Balboa Press book blends yoga, breathwork, and trauma recovery

Yoga and breathwork are moving farther into trauma care, but Sail Beyond Trauma lands in a space where promise and proof still have to share the room. The June 8 announcement from Balboa Press in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, introduced Dr. Sunayana Shivangi Pandé’s 266-page book as a trauma-recovery framework built around Kappal Otti, a system the publisher described as a “first-ever holistic mind, body, and soul trauma therapy program.”

Pandé, described in the release as an award-winning metaphysical parapsychologist, casts trauma as multidimensional rather than single-layered. Her framework blends neuroscience, psychology, yoga, breathwork, narrative therapy, and spiritual philosophy, with each piece mapped to a different part of recovery. The body work centers on nervous-system regulation, neuroception, and interoception. The mind work uses narrative reframing and inner-child work. The soul component adds spiritual inquiry and purpose as tools for healing and resilience.

The book also pushes beyond theory. Along with breathing exercises, yoga, and mindfulness practices, it includes HeartMath methods and Konnakol, the South Indian rhythm-based vocal tradition. That gives Sail Beyond Trauma a hands-on self-regulation angle, not just a conceptual one, and the release says the tools are meant to calm the body, improve focus, interrupt repetitive negative thoughts, and help readers feel safer in their bodies while rebuilding agency. The book is being sold in softcover, hardcover, and e-book formats through Balboa Press, and the listed publication date is February 25, 2026.

Pandé frames the work in explicitly emotional terms. “Healing is not about avoiding the storm,” she said, adding that the goal is to help people “return to the helm of their own lives with steadiness and compassion.” That language puts the book squarely in the growing market for yoga-adjacent recovery work, where studios, teachers, and readers are increasingly looking for practices that can stand up inside a trauma-informed model.

The broader evidence base explains why that matters. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health says yoga might have benefits for people with post-traumatic stress disorder, and a 2018 systematic review and meta-analysis found yoga may reduce PTSD symptoms. At the same time, a 2024 review said yoga interventions for PTSD have been studied, but safety and treatment efficacy are not firmly established. A 2024 pilot study also examined trauma-sensitive yoga plus diaphragmatic breathing in 31 service members, showing that this work is already reaching clinical settings.

HeartMath fits that same overlap. The organization says its research focuses on heart-rate variability, autonomic nervous-system function, and heart-brain interactions, and that health professionals use its HRV-based tools for self-regulation and emotional management. Sail Beyond Trauma arrives in that same intersection of yoga, breathwork, and trauma care, where the most credible claims are the ones that stay close to regulation, scope, and safety.