Special
Events
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Free
your Breath, Free your Life
I will be
assisting Dennis
Lewis, well known breathing coach and author of
'The Tao of Natural Breathing' and 'Free Your Breath, Free
Your Life'
with his 5 day workshop: Free Your Breath, Free Your Life
held at Esalen
Institute in California, 11-16 May 2008.
To register contact
Esalen.
Free Your
Breath, Free Your Life
The ever-increasing speed, stress, and disharmony of the modern
world not only conditions us to a way of living in which the future
is often felt to be more important than the present, but also cuts
us off from the immediate experience of ourselves as living,
breathing beings. As a result, many of us live as unconscious,
breathless automatons, rushing faster than time itself into an
imaginary future, seldom present to the mystery and miracle of our
lives right now and here. Our breathing is so constricted and
incomplete that it undermines our health, our vitality, and our
consciousness. Such breathing also deprives us of one of the great
joys of living on this earth: the expansive sensation of a free,
easy, boundless breath that engages the whole of ourselves and opens
us to the miracle of "the breath of life."
Using ideas, insights, and
practices from his book Free Your Breath, Free Your Life, Dennis
Lewis will take you on a journey of presence into the physiology,
psychology, and spirituality of natural, boundless breathing. You
will learn and practice the seven basic self-directed ways of
working with the breath: conscious; controlled; focused;
movement-supported; position-supported; touch-supported; and
sound-supported breathing. Through safe, powerful exercises—as
well as through special movements, postures, sounds, meditations,
qigong practices, dialogue, and work with presence—you will learn
how to integrate conscious, whole-body breathing into your life to
support your health and your quest for self-realization.
