Breathing: Expanding Your Power and Energy [Paperback]

Michael Sky (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1990

Long used by meditators as a way to inner peace, health, and vitality, intentional breathing can also be used as a calming technique when encountering stress, pain, and fear. In Breathing, Michael Sky offers simple breathing exercises that are intended to be experienced as they are read. He discusses breath, the central organizing life force, as it relates to emotional responses, lifetime habits, sleep, childbirth, sexual communion, and higher consciousness.

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"Breathing is suitable for even the most novice beginner. The author does a good job of explaining how breathing affects the body in general, and in various associated aspects, in more detail. Of particular interest are the rebirthing and sexual energies sections." (
Dr. Tami Brady, TCM Reviews, Sep 2008 )

About the Author

Michael Sky, author of Sexual Peace and Dancing with the Fire, led workshops in the exploration of breathing, firewalking, bodywork, and the effective use of ritual.

Product Details

• Paperback: 156 pages
• Publisher: Bear & Company (October 1, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0939680823
• ISBN-13: 978-0939680825
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #507,150 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Probably my favorite "Rebirthing" book. Michael is a master., June 5, 1998

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This review is from: Breathing: Expanding Your Power and Energy (Paperback)

"Rebirthing" is an artform that many aspire to and few attain. Michael's book captures both the spiritual as well as the practical aspects of many facets of the breath and breathing. He is quite poetic as well. A must buy for anyone interested in transformational breathwork and the study of the breath.

1.0 out of 5 stars Aweful!, December 10, 2010

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This review is from: Breathing: Expanding Your Power and Energy (Paperback)

I have to say I couldn't even get through the entire book. The only insight the author was able to give were quotes from other authors or doctors. I think the title was entirely misleading. Several chapters were based on his beliefs on the adverse effects of child birth. Breathing had nothing to do with any of it. None of the breathing techniques had any explanation to the benefits of them. Thus leaving the reader trying different forms of breathing with no direction of what to hope to achieve.
Overall, I will not recommend this book to anyone and I am very sad I spent the money on the copy I have.

1 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Of little value, February 15, 2009

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This review is from: Breathing: Expanding Your Power and Energy (Paperback)

This book pretends that if you consciously control the way you breathe it will give you all kinds of benefits. It's a bunch of baloney. It's a hippie dippie book from the 80s.

Okay now breathe in through your nose, hold it four seconds, then let it all out through your nose, then do it again. There, now all your problems are gone.

All of your problems are caused by the way you contracted and withheld your healthy deep breaths. When your Uncle Jay sexually abused you, you restricted your breathing in order to avoid experiencing what was happening. Now you must take good deep breaths and release that experience, and you will be whole again.

The part of the book that I responded most positively to was when birth was described. It was from the point of view of the newborn baby, and it said that the baby does have feelings and reactions, and is upset, and shouldn't be handled clinically by people wearing masks, shouldn't have its umbilical cord cut so soon to the point where it becomes a terrifying matter of life and death to force air into its lungs before it is ready, and shouldn't be separated from mommy at this time.