Ancient practices. Modern science. Everyday well-being.
What if wisdom were not something you had to wait a lifetime to gain—but something you could practice every day? Ayce B. Ozerdem offers a practical path through Sophrology and Qigong—small practices that become a wiser way to live.
Paperback · live courses · private sessions
“Wisdom is not something we simply possess. It is something we practice.”
Ayce B. Ozerdem
In this book, you’ll learn how to
Sophrology
Developed in Europe, Sophrology weaves breathing, relaxation, gentle movement, visualization, and awareness into a practice you can use in minutes. It is not a demand to become endlessly calm. It is a way to notice what is happening, make a little space, and choose your next step.
Qigong
Rooted in Far East traditions, Qigong cultivates balance through slow movement, attention, and embodied awareness. In this book and in the trainings, it sits beside Sophrology as a complementary language of the same invitation: return to the relationship between mind and body.
Try a one-minute pause
A wiser life is rarely made in one extraordinary hour. It is made in small, repeated choices. This minute is one of them.
Trainings
8 weeks · 90 minutes each
A guided journey through the full arc of the book—stress, emotion, thought, energy, sleep, focus, values, and conflict—practiced in a small live circle.
$497
4 weeks · 75 minutes each
The stress workshop already given in many rooms, as a four-week course: understand the stress, notice your response, then practice—Benson, Huberman, McGonigal, and the Sophrology tools that follow them.
$147
3 weeks · 75 minutes each
Three weeks of Sophrology and Qigong for falling asleep, staying asleep, and handing over the day’s worries.
$127
The author
Sophrologist, mediator, and Well-Being Program Specialist at George Mason University. A former journalist and broadcaster, she now teaches the practices in this book to students, public servants, and anyone ready to live more consciously—without waiting to become someone else first.
Meet Ayce“The purpose is not a perfect life. It is a life more fully lived, now, within the imperfect days you already have.”
From the introduction