Breathe In, Breathe Out: The best-selling practical guide on how to breathe for better sleep, stress management, improved self-esteem, and to care for your mental health

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My dad is 77 now and I’m 43 and, well, guess who’s the weird dad doing breathing exercises in the basement before sunrise now?

I want to help as many people as I can to learn these simple yet profound techniques – they’re so easy to incorporate into your daily routine and will bring so many benefits in terms of your health and happiness. This book is full of practical exercises, there's literally hours dedicated to the practice of breathing for different situations and the evidential knowledge and storys to help inform and back up the information shared. Breathing is a powerful, accessible tool to calm your stress, reduce your pain and manage your emotions. The Sunday Times bestsellerBreathing is a powerful, accessible tool to calm your stress, reduce your pain and manage your emotionsBy following the exercises in this book, youll learn how to harness your breath to take back control of your body and mind. Sandeman explains that, when you inhale through your nostrils, your sinuses release nitric oxide, which is a vasodilator, antibacterial and antiviral, among other things.

We follow the oxygen “through the airwaves and down our throats”, noticing where the air travels first by placing one hand on the chest, the other on the belly. As a yoga teacher today and (competitive figure skater)now recreational figure skater and asthmatic your breath is one that anchors you, resonates you, “when you breathe you quite intimately connect to everything” . More than the breathwork and the calmness that it brings of the danger passing, it helps us to dive a bit deeper into our being, the being that wants to heal, the being that wants to find out the reason, the being that wants to find the purpose of it all. I’d tiptoe downstairs to discover my dad, on his shins, pumping his fists into his stomach, while snorting like a horse.

The content is brilliantly presented with excellent visual descriptions and so easy to digest, it makes the book a joy and not a chore. In this Sunday Times best-seller, Stuart Sandeman reveals the hidden power of breathing, and how, by changing the way you breathe, you can transform the way you think and feel. De auteur baseert zich in dit leerproces op wetenschappelijk onderzoek en geeft informatie over biologische processen.However Stuart, a former Scottish judo champion, financier and DJ, spoke so passionately about the transformative power of breathing techniques, that I was eager to learn more.