Class one:      Physiology of breathing and oxygen usage.       

                      How medications act in this cycle.  Exercises

                      to measure breathing efficiency and beginning

                       exercises for resetting the breathing rate.

 

Class two:       How food effects breathing.  What nutrients

                       are important to breathing health.  Exercises 

                       for resetting breathing rate continued.  Exercise

                       to ease shortness of breath appropriate for

                       student's health problems.

 

Class three:       Hyperventilation and how it effects the body.

                       Exercises to control hyperventilation episodes.

                       Practice previous exercises and measure their

                       effectiveness.

 

Class four:     Physical exercise with the Buteyko Method.

                     Methods of reducing overbreathing.  Practice

                     of previous exercises.

 

Class five:    Managing illness with Buteyko.  Looking at

                    lifestyle changes.  Mastering the exercise

                    records.  Reducing the exercise schedule as

                    breathing efficiency improves.  How to maintain

                    improvement. Review of previous material.

 

All classes have a question and answer time.  Each student is given individual attention to be certain they have mastered the required information to improve and maintain breathing health.  Course includes a booklet with information, charts and exercise descriptions.  Homework practicing the exercises is an integral part of the program.  Visual aids are used in the teaching process.  Each class lasts about one to one and a half hours.