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Summary: Brethwalk
Review: Breathwalk is a simple and powerful idea but this book makes it needlessly complicated which is why I can only give it four stars. However, the book IS well researched and well written, and so I do recommend it as long as you know in advance that you'll have to do some work to dig all the bits of information from many different chapters. With this type of book the reader will often want to get started quickly and can usually expect to find one chapter that helps them do that by presenting the basics. That's what this book lacks. Basically, the Breathwalk technique consists of coordinating breathing with the movement of walking. But there's more to it than that and each part of the technique is presented in a different chapter, with no clear explanation of how to put it all together. For example, there are different Breathwalk patterns to use, depending on what effect you would like to see in your body and mood. These have names like Eagle and Tiger and are basically different ratios of inhalation to exhalation, which are documented with nice graphs. Then there are awakener exercises, sort of like warmups, which are done before the walk. These too are chosen based on the effect you are looking for. Each walk ends with an integration, or innerwalk, step and here again there are different types to choose from. Then there are optional primal sound scales that you can add once you're comfortable with the basics. After getting through all this information I was overwhelmed and would have liked to see a chapter that presented the complete walks with all their components all in one place. There is a Program Guide at the end of the book but this just adds to the confusion. It lists the individual programs based on the effect achieved, such as "Rejuvenate your energy reserves" or to go from "Simple anxiety to inner calm". But to get the details of each program you need to jump around to several chapters. Many of the programs use more than one breathing pattern, and to find those patterns you go to one chapter; for the awakener exercises, you go to another chapter; and for the innerwalk yet another chapter. If you want to find a basic breathwalk and get outside for a sample walk in short order, then I must say good luck. But if you're willing to hang in there, read the entire book, and figure out where all the pieces of the technique are explained, then I think you'll find that the book does ultimately deliver and Breathwalk does work. If only it had a more user-friendly structure this would be a five-star book.
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Summary: Brethwalk
Review: I agree completely with anitareads' review. The material is excellent but it does require some effort to put all the pieces together. Still, it's the only book of its kind that I know of and what it teaches is priceless.
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Summary: A life changing walk
Review: I bought the book because it incorporated elements from two of my favorite exercises, yoga and walking. After reading the book front to back, I took a walk. I was amazed. It opens your senses, quiets your mind and changes your mood in a quick 15-30 minutes. It's something you can do anywhere(your neighborhood, parks, malls, airports, work and even on a treadmill), no special clothes or equipment required, and it's soooo easy! Read the book, get your friends to get one and read it too, then go for a walk together.
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Summary: What an interesting, life extending book!
Review: If you are one of those people who love to take care of your body, or need to make some improvements in your mental and physical health, this is the book for you. Have you ever had someone tell you breathing is the key to good health? Here are a couple of authors who offer all the information you need for a sound mind, body, and spirit in one book. It is chocked full of ideas and advice to help a person pull his or her life together and how to live a longer healthier life by walking and breathing right. In the book, there is a step-by-step regime toward peak physical and mental fitness. They also cover ideas behind each step and how to follow through them. Reading BreathWalk will teach you how to pull yourself together and walk yourself into a healthier, fuller life. Readers will also learn how to access their vitality, proper breathing, the benefits of BreathWalk, and the science behind Breathwalk. Towards the back of the book the authors offer the Breathwalk program guides, Awakener exercise and Breathwalk patterns. It's a wonderful concept. The book and the information in it will take the reader time to learn, but just from reading it, I learned more about breathing while walking than I have learn from any exercise program.
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Summary: What an interesting, life extending book!
Review: If you are one of those people who love to take care of your body, or need to make some improvements in your mental and physical health, this is the book for you. Have you ever had someone tell you breathing is the key to good health? Here are a couple of authors who offer all the information you need for a sound mind, body, and spirit in one book. It is chocked full of ideas and advice to help a person pull his or her life together and how to live a longer healthier life by walking and breathing right. In the book, there is a step-by-step regime toward peak physical and mental fitness. They also cover ideas behind each step and how to follow through them. Reading BreathWalk will teach you how to pull yourself together and walk yourself into a healthier, fuller life. Readers will also learn how to access their vitality, proper breathing, the benefits of BreathWalk, and the science behind Breathwalk. Towards the back of the book the authors offer the Breathwalk program guides, Awakener exercise and Breathwalk patterns. It's a wonderful concept. The book and the information in it will take the reader time to learn, but just from reading it, I learned more about breathing while walking than I have learn from any exercise program.
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Summary: This Breathwalk is a great technique!
Review: This book is easy to read, and the Breathwalk techniques are really quite effective and useful. I now do a Breathwalk in the morning before work, and it's a great energizer. I find that I'm more focused and more productive at work just from those few short minutes of exercise in the morning. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in fitness, health, yoga, personal mastery, or anything like that.
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Summary: Breathwalk
Review: This book shares very simple and effective techniques to revitalize yourself walking. I've been doing the breathwalk for a couple of weeks with excellent results. It seems that everyone can use this technique to enhance the walking experience and reducing stress.
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Summary: A truly revitalizing experience.
Review: This review is about the experience of doing Breathwalk as taught in the book. First it was easy to understand and learn. But, the results are the amazing part. When I pass other walkers with their head sets, weights, intense paces and faces and realize this is their excercise and relaxation, I feel lucky to have learned a technique that is both enegizing, relaxing, and elevating at the same time. All the scientific background information gave the whole thing validity which helped me want to learn it. Thanks for this book!
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Summary: We were so fortunate!
Review: We were so fortunate to have Gurucharan come to San Antonio and personally explain Breathwalk and then lead us on a Breathwalk. He is the most charismatic speaker I've ever met and his lecture was the clearest and most inspiring.All during our breathwalk we could hear Wow! This is incredible! It is so easy that anyone can do it but so effective it is truly amazing. A lot of us were so delighted by the results that we decided to sign up for teacher training.The book has many more walks than we had time for, all carefully explained. There are some free exercises on the web site Breathwalk.com
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Summary: Great results immediately, but a lifetime to enhance them
Review: What a terrific book! Despite the fact that it's an exercise book, it is extremely engaging, and the concepts easy to follow. The challenge is to have the patience to read the book through completely so that you understand fully what Breathwalk is all about, before trying it out haphazardly. One reviewer felt the book was disorganized, and there should have been a brief overview chapter so the reader could quickly dive into Breathwalking. My good judgment tells me that the presentation of the material was quite deliberately thought through so that the reader would have a firm foundation of what to do before striking out. A Breathwalk - though its basic components are as simple as breathing and walking - requires a certain level of precision and, as importantly, consciousness of what you're doing at any given moment, so just getting a vague idea of it wouldn't be useful at all. I see a close similarity, in that respect, to yoga. Carefully learn and consciously practice a few yoga basics and you'll immediately feel some rewards (just like learning one Breathwalk program). But you can very satisfactorily spend a whole lifetime enhancing your practice of yoga (or Breathwalk) and, in turn, continuously reap more and more benefits. I'd recommend this book to anyone who is looking for an exercise program that addresses physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health, is easy to do but provides you with lots of opportunity for real mastery.
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