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Asthma management
The Buteyko Method is a powerful, non-pharmaceutical approach to managing asthma by retraining how you breathe.
This technique focuses on reducing chronic hyperventilation and restoring a natural balance between oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in the body.
For individuals with asthma, overbreathing can exacerbate symptoms by triggering airway constriction and reducing the body’s ability to effectively transport oxygen.
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Through specific exercises that promote nasal breathing and controlled breath, the the method aims to:
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Reduce asthma symptoms like wheezing, coughing, and breathlessness.​
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Lower the frequency and intensity of asthma attacks.​​
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Improve overall lung function and breathing efficiency.
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By learning to manage your breathing, you can gain more control over your asthma, improve your quality of life, and, in many cases, reduce the need for inhalers and medications. The method has been widely used by asthma sufferers worldwide, with many reporting significant improvements in their condition.

Restore Nose Breath (vs Mouth Breath)
Nasal breathing is a fundamental principle that plays a crucial role in improving respiratory health. The method emphasises the importance of breathing through the nose, and is aimed at addressing congestion and widening the narrow nasal passages, to maintain proper oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in the body.
Why Nasal Breathing?
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Breathing through the nose has numerous benefits, especially for people with asthma:
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Filtration and Humidification: The nose filters, warms, and humidifies the air, making it less irritating to the airways. Mouth breathing bypasses this process, allowing cold, dry, or polluted air to enter directly into the lungs, which can aggravate asthma symptoms.
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Regulating Breathing Volume: Nasal breathing naturally restricts airflow, helping to prevent overbreathing (or hyperventilation). This helps maintain the delicate balance between oxygen and carbon dioxide in the body, which is essential for optimal oxygen delivery to tissues.
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Supporting Diaphragmatic Breathing: Nose breathing encourages diaphragmatic (or abdominal) breathing, which is deeper and more controlled. In contrast, mouth breathing often leads to shallow chest breathing, which can worsen asthma symptoms by triggering airway constriction.
Why not Mouth Breathing?
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Mouth breathing can contribute to:
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Over-breathing: Inhaling too much air too quickly, which can cause a rapid loss of carbon dioxide and lead to shortness of breath and increased asthma attacks in asthma sufferers.
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Dry Airways: The mouth doesn't humidify the air, which can dry out the respiratory tract and make the airways more sensitive, leading to inflammation and bronchospasms.
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Increased Risk of Respiratory Problems: Habitual mouth breathing is linked to an increased risk of respiratory issues, such as chronic coughs, throat infections, and poor lung function.
By retraining to breathe through the nose, you can reduce asthma symptoms, support better overall lung health, and promote more efficient oxygen delivery throughout the body.

Sport Performance
The Buteyko Method is not only beneficial for managing asthma and respiratory conditions but also for enhancing sports performance. Proper breathing plays a crucial role in physical endurance, recovery, and overall athletic output. By adopting specific breathing techniques, athletes can improve their performance and endurance through better oxygen utilisation and efficient respiratory control.
How Does It Improve Sports Performance?
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Optimised Oxygen Delivery: The method trains athletes to manage their breathing volume and retain more carbon dioxide, which enhances oxygen uptake and delivery to muscles. This can lead to increased stamina and reduced fatigue during intense exercise.
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Increased Endurance: Nasal breathing, a core principle of the Buteyko Method, encourages deeper, diaphragmatic breaths that maximise oxygen efficiency. This allows you to maintain peak performance for longer periods without overexerting you respiratory system.
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Improved Recovery: Controlled breathing techniques help you recover faster between training sessions or competitions. by reducing lactic acid buildup and stabilising heart rate after intense physical activity.
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Enhanced Focus and Mental Clarity: Proper breathing can also improve mental focus and reduce anxiety during competition, allowing you to stay calm under pressure and make better decisions in high-stress situations.
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Prevention of Breathlessness: By practicing reduced breathing and breath-hold exercises, you can increase your tolerance to higher levels of carbon dioxide, which can help prevent breathlessness during exercise and improve overall respiratory function.
A valuable tool for athletes across all disciplines, from endurance sports like running and cycling to high-intensity activities such as kick-boxing or weightlifting and team sports. By learning to control your breath, you can maximise your performance, reduce risk of injury, and build long-term resilience.

