Welcome to the August 2006 Breath and Breathing Report: 

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Many people wonder how something as simple as conscious breathing can 
cause such beautiful and powerful experiences. How it is that breathwork 
can produce so many healing miracles? This month, I’ll let you in on a 
couple of secrets. But first some news: 

I’m in Amarillo now, enjoying time at home with Gulnur, and catching up in 
the office. I’ve been moving ahead on the publishing projects: looking for 
people to do some transcribing—turning audio and video recordings of 
sessions and seminars into word text files. It may be a way to earn some 
cash, or to exchange for breathwork training. Let me know if you can help. 

Since the last report, we did another 7-day practitioner training in 
Cancun. We gathered in a daycare center. The energy was so light and 
playful. And we also did breathing in cold water near Tulum, where the 
clear pools flow into underground caverns. All the practitioners made such 
great leaps in their personal process, and in their ability to share the 
healing power of spiritual breathing with others. Thank you to everyone 
there for your love of life and breath! 

Aug 4-8, I was at the Windham Retreat in Windham, NY in the Northern 
Catskills, where it was especially easy to melt into the love and light 
that surrounds and permeates us all the time. The hills were so lush and 
green. There were butterflies and dragonflies, hummingbirds and barn 
swallows. There were buttercups and honeysuckle. The air was so sweet and 
so filled with life! We gathered in the barn (yoga studio) as well as out 
on the grass. 

We ate blueberries and watermelon, tomatoes, cucumbers and kale, and fresh 
herbs right out of the garden! Thank you to Michael Pyform from the 
Bahamas for organizing the event. Thank you to Hugh and Carol for 
providing such a perfect place for Spiritual Breathing. Thank you to 
special guest Mike White (www.breathing.com) for assisting at the 
workshop. Thank you to everyone who took part. And thank you to Satya Sai 
Baba for his blessing of this work. 

After New York, I got to visit family and friends in Massachusetts and 
Rhode Island. And then Tom and Rozana organized another breathwork event 
in New Hampshire. Babaji was in the air! Thank you to everyone who made 
the weekend so health-full and growth-full. 

Next on the schedule: Sept 6 to Oct 31, I’ll be in Lithuania, Italy, 
Russia, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and France. November 10-16, is the 
“Sedona Gathering.” This week of breathwork is growing into a mini 
holistic festival. Several international teachers and trainers will take 
part, so don’t miss it! From November 17-23, we’ll take the show to Santa 
Barbara again. And the final stop on my 2006 schedule will be Lafayette, 
LA, in early December. 

2007 already holds some high points! The first is India in January. If you 
feel the pull of this ancient land, or the call of the immortal yogis, we 
still have two places open. You are invited to join our little group on 
this extraordinary spiritual adventure. In June of 2007 we plan a special 
“10-day Breathwork Training” and “Nature Tour” of Estonia. And then I’ll 
attend the International Breathwork Foundation’s Global Inspiration 
Conference, in Turkey in July. 

By the way, thanks to Ivonne Delaflor www.masterylife.com, I’ve breathed 
with some wonderful teachers. Vernon Woolf: www.holodynamics.com; Toby 
Alexander: www.dnaperfection.com. 


The Secrets to achieving extraordinary results in Breathwork 

I have been suggesting that people play with their breath for a long time. 
In 1978, I wrote an article called “Games Breathers Play.” Portions of it 
were pirated and plagiarized, copied, edited, and re-written and used in 
advertising by many people over the years. So in celebration, I am 
offering this article so that people will steal it, use it, pass it on, or 
claim it as their own! 

First of all, there is a beautiful dance we can do with the breath and 
with life for that matter. We can direct the course of our lives and we 
can control the flow of our breath. We can take over from the automatic 
pilot. And we can also surrender to the flow of life and enjoy the 
experience of being breathed by the breath itself. What a pleasure it is 
to feel this vibrant living energy (often called prana, ki, chi, spirit, 
or life force) flow through us with every breath! And what an awesome 
privilege and blessing it is to play a conscious part in creating this 
miracle called life! 

Much of the remarkable results of breathwork come for two simple reasons. 
First, while breathing, we bringing together two states that rarely meet 
in everyday life: awareness and relaxation. Conscious Breathing heightens 
awareness and deepens relaxation. To be wide awake and completely relaxed 
at the same time is so rare and unique that when people experience it for 
the first time, they describe the moment in terms of a peak, mystical, or 
religious experience. 

