Buteyko Breathing Exercises in 3 Minutes

Patrick McKeown

PatrickMcKeownButeykoBreathingExercises.jpg

Patrick McKeown on a stage with a slide in the background with the text about breathing during stress from the article

Buteyko Clinic International

In this video Patrick McKeown will share Buteyko Breathing Exercises and how you breathe when you are stressed. He will also explore the difference between fast breathing and slow breathing.

When you are stressed do you breathe more or do you breathe less? Generally we start breathing more. We breathe faster, we breathe more noticeably, we breathe through the mouth.

Breathing during stress is:

  • Faster
  • Sigh more (irregular)
  • Oral breathing
  • Noticeable breathing
  • Upper chest breathing

Breathing to evoke relaxation:

  • Slow down
  • Regular
  • Nose breathing
  • Soft breathing
  • Diaphragm breathing

Buteyko Breathing Exercises in 3 minutes by Patrick McKeown

Buteyko Clinic International

About the Author

Patrick McKeown

Patrick is the President of Buteyko Professionals International. He is also a member of the Management Board and the Advisory Faculty of the International Academy of Breathing & Health.

Patrick was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and later studied in the Moscow clinic of the founder of the Buteyko Breathing

Related Author

Eugenia Malyshev

Eugenia Malyshev, M.Sc., Dip. B.B.P., is a health coach and educator who is bringing awareness to the powerful, doctor-developed breathing normalization program called the Buteyko Breathing Method. In 2008, she became the first Buteyko practitioner in the U.S. accredited by the Buteyko Clinic International, the largest Buteyko training organization in the