The Breathing Cure for Yoga - by Patrick McKeown & Anastasis Tzanis (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

READY TO JOIN THE BETTER BREATHING REVOLUTION?

READY TO LEARN FROM INTERNATIONAL BREATHING EXPERT PATRICK McKEOWN?

READY TO LEARN FROM LEADING YOGA EDUCATOR ANASTASIS TZANIS?

TAP INTO YOUR FULL YOGA POTENTIAL WITH THE SCIENCE BEHIND ANCIENT WISDOM BY READING THE BREATHING CURE FOR YOGA

With a Foreword by award-winning science journalist James Nestor, New York Times bestselling author of Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

What if you are only tapping into 75% of the full potential of yoga?

If there was a simple and free way to harness the other 25% and make major improvements in both your asana practice and overall health, would you want to know what it is?

This revolutionary yoga and breathing manual unites modern science, with clinically-proven breathing techniques, and the (mostly) forgotten wisdom of ancient Yogis to enhance your yoga practice. Written by international breath expert Patrick McKeown and leading yoga educator Anastasis Tzanis, this is an essential book for every practitioner and instructor.

In THE BREATHING CURE FOR YOGA: APPLY SCIENCE BEHIND ANCIENT WISDOM FOR HEALTH AND WELL-BEING you will learn how to:

• Enhance your physical practice and lower the risk of injury.
• Learn breathing techniques to self-regulate, gain control over your nervous system, and diminish stress, anxiety, and panic attacks.
• Increase mindfulness and cultivate a deeper mind-body connection.
• Learn the connection between physiology and the mind, and how to optimise gas exchange and open the lungs.
• Reduce breathlessness during yoga, and boost stamina, endurance, and recovery time.
• Learn the three pillars of sleep, breath, and the mind, and their interconnection.
• Optimise energy flow and strengthen your connection to self.
• Dramatically reduce snoring, sleep apnea, and insomnia; decongest the nose; and improve menopause symptoms.
• Enhance your overall health and wellbeing.

READY TO JOING THE REVOLUTION NOW?

Get "Breathing For Yoga" today, and be among the first to benefit from this revolutionary breathing and yoga manual.

"In your hands is the operating manual for new and old yogis alike. For the past 20 years, McKeown has researched why so many of us breathe so poorly and how we can do it better and improve our lives. He's spent several more years piecing together this carefully constructed compendium of yoga knowledge and distilling it into step-by-step directions, illustrations, scientific context, biomechanics, biochemistry, and more! My advice: Take a seat, shut your mouth, breathe it in."--James Nestor

Review Quotes

"In your hands is the operating manual for new and old yogis alike. For the past 20 years, McKeown has researched why so many of us breathe so poorly and how we can do it better and improve our lives. He's spent several more years piecing together this carefully constructed compendium of yoga knowledge and distilling it into step-by-step directions, illustrations, scientific context, biomechanics, biochemistry, and more! My advice: Take a seat, shut your mouth, breathe it in."

--JAMES NESTOR, award-winning science journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

Praise for The Breathing Cure: Exercises to Develop New Breathing Habits for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life by Patrick McKeown

"My quest for correct breathing led me to Patrick McKeown and his clinical work with over 8,000 people, ranging from medical patients to elite athletes. I appreciate the value of 'feeling' things and learning through experiencing, but Patrick's scientific explanation of what is happening in the body when I nasal breathe as opposed to mouth breathing truly helped me understand how to use my breath as a tool to support my health and boost my performance. Patrick's passion for breathing education comes out of his own personal experience. Even though he himself was an extremely dysfunctional breather and an asthmatic -- he was told by his doctors that he would be on medication and limited in activities for the rest of his life -- he cured himself through breathing practices. I truly appreciate that Patrick's teaching empowers people to be proactive in supporting their own good health. Patrick simply explains the importance of nasal breathing and balancing respiratory gases to create better health and mitigate illness, chronic disease and injuries. If breathing and the breath is the essence of life, and it is meant to be intuitive, then how do we find our way back to the basics? Patrick makes this a comprehensive journey that anyone can use and share with their friends and family."