Stress, Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Elevated Heart Rate
A highly effective approach for managing stress, anxiety, panic attacks, and elevated heart rate by shifting your breathing habits. These conditions are often linked to shallow, rapid breathing, which can trigger a physiological response in the body that worsens anxiety and panic, feeding the cycle. The Buteyko Method focuses on regulating the breath to help calm the nervous system, restore balance, and bring immediate relief in stressful situations.
How Does It Help?
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Regulates Breathing Patterns: During stress and anxiety, many people tend to over-breathe or hyperventilate, which reduces carbon dioxide levels in the blood. This imbalance can lead to dizziness, shortness of breath, and increased heart rate, all of which can worsen anxiety or panic. You will learn to regain control of your breathing and reduce these symptoms.
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Activates the Parasympathetic Nervous System: Through specific exercises you will learn to activate the parasympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for the "rest and digest" state. This helps slow down the heart rate, lowers blood pressure, and calms the mind, making it easier to manage stress and anxiety in real-time.
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Reduces Panic Attack Symptoms: Panic attacks are often accompanied by rapid breathing and chest tightness. This method teaches breath-holding and controlled breathing techniques that can help stop a panic attack before it escalates, preventing hyperventilation and its associated symptoms (dizziness, elevated heart rate, breathlessness, tingling sensations).
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Improves Mental Clarity and Focus: Shallow or rapid breathing caused by anxiety reduces the flow of oxygen to the brain, impairing focus and concentration. By adopting Buteyko breathing techniques, you increase oxygen efficiency, which promotes mental clarity and helps you stay calm under pressure.
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Balances the Heart Rate: Controlled breathing helps regulate the heart rate, especially in stressful situations. By learning to control the breath into steady rhythm we can influence our heart rate, reducing the physical symptoms of stress and anxiety.
Learning to manage your breathing can lead to a profound shift in how you handle stress, lower your anxiety levels, and prevent panic attacks, leading to a calmer, more balanced life.

Snoring, Insomnia, Sleep Apnoea, Sleep Disorders
A natural way for addressing snoring, insomnia, sleep apnea, and other sleep disorders by improving breathing habits during sleep. Poor breathing patterns, particularly mouth breathing, are common contributors to disrupted sleep and chronic fatigue. Nasal breathing, on the other hand, humidifies and filters the air, preventing dryness and irritation that occurs with mouth breathing at night. We will focus on reprogramming your breathing to improve sleep quality and have fewer wake-ups.
How Does It Improve Sleep?
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Reduces Snoring: There can be several causes to snoring, including obstruction, congestion, deviated septum or mouth breathing during sleep. If you've had deviated septum for a while, it's possible that it has brought on some additional issues, which potentially can be addressed. We will work on restoring the optimal nasal breathing to keep the airways open to reduce the symptoms of snoring.
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Manages Sleep Apnea: Sleep apnea occurs when breathing repeatedly stops and starts during sleep, leading to poor oxygenation and disrupted rest. This is majorly affected by habitual poor breathing during the day. We will work on correcting this and encouraging functional breaths. By retraining the body to breathe properly, you can reduce the severity of sleep apnea symptoms and start waking up feeling refreshed.
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Improves Insomnia: Insomnia can often be linked to stress, anxiety, or an inability to relax. We will focus on the breathing techniques that calm the nervous system and encourage a state of relaxation, helping you fall asleep faster and stay asleep deeper for longer. ​
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Addresses Sleep Disorders: Whether it’s difficulty staying asleep or frequent awakenings, dysfunctional breathing can be a key factor in many sleep disorders. We will train on restoring proper breathing patterns that prevent the body from hyperventilating during sleep. This leads to deeper, more restful sleep cycles and fewer disturbances throughout the night.
By retraining your breathing, you can effectively address common sleep issues like snoring, sleep apnea, and insomnia, leading to deeper, restorative sleep, increased energy, and improved quality of life.

High Blood Pressure
The Buteyko breathing can be an effective tool for managing high blood pressure by improving breathing habits and promoting relaxation. Poor or shallow breathing, especially mouth breathing, can trigger stress responses, constrict blood vessels, and raise blood pressure.
How Does Breath Affect Blood Pressure?
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Breath Control Lowers Stress: Slow, controlled breathing helps to calm the nervous system by stimulating the Vagus nerve to activate the parasympathetic nervous system, which lowers heart rate and blood pressure. By performing specific breathing exercises your body enters a more relaxed state, reducing the physical response that contributes to high blood pressure.
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Improved Oxygen Efficiency: Nasal breathing is crucial to ensuring that your body uses oxygen more efficiently, reducing strain on the cardiovascular system. Mouth breathing, over-breathing or chest breathing can lead to low levels of carbon dioxide, causing blood vessels to constrict and forcing the heart to work harder to circulate blood.
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Balanced Breathing Stabilises Blood Pressure: Through breathing exercises you can stabilise your blood pressure over time. This creates a natural balance in the body, reducing the need for the heart to pump harder and lowering the overall blood pressure often prompting to reduce medication.
By adopting better breathing habits, you can naturally manage high blood pressure and promote long-term cardiovascular health.