You may have noticed that the more relaxed you get during a session, the 
more you tend to go unconscious. In fact, the average person literally 
sleeps through his or her most relaxed times! It’s as if nature has to get 
you and your mind out of the way every night so that your body can relax 
and release and rejuvenate itself in your absence. So the first secret is 
to bring together alertness and relaxation: to be relaxed and conscious at 
the same time. It’s that simple! 

Another secret is to combine complete relaxation with energetic breathing. 
Again, these two states rarely coincide. When people breathe deeply or 
quickly, they create stress and tension: they loose their relaxation. And 
when people relax completely, their breathing practically disappears. This 
is normal: when relaxed, there is no physiological demand for energy, and 
so the chemical triggers that control breathing simply do not fire off. 
But we can override this basic functioning: while relaxing, we can 
literally breathe our way to higher states of being. 

So the game is to maintain relaxation while breathing in an active way: 
engage in full free powerful breathing and yet remain in a state of total 
relaxation. Achieving this “energized calm” is a basic step in breath 
mastery. Go for more relaxation and more energy at once: more peace and 
more power. Do this and you will experience the most amazing and beautiful 
awakenings to life and love, to joy and peace, to creative energy and even 
ecstasy! 

Master these fundamental skills: Awareness, Relaxation and Breath Control. 
Engage all three of these elements at the same time: not giving up one to 
gain the other, not sacrificing one to obtain the other. I love turning 
people on to this natural healing ability. And I’ve trained hundreds of 
others around the world to coach you through to success. But you can 
explore this on your own. Do it now. Play with these elements. Dance with 
the breath! 

Start by creating a little extra space between your teeth. Your jaw is a 
like a gate: open it a little more than usual. A relaxed jaw with open or 
closed mouth is an invitation for breath to come and go more easily. You 
probably go through your day with an unconsciously held jaw. Your teeth 
tend to tighten, lock, or set in a certain habitual way. Relax your jaw 
and make a space between your teeth. Guard this opening. And consciously 
breathe through this little extra space. 

Now follow the path that the breath takes when it comes into you. Think of 
this: when someone important walks down the street, there are often a 
couple of people who walk ahead, clearing the way for this important 
person. You need to do this, to be this for the breath. Clear the way, 
open the path, so that the breath meets no resistance, so that it doesn’t 
have to force or squeeze its way around or through anything, to come and 
go. 

Can you soften and open your throat? Use the sound of the breath as a 
gauge. Remember that the wind makes no noise. What we call the sound of 
the wind only occurs when the wind hits something, when it has to go
around something, or through something. When something is in way of the 
wind, then a noise is created: otherwise the wind (breath) is silent. When 
your throat is soft and open and relaxed, the breaths are soft and quiet. 
When your throat is tight or constricted, you can hear a “scratchy” sound 
in the breath. 

Big breaths don’t have to be noisy! Practice taking big full deep silent 
inhales. Then allow a windy (noisy) exhale. Keep the inhales silent, but 
make whatever noise feels good on the exhale: whatever breath sounds are 
fun or interesting. Breathe in a powerful steady rhythm for several 
minutes. Play with it! 

Can you open and relax and expand your chest? Can you open and expand your 
rib cage? Can you open the entire breathing cavity: side to side, front to 
back, top to bottom? Stretch and yawn right now. Give yourself a couple of 
big sighs of relief. Can you open and soften your belly? Can you allow 
breath-energy to flow deeply into your core, and all the way down to your 
perineum? 

When you open and expand your breathing cavity, the breath like a good 
dance partner, instantly responds. It fills the space that you create. And 
when the breath comes in and tries to expand you, like a good dance 
partner, you can relax and open: expand and allow the breath to fill you. 

So there it is: a beautiful dance. When the breath comes in, you open and 
expand around it… inviting, allowing, receiving, and joyfully accepting. 
And when you open and expand your body, the breath responds… it flows in, 
soothing, strengthening, and delighting you! 

Who is breathing who? Are you breathing the breath? Or is the breath 
breathing you? I hope you get lost in this dance! I hope that who you 
thought was doing the breathing takes a back seat, and something begins to 
breathe you! I hope you can let the body breathe itself. And I hope you 
can breathe love and light and eternal life into every cell of your body! 

Here’s another thing that explains all the profound results of Spiritual 
Breathing: In breathwork, we literally practice choosing and changing our 
focus… we employ a real and practical method of changing our state, what 
and how they think, what and how we feel! That is so empowering! 

Good luck in your practice. 

Call or write with questions or comments, experiences or insights. 

Yours in the Spirit of Breath, 

Dan