Ways to Better Breathing

by Carola Spreads and Carola Speads

Book Overview

Carola Speads, who studied and taught for many years with the pioneering movement teacher Elsa Gindler, shows us how the quality of our breathing determines the quality of our lives. Her flexible program of gentle exercises maximizes the benefits of breathing for people of all ages. Once learned, these exercises take only a few minutes each day. Their regular practice brings improved health, psychlogical well-being, energy, and creativity. Whether...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892813970
• ISBN13: 9780892813971
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Healing Arts Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.8" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A WONDERFUL BOOK

Relatively few works are likely to concretely impact the quality of our everyday life. According to my opinion, and based on the experiment which I made of the practical tools described in this book, this one is one of them. Do not mislead you there, this work has nothing to do with the majority of the "doubtful" works devoted to breathing. In short, this remarkable book is a great classic, you will understand quickly why. I sincerely wish you to discover it soon.

The authoritatative guide for improving breathing

This excellent book provides you with the essence of how to gain skill and confidence in better breathing. Since breathing is a part of all that we do, it is a key to mastering life for everybody no matter what their situation is, and the author does an excellent job of conveying this. Thus an olympic level athlete or a person recouperating from a serious injury will find guidance and improvement in learning these experiments.they are extremely effective, yet taught by Carola in a way that is gentle, and adapts to everyone's varied situations. Just as learning the alphabet gives us access to create and also read many words, learning these breathing experiments is a key that will open us up to a much fuller potential in all our life situations. Once these experiments are learned, they can be applied, even with just a few seconds of time to improve our breathing.Carola Speads is a master teacher, who lived for 98 years and taught this work for 83 years of her life. We are fortunate that she shared her brilliant ideas in a do it yourself format so that we can all benefit from her expertise. I recommend this book to all my friends, colleagues and patients, since it is so basic and effective to improving their lives, no matter what challenges they face or aspirations they are reaching for.

The most complete down to earth guide to working with your b

This is the most complete, down to earth guide to working with your breathing. Carola Speads is a profound and generous teacher and both of those qualities come through in "Ways to Better Breathing". Read this book and, more importantly, do this book. It will be a friend to you for life. A true classic.

Carola has been teaching her breathing work for 79 years .

I work a lot with one of her primary students and am amazed at the insights I have benefitted from. Why she is not a household word is beyond me. I even asked for permisson to copy two exercises from the book into my breathing book. What a jewel this "Ways to Better Breathing" is. What a gift Carola has given. God bless her.

Carola has been teaching her breathing work for 79 years .

I work a lot with one of her primary students and am amazed at the insights I have benefitted from. Why she is not a household word is beyond me. I even asked for permisson to copy two exercises from the book into my breathing book. What a jewel this "Ways to Better Breathing" is. What a gift Carola has given. God bless her. Michael Grant White