Breathe How You Want to Feel
Your Breathing Tool Kit for Better Health, Restorative Sleep, and Deeper Connection
by Matteo Pistono
Beginning Monday October 7 for 4 weeks
Weekly meeting in-person & on Zoom
We are thrilled and honored to have as a our special guest the Matteo Pistono, the author of “Breathe How You Want To Feel” for Q & A in our last session of our Fall Book Circle— Monday October 28, 2024.
Matteo Pistono
Matteo Pistono, writer and teacher of meditation and conscious breathing, embarked on his spiritual journey 30 years ago while living in Nepal and Tibet. Informed by his study of Buddhism, Vedanta, and Hatha Yoga, extensive periods of solitary meditation, and pilgrimages across sacred Himalayan landscapes, Matteo offers an engaged approach to ancient wisdom traditions. His books include Breathe How You Want to Feel, Meditation, and In the Shadow of the Buddha, among others. Matteo earned a Masters in Indian Philosophy from the University of London, and his writings have appeared in The Washington Post, BBC, Buddhadharma, Tricycle, Men's Journal, Kyoto Journal, and HIMAL South Asia. Matteo maintains a daily asana, pranayama, and meditation practice.
about the book
Breathwork guide and meditation teacher Matteo Pistono offers a how-to book for upgrading your nervous system to live your optimal life physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Do you want to calm your racing thoughts before lying down for a restful night of sleep? Or raise your energy levels before your morning exercise or spin class, and have laser focus before an important meeting? Are you overwhelmed from the flood of information from your social media and news feed? Any time your emotional state is out of balance, there are time-tested, practical methods to breathe your way back into the state of being you want.
You have the capacity to change how you feel, in any moment, when you partner with your breath. It’s a matter of paying attention and then consciously altering your breathing pattern.
Too often books on breathing and breathwork coaches do not teach the actual mechanics of breathing. Instead, they guide one-off sessions, teach protocols, or direct you to an app. The consequence of just following a protocol without understanding breathing mechanics leaves the student disempowered and dependent on the teacher. Instead, in Breathe How You Want to Feel, learning functional breathing becomes the basis upon which you gain control of your well-being—it’s the secret tool behind resiliency.
Breathe How You Want to Feel offers you a psychophysical tool kit that includes:
awareness building,
understanding the dials of your nervous system,
the importance of nasal breathing,
how breath holds (even when very short) are a superpower, and
how to integrate optimal breathing throughout your everyday life, especially when you're sleeping.
You’ll use these tools to optimize your breathing to overcome being tired, wired, and uninspired. You’ll learn how to breathe optimally during your workday, while exercising, when entering meditative and flow states, and for deep rest. And you’ll partner with your breath to discover deeper meaning in life. This book meets you, the breather, where you are with step-by-step actionable tools to improve your health, sleep, and well-being.