Breathing

A Beginner's Guide to Increased Health and Vitality

Enhance Your Health with Every Breath
The secret to better health is something you are doing right now: breathing. But are you breathing effectively? Centuries ago, the qigong masters of China discovered that how we breathe has a profound impact on our overall health and awareness.

On Breathing, qigong expert Ken Cohen teaches you how to use every breath to draw in energy and healing qi (life force). Here is a thorough entry-level course for transforming each breath into an opportunity to enter a state of calm, stimulate your body's vital organs, and infuse energy into every cell.

Join Ken Cohen for:
• An introduction to healthy breathing, including tips for assessing your own breathing habits
• An accessible three-stage approach for transforming your breathing patterns to increase health, energy, and mental clarity
• Four guidelines for healthy breathing in different circumstances, including calming yourself in stressful situations
• Previously released as The Beginner's Guide to Healthy Breathing. Includes excerpts from Healthy Breathing.

Course objectives:
• Describe correct body position and self-awareness during qigong breathing techniques
• Distinguish "healthy breathing" from "unhealthy breathing"
• List the four phases of healthy breath to promote relaxation, focus, and greater overall well-being
• Analyze the symptoms of growing Chi (energy) in our own bodies
• Practice reverse breathing exercises
• Plan to focus breath in different areas of the body in order to attain optimum health

The content is of the most importance

The content is invaluable for people to live healthy lives. My life was lacking this knowledge for 25 years, but better late than never. Make the most of whatever U get.

the gentle guiding voice

just listen, relax and learn 2 breathe...that's the jist of this book, but the beginning of something more if you let it be...

I teach breath work also

This is an excellent book and well worth your time. Simple easy to understand instruction with several powerful exercises. I’ve never tried breathing left versus right. I’m gonna have to take some time and do that. I’ve also never tried to breathing from my entire skeletal system at once. This is probably my favorite part of the book. It felt amazing. I have practiced pranayama yoga for more than 20 years. What a treat to learn some new things.