Book Review: Learning To Breathe: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival

Learning To Breathe:  One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival is written by Alison Wright, the renowned photojournalist.  Alison had spent a lifetime traveling the world to document endangered cultures. In the first few days of the new century, she found herself on a packed bus in the winding mountains of Laos in Southeast Asia.

And then, in one instant of crushed metal and shattered glass, her life utterly changed: on a dangerous blind curve, the bus collided head-on with a logging truck, nearly killing her. In unbearable pain, and barely able to breathe, Alison lay by the side of the road and drew upon her years of meditation practice, concentrating on every moment as if it would be her last...