Yolanda Barker

The Breathing Revolution

Train yourself to breathe properly to banish anxiety and find your inner calm

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

As featured in Hello!, OM Yoga & Lifestyle, Natural Health, Healthy Living, Yoga magazine and Women's Fitness.Breathing is at the core of everything we do. Breath is life.In this inspiring and accessible book, yoga teacher and award-winning documentary filmmaker Yolanda Barker shows us the importance of better breathing, and provides a seven-day programme of practical exercises for readers to follow.Drawing on her own experiences with anxiety and depression, the breathing practices she shares can help to ease symptoms of stress, enable us to sleep better, and calm us down during difficult situations. Grounding the information in science and her observations as a long-term yoga teacher, she also explains how these exercises work, and shines a light on the physiology of stress, and its effect on the body, mind and emotions. The book features inspiring and instructional illustrations.Supported with science and enriched with sensitivity, understanding and personal experience, The Breathing Revolution is an empowering guide to breathing practices that can be truly life-changing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade / Green Tree
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 356771
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 133mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 180g
• ISBN-13: 9781472948595
• ISBN-10: 1472948599
• Artikelnr.: 49445189

Autorenporträt

Yolanda Barker is a writer and award-winning film director. She is also an experienced yoga teacher who trained in India. Yolanda lives in London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Author's note The breath effect Why revolutions fail (the importance of awareness) PART ONE: The seven-day programme Introduction Day One: Becoming aware of your breathing habits Day Two: Developing breath and body awareness Day Three: Nose breathing Day Four: The correct breathing muscles Day Five: The rate of the breath Day Six: The unstressed breath Day Seven: The rhythm of the breath Summary: If you've made it this far PART TWO: Everyday hacks Identifying triggers Pelvic floor and posture Everyday breathing hacks Acknowledgements References

Rezensionen

A practical guide to that most basic of bodily functions: breathing. If you, like me, have spent a lifetime not doing it "properly", this mix of science and simple exercises is a bit of a game changer.