Breathing through the Whole Body

✍ Scribed by Johnson, Will

• Book ID: 109564732
• Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Company
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 153 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781594774348

✦ Synopsis

SPIRITUALITY / WELLNESS “With simplicity and elegance, Will Johnson returns us to the original teachings of the Buddha on embodied spirituality, taking us deeper by teaching us a fuller and more subtle engagement with body and breath, leading directly to the expanse of liberation. This book will be treasured as a brilliant revelation of the spiritual possibilities of our own human mind.”--(Reginald Ray, Ph.D., Buddhist teacher and author of "Touching Enlightenment") Explaining how stillness in meditation refers not to a rigid and frozen body but to a quality of mind, Will Johnson examines the Buddha’s own words at the core of the "Satipatthana Sutta": “As you breathe in, breathe in through the whole body; as you breathe out, breathe out through the whole body”--an instruction often overlooked in the majority of Buddhist schools. Exploring the Buddha’s complete series of steps for deepening awareness of the breath, he shows how to invite natural, responsive movement back into...