The Revelation of the Breath: A Tribute to Its Wisdom, Power, and Beauty »

Sharon G. Mijares is a practicing psychologist and teaches at National University and Brandman University. She is the coeditor (with Gurucharan Singh Khalsa) of The Psychospiritual Clinician's Handbook: Alternative Methods for Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders; editor of Modern Psychology and Ancient Wisdom: Psychological Healing Practices from the World's Religious Traditions, and coauthor (with Aliaa Rafea, Rachel Falik, and Jenny Eda Schipper) of The Root of All Evil: An Exposition of Prejudice, Fundamentalism, and Gender Imbalance.

Celebrates and instructs in the healing power of breath.

National Science Teachers Association

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Acknowledgments xi

Foreword Shah Nazar Seyyed Ali Kianfar xiii

Introduction 1

Part I Eastern Breathing Practices

1 Ancient and Modern Yoga: A Science of Breath, Healing, and Enlightenment Sharon G. Mijares 11

2 Tibetan Buddhism and the Breath Michael Essex Timothy Laporte Drupon Samten Rinpoche 25

3 The Breath of the Tao and the Tao of Breathing Benjamin R. Tong 43

4 Breathing Respect: Breath and the Martial Way of Aikido Darrell Bluhm Shihan 53

Part II Western Breathing Practices

5 Character Armoring: A Wall Between Oneself and the World Vincentia Schroeter 71

6 Birth, Rebirthing, and Learning to Breathe Michael Sky 83

7 The Healing Potential of Holotropic Breathwork Stanislav Grof Kylea Taylor 95

8 Freediving: Learning Not to Breathe Orion Garland 107

9 Buteyko: A Method for Healing with the Breath Russell Jennifer Stark 119

10 Breathexperience: A Somatic Science and Art of Living Juerg Roffler Ilse Middendorf 133

Part III Middle Eastern Breathing Practices

11 Jewish Mysticism: Kabbalah and the Breath Sheldon Z. Kramer Maura Richmond 155

12 The Holy Breath: Breath in the Cosmology and Spiritual Practice of the Aramaic Jesus Neil Douglas-Klotz 167

13 The Divine Vibration in the Breath-A Song of Life Sonia Gilbert 181

Part IV Further Explorations of the Healing Power of the Breath

14 The Natural Breath: A Dialogue between Western Somatic and Eastern Spiritual Approaches to the Body Awareness of Breathing Neil Douglas-Klotz 195

15 Be Wary When You Breathe: Respecting Its Wisdom, Power, and Beauty Sharon G. Mijares 211

16 Children Learning to Breathe: An Education for Our Future Ken Friedman 225

17Breathing for a Better World: Final Thoughts on the Healing Power of the Breath Puran Bair 239

Final Words Sharon G. Mijares 253

Contributors 255

Index 265