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The Art of Breathing: Six Simple Lessons to Improve Performance, Health & Well-Being (Book)

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As a vocalist, using these exercises has helped me immensely already (after only just finishing the 6th lesson!) This is my second time around with them, (did six years ago to help develop diaphram). I'm going to practice regularly so as not to get "rusty" again. Wish I could get in hardcover. . .

I got this quite a while ago and was very excited about doing the tape. But while I was excited initially and actually felt good I stopped doing them because I got busy with a project at work and never really went back to it. I was cleaning out my tape library and came across the tape. I started doing the exercises and realized just how good they were and just how out of shape I was. Some of the exercises are not easy but she does a wonderful job of explaining how to do them and what you can do as alternatives as you develop your technique. She seems the ever patient teacher as she calmly moves you along to better breathing.

Nancy is a singing teacher. They MUST know how to improve the breathing though some are better at it then others. I believe Nancy is one of the best. She gave me good insights and accelerated my understanding of the strengthening of the voice for singing and speaking. I would have preferred more information aboout breathing's relationship to health and longevity but this book is a must for the serious student of the breath (or life).

Unfortunately, those of us who need to improve our breathing are frequently those who have the least time.

This book is wordy, and the diagrams are simplistic and too few. It took me several rereads of each lesson to do the exercise, and I don't believe in the end I was getting it right.

This book is written like a paperback novel, and is 237 pages long.

Needless to say, I moved on in search of a more effective book rather quickly.

Just applying the very first exercise in my everyday life made an anormous change in my general wellbeing and in my breathing pattern. Highly recommanded