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Calm Breath, Calm Mind: A Guide to the Healing Power of Breath
Discover ancient Tibetan breath practices for calming your mind and improving your health in this plain-English guide.
Over millennia, many Eastern traditions have developed practices that use the powerful healing energy of breath to treat physical, emotional, and mental problems. In Chinese, this energy is called chi ; in Sanskrit it is called prana ; and in Tibetan it is called lung .
Lung is life-giving energy that moves through our bodies. A lack or imbalance of lung can create illnesses of body and mind or cause emotional struggles such as confusion, anger, and sadness. In this book, Geshe YongDong Losar, a scholar and monk in the ancient Bön tradition of Tibet, guides us through time-tested practices to help balance our lung . His deep knowledge—garnered through years of study and practice—renders the practices simple and achievable, creating a clear path for us toward greater calmness, strength, and clarity.
“Over and over I have personally witnessed, both in myself and in my students, the breath’s clear potential to heal and deeply transform lives. I truly believe that in the future such practices will play an important role as a medicine for preventing and treating physical, emotional, and mental maladies. I am glad that Geshe YongDong is making these practices widely available, and I’m sure that by doing so, he is bringing benefit to countless lives.”
—from the foreword by Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Over millennia, many Eastern traditions have developed practices that use the powerful healing energy of breath to treat physical, emotional, and mental problems. In Chinese, this energy is called chi ; in Sanskrit it is called prana ; and in Tibetan it is called lung .
Lung is life-giving energy that moves through our bodies. A lack or imbalance of lung can create illnesses of body and mind or cause emotional struggles such as confusion, anger, and sadness. In this book, Geshe YongDong Losar, a scholar and monk in the ancient Bön tradition of Tibet, guides us through time-tested practices to help balance our lung . His deep knowledge—garnered through years of study and practice—renders the practices simple and achievable, creating a clear path for us toward greater calmness, strength, and clarity.
“Over and over I have personally witnessed, both in myself and in my students, the breath’s clear potential to heal and deeply transform lives. I truly believe that in the future such practices will play an important role as a medicine for preventing and treating physical, emotional, and mental maladies. I am glad that Geshe YongDong is making these practices widely available, and I’m sure that by doing so, he is bringing benefit to countless lives.”
—from the foreword by Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
200 pages, Paperback
Published June 21, 2022
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February 3, 2023
Entertaining read, and touches on the spiritual/mystical side of the breathing exercises and meditation practices that has been developed and passed down for hundreds of years. I read this as a research and to gather ideas for the fantasy story I am writing and also as a continuation of the 'Breath' book by James Nestor. Although many claims in this book must be taken with a grain of salt, it is nevertheless and entertains and interesting read.
September 14, 2023
A brilliant book.
Every note of it is clear, insightful and exciting to discover. The practices are masterfully explained and profound. When I do them I feel aligned, clear and grounded, released from the binds of karma and mind-stream chatter.
Geshe Yongdong Losar and Bernadette Wyton are a potent team. I hope they continue to produce wisdom teachings like this. Yes, please.
Bön tends to be my favorite wisdom tradition. I muck about somewhat with other methods, teachers and traditions but the Bönpo's seem to have the most delightful revelations and lessons/practices, and so they engage me more than the others. I do wander off to explore but am always drawn back. This book has me right back in the spacious wonder of it all. The appendix about Bön cosmology was astonishingly beautiful, too: Origin and alchemy stated in total, logical simplicity.
The book itself is beautiful. Wisdom Publications tend to do a great job and this lovely book is no exception. It's laid out with great clarity, the text is elegantly sized and inviting to read. I love the cover.
A decade ago I read "Awakening the Sacred Body" by Tenzin Wangyal and Marcy Vaughn and it is awesome, too, so I am familiar with Tsa Lung Trul Khor. I hesitated buying "Calm Breath, Calm Mind" because I thought it might just be a rehash. Well, much of it is, but in this case that is a huge and delightful positive because it is such a clear, succinct statement by an equally lyrical, articulate voice. Reading it reignited my practice and intensified its effects.
*sigh*
There's plenty of information that's not in Tenzin's book, and there is information in Tenzin's book that is not in YongDong's book—subtle variations in emphasis and teaching style—but they compliment each other and if you are drawn to this practice i recommend reading both.
Thank you, Geshe Yongdong Losar and Bernadette Wyton for this extraordinary gift.
Every note of it is clear, insightful and exciting to discover. The practices are masterfully explained and profound. When I do them I feel aligned, clear and grounded, released from the binds of karma and mind-stream chatter.
Geshe Yongdong Losar and Bernadette Wyton are a potent team. I hope they continue to produce wisdom teachings like this. Yes, please.
Bön tends to be my favorite wisdom tradition. I muck about somewhat with other methods, teachers and traditions but the Bönpo's seem to have the most delightful revelations and lessons/practices, and so they engage me more than the others. I do wander off to explore but am always drawn back. This book has me right back in the spacious wonder of it all. The appendix about Bön cosmology was astonishingly beautiful, too: Origin and alchemy stated in total, logical simplicity.
The book itself is beautiful. Wisdom Publications tend to do a great job and this lovely book is no exception. It's laid out with great clarity, the text is elegantly sized and inviting to read. I love the cover.
A decade ago I read "Awakening the Sacred Body" by Tenzin Wangyal and Marcy Vaughn and it is awesome, too, so I am familiar with Tsa Lung Trul Khor. I hesitated buying "Calm Breath, Calm Mind" because I thought it might just be a rehash. Well, much of it is, but in this case that is a huge and delightful positive because it is such a clear, succinct statement by an equally lyrical, articulate voice. Reading it reignited my practice and intensified its effects.
*sigh*
There's plenty of information that's not in Tenzin's book, and there is information in Tenzin's book that is not in YongDong's book—subtle variations in emphasis and teaching style—but they compliment each other and if you are drawn to this practice i recommend reading both.
Thank you, Geshe Yongdong Losar and Bernadette Wyton for this extraordinary gift.
February 2, 2023
Ainda que um pouco divagante e repetitivo em seu início, o livro traz instruções úteis e concisas sobre vários tipos de exercícios. Um livro prático e simples, que dá um breve contexto histórico e religioso, e apresenta exercícios suficientes para serem praticados por muito tempo.
February 27, 2025
Not my thing. I guess Novak Djokovic and I have different taste in books (he loves this book and that is how I heard of it).
August 5, 2025
AMAZING
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