Wellness Book Club: Breath, The New Science of the Lost Art

The Wellness Book Club provides an opportunity to read selections that promote and encourage practicing wellness in our daily living. Copies of the books are available for checkout at Salina Public Library.

“Breath, The New Science of the Lost Art” by James Nestor 

There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, and repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head.