--LAIRD HAMILTON, surfing icon, founder of Extreme Performance Training (XPT), and New York Times bestselling author of Liferider

Praise for The Oxygen Advantage: Simple, Scientifically Proven Breathing Techniques to Help You Become Healthier, Slimmer, Faster, and Fitter by Patrick McKeown

"Patrick McKeown, breathing trainer and author of The Oxygen Advantage, recommends breathing through your nose...It'll feel weird, but within a few weeks, you'll notice you can exercise longer and don't tire as quickly." -- Dr. Oz, bestselling author of YOU: THE OWNER'S MANUAL and THE GOOD LIFE

"The Oxygen Advantage is one of the best books that I have read this entire year... one of my favorite books in the world actually" -- Ben Greenfield, author of New York Times bestseller Beyond Training

"McKeown introduces readers to The Oxygen Advantage, an innovative but complex breathing technique that purportedly improves overall health... McKeown's confident attitude should help his book appeal to a wide audience." -- Publishers Weekly

"I'm an NFL wide receiver and my Bolt Score was 13. Three weeks later it's 30 and improving; running has gotten so much easier. I'm in better shape for another opportunity because I'm so much better at the simple act of breathing. It really does add up!" -- Jay Wisner, NFL Free Agent

"The Oxygen Advantage: the hottest book on the market for understanding breathing and breathwork." -- David Jackson, School of Calisthenics podcast

"The Oxygen Advantage has helped my Olympians become more aware of their breathing. We practice nasal breathing during foam rolling, warm ups, cool downs and during certain prescribed exercise. I would highly recommend The Oxygen Advantage to any coach looking to get any additional benefit for their athletes." -- Andrew Kacsor, Head Strength & Conditioning Coach for the KRS Vanke Rays

"Mastering one of the most powerful mechanism in our body can have a tremendous impact on both well being and performance. Because we breathe 24/7, breath training is potentially endless. I have been looking for a technique that could effortlessly trigger diaphragmatic breathing to improve the mind/ body connection. Moving towards the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo, we have now integrated the Oxygen Advantage breathing techniques into our daily training and recovery." -- Julien Billaut, Australian Canoeing and the New South Wales Institute of Sport Canoe Slalom High Performance Coach

"I have taken the Oxygen Advantage Instructor course and can't say enough good things about it! I have been taping my mouth for my strength training sessions as well as my Tactical training. I have been playing with the knowledge Patrick McKeown has so willingly shared and began experimenting with my team. The conditioning results have been exceptional but I expected that based on what I learned in the course. Using Oxygen Advantage for the reduction of stress in SWAT and other High Stress Law Enforcement activities is what I am most interested in now and I have a lot to work with thanks again to Patrick McKeown. For those out there who are considering taking the course do yourself a favor get off the fence and do it. Money well invested in your health!" -- Joey Williams, Patrol Lieutenant, SWAT Commander Responsible for Training, Berkeley, CA

About the Author

JAMES NESTOR (SAN FRANCISCO, CA) is an author and journalist who has written for Outside Magazine, The Atlantic, National Public Radio, The New York Times, Scientific American, Dwell Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, and more.

Nestor's book, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, was released through Riverhead/Penguin Random House on May 26, 2020. Breath spent 18 weeks of the New York Times bestseller list in the first year of publication and was an instant bestseller in the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Sunday London Times, and more. Breath was awarded the Best General Nonfiction Book of 2020 by the American Society of Journalists and Authors and was a Finalist for the Royal Society Science Book of the Year. Breath has sold more than two million copies and has been translated into more than 35 languages.

Breath explores how the human species has lost the ability to breathe properly over the past several hundred thousand years and is now suffering from a laundry list of maladies -- snoring, sleep apnea, asthma, autoimmune disease -- because of it. Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren't found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of Sao Paulo.

Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head.

Nestor's first narrative nonfiction book, DEEP: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What The Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) was released in the United States and UK in June 2014. DEEP was a BBC Book of the Week, a Finalist for the PEN American Center Best Sports Book of the Year, an Amazon Best Science Book of 2014, BuzzFeed 19 Best Nonfiction Books of 2014, ArtForum Top 10 Book of 2014, New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, Scientific American Recommended Read, and more. The book has been translated into German, Chinese, Italian, Polish, and more; the audiobook, read by Nestor, was released by Audible in June 2016.

Nestor also wrote a "little, silly booklet" released in 2009, which he described as "a coffee table thing culled from notes on meditation and other ancient/hippy practices discovered in the crawlspace of my uncle's retro-mod bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills. The book combined medical science with humor and illustrations and was given a horrid and misleading title by a dishonest editor, which I soon after--and still--very much regret."

Nestor has presented his research at Stanford Medical School, the United Nations, UBS, Global Classroom (World Health Organization+UNICEF), as well as more than 40 radio and television shows, including Fresh Air with Terry Gross, the Joe Rogan Show, BulletProof, ABC's Nightline, CBS Morning News, and dozens of NPR programs.

The author lives and works in the San Francisco metro area.

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