Breathwork is Awareness
Now this won't surprise any of Breathe’s readers. All breathworkers know this, but
in other fields of therapy, people like Eugene Gendlin (Focusing, Bantam Books,
1978) have worked out through painstaking university level research that therapy
does not work for many people because they don't have sufficient awareness of
their body, feelings or thoughts. ...
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
• Feher, Leslie (1980), The Psychology of Birth: The Foundation of Human
Personality. London: Souvenir Press (E & A) Ltd.
• Fodor, Nandor (1949), The Search for the Beloved: a Clinical Investigation of the
Trauma of Birth and Pre-Natal Conditioning. New York: Hermitage Press Inc.
• Gendlin, Eugene T. (1981), Focusing. Toronto: Bantam Books
• Joy Manné (1994) Rebirthing, an orphan or a member of the family of
psychotherapies? Int. J. of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine. (1995),
Rebirthing, is it marvellous or terrible? The Therapist: Journal of the European
Therapy Studies Institute, Spring 1995. (1997) Soul Therapy (Berkeley, CA: North
Atlantic Books)
• Orr, Leonard & Sondra Ray (1977/1983), Rebirthing for the New Age (revised
edition 1983). California: Trinity Publications
• Taylor, Kylea (1994), The Breathwork Experience: Exploration and Healing in
Nonordinary States of Consciousness. Santa Cruz, California: Hanford Mead.
• Taylor, Kylea & Joy Manné, Dialogue on Hyperventil-ation between Kylea Taylor
and Joy Manné, The Healing Breath: a Journal of Breathwork Practice, Psychology
and Spirituality,’ Vol 1, No 2, 1999.
• Rank, Otto (1924) The Trauma of Birth. New York : Dover Publications, 1993
edition.