Breathing Assessment
I now offer a comprehensive breathing assessment that costs £70 and lasts about 75 minutes.
I assess your breathing habits, awareness of breathing, rate, posture, route of breathing and other factors to help to determine if your symptoms may respond to breathing retraining.
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The Buteyko Breathing method course
The initial course is normally structured over five days, preferably consecutive, (usually 10 am, Monday to Friday) or within 10 days. Each session lasts for approximately 90 minutes and will teach you the correct way to breathe using the Buteyko Method. Skype sessions are possible too. You will learn Buteyko breathing exercises:
- to clear your nose if blocked or stuffed up
- to monitor your breathing
- to gently correct your breathing
- to quickly tackle panic attacks
- initially to control asthma attacks and soon to prevent these and many other symptoms
The course will also cover the effects of food, triggers, hyperventilation attacks, colds and flu management, exercise, how to get a good night’s sleep, and much more. The Buteyko programme is tailored to suit each person and the techniques are taught either one-on-one or in small groups. Personalised attention ensures your safety. Buteyko is not about throwing away medication or machines; instead reductions are done safely as symptoms reduce and with consultation with your doctor when necessary. Therefore the Buteyko method is taught as a complementary rather than an alternative therapy. It is a natural remedy that does not require any herbs, drugs or gadgets. Children’s courses are usually separate from adults.
Programme Fees Normally: Adult: £470 Child: £370 Additional family members: • 1st Member pays full price • 2nd member onwards pays £100.
The programme fee covers: Initial course (five sessions), Two follow-up sessions, Three month’s helpline support, Three month’s learning support and on-line breathing log (most clients find this very useful, and it helps me to help you). Support material and course notebooks.
You are recommended to keep in regular contact with your coach to ensure that you are on the right track and attend additional sessions if you need them. There is also a very useful online support group for people learning Buteyko where you can “compare notes”. The courses are run in Furness Vale (on the Manchester to Buxton line- close to the railway station). Or via skype or facetime.
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The Buteyko method is a series of breathing exercises used to control asthma, allergies, sinus, hay fever, eczema, emphysema, Bronchiectasis, C.O.P.D., sleep apnoea, snoring, insomnia, panic attacks, hyperventilation, and stress related problems.
It can be taught to people from age 4 upwards.
Professor Konstantin Buteyko understood that many health problems that afflict us today are caused by bad breathing habits. Sedentary lifestyles, overeating and stress may contribute to bad breathing. Fortunately breathing is something we can learn to control so that we can begin to drive more oxygen into the cells of the body. Professor Buteyko devised a series of breathing exercises to initially safely overcome, for example, an asthma attack, then with time, to control the problem and stop the asthma attacks occurring, by effectively normalising the breathing pattern.
The Buteyko programme is a total approach to health, including the special Buteyko breathing techniques and principles about exercise, nutrition and sleeping that Professor Buteyko considered vital to good health.
The Buteyko programme reduces hyperventilation and restores a more normal breathing pattern. Most people find that their symptoms of asthma, allergies, blocked nose, insomnia, snoring, sleep apnoea, panic and hyperventilation attacks improve substantially.
Buteyko has been used continuously for more than 50 years. Buteyko is a safe and effective programme that addresses the cause of hyperventilation and its associated health risks. It reduces symptoms and puts you back in control of your life. Buteyko is effective for asthma control, alleviating symptoms, reducing the need for medication and improving quality of life. The British Guideline on the Management of Asthma grants permission for British health professionals to recommend Buteyko, stating that the method “may be considered to help patients control the symptoms of asthma”. The guideline grades clinical research on Buteyko with an ‘A’ classification – indicating that high quality supporting clinical trials are available . No other complementary therapy has been endorsed by this body for the treatment of asthma.
Buteyko in the USA – the third government body to endorse Buteyko for asthma: Portland, Oregon – The Buteyko Breathing Educators Association, BBEA, praised the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, AHRQ, for its comprehensive review of
22 studies of breathing techniques, which found that Buteyko, a hyperventilationreduction breathing technique achieves “medium to large improvements in asthma symptoms and reductions in reliever medications” AHRQ, 2012.
The Australian Department of Health and Aging in conjunction with the National Asthma Council of Australia in 2005 also opined, that Buteyko achieved “a statistically significant and clinically important effect in the treatment of asthma”.
The Buteyko method is not an asthma cure, but it is an effective asthma treatment that gets to the root cause of the problem.
Buteyko is about empowerment:
You can learn to control breathing-related problems naturally with less medication.
NOTE Buteyko is not about throwing away medications. You are strongly encouraged to consult with your GP. You must not reduce your prescribed steroids without medical supervision.
