The Revelation of the Breath - A Tribute to Its Wisdom, Power, and Beauty

Informationen zum Autor Sharon G. Mijares is a practicing psychologist and teaches at National University and Brandman University. She is the coeditor (with Gurucharan Singh Khalsa) of Psychospiritual Clinician's Handbook: Alternative Methods for Understanding and Treating Mental Disorders ; editor of Modern Psychology and Ancient Wisdom: Psychological Healing Practices from the World's Religious Traditions , and coauthor (with Aliaa Rafea, Rachel Falik, and Jenny Eda Schipper) of The Root of All Evil: An Exposition of Prejudice, Fundamentalism, and Gender Imbalance . Klappentext Celebrates and instructs in the healing power of breath. Faced with unrelenting stresses from daily news, relationships, health, and financial conditions, and unsatisfied with the temporary and side-effect-riddled relief that pharmaceuticals provide, millions are finding measures of peace and positive energy through mindful breathing practices. In this book, Stanislav Grof, Neil Douglas-Klotz, Sharon G. Mijares, Sonia Gilbert, Sheldon Kramer, Ilse Middendorf, Michael Sky, Puran Bair, and other well-known experts and international workshop leaders take up a wide range of Western, Eastern, and Middle Eastern breathing practices, describing the historical development of these techniques and philosophies, and providing examples of modern practices, stories of healing, and specific exercises for application.

Product details

• Authors: Sharon G. (EDT) Mijares
• Assisted by: Richard D. Mann (Editor), Sharon G Mijares (Editor), Sharon G. Mijares (Editor), Mijares Sharon G. (Editor), Ali Kianfar Seyyed (Foreword)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.11.2009
• EAN: 9781438428772
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-2877-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: SUNY Series in Transpersonal a; Excelsior Editions; SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Holistic medicine; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / General, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Healing / General, Mind, Body, Spirit, Psychotherapy: counselling, Hinduism, Complementary therapies, healing and health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Spiritually Integrated