Renowned breathing expert offers a guide to conscious breathing with skills for reducing stress, alleviating tension, returning breath to its natural state of harmony, and opening your heart. Breath moves in wavelike motions. When breath flows freely within the body, we live in a natural state of harmony, making choices that enhance well-being and generate energy.Each individual breath travels through us in a unique way depending on its flow, texture, speed, and patterning. Like a leaf falling from a tree that spirals to the ground, waves of breath travel through the airways of the body in a spiraling motion. This is the way air moves, the way breath moves, and the way oceans, rivers, and lakes move, too. When we tighten our passageways and compromise our breathing, our health suffers. Most of us are born with the ability to breathe freely and naturally, but as the years go by, our breathing becomes labored—compromised by fear, disappointment, trauma, and pollutants. So we contract our breathing body and create ways that feel protective of our vulnerable selves but actually constrict the oxygen intake and thus the nourishment our body receives. In The Breathable Body: Transforming Your World and Your Life, One Breath at a Time, Robert Litman shares the insights and practices he has discovered during more than 30 years of professional experience in conscious breathing and movement. Born with breathing difficulties and suffering from asthma as a child, Robert found ways to overcome his own childhood PTSD and now shares trauma-sensitive teachings to help people breathe and live better. You can change your life—including alleviating symptoms of asthma, snoring, sleep apnea, insomnia, anxiety, panic attacks, digestive difficulties, and fatigue—by changing how you breathe. The techniques in this book will teach you how to support and protect your body and its respiratory system. Through conscious breathing, movement, sound, and a clear understanding of anatomy and respiration, we learn habits that support healthy and natural breathing.

A renowned breathing specialist gives a handbook to mindful breathing that includes techniques for lowering stress, relieving tension, restoring the breath's natural condition of harmony, and opening your heart. Breath travels in a wavelike pattern. We live in a natural state of harmony when our breath travels freely inside our bodies, making choices that improve our well-being and produce energy.Each breath moves through us in a different manner based on its flow, texture, pace, and patterns. Waves of breath pass through the body's airways in a spiraling pattern, similar to a leaf falling from a tree and spiraling to the earth. This is how air flows, how breath moves, and how seas, rivers, and lakes move. When we narrow our channels and make concessions. Most of us are born with the capacity to breathe freely and spontaneously; nevertheless, as we age, our breathing becomes laborious, hampered by anxiety, disappointment, trauma, and pollution. As a result, we contract our breathing body and adopt behaviors that seem protective of our fragile selves but also restrict oxygen intake and consequently sustenance to our bodies. Katherine R. Mireles shares the insights and practices she has discovered during her more than 30 years of professional experience in conscious breathing and movement, as well as for many people born with breathing difficulties and suffering from asthma as children, in The Breathable Body: Transforming Your World and Your Life, One Breath at a Time. By altering how you breathe, you may affect your life, including symptoms of asthma, snoring, sleep apnea, insomnia, anxiety, panic attacks, digestive troubles, and exhaustion. This book's ideas will show you how to maintain and safeguard your body's respiratory system. We acquire habits that promote healthy and natural breathing via mindful breathing, movement, music, and a clear knowledge of anatomy and respiration.

In the hierarchy of life, breath always wins. It persists 22,000 times daily, but you get to decide whether the way you breathe is to your benefit or detriment. Breath becomes compromised by stress, disease, and the environmental trappings of progress; you can still breathe under this pressure, but it leads to poor breathing habits that slowly whittle away at your health. In Body by Breath, bestselling author Jill Miller takes you on a journey through your breathing body and presents more than 100 step-by-step techniques and practices to help you master the body-breath connection and reset your physiology. This book explores four primary types of resilience-building exercises—breathwork, movement, rolling, and non-sleep deep rest—to help you achieve • Greater power, endurance, and recovery ability • Enhanced self-regulation skills • Supercharged executive function • Relief from pain, injuries, and chronic conditions • Freedom to feel, connect, and express stored emotions Jill shares her scientifically supported methods so you can Train and modulate your body and nervous system for reduced stress, improved mobility, and whole-body resilience Discover the latest findings in breath and fascia research and get the most out of breathwork practice by including more of your body’s parts in the mix Map the vast reach of the diaphragm and feel how it intermingles with everything in your body. You’ll travel the pathways of the vagus nerve and trace miles of fascial intersections beneath your skin to unlock your body’s regenerative reservoir. If you have struggled with traditional meditation practices because remaining still spikes your anxiety and leaves you feeling agitated and fidgety, Body by Breath presents innovative alternatives designed for your unique nervous system. This inclusive approach allows you to reap the benefits of relaxation, restoration, and regeneration. Take these practices into your life and renew the way you embody breath.

