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Conscious Breathing: How Shamanic Breathwork Can Transform Your Life |  | Author: Joy Manne
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 486408
Media: Paperback
Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 1556435320
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.192
EAN: 9781556435324
ASIN: 1556435320
Publication Date: August 13, 2004
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Product Description
Conscious Breathing presents contemporary breathwork methods in a comprehensive, structured way for modern readers. Emphasizing the practice as a way to access the most elevated states of consciousness and the deepest states of meditation, author Joy Mann shows how breathwork can be applied to transpersonal, existential, past life, chakra, Kundalini, shamanic, and other experiences. Using detailed examples, case histories, and exercises, Conscious Breathing covers basic grounding and awareness, advanced breath and body-centered explorations, and explorations of biblical and religious teachings.
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 A Reference for anyone interested in Breathwork April 25, 2009
Ann C. Harrison (Sydney)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Manne makes the link between the transformational process of the Shaman and modern Breathwork. The book exhibits a thoroughness that can only come from personal practice as well as professional work clients. I recommend it as a standard text for Breathwork trainings as well as for any interested member of the general public. The style is readable, coherent and compelling
 Good Breathwork Primer. September 23, 2007
Scott Knudsen (Air Ronge, Saskatchewan Canada)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I, as a few of the other reviewers, found the title to be a bit misleading. When the word Shamanic was used, I figured I would be reading a bit more 'weirder' breathwork stuff than I ended up reading.
Overall though, the book is an excellent introductory on the different types of breathwork that one can participate in. It also talks about her theories and techniques, which a practicing breathworker can also adopt as their own.
I would recommend this book to anyone that is curious about breathwork. If you are looking for more of a text-book, then there are better ones out there.
 This book did not "transform my life" March 17, 2007
Sam Horner (Montana)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Something happened on the journey from the book store to my living room. Whatever it was about this book that initially caught my attention was completely absent by the time I got through the first few chapters.
If someone is shopping for books on meditative breathing, I'll venture a guess that their main goal is to find out "how can I do this myself?" Instead, the readers of "Conscious Breathing" are treated to a repetitious series of pseudo-academic snippets about the histories and schools of thought surrounding breathwork.
The author also indulges us in a number of melodramatic descriptions about her "re-birthing" experiences and expends considerable effort to convince us that we, too, are reaching out to shamanic breathwork in order to come to terms with the traumatic events in our own birth and early childhood. Breathwork may have helped the author in this regard, but the self-pity exuding from these narratives did not help me find the peace and relaxation I was going for when I bought the book.
I give the book two stars to pay due credit to the fact that, moreso than the other books I browsed in the New Age section, it did bring my attention to a meditative tool that may one day transform my life -- even if the book itself didn't.
 Not quite self-help... October 21, 2005
prof_it_e (Cape Town, South Africa)
28 out of 30 found this review helpful
My situation being in search of a tool that can help me with Shamanic Journeying - am a bit weak in the drumming/ visualising thing and understand breathwork might help induce the desired trance state. The blurb above suggests this book demonstrates how breathwork can be applied to among others, the shamanic experience.
By page 81 I am feeling a bit discouraged. So far it seems some background has been supplied on the subject with an emphasis on origin, terminology and protocol. It feels like I have attended a very short lecture aimed at people that are interested in running (politically correct) breathwork (workshops). There seems to be a general vagueness at this stage concerning whether one can pursue this independently, with emphasis being on a facilitator/client orientation. I have noted fleeting insignificant parallels drawn between breathwork and shamanism.
By the time I reach it, I am doubting there will be anything in the book that I can use, but because Part Three is titled Beginning Breathwork, I understand perhaps an actual breathwork "how-to" will now be divulged...
The next chapter: Grounding and Awareness provides pointers to prospective breathworkers and exercises for prospective breathers. Some case histories are thrown in to demonstrate elements/ problem areas of Grounding and Awareness, as well as some of the spin-offs. I'm keen to get to the part that says okay, Grounding and Awareness; check, next step.
Instead there are more pointers aimed at the prospective breathworker, and a whole bunch of case histories, and I am really starting to loose my patience. Then potential hazards with breathwork (and how to deal with them). Breath Mastery starts off with a whole bunch more case histories, moves on to some exercises/ experiments and wraps up with more parallels with Shamanism.
That Shamanism provided a framework within which Joy could interpret her interest in breathwork gets explained, so its not quite a "This is how Shamans use this to enter trance" thing.
I'm in two minds about this book at this point. Maybe at another stage it will grab me and progress in my journey will be impossible without it, but at this stage it just frustrates me.
I did kind of feel reassured that at least some of the things I wish to achieve can be achieved with this tool, its just this book felt more like it was ABOUT the tool and was not actually THE tool (but then maybe it was never meant to be...).
good read even though misleading title.. September 30, 2005
Marie
5 out of 15 found this review helpful
This is a very good book on breathwork. People who have an interest on breathwork focusing on holotropic breathwork and rebirthing will find it informative and easy to read. Her personal style and method of breathwork is called The Consious Breathing Method. Shamanic Breathwork is a style of breathwork that has been trademarked by Author and Breathwork Facilitator Linda StarWolf who runs Venus Rising Institute For the Shamanic Healing Arts.
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