Breathwork Resources

Farhi, Donna, The Breathing Book: Good Health and Vitality Through Essential Breath Work, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1996.
Breathwork and yoga: A very good book on the psycho-phyisical uses of conscious breathing.

Grof, Stanislav, The Adventure of Self-Discovery: Dimensions of Consciousness and New Perspectives in Psychotherapy and Inner Exploration, SUNY, Albany, 1988.
A new cartography of the human consciousness, relating it to his Holotropic Breathwork.

Grof, Stanislav, Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death and Transcendence in Psychotherapy, SUNY, Albany, 1985.
Grof's overview of a new paradigm in psychotherapy, a useful basis for understanding a wide range of the maps of consciousness and how consciousness expresses physically through bodily symptoms.

Hendricks, Gay, Conscious Breathing: Breathwork for Health, Stress Release and Persoanal Mastery, Bantam Books, New York, 1995. A good introductory book to the psycho-physical uses of conscious breathing.

Leonard, Jim and Laut, Phil, Vivation: The Science of Enjoying All of Your Life, Vivation Publishing Co., Cincinnati, 1990.
Integrative Rebirthing re-named. See Stan Grof's books for psychological depth. (Not easy to find)

Lewis, Dennis, The Tao of Natural Breathing: For Health, Well-Being and Inner Growth, Mountain Wind Publishing, San Francisco, 1997.
Eastern and western breathing technique for physical health and spiritual opening.

Minett, Gunnel, Breath and Spirit: Rebirthing as a Healing Technique, Aquarian Press, London, 1994.
A very good book on Rebirthing including some psycho-physical depth. (not easy to find)

Minett, Gunnel,ed., The Spirit of Breathwork: Lectures from Global Inspiration 1949 - 1999, The International Breathwork Foundation, Naarden Vesting, the Netherlands, 2001.
An international collection of breathwork conference lectures - a deep and broad resource.

Ray, Sondra, Celebration of Breath: How to Survive Anything and Heal Your Body, Celestial Arts, Berkeley, 1983.
Rebirthing for rebirthers, the book jumps into the middle of it. There is an interesting piece in the appendix: "An Introduction to Rebirthing for Health Professionals," by Eve Jones. (not easy to find)

Sky, Michael, Breathing: Expanding Your Power and Energy, Bear & Co., Santa Fe, 1990.
Rebirthing and the joy of free breathing-- sweet, short and simple.

Taylor, Kylea, The Breathwork Experience: Exploration and Healing in Nonordinary States of Consciousness, Hanford Mead Publishers, Santa Cruz, 1994.
A good, introductory overview of Grof's Holotropic Breathwork.


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