Conscious Breathing ─ How Shamanic Breathwork Can Transform Your Life

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 Manne 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.

Joy Manne has a degree in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Buddhist Psychology. She has practiced Vipassana meditation since 1965. From 1989 to 1995 she ran her School of Personal and Spiritual Development, which focused on Breathwork as the central method. Manne currently sees individual clients and leads groups in Switzerland, where she lives. She teaches internationally, concentrating on Poland in particular.

Manne is a leading researcher and author in the fields of Breathwork and Buddhist Psychology, with numerous articles to her name on both subjects as well as the relationship between them. She has also published philological and textual studies on Theravada Buddhist literature in Pali. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the peer-review Internet journal, The Healing Breath: A Journal of Breathwork Practice, Psychology, and Spirituality, available through www.Healing-BreathJournal.org, and is a founding member of the International Breathwork Foundation (www.ibfnetwork.org), whose newsletter she edited from 1997 to 2001.