Melbourne 2025

  • Yoga Australia Mental Health Summit 2025

  • Buteyko Breathing Educators Association Conference - Saskatchewan 2024

  • Cancer Council NSW - Wellness Week 2024

  • International Physiotherapy Conference (IPC) India - 2021

  • International Association of Applied Neuroscience (IAAN) – Conference 2019, 2023

  • Talk Tools Conference ( Speech Pathology / OMT) - USA 2021

  • MyoFocus (Dental-Sleep Medicine) Conference – Melbourne 2019

  • Australian Hypnotherapy Association – Melbourne 

  • Department of Health – Mental Health Week – Canberra 2017

  • International Pediatric Sleep Association Conference – Taiwan 2016

  • Academy of Applied Myofunctional Sciences – Dental/Sleep Medicine Conference Los Angeles 2015

  • 1st, 2nd and 4th International Conference of the Buteyko Institute of Breathing and Health

  • Department of Environment – Mental Health Week (several)

  • Australian Psychologists Association (2015)

  • Australian Society of Orthodontists

  • P&O Cruises – Healthy Lifestyle Speaker 2015-2018

  • Airway and Facial Development Collaboration (US) 2014

  • Respiratory Education United Kingdom (REUK) 2013

  • Sleep Apnea Support Australia Inc

  • Calmbirth® Canberra - 2015

  • Buteyko Breathing Educators Association Conference Keynote Seattle 2013; Boston 2014

  • Australian Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport - 1997

  • Australian Physiotherapy Association National Student Symposium - 2008

  • Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet – Health Week (several)

  • Health Insurance Commission – Health in the Workplace

  • EODO Dental /Sleep Medicine Conferences (several)

  • Australian Taxation Office - Health & Wellbeing Week (several)

  • Australian National University guest lecturer, Faculty of Medical Science

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