About this Event
Feeling stressed? If you're looking for guidence on breathwork, self-care, and mindfulness, join us for a discussion on Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor led by Dr. Lena Adams Kim on Tuesday, January 20th at 12pm.
She will be joined in conversation by store manager Lynn Rosen.
About Dr. Lena Adams Kim:
Lena is a communications and organizational development consultant who integrates mindfulness and neuroscience to drive impact across public and private sectors. With expertise in mediation and a background in hospice and bereavement counseling, she is passionate about creating space for every voice to be heard. She holds a PhD and two master's degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University and is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School's Change Management Program. As the founder of Mindful EPA, the federal government's first mindfulness program, Lena is a pioneer in bringing mindfulness into organizational culture.
She has used Nestor's research finding in leading breathwork sessions with medical professionals, marginalized communities and defense dept employees in high-demand, high-stress environments.
About Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, 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. The answers aren’t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe.
Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is.
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. You will never breathe the same again.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Barnes & Noble - Philadelphia, 1708 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States
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