What is the Buteyko Method?
The Buteyko Method is a system of breathing analysis and correction that helps you achieve good health through optimum breathing as discovered, researched and taught by Professor Buteyko.
It is a safe and effective way to relieve and prevent asthma as evidenced by the Australian clinical trial at the Mater Hospital in Brisbane in 1994 and the Victoria University trail in 1999. It corrects the common condition of hyperventilation or over-breathing, obvious (acute) or hidden (chronic) by using breath control, breathing exercises and education to help sufferers understand their condition, control symptoms and prevent illness.
The method is learnt through individual consultations and group sessions with a trained practitioner. Buteyko clients are instructed to recognise their overbreathing pattern and to retrain and recondition their breathing to normal levels. Overwhelmingly, they notice immediate improvement and by the end of their training they are well on their way to optimal health.
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