Ebook: Breathing in Manhattan: Carola Speads - The German Jewish Gymnastics Instructor Who Brought Mindfulness to America

In the midst of historical upheavals, Carola Spitz escaped from Nazi Germany and became Carola Speads, a revered New York mindfulness teacher. She breathed with her clients on Central Park West until she was 97 years old. Twinned with this intimate biography, Christoph Ribbat chronicles the history of modern gymnastics and breathing experiments. He illuminates the tension between self-help fads and 20th-century catastrophes. Accessible and engrossing, his book speaks to scholars and non-scholars alike, to students of Jewish American culture, New York City, and anyone interested in or wary of mindfulness.