Breathing in Manhattan : : Carola Speads - The German Jewish Gymnastics Instructor Who Brought Mindfulness to America / / Christoph Ribbat.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• VerfasserIn: Ribbat, Christoph,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 287
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (134 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; 1. The Studio of Physical Re-Education --; 2. Wandervögel --; 3. Notice What Is --; 4. The List of Jewish Gymnastics Instructors --; 5. Flowers from Charlotte --; 6. Speads Work --; Sources --; Illustrations --; Notes
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839467091; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111319094; 9783111318127; 9783111024950
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839467091?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Christoph Ribbat.

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.