Breath Taking: Lessons in Breathing to Enhance Your Health and Joy of Living

by Lorin Roche

Book Overview

BREATH TAKING offers an easy and provocative programme that uses human instinct as the basis for maximising the 20,000 breaths we take every day. Through a series of 15 second, 1 minute and 5 minute... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579544231
• ISBN13: 9781579544232
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A 24/7 GUIDE TO LOVING LIFE

Wine lovers read books on wine.Movie lovers read books on movies.And sex lovers read books on, well, sex.But who and what is a breath lover?How do you become one? And whyon earth would you want to read abook on breath in the first place?Breathing.An activity we do THOUSANDS of timesPER DAY ... often without a second thought.Breathing.A gateway to deeper levels of sensualenjoyment.Breathing.A key to clearer perceptions and intenselevels of arousal.Breathing.An invitation to be truly relaxed (perhapsfor the first time) in your own body.Breathing is all these things. And more.Learning how to tap into these things isthe subject of this easy-to-read, easy-to-put-into-practice book.Many of us have read a small library'sworth of self-enlightenment books overthe years. But one of the real beautiesof reading this book (Lorin Roche's thirdin print) is that your life experiencebecomes richer IMMEDIATELY.Now.This very moment.Within days of picking up the book, walkingaround and sniffing the air became fun.Applying aftershave became fun.Just watching my chest rise and fall became fun.Eating, naturally, became super fun.And now that I stop to think about it, winedrinking became more fun.Movie watching became more fun.And sex? Well, what do you think?One final note: please don't think that thisbook -- and the dozens of simple suggestionsyou'll find in it -- are simply about sniffing,or smelling, or inhaling, or whatever.At the heart of this book is an invitation.An invitation to use breath as an entry intodeeper states of MEDITATION.Whether you meditate formally for any givenperiod of time, or whether you want to transformyour waking hours into a living-breathing-eating-sleeping extended period of meditation,"Breath Taking" will take you there.