The movement of breath resembles gentle waves, flowing in harmony within our bodies. When our breath flows freely, we experience a natural state of balance, making choices that enhance our well-being and generate energy. Each breath we take follows a unique path, influenced by its flow, texture, speed, and patterns. Just like a spiraling leaf descending from a tree, waves of breath spiral through our airways, mirroring the movement of air, oceans, rivers, and lakes. However, when we restrict our breath and hinder its passage, our health suffers. Initially, we are born with the innate ability to breathe naturally and effortlessly. Yet, as time goes by, our breathing becomes burdened, compromised by fear, disappointment, trauma, and pollutants. Consequently, we contract our breathing body, believing it offers protection for our vulnerable selves. In reality, these contractions limit oxygen intake and deprive our bodies of essential nourishment. "The Breathable Body: Transforming Your World and Your Life, One Breath at a Time" by Robert Litman shares invaluable insights and practices derived from over 30 years of professional experience in conscious breathing and movement. Having endured breathing difficulties and asthma as a child, Robert discovered ways to overcome his own childhood PTSD. Now, he imparts trauma-sensitive teachings to help individuals improve their breathing and overall well-being. By altering your breathing patterns, you can transform your life and alleviate symptoms such as asthma, snoring, sleep apnea, insomnia, anxiety, panic attacks, digestive difficulties, and fatigue. This book provides techniques that will guide you in supporting and safeguarding your body and its respiratory system. Through conscious breathing, movement, sound, and a comprehensive understanding of anatomy and respiration, you will develop habits that promote healthy and natural breathing.

A new approach to improving quality of life through your most accessible resource: your breath. Internationally renowned yoga instructor Donna Farhi presents a refreshingly simple and practical guide to reestablishing proper breathing techniques that will dramatically improve your physical and mental health. Complete with more that seventy-five photos and illustrations, The Breaking Book offers a thorough and inspiring program that you can tailor to your specific needs. Whether you need an energy boost or are seeking a safe, hassle-free way to cope with everyday stress, you will find answers here. These safe and easy-to-learn techniques can also be used to treat asthma, depression, eating disorders, insomnia, arthritis, chronic pain, and other debilitating conditions. "Donna Farhi has been a student, researcher, and teacher of the breath for many years, and now we get to reap the results of her studies in this exquisite manual." -- Yoga Journal

A simple yet revolutionary approach to improving your body’s oxygen use, increasing your health, weight loss, and sports performance—whether you’re a recovering couch potato or an Ironman triathlon champion. With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Dr. Joseph Mercola. Achieve more with less effort: The secret to weight loss, fitness, and wellness lies in the most basic and most overlooked function of your body—how you breathe. One of the biggest obstacles to better health and fitness is a rarely identified problem: chronic over-breathing. We often take many more breaths than we need—without realizing it—contributing to poor health and fitness, including a host of disorders, from anxiety and asthma to insomnia and heart problems. In The Oxygen Advantage, the man who has trained over 5,000 people—including Olympic and professional athletes—in reduced breathing exercises now shares his scientifically validated techniques to help you breathe more efficiently. Patrick McKeown teaches you the fundamental relationship between oxygen and the body, then gets you started with a Body Oxygen Level Test (BOLT) to determine how efficiently your body uses oxygen. He then shows you how to increase your BOLT score by using light breathing exercises and learning how to simulate high altitude training, a technique used by Navy SEALs and professional athletes to help increase endurance, weight loss, and vital red blood cells to dramatically improve cardio-fitness. Following his program, even the most out-of-shape person (including those with chronic respiratory conditions such as asthma) can climb stairs, run for a bus, or play soccer without gasping for air, and everyone can achieve: Easy weight loss and weight maintenance Improved sleep and energy Increased concentration Reduced breathlessness during exercise Heightened athletic performance Improved cardiovascular health Elimination of asthmatic symptoms, and more. With The Oxygen Advantage, you can look better, feel better, and do more—it’s as easy as breathing.