Do you have Asthma? Hayfever?

Do you snore or have sleep apnoea?

Why suffer?

Experience the benefits that thousands of people worldwide have already found - up to 70% less coughing, breathlessness and wheezing, reduction of other symptoms and improvement in quality of life, sleeping, and ability to exercise

Welcome to the UK Buteyko Breathing Centre incorporating AsthmaCare UK, the oldest established UK Buteyko clinic. On this site you will find information on the Buteyko Method, our courses, and how to contact us.

The Buteyko Method is a highly effective drug-free treatment for all breathing related illness, including asthma. In the 1950s, Russian medical scientist Professor Buteyko identified over 150 disorders that can be resolved by normalising the breathing, and he developed a series of breathing exercises and strategies to do this.

Asthma, COPD, Emphysema, Hayfever, Allergic Rhinitis, Panic Attacks, Sleep Apnoea, Insomnia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome are a few examples of conditions which the Buteyko Method can relieve. The Method involves taking no additional medication and can be safely used by people over the age of 3 years.

Future Courses
Course Content
About the UK Buteyko Breathing Centre
What is Buteyko?
Buteyko theory
Buteyko trials and results
Frequently asked questions
Buteyko for children
Buteyko and sport
Practitioner Training
Learning by DVD

Each of our practitioners has taught a minimum of 50 patients during training and each has been teaching the Buteyko Method for a minimum of 5 years. They are covered by Professional Indemnity and are each dedicated to creating the same level of health benefits for you as they have received themselves from Professor Buteyko's Method.

A UK Buteyko Breathing Centre course provides:

• Individual personalised programme by a qualified, experienced professionally indemnified practitioner
• Follow-on support, by telephone, e-mail or in person
• Free-of-charge refreshers for 12 months on any of our courses

Is Buteyko education or therapy! Small group or one-2-one learning? Whch is best for you?

• Professor Buteyko always chose to teach and to train his practitioners in a groups, as far as possible. He found by experience, and you will observe, that this form of teaching achieved greater results than one-to-one teaching.
• The published and peer reviewed Clinical trials measuring the effects of Buteyko on asthma at the Mater Hospital, Brisbane (1995) and in Gisborne (New Zealand) (2000), were taught by experienced Buteyko Institute practitioners to groups of asthmatics, those participants having commmitted to a minimum of 9 hours tuition over 5 sessions. The results of the clinical trial held in Brisbane in 1994 showed that asthmatic participants achieved a 71%reduction in symptoms, a 96% reduction in asthma reliever medication and 49% reduction in steroid use within 12 weeks of practising the Method.
• When you have the opportunity to OBSERVE a group of people obtaining GOOD RESULTS within two weeks, there is no doubt in your mind as to the negative effects of Chronic Hyperventilation and the positive effects of Buteyko.
• You SHARE EXPERIENCES and work with people of all ages and stages of life, children, businesspeople, etc. and you learn from each others mistakes and triumphs! AND you get SUPPORT from the knowledge that you are not alone in having to put time and work into correcting your breathing.
• You MOTIVATE each other and learn HOW TO MOTIVATE your family!
• Discussions cover a wide variety of topics than in a one-to-onee.
• You gain EXTRA INFORMATION - useful stuff for now and useful as your health improves.
• It is more FUN learning in a group! When you come back for follow-ups in the future you can see how other people have improved.
• ONLY ButeykoClinic trained and Buteyko Institute trained practitioners have trained by observing groups (minimum of 50 clients) being taught. NOTE that most of these practitioners have had breathing problems themselves, and are only considered qualified once they completed the tuition of 50 clients.

"We hope you can take a course soon. In the meantime you may have some questions, in which case please don't hesitate to contact the Centre by phone or by e-mail to clarify anything or to book a consultation or a place on a course.

We hope to hear from you and in doing so allow yourself the opportunity to improve the quality of your life, in the way that many thousands of people worldwide have, including the practitioners of the UK Buteyko Breathing Centre''.

Linda Meads
UK Buteyko Breathing Centre