Breath. New facts.

“I think people ignore the work with the breath, because it is already given to them, it would seem, simply and for free. Why pay for something that costs nothing,” says James Nestor, author of Breathing: New Facts on Lost Art. According to Dan Brule, a pioneer of the Spiritual Breathing movement, even just reading Shakespeare's sonnets is therapeutic. “Reciting certain verses and prayers slows your breathing to about four to eight breaths per minute, which lowers blood pressure and cortisol levels,” Brule says.