Ossigeno

110 111 #yogasūtra 3.0 curated by Sandro Di Domenico breath engineer ing E=O Fede ico Tosi E = O E = O “Take a deep breath” “You breathe life back into me” “I held my breath” “You came as a breath of fresh air” “I barely had time to breathe” “Let me catch my breath” “In the same breath” “You left me breathless” “I can hardly breathe” “Now I can breathe easy”.” “Until I breath my last” “He won't let me breathe” “Don’t waste your breath” Many ways of speaking about breath and breathing. So numerous to imply the importance of that natural motion which, through the first whimper of each newborn, confirms to the world the breath of life present in each of us. However, due to its spontaneous and normally unconscious nature, breathing appears extraneous and unknown. Nonetheless it is a unique and inimitable litmus test to understand a person's state of well-being. It is the rhythm of breath that firstly betrays the emotional state of a subject. Calm and regular when he is serene, accelerated and inconstant when he is agitated. The most recent rediscovery in the western world is linked to yogic practice, the way to raise mind and body including eight phases in whose centre, not surprisingly, breath control shows up. Because managing to control breath means being able to dominate one's emotions as to control them without have it betray by a physiological reflex, making things right with the world. « Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your skin and less of your raiment, for the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind », wrote Gibran Kahlil Gibran, poet, philosopher and Lebanese painter, The Prophet ’s author.