Learning more about Middendorf Breathwork

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The Perceptible Breath 
by Prof. Ilse Middendorf 
(book with audio tapes, Junfermann-Verlag, Paderborn, 1990) $21.95
"An Interview with Ilse Middendorf" 
by Elizabeth Beringer
(article in Somatics Magazine, also in Bone, Breath and Gesture, Don Hanlon Johnson, ed. North Atlantic Books, pub.) $3.00
"The Breathing Self: The Experience of Breath as An Art to Healing Yourself"
by Prof. Ilse Middendorf and Juerg Roffler
(article in Journal of The International Association of Yoga Therapists, January, 1995) $3.00
The Experience of Breath: An Interview with Ilse Middendorf and Juerg Roffler
(video produced by Ilse Middendorf, Juerg Roffler, Margot Biestman, Faith Hornbacher with Kevin Braband at Studio 3, Samuel Merritt Colleges, Oakland, 1997) $37.00 ($25.00 is tax deductible for The Breath Center of Berkeley.)
"An Interview with Ilse Middendorf and Juerg Roffler" 
(Text from video, 1997) $3.00
The Experience of Breath in its Substance
by Prof. Ilse Middendorf
(book with CD, Junferman-Verlag, publication scheduled for Winter of 1999)
Online Articles
Breathhelp for Lower Back Pain

Dr. Wolf Mehling at the University of California in San Francisco is the first physician in the U.S. to investigate breathexperience™ in an academic medical institution. Read about his positive findings.
Breathexperience: A Somatic Science and Art of Living

Juerg Roffler and Margo Biestman have co-authored a new and comprehensive overview of the scope, basis, and elementary practice that belongs to breathexperience.
Breath and Psyche

In the Experience of Breath, the sensation of Breath movement is a door into an all-encompassing process of balancing, healing, and learning about ourselves. Do you have questions about how Breathwork and psychological work differ? Breath and Psyche offers some thoughts on the subject.
Middendorf Breathwork: Questions and Answers

Over the years students have asked many important questions concerning the Experience of Breath. This is the first in a series of dialogs that addresses these questions. I hope you find the responses I have distilled a help in the path to your own natural Breath.

Juerg Roffler and Kai Ehrhardt: Television Interview

If you are interested in approaching The Experience of Breath, you may find a helpful overview in this transcript of a televised interview on the nature of our breathwork.

Interview: Juerg Roffler and Benjamin Glover M.D.

A conversation with a distinguished surgeon with extensive background in the anatomy and physiology of respiration on the many aspects of the breath.


These materials and interview transcripts are available through Advanced Seminars (P.O. Box 2067, Berkeley, CA 94702), and The Middendorf Institute for Breathexperience.