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