Windhorse Health Clinic

03/09/2025

Upcoming clinic closure dates

Hi friends, hope you’re keeping well, Just a quick note to let you know the clinic will be closed from Tuesday 16 September and then reopening on Wednesday 15 October.

21/08/2025

Hi all, unfortunately due to family bereavement we are having to cancel Sundays Deepening Buteyko session. Apologies and thanks to all who responded. Hopefully we will be able to offer another one in the next few months. 🙏

13/08/2025

We’re looking to run our next Deepening session for graduates of any Buteyko training on Sunday 24 August. Focus on “Mental Health & the breath” as well as usual refresh of practices.
Let us know if keen to attend!
Available online and in-person.

21/06/2025

A great over-view of some of the benefits of nasal, functional breathing (as taught in Buteyko:)
Author James Nestor discusses some of the recent research on the effects of healthy vs unhealthy breathing. His book ‘Breath’ is a great introduction into the world of good breath work and its foundations.

17/06/2025

OR….learn Buteyko Functional breathing😜 you won’t regret not looking like this…I promise you! 😝

13/06/2025

Walking, smiling, hugging, breathing…
The best healing tools? Already yours, already free. 💛

16/05/2025

Date Change Alert! 🌬️💨Our next group course due to start tomorrow has been pushed out a week…so in case you were interested but couldn’t attend this Sat., we are now starting on Saturday the 24th May…A weird name, but ‘Buteyko’ is a tried and tested functional breathing method, to bring our breath into a healthy range. You’ll be amazed at the amount of issues it can help with..from nervous system resets, to cardiovascular & digestive issues, asthma and sleep apnoea. If you are a snorer or just need a general health boost…Buteyko is a wonderful, and powerful tool.
We trained under Patrick McKeown, who is known for his amazing work in the realms of breathing… working on the oxygenation of every cell…and we’d love to train with you! -apnoea

06/05/2025

Today , May 6 is World Asthma Day. Whether you have or have loved ones who suffer the daily stress of not being able to draw breath…today we think of you! If you ever wondered if there are any effective natural methods you could use to reduce symptoms of this debilitating illness…look no further than Buteyko. Buteyko is a functional breathing method used to open airways and to keep breathing easy , even when stressors are present. We have our next group course starting in Eudlo on the 17th May, and knowing how financially stretched people are, we are offering a few sponsored places in the next course. So if you, or someone you know lives on the Sunshine Coast, short on funds , but suffering with Asthma, please don’t hesitate to send them our way. Learning this method is life changing for people living with asthma! DM or go to www.windhorsehealth.com.au/buteyko for more info.

30/04/2025

Have you done Buteyko with us (or other trainers) previously and lost your practice?
This one may be of interest to you. This Saturday 3rd May, in the hills of Eudlo, at Windhorse Health, come and revisit the basic principles of functional breathing, and learn some more ways to bring this practice into your daily life.
Cost is $25 pp from 10-12 am…we’d love to see some familiar faces if you’d like to revive and deepen your practice. 💙🩵💙🌬️💨

24/03/2025

What is functional breathing and why is it important??
Adrienne explains her experience:

Until I did my first course in Buteyko, at the age of 45, I knew nothing about what functional breathing was…I was a chronic asthma sufferer and Ventolin was my go to, at least twice a day.
It took 5-6 weeks of Buteyko exercises and I wasn’t reaching for my ventolin. It was a few months later that I realised I hadn’t needed my medication at all.

So my asthma symptoms had completely subsided, but interestingly, many other things started to get better too. My constant poor digestion had disappeared. I felt more healthy and alive than I had in my 20’s… Functional breathing -aka ‘Buteyko’- had changed my life. My immune system, sleep quality and well being is the best it’s ever been. I have all the tools I need to regulate my nervous system, all due to learning functional breathing. There are many more reasons why our breathing needs to be addressed…
Come to our Buteyko course and learn ‘why’. Next four session course starts May 17 in person in Sunshine Coast hinterland.
Do it for YOU🌬️💨

Visit website for more info and registration: www.windhorsehealth.com.au/upcoming-buteyko-programs/

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31/01/2025

Another great teaching from Tsoknyi Rinpoche!
If you’re interested in more, we are starting back our Fully Being meditation program for this year tomorrow/Sunday 2 February! Sessions are available online as well as in person at Windhorse Health Clinic 10am. All welcome! Fully being is a beautiful, open and accessible way to learn meditation with the gentle guidance and support of Rinpoches teachings. For more info see events or visit http://www.windhorsehealth.com.au/fully-being-sunshine-coast/

“Most of us, at some point in our lives, have experienced some sort of emptiness. We’ve wondered "What am I doing here?” Here may be a job, a relationship, a home, a body with creaking joints, a mind with fading memories. If we look deeper, though, we can see that the void we may experience in our lives is actually a positive prospect.

Emptiness is a rough translation of the Sanskrit term shunyata and the Tibetan term tongpa-nyi. The basic meaning of the Sanskrit word shunya is “zero,” while the Tibetan word tongpa means “empty”—but not in the sense of a vacuum or a void, but rather in the sense that the basis of experience is beyond our ability to perceive with our senses and or to capture in a nice, tidy concept. Maybe a better understanding of the deep sense of the word may be “inconceivable” or “unnameable.”

So when Buddhists talk about emptiness as the basis of our being, we don’t mean that who or what we are is nothing, a zero, a point of view that can give way to a kind of cynicism. The actual teachings on emptiness imply an infinitely open space that allows for anything to appear, change, disappear, and reappear. The basic meaning of emptiness, in other words, is openness, or potential.”

~ Tsoknyi Rinpoche

28/01/2025

New research shows western medicine’s traditional split between brain and body is, in fact, far from clear cut – and could provide a breakthrough for many complex conditions