Book talk: Breath: Wake Up to Life by Prema Rawat

Prem Rawat, an internationally recognized peace ambassador, humanitarian, and New York Times bestselling author, invites us in his latest book, Breath: Wake Up to Life, to pause for a moment, listen to our heart and our breath, and recognize in the breath the miracle of life.

The book Breath: Wake Up to Life was the occasion for a meeting with Prem Rawat at Cankarjev dom on July 8 this year. Prem Rawat shared his profound and unique message that rediscovering inner peace is possible. Among other things, he said:

“We don’t live life - we live our desires. I want to be this, I want to be that, I want to be someone special, when in fact all we need to do is live.”

The book will be presented by Tina Mahkota, translator, and Žiga Valetič, writer and publicist, in conversation with Tjaša Koprivec Vuga, writer and storyteller. The event will be hosted on behalf of the organizer by Nadja Alikadić, MD, a specialist surgeon at the University Medical Centre Ljubljana. During the event, short video clips from international events featuring Prem Rawat will be screened.

Prem Rawat was born in 1957 in northern India and has dedicated his life to sharing a unique message of inner peace with millions of people around the world. He began speaking publicly as a child, and at the age of thirteen addressed audiences at the Glastonbury Festival, quickly drawing widespread attention. Since then, his voice has traveled to nearly every part of the world.

He carries out his humanitarian efforts through The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF), which has supported a wide range of charitable initiatives worldwide since 2001, and through the Education for Peace program.

In life, we need peace. Peace comes when we listen to our hearts, when we turn inward, when we are inspired by the most wondrous magic of all - the coming and going of the breath. Prem Rawat invites us to recognize peace, compassion, and coexistence, and to act for our own good and for the good of others.

Rawat’s commitment to working for peace is boundless. Last year, he visited twenty-one countries on six continents and gave sixty public talks. This July, he returned to Ljubljana once again. In the summer of 2025, public events at which Prem Rawat spoke were attended by 7,700 people, with an additional 60,000 viewers watching via live streams.

In Slovenian, readers can also find Prem Rawat’s book Listen to Yourself: How to Find Peace in a Noisy World. In it, the author encourages us to look beyond the storms of everyday life and to remember once again that peace can be found within ourselves.