The Andrew Weil Audio Collection

by Andrew Weil and Jon Kabat-Zinn

Course objectives:

List the health benefits of breathwork.Explain how overstimulation of the sympathetic nervous system contributes to health issues.Describe the relationship between breath and spirituality.Apply breathwork techniques to increase alertness and relaxation.Practice guided exercises for restored wellness over time.

Join bestselling author Dr. Andrew Weil for these helpful house calls on audio, and get the information...

• Format: Audio CD
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564559491
• ISBN13: 9781564559494
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Sounds True
• Length: 10 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

I was a sceptic, but...

I've always thought meditation was a) a little goofy and b) impossible to do because who can think of nothing? But Dr. Weil and John Kabat-Zinn have put together a great selection of both teaching and guided meditation that even the most analytical, anxious, type-A person (me) can learn from.

Helpful and Healing

This is my fourth purchase of Weil's CDs in the past 14 months. The first two were for my partner who was anticipating and then recovering from diverticulitis surgery. The second and third pairs were for friends enduring chemo and radiation after cancer surgery. The latest was for my oldest nephew who is dealing with a currently inoperable/untreatable intracranial hemorrage. My nephew, a hard-living Texas oil industry type, was the only one resistant to the concept. After actually trying the process, he's on his way to a 360. My partner and my friends didn't resist at all and put these meditational practices to good use immediately with very positive results. I might add that they, and I, continue to use the CDs for health maintenance. I've been a fan of Dr. Weil's since his Eating Well for Optimum Health got me out of an unintentionally self-induced but serious health crisis. I'd recommend the CDs and the book as excellent purchases for anyone facing a well-being challenge, and as a particularly thoughtful gift for friends and family in need of support. They are five star contributions to the arts and crafts of living well and living WELL.

Excellent First Choice for Learning Breath Yoga

If you have never done breath work before, Dr. Weil's CD: Breathing The Master Key to Self Healing is an excellent first choice that will provide a series of short exercises to improve your breathing technique, quiet your mind, and help you clear your daily tension and anxiety prior to deeper meditation. This initial preparation assumes that you know little about breath discipline (a form of Yoga), and takes you from the very beginning with a kindly voice and beautiful music. Dr. Weil's producer has taken care to provide the best quality sound, the best musicians, and even a high quality CD that will resist wear. (I use my CD every day on my bus commute to town.)

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This may not seem important to some who don't take their health seriously.Both of these programs are only as good as the user.The breathing exercises are a great preparation for the meditation CD and I would recommend this to anyone who wants to learn to meditate.Dr. Weil has done more for Natural Medicine than anyone in quite some time because he bases his claims in science

Meditation with your feet on the ground.

As a first step into meditation, I would strongly recommend listening to these tapes. The first 90 minutes is a clear explanation by first Weil, but mostly Jon Kabat Zinn, on the best way of understanding meditation, what it can do for your life and your health. Then follows a 45 minute guided meditation on watching the breath. I have purchased many books on Buddhism, meditation or yoga. Jon Kabat Zinn, who also wrote the brilliant book Full Catastrophe Living, is along with Thich Nhat Hahn, my favourite writer. Kabat Zinn is particularly good at explaining meditation as a way of working with problems, rather than wishing them away. The focus with Kabat Zinn is on accepting your experience, opening yourself up to it, seeing how pain is there, but it is not you, on living fully- mindfully not mindlessly. He is great for people who suffer pains, physical or emotional. I think this tape is a perfect introduction to meditation as a way of healing the heart.