Kathryn Godfrey qualified as a nurse and health visitor before becoming interested in breathing therapy. Having had asthma since childhood, she has personally experienced success in controlling her condition using Buteyko. Kathryn runs a Buteyko clinic at a complementary health centre in North London.
Gillian Austin is an experienced respiratory physiotherapist who has a special interest in asthma, COPD and hyperventilation. She works as a senior respiratory physiotherapist at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage. A qualified Buteyko teacher, Gillian uses Buteyko as part of her NHS practice.
Catherine Moffat.Catherine is an experienced respiratory specialist physiotherapist for the Breathlessness Intervention Service (BIS) at Addenbrookes hospital, Cambridge, specialising in the management of breathlessness in chronic disease such as asthma, COPD, heart failure and cancer.
Janet Brindley, whose background is in medical science, is a founding member of the Buteyko Breathing Association and an experienced Buteyko teacher. As a life-long asthmatic, her own experience of the benefits of Buteyko has made her a keen advocate for the technique. She currently teaches Buteyko techniques within adult education.
A snapshot of patients
Miss H was an interesting and challenging client as she was not a ‘straight forward’ asthma sufferer. However with a little lateral thinking we achieved good results from both with the control pause and maximum pause improving and more importantly her breathing improved tremendously whilst training.’
‘Mr L was fun to work with and his competitive nature was useful to encourage him to achieve more. On reflection it would appear that his mouth breathing was the underlying cause of his problem.’
‘It would appear that Mrs J’s key issues were the dysfunctional way she used her shoulders to breath. Once she mastered keeping them still and using the diaphragm most of her breathing issues resolved. It was also interesting to see that the introduction of BBT slow breathing reversed the incorrect pattern.’
Miss B and her mother were very focused on winning at Scottish dancing. It was interesting and challenging to adapt the BBT to work with the dancing – this was for two reasons: firstly the lack of time in their day to do specific BBT and secondly they appeared to need to understand and be able to relate the technique directly to the dancing.’
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Kathryn Godfrey qualified as a nurse and health visitor before becoming interested in breathing therapy. Having had asthma since childhood, she has personally experienced success in controlling her condition using Buteyko. Kathryn runs a Buteyko clinic at a complementary health centre in North London.
Gillian Austin is an experienced respiratory physiotherapist who has a special interest in asthma, COPD and hyperventilation. She works as a senior respiratory physiotherapist at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage. A qualified Buteyko teacher, Gillian uses Buteyko as part of her NHS practice.
Catherine Moffat.Catherine is an experienced respiratory specialist physiotherapist for the Breathlessness Intervention Service (BIS) at Addenbrookes hospital, Cambridge, specialising in the management of breathlessness in chronic disease such as asthma, COPD, heart failure and cancer.
Janet Brindley, whose background is in medical science, is a founding member of the Buteyko Breathing Association and an experienced Buteyko teacher. As a life-long asthmatic, her own experience of the benefits of Buteyko has made her a keen advocate for the technique. She currently teaches Buteyko techniques within adult education.