By Dr. Artour
Rakhimov, Buteyko breathing teacher and educator
Breathing education
Part 2-D.
Is there "special breathing"
pattern for exceptional or
super health?
- In 1960-1980s Doctor Buteyko trained about 200 Soviet medical professionals
to use the Buteyko breathing method. His main requirement for these
breathing practitioners was 60 s BHT (breath holding time) and all his
medical pupils fulfilled this criterion. Many of them had up to 2-3 min BHT.
In addition, he taught many hundreds of Russian patients to get up to 1-3 minutes BHT.
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- His finding was that the typical breathing rate
for people with 2-3 min BHT was about 3-5 breaths per minute with minute
volume about 1.5-2.5 l/min with slow relaxed inhalation and long
automatic pause (period of no breathing) of up to 10-16 seconds.
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- Similar
breathing patterns are observed in hatha yoga masters.
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"...Death consists
of the passing out of the air.
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It is, therefore,
necessary to restrain the breath".
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Hatha Yoga
Pradipika, ancient Hatha Yoga manuscript
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