THE MIRACLE OF THE BREATH, Mastering Fear, Healing Illness, and Experiencing the Divine
Andy Caponigro
P.R. Contact: Kim Corbin

"It is not accidental that the world's great wisdom traditions focus on the breath, and that our word ‘spirit’ is related to breathing. Attending to the breath is a gateway not only to greater wisdom but also to better health. The Miracle of the Breath is an admirable guide that will aid anyone wishing to explore the intersection of consciousness, spirituality, health, and breathwork."

— Larry Dossey, MD, Author, The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things, Reinventing Medicine, and Healing Words

"Andy's breathwork is so basic and powerful, it has the power to completely transform the way we approach health care."
— Joyce Perkins, R.N., M.A.

“Andy is a great master of breath. He has a genius for teaching us that healing is something we already have inside.”

— Bija Bennett, M.A. author, Breathing Into Life


“In yoga it is said, 'Master of breath is master of life.' Andy is truly a master of breath.
I would highly recommend other health care professionals to learn this work and teach .their own clients.”
— Abbas Qutab, M.D., founder of The Abbas Qutab Medical Clinic


“Breath master Andy Caponigro offers a full measure of wisdom and insight in The Miracle of the Breath, reliably presenting a sheaf of usable and useful techniques that ground, strengthen, and balance, thus enabling us to master fear, to heal, and to develop spiritually. Straightforward, well-organized, and lucid, The Miracle of the Breath is destined to become the definitive text on breath and all its mysterious potencies for Western practitioners.”

— Deborah Belle Forman, executive director, Swedenborg Foundation

“Andy is a great master of breath. He has a genius for teaching us that healing is something we already have inside.”

— Bija Bennett, M.A. author, Breathing Into Life

Without breath, there is no life. The human body can live weeks without food, days without water, but only minutes without air . Andrew Caponigro states: “The breath holds the key to all healing — mental, physical and spiritual.” From stage-fright to serious physical problems, everything can be healed by the breath.

Working with breath exercises with students and then healing clients, Capnigro learned that there is a profound link between physical illness and suppressed emotions — especially the emotion of fear. When he taught people to use their breath to "make friends with their fear," their chronic pain and disease would heal rapidly, and almost never return.

For example:
At an evening demonstration of his Pranic Energy Healing techniques, Andy had only 20 minutes to work with a woman who'd been in constant pain for 35 years. Her leg had been crushed in an accident at the age of five, and she had been taking medications ever since, because the pain had never completely gone. As Andy worked with his breath to relieve her pain, she began to re-experience the day of the accident. She remembered how her father and the emergency room doctor had sternly ordered her to stifle her tears — and how she had suppressed that terror for 35 years. That evening her pain disappeared, and never returned.

Over the past twenty-five years Andy's healing work has provided remarkably effective help for hundreds of people suffering from chronic illnesses and deep-rooted psychological problems which conventional approaches have failed to help.

Replete with stories and case studies of people healed from asthma, arthritis, anxiety attacks, and other physical and mental traumas through proper breath work, The Miracle of the Breath also examines the concept of breath as a spiritual life force. The spiritual life-force that dwells in our breath is not the same as the physical process of breathing or the air we take into our lungs. The breath is our link to the divine. Our breath is merely the vehicle through which the life-force manifests in the physical world. The Hindus call this life-force prana, while the Chinese named it chi. The Hebrews called it the breath of life, and Christians call it the Holy Spirit. Drawing on methods of breath control developed by ancient masters in India, China, and Tibet, readers learn how to practice techniques to improve emotional and spiritual health. Each chapter in The Miracle of the Breath contains breathing exercises and techniques that you can begin practicing in the privacy of your own home.

About the Author — Trained as a concert guitarist, Andy Caponigro performed with various musical groups and taught at the esteemed Berklee College of Music in Boston. After working with many musicians and singers to help them overcome stage fright and better control their breathing for improved performances, he decided to explore breathwork in more detail. These studies led him to begin a healing practice. He works privately with people suffering from chronic illness and psychological problems who were not helped by conventional therapies, with amazing results. He continues to lead workshops and train others to use his techniques. Andy Caponigro lives in Hadley, Massachusetts.

THE MIRACLE OF THE BREATH
Mastering Fear, Healing Illness, and Experiencing the Divine
By Andy Caponigro
Publication Date: February 17, 2005
Price: $15.95, Trade Paperback, 336 Pages, 6 x 9”
ISBN: 1-57731-478-6
Publisher: New World Library