The Revelation of the Breath

Acknowledgments Foreword Seyyed Ali Kianfar Shah Nazar Uwaiysi Introduction Part I: Eastern Breathing Practices 1. Ancient and Modern Yoga: A Science of Breath, Healing, and Enlightenment Sharon G. Mijares, Ph.D. 2. Tibetan Buddhism and the Breath Michael Essex, M.D., and Timothy Laporte, M.A., with Drupon Samten Rinpoche 3. The Breath of the Tao and the Tao of Breathing Benjamin Tong, Ph.D. 4. Breathing Respect: Breath and the Martial Way of Aikido Darrell Bluhm, Shihan Part II: Western Breathing Practices 5. Character Armoring: Walls Between Oneself and the World Vincentia Schroeter, Ph.D. 6. Birth, Rebirthing and Learning to Breathe Michael Sky 7. The Healing Potential of Holotropic Breathwork Stanislav Grof, M.D., and Kylea Taylor, MFT 8. Freediving: Learning Not to Breathe Orion Garland 9. Buteyko: A Method for Healing with the Breath Russell and Jennifer Stark 10. Breathexperience: A Somatic Science and Art of Living Juerg Roffler with Ilse Middendorf Part III: Middle Eastern Breathing Practices 11. Jewish Mysticism: Kabbalah and the Breath Sheldon Z. Kramer, Ph.D., and Maura Richman, M.S. 12. The Holy Breath: Breath in the Cosmology and Spiritual Practice of the Aramaic Jesus Neil Douglas-Klotz, Ph.D. 13. The Divine Vibration in the Breath-A Song of Life Sonia Gilbert 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, Ph.D. 15. Be Wary When You Breathe: Respecting Its Wisdom, Power, and Beauty Sharon G. Mijares, Ph.D. 16. Children Learning to Breathe: An Education for Our Future Ken Friedman 17. Breathing for a Better World Puran Bair Contributors Index