Reviews - Respire: A Nova Ciência de Uma Arte Perdida

This book starts a bit horrifying as you realize how wrong you’ve been breathing up until now, but it ends on a positive note, with a lot of resources to explore on your own to improve your breathing and your health. The book has an extensive notes session so if you want to go deeper into this topic, that’s a great place to start.

jonscott9's review against another edition

3.5

Fascinating stuff about breathing, of course, but also about the ways that the human face and head have evolved over decades and centuries. Topics such as sleep, apnea, etc., are also addressed, as a book like this basically has to do. This was a bit of an acquired taste (listen) early, and then it really took off for me.

I've caught myself holding my breath absentmindedly or unconsciously a lot in the past few years (since the pandemic proper, probably), and this listen (to the author himself) helped me reset that in a meaningful way. Or at least I hope. I hope it sticks.

The journalist, Nestor, does a good job narrating his own stuff here, and he's dry and witty at times, also profane in what we'll call all the right places. The breathing techniques taught by one of his interview subjects, one of the people he practically profiles as well here, are an added bonus in the audiobook version.

zoer77's review against another edition

4.25

informative reflective medium-paced

alaricmoras's review against another edition

5.0

informative inspiring

aleban93's review against another edition

3.5

informative reflective medium-paced

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