Breathe Better – Live Better

For more energy and well-being. With new findings and practical exercises
With a foreword by Prof. Andreas Michalsen
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Breathe Better – Live Better / Richtig atmen – gesünder leben
For more energy and well-being. With new findings and practical exercises
With a foreword by Prof. Andreas Michalsen
When did you last breathe consciously?
We have more control over our breathing than just about any other bodily function. Learning to use it strategically provides us with an effective instrument for increasing energy, inner stability, and well-being.

Alexander Peters provides clear explanations of the role breathing plays in our health, our performance levels, and our inner balance. It combines current findings from the fields of medicine and breathing exercises with the author’s decades of experience as a teacher and...
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We have more control over our breathing than just about any other bodily function. Learning to use it strategically provides us with an effective instrument for increasing energy, inner stability, and well-being.

Alexander Peters provides clear explanations of the role breathing plays in our health, our performance levels, and our inner balance. It combines current findings from the fields of medicine and breathing exercises with the author’s decades of experience as a teacher and therapist – both at the Immanuel hospital in Berlin and in his own practice.

This book covers the following topics:
  • how breathing affects our body, nervous system, and psyche;
  • why so many of us have developed unconscious, detrimental breathing patterns;
  • how conscious breathing can increase energy, concentration, and stress resistance;
  • and how targeted exercises can lead to lasting improvements in health and quality of life.

Easy, step-by-step exercises invite readers to rediscover their own breathing, and to gradually optimise it – in their everyday lives, in the workplace, and in times of great stress.
2026, 250 pages
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Alexander Peters has been working for more than 30 years as a yoga teacher and therapist, and as a practitioner of alternative medicine. He is the founder and director of the Sonne & Mond health centre in Berlin, which also offers professional training to ayurvedic and yoga therapists, as well as treating patients with natural remedies. For a number of years, he worked at the Charité hospital’s campus outpatient clinic and in the department for complementary medicine at the Immanuel hospital. He has a master or science in ayurvedic medicine from Middlesex University London.
Alexander Peters has been working for more than 30 years as a yoga teacher and therapist, and as a practitioner of alternative medicine. He is the...

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