Art of Breathing, The

TAPPING THE ENDLESS POWERS OF BREATHING!

This acclaimed classic shows you how to transform breath into vital energy to attain a perfect balance of body, mind, and spirit. Classical singer and chi kung expert Nancy Zi guides you through the art of breathing in six simple lessons. Using twenty-four progressive exercises and mental imagery drills, Zi demonstrates how to use breathing to:

• Look, feel, and be healthier
• Minimize the effects of aging
• Increase stamina and coordination
• Work through pain and promote healing
• Enhance speech, singing, athletics, meditation-and more!

“This book is a systematic manual for working with and training the breath, through a discipline that the author calls chi yi: the art of breathing. Of course no one needs special instructions to learn how to breathe; yet the bodily, psychological, athletic, aesthetic, spiritual, and healing processes to which breath is essential can all be enhanced to an extraordinary degree by developing conscious breathing and learning how to awaken and direct the energies that proper and skillful breathing make available. “-Charles Stein, from the preface