JS - Pennsylvania, USA - Email
Hello Nancy, I am a professional trumpet player in the eastern PA state, near Philadephia, and have been practicing your chi yi exercises for over a year now. The results have been beyond my wildest dreams. EVERY aspect of my playing has improved, from concentration, pitch center, range, and overal flexibility on the instrument. Also, I have been passing the information down to the my students, and they are benefiting from it as well.
CM - London, England - Email
May I take this time to thank you and your staff for your kind generosity in ensuring I received a copy of the DVD in London. It has been invaluable as part of my program of holistic healing. I am a singer, who is finally taking responsibility for my voice through my ability to breath. Thank you for taking the time to produce this program. Your work will touch many more then you will ever know.
MB - Cincinnati, OH writes...
Just a quick note to let you know how much I enjoyed meeting you at the Chi celebration, and to thank you again for answering my questions. You were the main reason I came to San Diego, I have enjoyed following your video and book on Chi Yi breathing, it has helped me a great deal with my asthma, so it was very special for me to meet you in person...
KB - emails...
I have been telling friends and acquaintances alike about your wonderful book and video for some time now... I actually had another very positive experience as a direct result from practicing your exercises. I had begun to have lots of headaches, phlegm and just general discomfort in my chest area, which was greatly reducing my ability to sing. I think this was sometime in 1999. At any rate, after several rounds of antibiotics, decongestants, inhalers, and antihistamines, the problems persisted. I was beginning to get pretty down about it when I remembered your exercises! After a determined round of them and continuing with the visualization drills, was able to regain my former vocal power and to feel much better! I'm still on an antihistamine and decongestant, but have consistently remained free of that long-term chest/lung irritation. I really can't thank you enough Nancy for producing such a remarkable and helpful aid!
JL - Cambridge, England writes...
"I have been playing sax for a long time but the first few chapters of your book have helped me improve my tone a great deal, so many thanks for your shared knowledge.
I have spent years reading books written by windplayers. I even have trumpet books just to see if those guys have anything useful. I have internet web pages on breathing printed out inches thick, but nothing has helped as much as your book, just three chapters and I have improved more in weeks than I would expect in years.
...Some musicians may not be as lucky as me and may not realize how much this book applies to them. I have read so many books written by musicians that attempt to teach breathing and none comes close to your book... I believe there are plenty of musicians here who would buy your book if they knew what it could do for them. I would advise any sax player to get this book...
I have advised a relative to obtain a copy of your book. She loves to attend classical concerts but suffers panic attacks. I used to get them a long time ago and I advised her that if I were to have one these days I could extinguish it in one or two breaths using your techniques. I remember clearly what a panic attack felt like and I can't imagine one existing in the presence of good breathing. It's like the two could not exist in the same room together at the same time - one would have to leave.
Thanks"
VJ - Omaha, Nebraska writes ...
"As a student of the martial arts and Qigong, it is my pleasure to read and purchase your book. The lessons and exercises are well laid out and easy to do.
No longer do I have to go into detail about the art of breathing, I just mention your book. I plan to use it in my own teaching.
In all the years that I have been in the martial arts, no one has explained breathing techniques better than you. It is a pleasure to recommend your book."
MS - Easthampton, MA writes ...
"I heard you speak on the David Essel talk show one Saturday night and have been so grateful ever since that I did. I always felt that I was a shallow breather which is not a health practice.
I am 78 years old but have always been healthy and am still very active. I had not been to a doctor for 30 years until this year when I had a very bad cough. She sent me for X-rays and said it showed that I might be starting to have "COPD" which means Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. I know that with your beautiful book & tape that I will not develop this condition.
I do your Lessons 1 & 2 every day and take deep breaths often as you recommend. I feel great now. The cough is gone also...
Thank you, Nancy. Your methods have changed my life!"
IS - Santa Ana, CA writes ...
"Thank you for making available The Art of Breathing in simple short lessons. I am very excited about the book and I am looking forward to receiving the tape to begin my journey to a new life."
ML - Mc Kees Rocks, PA writes ...
"I am in Speech Therapy for a voice problem. Recently, I borrowed a video from the County Library titled: The Art of Breathing (A course of six simple lessons to improve performance and well-being) by Nancy Zi. I like the video so much and the technique is really helpful."
PS - New York, NY writes ...
