Kathleen’s motivation for becoming an Oxygen Advantage® Certified Instructor and a Buteyko Clinic Practitioner in 2018 is deeply personal. For more than 25 years, as an adult, Kathleen suffered from severe, uncontrolled asthma. While under the care of the best pulmonary and critical care specialists and relying on the latest medications and inhalers, she had countless asthma attacks that required emergency medical treatment. One severe attack resulted in acute respiratory failure, where she was put into a medically induced coma and placed on a ventilator for three days.

The solution came in late September 2017 when Kathleen heard Patrick McKeown on a podcast talk about the process of breathing and how the Buteyko Breathing Method can control asthma. Kathleen immediately read Patrick’s book, The Oxygen Advantage, and decided to try retraining her breathing. She practiced the recommended exercises along with the guidelines and, within two weeks, had a measurable improvement in her breathing. Impressed with her progress, Kathleen continued with the program. 

Kathleen has been asthma-free and medication-free since 2018.