Expand your breathing horizons
Science based breathing: The Buteyko Breathing Method
Your everyday breathing pattern can influence much more than you might realise. It can affect how efficiently your respiratory system works, how it responds to your environment, how stable it is, how your body responds to stress, and how your breathing adapts during sleep and exercise.
At Breathscape, I use the Buteyko Breathing Method to help retrain breathing patterns that may be contributing to the way you feel and the symptoms you experience. I work with people living with asthma, allergies and congestion, snoring and sleep apnoea, anxiety, panic disorder and other breathing-related concerns.
The missing pillar
in health is breath
- James Nestor
What if your breathing is part of the story?
Breathing is connected to far more than your lungs. It influences and connects with almost every part of the human body, so no wonder it can cause more grief than you may realise. Yet most of us take it for granted, and most of us are doing it wrong too.
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Learn to reduce unnecessary overbreathing that may be contributing to your symptoms.
The Buteyko difference
Breathing retraining for the way you breathe every day.
The Buteyko Breathing Method was developed by Ukrainian physician Dr Konstantin Buteyko in the 1950s, after he became interested in the relationship between breathing and health.
Unlike some popular breathwork modalities, Buteyko takes a different approach: educating you on how the respiratory system works, exploring the gases that regulate breathing, and focusing on nasal, light, slow, low and quiet breathing.
We put to bed the myth that more breathing means more oxygen for your body.
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What people are saying
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If you're considering the Buteyko Method for asthma or any other breathing-related concerns, I wholeheartedly recommend Alana. She's an exceptional practitioner who combines expertise with genuine compassion, and you can tell she truly cares about every person she works with.
- Alissa P
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My need to use Ventolin for asthma symptoms has decreased dramatically. From needing to use it almost daily (between 1-4 puffs a day), I've gone as long as 3 weeks not using it since practicing the breathing exercises Alana taught me. I highly recommend her to anyone who's committed.
- Mia T
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Alana is clearly passionate and inspiring, and the session was both powerful and deeply releasing, leaving me feeling lighter, clearer, and more aligned. I would highly recommend Alana to anyone who wants to work on their breathing, whether you’re new to it or experienced.
- Lo K
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The Other Side of the Breath
Often, breathing less is exactly what your body needs.
We tend to think that breathing more means getting more oxygen. But when it comes to breathing, more isn't necessarily better.
Breathing can gradually become faster, bigger, noisier or more effortful than your body needs. It can happen so gradually that the pattern starts to feel normal and may go completely unnoticed.
You might sigh or yawn frequently, breathe through your mouth (or even in nose and out mouth), breathe heavily during rest, notice your chest constantly moving, or feel like you need to take a bigger breath to get enough air.
This is what we mean by overbreathing, breathing more than your body needs for its current metabolic demands.
And here's the fun fact that no one taught you:
Carbon dioxide isn't simply a ‘waste gas’ that we breathe out. It plays an important role in regulating breathing and influencing how oxygen is released from haemoglobin to the tissues, organs and cells.
When we overbreathe, we can lower the amount of carbon dioxide in the blood and lungs. This is one reason the Buteyko Method focuses on reducing unnecessary breathing, rather than taking bigger breaths.
The goal isn't more air. It's breathing in a way that better matches what your body needs.
