Breathing, Mudras and Meridians Direct Experience of Embodiment

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This book covers the three pathways of awareness that are built into our bodies, and that can help us to improve the beneficial aspects of our breathing. It is suitable for all body workers, yoga teachers, other movement facilitators and anyone who works with chronic pain. The scientific literature on attachment, Polyvagal Theory, interoception, autonomic feedback loops and heart rate variability, point to the crucial importance of the breath. These pathways can be characterized as 1) the Breathing Bodymap of the Fingers; 2) the Breathing Interrelationships of our Functional Diaphragms; and 3) Skin Breathing, or bringing blood to our capillary beds in precise locations throughout the body.The benefits of learning these approaches are as follows:* Accessing these pathways can greatly increase our options as we work to improve the functioning of our bodies.* These approaches also deepen our understanding of the inherent wisdom of ancient body awareness systems such as mudras, yoga and chi kung, and how these systems can have such profound affects on our physiologies.* They offer immediate solutions to inefficient and dysfunctional movement patterns and can be immediately brought into use by professional musicians and athletes as they perform.* By breathing deliberately, we can;* interrupt the upsurge of our sympathetic nervous systems; * interact with our parasympathetic nervous systems to take ourselves out of a state of "runaway mind" to relax or put ourselves to sleep; * re-route or repattern pre-existing breathing patterns and fixations in the respiratory diaphragm itself that have not served us well; * bring extra blood to areas of chronic discomfort, helping us to endure adverse circumstances.This book includes links to voice recordings of three meditations on the three pathways, as well as a video on breathing and the autonomic nervous system.

Author(s): Harvey, Bill
Publisher: Handspring Publishing Limited
Year: 2021

Language: English
Commentary: size optimized
Pages: 212

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
About the Author
Foreword by Michael J. Shea
Foreword by Amy Wheeler
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Anatomy as an Organizing Principle
Chapter 2. Health and Vitality
Chapter 3. Placing the Breath
Chapter 4. The Organs
Chapter 5. Skin-Breathing
Chapter 6. Ujjayi Breathing
Chapter 7. Mudras for Supporting Diaphragms and Organs
Chapter 8. Mudras for Chakras and the Central Channel
Chapter 9. Diaphragms Revisited
Chapter 10. Vayus
Chapter 11. Five Elements Revisited
Chapter 12. Using Mudras to Experience Meridians
Chapter 13. A Tour of the Meridians
Chapter 14. Samana Vayu and Primary Respiration
Chapter 15. Walking Past Middle Age
Chapter 16. Claiming Inner Spaciousness
Chapter 17. Embodying Transcendence
Bibliography
Index