Linda Meads
Linda was taught the Buteyko Method for asthma by Alexander Stalmatsky in London in 1999. She has been practising the Method since then and has been a qualified Buteyko Institute trained practitioner since 2004. She has now taught the Method to over 1000 people suffering from conditions ranging from Asthma, Hayfever, Snoring/Sleep Apnoea, Hyperventilation Syndrome, migraine and Anxiety and Panic attacks.
Linda was trained in the Buteyko Institute Method by the husband and wife team of Jennifer and Russell Stark from ButeykoWorks New Zealand. In October 2007 she undertook further training in the Netherlands with Masha Antonissen-Kotosouva, a Russian practitioner who worked extensively with Dr. Buteyko and now teaches Buteyko full-time in the Netherlands.
BACKGROUND
Linda Meads has been a teacher of meditation since 1990. In partnership with her husband she has run a Centre in the Midlands teaching meditation. Together they regularly teach corporate and private meditation courses. In 1987/88 she spent 2 years in an AyurVedic Clinic co-ordinating patient care and treatments.
Linda is a Certified Practitioner of the Neuro-Linguistic Programming Technique (NLP) having completed her training with Ian McDermott at International Training Seminars in 2005.
She has trained in Callahan Thought Field Therapy (TFT) and uses this with individual clients where appropriate.
In 2007 she undertook training in Pranayama Yoga with Swami Ram Dev and gained useful insight and experience in the the use of various pranayama techniques to facilitate healing. Where appropriate she also uses these for individual clients, particularly those with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder.
MY STORY
As the daughter of a medical doctor, and an asthmatic/atopic child I was given all the latest asthma medications as soon as they were available. My symptoms were under control for years - I avoided fur, feathers and pollen as much as possible and just used anti-histamines and a little reliever medication when necessary. Then in my 40's it all started again - I had three winters with bronchitis and a couple of summers with awful hay-fever - back to childhood illness levels and increased use of reliever medication. For two years my skin blew up in recurrent episodes of weeping, incredibly itchy and painful urticaria, reaching from my thighs to my forehead. In January 1999 I suffered my third chest infection of the winter leading to an asthma attack I couldn't control. After a trip to the Emergency Room where I was put on nebulisers and hydrocortisone, I was admitted to Warwick Hospital and kept in for 10 days. What wonderful treatment I received from the Consultants and ward staff - and what a great rest I was able to have - I just hadn't realised how chronically exhausted I had become. I've now observed this over and over again with asthma sufferers - you just get used to having horrible symptoms - you learn to live with your asthma. Until you learn Buteyko - then you have to learn to live without it !
I left hospital on a large daily dose of inhaled steroids, which I hadn't used since childhood, plus various skin creams, and steroid and reliever inhalers. This calmed everything down but it wasn't solving the underlying problem. Having heard good things about Buteyko from some contacts in the US, then from friends in Birmingham, whose children had had wonderful results from a Buteyko course, I did some research into the Method.
The whole Buteyko theory made such sense. It explained why the allopathic medicine couldn't help any asthmatic in the long-term - I simply had to help myself. So in April 1999 I took a Buteyko breathing course in London with Alexander Stalmatsky. The exercises reduced my symptoms drastically, meaning less Ventolin. Since that time I have had absolutely no problems with my skin. The improvements in my energy levels and general health were so amazing that in 2000 I decided to train as a Practitioner. Over the past 10 years it has been so satisfying to be able to use my own experience of normalising the breathing to help people overcome the same awful symptoms as I had - something good has come out of all that illness!
My Practitioner training was with Russell and Jennifer Stark, from New Zealand, who were trained by Alexander Stalmatsky then set up the Buteyko Institute of Breathing & Health in Australia. This brilliant training course was tough - because it is specificallly aimed at teaching and managing the teaching and follow-up of small groups of clients. The course lasted approx. nine months, involving background reading and written assignments, and included an intensive month of observation of at least 50 clients. This was followed by supervised teaching, then by an assessment period until the first 50 clients had been taught. Over the next 3 years I asssited in arranging courses in the UK for the Starks and observed practitioner training to students from all over the world..
I have now successfully taught more than 1000 people of all ages and with all degrees of health disorders and hopw that I can be of assistance to you too. Please look at the tesimonials page t osee some of the results people have achieved with us.
Please feel free to contact me to discuss any aspect of our courses or anything included in this website.
01789 298290 or e-mail me at courses@Buteyko.co.uk
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