Improvement occurs within the first 24 hours.

Over 90% of participants are off all asthma reliever medication before the end of the course. Improvements in quality of sleep occur within the first few days and include reduction and elimination of apnoeas and snoring. For people facing the prospect of using a CPAP machine they know they will never need one in days.

Buteyko involves the client learning a series of breathing exercises to counter breathlessness, wheeziness and other symptoms. Children are taught special exercises which they enjoy doing and which require less concentration than those taught to adults. The appropriate age to learn the Buteyko Institute Method is anything from 4 years.

Test to see if you can benefit from attending a Buteyko course.

If you answer yes to any of the following then Buteyko can certainly help you.

• Do you suffer from asthma?
• Do you snore at night?
• Do you stop breathing in your sleep?
• Do you suffer from sleep apnoea?
• Can you hear yourself breathe?
• Do you suffer from hay fever?
• Do you ever breathe through your mouth?
• Do you sigh, yawn, sneeze, wheeze or snore?
• Do you cough or blow your nose?
• Do you suffer from a blocked nose?
• Do you awake with a dry mouth?
• Do you get short of breath?
• Can you feel your upper chest move?
• Do you breathe more than 14 times a minute?
• Are you told you Asthma is Controlled ?

Medication and Buteyko
The Buteyko Institute follows international best practice medication guidelines. This means that asthma preventer medication and all other prescribed medication is taken as prescribed by the client’s medical practitioner. Symptomatic reliever medication is taken on as required basis. As people learn and apply the method, their “as required” amount of reliever medication quickly decreases – to such an extent that over 90% of people who learn Buteyko come off all their reliever medication within a week of starting the Buteyko course. Clients are advised to consult their medical practititoner for review of preventer medication and other prescribed medication when they reach certain standards outlined for them during the Buteyko course.

Conditions Buteyko can help
Buteyko provides significant improvement for:

• Asthma
• Sleep Apnoea
• Snoring
• Emphysema
• Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease (COAD)
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
• Hay fever
• Sinusitis
• Allergies
• Insomnia
• Migraine
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Anxiety and Panic Attacks
• Poor circulation
• Restless legs
• Stress management
• Enhanced sports performance
• Overall health
• General breathing disorder