Gurucharan Singh Khalsa Ph.D. - Breathwalk: Breathing Your Way to a Revitalized Body, Mind and Spirit

Developing, teaching, testing, researching, and writing Breathwalk was a long and rewarding journey. Along the way, at every step, many people encouraged, supported, and critiqued our efforts. Our sincere thanks and appreciation go to all who helped bring this beautiful technology for the body and mind into accessible programs and into this book.

Thanks to those who took the first steps and walked with us to experience the potentials of the mind, the vital energy of the body, and the dimensions of awareness Breath-walk makes available. Thanks to Dharm Singh Graham for his editing, his aesthetic contributions and for being a research subject; to Jim Brault for teaching and walking with us in the Caribbean; Mark Canaan, who Breathwalked hundreds of miles and who saw its potential; Jagat Joti Singh Khalsa, who was creative and relentless in telling everyone about this program; Hari Kaur Frank, who walked the many miles teaching with us; Dr. John Mack for his wisdom and kindness; Dr. Ed Resnick, whose consistent healing and professional sports therapy experience is second to none; Dr. Candace Royer, department chair in physical education at MIT, who has encouraged us and helped us introduce this to thousands of MIT students and faculty over the last ten years; and Thomas Moore and Hari Kirn who reminded us that the soul of walking is innocence and listening.

We are grateful for the support in time, resources and ideas that allowed us to research the effects of Breathwalk and its components of breathing and meditation. Deep thanks to Dr. Herbert Benson at the Mind/Body Medical Institute who has been gracious, wise and instrumental in our experimental testing. Special thanks to Dr. Ary L. Goldberger at the lab for nonlinear medicine at Beth Israel for his insight and conversations about wellness, and the patterns that rule our health and awareness. Thanks also to the many others who worked to conduct the experiments: Dr. Greg Fricchione, Director of Research in Psychiatry at Brigham and Womens Hospital; Sara Lazar of the Mind/Body Medical Institute; George Bush, M.D. of the Harvard Medical School, Dr. Jeffrey Hausdorff, David Kailton, Amrit Singh Khalsa, Ph.D., of MIT; and the Nuclear Medicine Group at the University of Arizona Medical Center.

Research doesnt happen without generosity and vision by supporters. Our gratitude to: Hari Katie Houlahan, Gessner Geyer of Brainergy, Inc., and Nancy Adams and her husband Dick.

We would like to thank Tony Robbins and his partner Becky Robbins who have encouraged us and given us the opportunity to present Breathwalk to thousands of people through the Life Mastery University. Their unrelenting vision and drive to reach and elevate peoples lives matched our desire to give the Breathwalk experience to a wide range of people from many countries.

The journey to finish a Breathwalk book was the work of many hands and hearts. From its conception Yogi Bhajan has been the source and inspiration. This is one refreshing sip from a fountain of wisdom he has shared to elevate the lives of each of us. Suzanne Oaks and her assistant Lisa Olney at Broadway Books added exceptional collaborative and editorial skills. Our agent, Joel Fishman of Bedford Bookworks, recognized our potential and used his magic to help find it a place for birth. Many thanks go to Peter Caldwell and Jim Reichert of Business Bookworks who initiated us into the process of creating trade books, edited and critiqued us line by line.

Lastly, nothing would have reached completion without the intelligence, editing, organization, and pure dedication of Gurucharan Kaur Khalsa, C.E.O. of Khalsa Consultants, Inc.

If we have left anyone out it is inadvertent. There have been many people who have taught and helped give Breathwalk to the world. To all our gratitude.

Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, Ph.D.

Yogi Bhajan, Ph.D.