Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Breath, Body and World (2020)
This special breath-themed issue of the journal Body and Society explores breath as a neglected topic within body studies.
Breath of Life on Radio Scotland
First broadcast on Good Friday 2016, the Breath of Life radio programme featured our principle investigator Jane Macnaughton in conversation with Anna…
‘I need security to survive’
Kate Binnie, yoga teacher and music therapist, shares a memory of a hospice patient: Paula wakes early every day and…
Air and climate: an historical introduction
Mike Emanuel, Research Associate at Oxford Brookes University, Department of History, Philosophy and Religion, writes: In the fifth century BC, Hippocrates, in ‘On…
‘Matter in these sighs’: notes on holy breathing
Naya Tsentourou from the University of Exeter writes: In John Milton’s Paradise Lost prayer is defined as ‘one short sigh…