Breathe less to improve your Health
A central tenet of the Buteyko Breathing method!
Dr. Konstantine Buteyko developed his breathing method in the 1950s in post-war Russia. The signature noisy and heavy breathing of the very sick and dying Lead him to discover this simple but powerful path to good health through healthy breathing. The Buteyko Method is for everyone! It involves exercises that decongest the nose and focuses on nasal breathing along with exercises to restore functional breathing patterns. (Progress is determined by a special breath-hold test called the Control Pause.)
Over the past number of years, the Buteyko Method has shown to be efficacious in helping improve a number of breathing-related problems including:
· Respiratory: asthma, rhinitis, hay-fever, sinusitis
· Neurological: Anxiety, stress and panic attacks
· Childhood development: dental health, craniofacial development and ADHD
· Sleep-disordered breathing: insomnia, snoring, central sleep apnea, obstructive sleep apnea
To experience the powerful effects of Buteyko breathing, join us for a 6- week workshop with Practitioner and Expert Trainer Gordon Myers. You can use this helpful and invaluable breathing method for yourself and share it with your little ones and loved ones who experience any breathing-related issues.
This is the right time to learn how you are breathing and how you can improve your health by breathing less!
WHEN: TBT
TIME: 5:30 – 6:30pm
WHERE: Virtually – You will receive a meeting link each week.
COST: $TBT
About Gordon Myers
Buteyko Breathing Bio
My difficult relationship with breathing goes back to childhood. Household and seasonal allergies started at preschool age and got worse until I reached the age of 13 when I developed full-blown asthma. Summers were fine but the rest of the year was asthma season. When I moved to Toronto from Halifax to pursue a career in music the change of environment helped but I still required a regular dose of the latest asthma meds to get through the difficult months.
Fast forward to 2011. Thanks to the introduction of inhaled steroids to treat asthma my symptoms had become quite manageable. Unfortunately, along the way I had developed high blood pressure, gastrointestinal problems, sleep apnea, cold hands and feet and anxiety. My breathing’s fine right? No asthma, sort of. The meds treat the symptoms but not the cause. Enter the Buteyko breathing method. Chronic hyperventilation or over-breathing caused asthma and played a big part in creating the perfect environment for many other ailments. Through a good friend and breathing coach, I was introduced to the perils of over-breathing and the relatively simple path back to normal, healthy breathing. Simple but still a lot of work. I did the work and found the results so remarkable I decided to study further to become a Buteyko Breathing Method educator.
In 2017 I decided to step back and focus on my own health as my Parkinson’s disease (with me since 2008) was getting worse and in need of attention. Change of diet, the addition of high-intensity exercise (nose breathing only), and stealth prescription drug use have all helped to control Parkinson’s symptoms and have made it possible to consider getting back to helping people breathe. Over breathing, mostly through the mouth, is everywhere as people try to deal with the stress of a pandemic. Never has the need been greater for a healthy breathing check. How’s your breathing? Perhaps I’ll see you at our virtual breathing workshop.