Anatomy of Breathing

This book is well written and interesting.The anatomy of the breath is explained in layman's terms and illustrated so that even a child could understand its basic concept.The book chapters are:1. Initial observations about the act of breathing2. The skeleton's role in breathing3. Respiratory organs4. Respiratory muscles5. The principal forces involved in breathing6. Forces affecting respiratory volumes7. Relationships among anatomical structures involved in breathing8. Analysis of the principal types of breathing9. Practice pagesPractice pages include exercises for lamaze, costal, diaphragmatic and abdominal breathing amongst others.Strongly recommend it to people involved in body work teaching. Even if you already know this stuff, the book may help you find ways to explain it to your classes more simply. At least this is what it helped me for.

I appreciate the detail and in depth analysis of anatomy and how that factors into movement. A great book for helping explain the body, anatomy, and more importantly, the body/breathing in movement!

Perhaps both the strength and the limitation of this book is that passion for the subject is avoided. This doubtless helps avoid mistaking ideas about breathing for actual breathing. On the other hand, someone stumbling upon this book may under-appreciate the benefits of better breathing. Some may consider the discussion of smaller muscles and the smaller movements unimportant and diluting the interesting parts. However, if one wants to really change breathing then it is beneficial to know every part because in effective breathing, everything works in harmony. Changing my breathing has helped change my life, and it was this book, not my first book on the subject, which gave me clues on how to change my tendency to paradoxical breathing. (I had to find a way to stop my lower ribs from pulling up and flaring out in disproportion when my diaphragm pulled on them, so that the center of my diaphragm could instead pull itself down.) Together with a book that covers the motivations and goals of better breathing, say by Dennis Lewis, this book is well worth it the cost and the study.

excellent illustrations, description of various functions presented in a very easy tounderstand way, finishing with series of exercises to facilitate better breathing andperception of the process

I'm a yoga anatomy teacher and purchased this book to use for reference material when teaching the anatomy of the breath. The illustrations are good, although not as detailed as most books. The author breaks down the concepts of respiration into language that's easy to understand. I'm only giving this 4 stars because I would have enjoyed just a bit more detail. Definitely worth investing in though!

This book has been extremely helpful for me to understand anatomical movements and their corresponding muscles and bones. Good stuff.

Purchased this book because I want to do more breathing exercises. I have read a previous book by this person and know it will be good. Currently in a class and have not started.

Blandine-Calais has again written a book of exceptional clarity: the descriptions of the body parts related to respiration and the exercises given are simple, clear and easy to follow, yet bring a depth of understanding to the reader.

good read

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This book goes through its subject (breathing) in a very thorough fashion and every step of the way it illustrates its descriptions with drawings that are both very descriptive and very well done and are technically exact. I am impressed by this book and can highly recommend it if you want to really know how it all works.

Heavy going ...fairly in-depth but keep with it and it tunes you in to all you need to know about the breath

If you are interested in this topic, and are looking for something that is in depth yet very easy to read and digest, then I highly recommend this publication. It is fascinating and a quick page turner.