"I'm so glad you wrote The Art of Breathing - I was on my way to a vacation on Block Island, went to the 23rd Street Library, and there it was - a wonderful start to a vacation and a whole new approach to breathing and living.
I perform in Manhattan as a singer, teach movement and body balance, and have a license as a Massage Therapist - but after beginning to work with your book, I understand what everyone's been trying to explain all these years. Each exercise you suggest is complete in itself - before this everyone had part of the picture - but something was always missing - your book is complete. As I do the exercises I'm delighted to hear the difference in my singing - not just the length of the phrases, but the entire energized quality of the voice - the sound of attention and concentration.
The Art of Breathing is a wonderful, magical book and it's helping me make changes in all sorts of ways."
JS - Ann Arbor, MI writes ...
"I am a professional trumpet player, who bought your book on Chi Yi from the Quality Paperback Book Club out of curiosity and with the hope that it would have a positive influence on my playing. So far, I have completed lesson 1 and have only started on lesson 2, so I'm nowhere near a complete understanding (either intellectual or physical) of your method... but I have already noticed wonderful things happening! My sound is bigger and fuller with less effort through a wider range of both pitch and dynamics. I have recommended the book to a number of my trumpet - player friends, and two have gone out and bought it.
Congratulations on a super book!"
OH - Los Angeles, CA writes ...
"I attended your class ... a few weeks ago on The Art of Breathing. During the lecture you led the class members in an exercise of concentrating and directing the chi to some area of the body for the relief of pain or discomfort, and I experienced an instant healing.
My problem derived from lifting a television set, carrying it to my car and then from my car across a parking lot ... Well, I first suffered from a severe lower back pain. The I began to feel a kind of electrical current from the right side of my groin that ran down the inside of my right leg. I went to my medical doctor and he diagnosed it as a sciatic nerve problem and prescribed two weeks of complete rest. I couldn't do that. So I visited a local chiropractor and he recommended several weeks of treatment and a reduced workload. I was considering that when I visited your class. But in one session or actually one exercise I was completely relieved and for several weeks now the pain has not returned."
HE - Oxnard, CA writes ...
"I purchased and read your superb book and tape, The Art of Breathing. Your work is comprehensive... I am very happy for you and all of us who will benefit from the accomplishment of your graceful, clear and highly instructive tape.
I've only used The Art of Breathing for 5 days, just once a day right now, but already I am being rewarded by huge steps forward in both capacity and control. that's saying a lot for a person with Emphysema and Asthma!! With more discipline and regularity the future seems deeply encouraging.
With sincere appreciation of your good work..."
DA - Los Angeles, CA writes ...
"First of all I have a copy of your book, The Art of Breathing and I think it's great. For years I've been looking for the most direct approach to developing good breathing habits and your book really "clicks" with me.
Proper breathing is very important to us. We see it as a key to "super health"."
KE - Del Mar, CA writes ...
"I have been taking some of your Breathing Exercises to clear up lung congestion left over from a former siege on two occasions of pneumonia. They have been most helpful."
EW/EB - Madison, WI writes ...
"We both enjoyed your book very much and have found your ideas useful both as teachers and performers."
DG - Bridgeville, CA writes ...
"Enjoying and benefiting from The Art of Breathing!"
MS - Deerfield Beach, FL writes ...
"About a year ago I acquired a copy of your book, The Art of Breathing, and I have undertaken the practice of the various exercises that you describe.
In my particular case my basic interest is especially in the realm of meditation and the role of breathing in that regard.
I wanted to tell you that I have found your book of great assistance to me in my "inner" work, and I am grateful to you for your taking the time and trouble to create it.
In addition, I would mention that throughout my adult life I have been bothered, as are so many people, with periodic bouts of low back trouble, or perhaps it is better described as lumbosacral spasm. And I find now that by virtue of practicing the exercises you outline that a certain flexibility, no doubt of a subtle kind, has been created in that area of the back (an integral part of the lower circumference as you call it), and I therefore seem now much less prone to such attacks of back trouble.
I had never realized that when we breathe it is necessary for the muscles of the low back to respond correspondingly, and that their failure to do so would have a detrimental effect in that area.
...This is a "bonus" I had not expected. Thank you again for this remarkable "little" book... I am now encouraging my wife to undertake Chi Yi."
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