Why Breathe?

A simple question. Why do you breathe? Is it just to exist and to keep your body going? Or is there more to breathing than that? Why is there so much significance on the importance of breath in every culture and in every religion? Why has practically every Master, Sage and Guru stressed the importance of breath? Why is Breathwork emerging as the most powerful therapeutic tool of this century? Why are hundreds of thousands of people all over the world incorporating breath awareness, breathing exercises, and techniques into their work and their lives?

Breathing Techniques have immediate beneficial application for:

Stress and Tension, Coping and Relaxation
Self-Improvement and Personal Growth
Acute and Chronic Pain Management
Emotional Disturbances and Behavioral Problems
Substance Abuse and Recovery
Creative and Athletic Performance
Meditation and Martial Arts
Life Extension and Longevity
Psychotherapy and Counseling
Psychic Skills and Intuitive Development
Group Dynamics and Interpersonal Relations
Spiritual Purification and Enlightenment

When you change your breathing, you change your chemistry. When you improve your breathing, you improve your physiological and psychological functioning.

Breath is life. Breathing is our most primal function. It affects, and is affected by every level of our being. It is totally automatic, yet it is completely within our control. As such it is a bridge between the conscious and the unconscious, a force, a tool: for health, growth, and change.

Conscious Breathing represents a direct path to the deepest and highest aspects of ourselves. It leads to wholeness and oneness in Spirit, Mind and Body.

Breathwork expands our consciousness, and helps us to refine our awareness of the inner and outer world. It allows us to access unconscious or suppressed material, to retrieve hidden, forgotten, or lost parts of ourselves. And it helps us to maintain higher and more subtle levels of energy and aliveness.

The way we breathe is a reflection and an expression of the way we live. By exploring the breath, we discover ourselves. By changing the way we breathe, we change the way we live.

"And God formed man from the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul (Book of Genesis)

"There are certain points in the breathing that you have not observed, and these points are doorways through which you can enter in the breathing that you have not observed, and these points are doorways through which you can enter i a totally different consciousness, but they are very subtle." (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh/Osho)

"A universal theology is impossible. But, a universal experience is not only possible, it is necessary." (The Course in Miracles.)

"Breathwork is the most effective way of clearing your head, settling your stomach, calming your nerves." (Dan Brulé)

Master the Breath, Master Your Life!