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Educational Capnography
Having finished a Certification Course in Educational Capnography as a Breathing Behavior Analyst at The Graduate School of Behavioral Breathing and Health Sciences, I am offering these tools in my regular private sessions and group classes. These include the use of an educational capnograph to measure end tidal CO2 levels and respiratory health. The results are displayed on a computer screen to make available a deeper connection and awareness of the process of breathing and helping to recognize and rectify dysfunctional breathing habits that interrupt and compromise respiratory health.
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Initial Breathing Analysis $150
Individual Sessions $150 per hour
8 hours of individual sessions $750
Semi – Private or group sessions arranged on request
The Buteyko Technique of Breathing Retraining is a drug free approach to controlling and reducing the symptoms of asthma, allergies, COPD, anxiety, sleep disturbances, angina, digestive challenges and other breathing related disorders.
The Buteyko technique is a proven, safe and highly effective way to control asthma, allergies, COPD, anxiety, sleep disturbances, angina, digestive challenges, and other breathing related disorders. By re-training and normalizing your breathing using a series of exercises that can be learned by anyone (children as young as 4 have mastered the skills with dramatic results) you can control your breathing related symptoms. The technique was developed by a Russian physician, Dr. Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko, and has been adopted as routine treatment for asthma throughout the world.
Clinical trials sponsored by the Australian Association of Asthma Foundations at the Mater Hospital in Brisbane, Australia showed that asthmatics trained in the Buteyko Technique reduced asthma symptoms and dramatically lowered preventer and short term inhaler use. And the results are lasting. Three months after being trained in the Buteyko technique chronic asthmatics reported a 96 percent decrease in reliever (inhaler) use, 29 percent reduction in preventer use and 81 percent fewer symptoms.
About Buteyko
- How Does Buteyko Work?
- Why Buteyko Can Be Better Than Inhalers and Pills
- Learning Buteyko: Easy, Quick, Affordable and Effective
- Doctors With Asthma Speak About Buteyko
- Graduates Talk About Their Experiences with Buteyko
How Does Buteyko Work?
During an asthma or allergy attacks as well as during anxiety and panic attacks there is a blood gas imbalance caused by labored breathing. Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels play an important role in how much oxygen the blood can release to body cells/tissues. During labored breathing, (hyperventilating), the body expels too much carbon dioxide and body cells and tissues are deprived of oxygen, leaving the person feeling breathless. This phenomenon is known as the Bohr Effect.
By using the Buteyko technique to regulate your CO2 levels and restore normal breathing patterns, you use your body’s own regulating mechanism rather than a drug to avoid an attack.
Why Buteyko Can Be Better Than Inhalers & Pills
While asthma medications have improved in recent years, they are still powerful drugs with potential side effects. We won’t tell you to throw away your medications away. But if your experiences are like those of thousands of Buteyko trainees worldwide, you’ll find your need for the drugs dramatically reduced.
The Buteyko technique has also proven to be highly effective at improving overall sports performance and in controlling ETA (Exercise Induced Asthma) and other breathing disorders (allergies, emphysema, sleep apnea, snoring, insomnia, night terrors, anxiety and panic attacks.
Learning Buteyko: Easy, Quick, Affordable And Effective
Classes are small (maximum of 8) and are held in pleasant surroundings. Private Sessions are available on Skype or in your home on Vashon Island. Classes consist of a total of 8-10 hours of instruction over a three, four or five day format with two follow up calls. Learning the Buteyko techniques is affordable.
For less than the cost of many medications you can “own” a lifetime technique for managing your breathing related challenges that is effective and safe (you’ll always have the Buteyko technique with you). You can come back within 6 months for a free refresher, or call for phone support.
