The Breathing Book: Vitality & Good Health Through Essential Breath Work

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The Breathing Book: Vitality & Good Health Through Essential Breath Work

Author(s):

Donna Farhi

Label: Holt Paperbacks
Publisher(s):

Holt Paperbacks

Studio: Holt Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Holt Paperbacks
Binding: Paperback
List Price: $20.00
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Editorial Reviews

Product Description

A groundbreaking approach to improving the quality of your life through the most readily accessible resource: your breath. These safe and easy-to-learn techniques can also be used to treat asthma and ease stress, depression, eating disorders, insomnia, arthritis, chronic pain, and other debilitating conditions.

Customer Reviews

Pranayama for Anyone

Donna Farhi proves why she is the acknowledged expert in this field.
Great book with accessible information.

Breath of Life

Donna Farhi has done a wonderful job here explaining the common habitual breathing mistakes many people adopt and how to reverse the habit. We tend to trivialize the imprtance of breathing correctly and yet it is the very mechanism that can transform the way we think and therefore the way we act. It does have alot of information in it but 'Rome was not built in a day', and most of us have spent a lifetime cultivating a strange breathing pattern that causes gripping in the body and mind. This book is great for the yoga student and teacher but also to anyone else, as we all need to breathe be it on a sticky mat or not.The anatomy of breathing was very useful, as was the section on dismantling the incorrect pattern. Camella Nair - Author of "Aqua Kriya Yoga".

Breathing my asthma away...

I have mild asthma and used to use my rescue inhaler (albuterol) a couple of times a week, and more often in the winter. Then I read an article in Yoga Journal about how asthma treatment only addresses the symptoms, not the causes, of asthma. I would usually have an attack due to cold winter air, cigarette smoke and strong perfumes, and when I went jogging. My yoga teacher loaned me THE BREATHING BOOK, and I read about how "chest breathing"--breathing into the chest only instead of down into the belly--and breathing through your mouth can trigger attacks. I realized that I often would breathe through my mouth instead of my nose, and that I would habitually hold in my stomach and only breathe into my chest. This creates shoulder tension and also doesn't give the diaphragm time to rest. These things together, I learned from this book, can cause the symptoms of asthma. It's important to breathe in deeply, through the nose, and to allow the diaphragm a moment of rest after each exhalation. The book has simple breathing exercises for asthmatics and for many other physical conditions. When I read Farhi's advice, I changed my patterns and practiced conscious breathing, and almost immediately saw results. In just a couple of months, I found that I needed to use my inhaler less and less, only once or twice a month instead of once or twice a week. Of course, this might not work for everybody, and I still keep my inhaler with me always just in case, but for the price of the book and a small investment of time, I've seen an enormous improvement. After I returned my yoga teacher's copy of the book, I decided that I had to buy it for myself.

Not what I expected

I almost wonder if I have the same book as the other reviewers. I found this book very difficult to use. The chapters go on and on with theory and philosophy, but very little in the way of simple to follow exercises. Also, the book assumes you are already familiar with Yoga and are comfortable doing long stretching exercises before you begin.

I became interested in breathing excercises from Andrew Weil's tapes that accompany the "8 weeks" book. I was hoping for more exercises and perhaps even a couple of complete sets of exercises to go with what I had heard on the tapes. I envisioned doing excercises at the office in the morning or at home before bed to improve health and reduce stress. I did not need or want (yet) an exegesis of the theory of breath and health; nor was I looking for techniques that require special clothing, mats and pillows, and 10 minutes of set up.

If you want the full dose of theory, spirituality, new age physiology, etc., this is the book for you (and probably a very good one at that). But if you are looking for a simple breathing book to introduce you to breath work, this is probably not the book for you.

A Breath of Fresh Air

The book is simple to read, easy to follow and has clear explanations. It is well organized and the pictures are relevant.

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