Frequent Colds
Frequent colds are often linked to compromised immune function and poor respiratory health. Proper breathing plays a significant role in supporting the immune system and reducing vulnerability to infections. Breathing through the nose, rather than the mouth, helps protect the respiratory system by filtering out bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens before they reach the lungs.
How Can Breath Help Reduce Colds?
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Nasal Breathing Filters and Warms the Air: The nose acts as a natural filter, the first line of defence, trapping dust, allergens, and pathogens. It also warms the air entering our lungs. Breathing through the mouth bypasses this defence, allowing cold unfiltered air to enter your mouth and throat, making you more susceptible to frequent colds and respiratory infections.
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Improved Immune Response: Functional breathing helps maintain a balanced oxygen-carbon dioxide ratio, which is essential for a healthy immune system. When your breathing is optimal, the body's immune defenses are more effective in fighting off infections, reducing the frequency and severity of colds.
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Enhanced Lung Function: Controlled breathing promotes better lung health and clears airways. This also supports faster recovery from colds.
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You can strengthen your body’s natural defenses and experience fewer colds throughout the year, leading to improved respiratory health and overall well-being.

Children with Respiratory Issues, Enlarged Tonsils and Adenoids
Children with respiratory issues, including those with enlarged adenoids or tonsils, often experience difficulty breathing, which can lead to frequent infections, sleep problems, and even poor craniofacial development. Good breathing habits, especially nasal breathing, are crucial for supporting healthy growth and reducing these issues.
How Does it Help Kids with Respiratory Issues?
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Nasal Breathing Reduces Inflammation: Breathing through the nose helps keep airways clear and reduces inflammation in the adenoids and tonsils. Mouth breathing, on the other hand, can worsen these conditions by drying out the airways and increasing the risk of infections.
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Promotes Better Sleep: Children with enlarged adenoids or tonsils often struggle with snoring or sleep apnea, leading to restless nights. Correct breathing techniques can open up the airways, improving sleep quality and reducing nighttime breathing problems.
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Supports Overall Respiratory Health: Teaching children to breathe properly helps them manage respiratory issues like asthma and frequent colds. Nasal breathing filters out allergens and pathogens, keeping the airways clear and reducing the likelihood of infections.
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Healthy Craniofacial Development: When children breathe through their nose, it encourages proper tongue posture, which naturally rests on the roof of the mouth. This helps guide the growth of the palate, jaw, and facial structure.
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Mouth breathing, on the other hand, can contribute to improper jaw alignment, narrow dental arches, and facial asymmetry. Over time, chronic mouth breathing can affect not only the shape of the face but also lead to issues like crowded teeth, misaligned jaws, and even speech difficulties. Proper breathing habits support the healthy development of the facial bones and muscles, promoting natural growth and reducing the risk of long-term dental or orthodontic problems.
By encouraging good breathing habits early, children can experience relief from symptoms related to respiratory issues and support healthier development as they grow.

Functional Breath Coaching
Programs and Sessions
The Buteyko Method is an effective way to help you breathe better, sleep better, and feel more energised throughout your day.
While it often takes years to slowly and unnoticeably fall into unhelpful breathing patterns, we can start turning them around with just a little daily commitment. You’ll likely notice relief by the second week, but for lasting results take place, expect the real changes to build up over about 3 months of self-practice. It takes some effort for these new habits to stick—but don’t worry, I’m here to guide you the entire way.
From the very first session, you’ll learn techniques that are profoundly simple—or simply profound – yet make a real difference in how you feel. We’ll work together to spot any dysfunctional breathing habits and create a plan that’s tailored to you. You’ll have easy exercises to fit into your daily routine, and I’ll be there to support you outside of our scheduled sessions too.
What to Expect:
The basic program consists of 5 live online sessions over 4 weeks. On Week 1, we’ll meet twice, and then once a week for the remaining 3 weeks. This gives you time between sessions to practice, notice your progress, and adjust the techniques. This setup allows you to build a good foundation for incorporating the method into your life and let the changes stick—for both groups and individuals.
The 12 week program offers extended coaching and support during this important period. True habits don't form in 21 days, as we are often told, the reprogramming of deep habits often takes a bit longer. Unlearning and re-learning is hard and can be made easier with solid recurring guidance.
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And if you'd like to bring these Healthy Habits to your workplace, and invest in the health and stress management of your employees - lets talk!
1:1 Program
Personal Sessions with a dedicated coach allow you to focus solely on your needs and goals with breathing exercises that are tailored specifically to you.
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Choose from two available Programs:
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4 Week Initial Program
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4 Week program gives you a great foundation for informed self-practice after. Learn the techniques for management of your symptoms.
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5 Sessions over 4 weeks.
45-60 minutes per session
Cost: €199.-
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12 Week Extended Program
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The 12 Week Program offers extended guidance and support during this important period. True habits don't form in 21 days, some bad habits take a little longer to reprogram. Unlearning the bad and establishing the good habits is made easier with solid recurring guidance of a Certified Coach..
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12 Sessions over 12 Weeks
60 min per session
Cost: €525.-
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Single Session: €50.-