Breathing and The Breath of Life

<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#FFFF00" link="#00FFFF" vlink="#C0C0C0" alink="#008080" onload="dynAnimation()" language="Javascript1.2"> <h1><img src="logo-blue.gif" alt="wpe16.gif (1272 bytes)" width="99" height="69"><font color="#FF8080">Mountain Wind</font></h1> <h1><font color="#00FFFF"><small>Exploring Health, Self-Knowledge, Consciousness, & Self-Transformation </small></font></h1> <h2><small><font color="#FF8080">Through Natural Breathing, Taoism, Chi Kung, and the Ideas & Practices of G. I. Gurdjieff</font></small></h2> <h3><font color="#ffff00" size="6"><a href="http://www.authentic-breathing.com" target=new>Please click here to go to our new, comprehensive, website</a></font></h3> <h3><a href="http://www.dennislewis.org/" target="new">Please Click here to go to Dennis Lewis' Personal Website</a></h3> <p><i><a language="Javascript1.2" onmouseover="rollIn(this)" onmouseout="rollOut(this)" href="http://www.authentic-breathing.com/free_your_breath,_free_your_life.htm" fprolloverstyle="text-transform: uppercase; text-decoration: blink" dynamicanimation="fpAnimformatRolloverFP1" initstyle target="new"><b>Free Your Breath, Free Your Life</b></a></i>, the new book by Dennis Lewis (due out from Shambhala in May 2004). Read what MDs, breathing professionals, and others have to say about this book</p> <hr> <h2><a href="http://www.healthtransformations.net" target=new>Looking for a good acupuncturist/herbalist in the San Francisco Bay Area? 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If you are interested in this class, oriented toward health and inner growth, please send us an email message with your name at <a href="mailto:wu@mountainwind.com">mailto:wu@mountainwind.com</a>. Private classes by Dennis Lewis in San Francisco in the Wu Style Tai Chi Short Form are now available.</li> <li><a href="http://www.breath.org/mountainwind/serv02.htm">Natural Breathing & Liangong in 18 Exercises</a> (not currently being offered)</li> <li><a href="http://www.breath.org/mountainwind/serv02.htm">Awakening to the Miracle of Ordinary Life</a> (not currently being offered)</li> <li><a href="http://www.breath.org/mountainwind/serv01.htm">Healing Tao Private Classes</a></li> <li><a href="mailto:workshops@breath.org">Send Us Your Email or Other Address to be Notified of Future Breathing and Chi Kung Workshops</a></li> </ul> <h3><strong>   <font color="#FF8080">Articles and Practices</font></strong></h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.breath.org/mountainwind/news.htm#Article List">Articles on Breathing, Consciousness, & Self-Transformation</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.mountainwind.com/breathing-meditation">A Breathing Meditation</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.breath.org/breathing-audio.htm">Learn Powerful Stress-Buster Breath Techniques and Breathing Meditations From Dennis Lewis using Your Real Audio Player </a></li> <li><a href="http://www.breath.org/breathing-faqs.htm">Frequently Asked Question About Breathing</a></li> </ul> <h3><strong>   <font color="#FF8080">Links to Websites and Books</font></strong></h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.breath.org/breathing-resources">Breathing Resources: Internet Sites and Books on Breathing</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.breath.org/mountainwind/pr01.htm">Books (recent) on Gurdjieff, Taoism, and Self-Transformation</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.breath.org/internet.htm">Internet Links: Gurdjieff, Taoism, Self-Transformation, Consciousness, Broadcast Media</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.breath.org/health.htm">Internet Links: Alternative Health</a></li> </ul> <h3><strong>   <font color="#FF8080">Other Information</font></strong></h3> <ul> <li><a 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