Welcome to the Breathing Centre:.

                           "Optimal Breathing Behaviour is the Highway to Health"

What is the Breathing Centre?

A centre of excellence in Scotland for the promotion of good health through relaxation and optimal breathing.

The Breathing Centre is staffed by a Chartered Physiotherapist and a Registered Nurse, both Certified Buteyko Practitioners, with many years experience in their respective fields and a combined 13 years teaching the Buteyko Breathing Method. It aims to guide sufferers of stress and disease on to the road to good health through relaxation and breathing retraining.

The breathing centre is all about making people independent in the care of their own health through  regulation of their breathing.  Our short course incorporates relaxation and the amazing Buteyko Breathing Technique, now recognised by the British Thoracic Society as an accepted treatment for Asthma.  Optimal breathing behaviour has a positive effect on all the systems and organs of the body bringing balance and good health.  

Who will benefit?

Everyone benefits from efficient breathing. Research has shown that habitual hyperventilation(overbreathing) is endemic in our society, and is a major precursor to many conditions including

• Asthma - sufferers experience 50% less symptoms within 2 weeks, 90% reduction in reliever medication and 49% less preventer medication within 3 months
• Stress
• Anxiety & Panic Attacks
• Sleep disorders -Insomnia, Sleep Apnoea
• Allergies
• Depression
• Hayfever
• Digestive disorders

Because breathing appears to happen on its own it does not necessarily mean that it is functioning at a level which is required to keep us in optimum mental and physical health.  Disturbed breathing has been shown, over time, to lead to  ill health.  Unless the breathing disorder is addressed it can be disasterous for the whole organism.   

Did You Know?

• That Cancer cells survive and grow in hypoxic (low oxygen) tissue.

• Good breathing is essential for a restful and refreshing nights Sleep.

• Asthmatics are enabled to dramatically reduce their symptoms

  and medication use by retraining their breathing.

• Heart Disease is linked to shortness of breath. Spasm of the

  coronary arteries occurs when oxygen levels are low

• Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Depression are directly related to

  disturbed breathing behaviour.

• The Intestines are affected by lack of oxygen.  Symptoms, such as

  Irritable Bowel Syndrome, flatulence, bloating and constipation are the result.

• A link between Raised Blood Pressure and lowered oxygen levels

     has been established.

• Stressed Individuals are noted to breathe rapidely using the upper chest muscles.  This will lead to a reduction of the oxygen supply to the cells.          

                 Enrol on an 8 hour courses  at The Breathing Centre.          

        Gain the knowledge and practice of breathing techniques which will

           improve your health in a positive, efficient and effective way.