The Little . . Book of Yoga Breathing: Pranayama Made Easy
- ISBN13: 9781578633012
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Pranayama, the practice of breath control, is detailed here in an easy-to-understand and even easier-to-practice format. Professional yoga instructor Scott Shaw introduces 16 breathing exercises and shows you how to get … More >>
The Little Book of Yoga Breathing: Pranayama Made Easy. . .
I love this little book; the author’s sense of humor is one thing that caught my eye, but his writing is what I really like, not complicated or hard to understand and much easier than the other yoga breathing books that I’ve tried to read and follow. I’d recommend this to anyone that would like to further their education in pranayama breathing and thank you to the author for his time and his great little book.
Rating: 5 / 5
Practical, the author links excercises with desired effects: Feeling stressed? do A. Feeling listless? do B…and so on…a very quick pranayama fix.
Rating: 4 / 5
i still need to learn more to understand completely the given material, but a very lucid book and a good source.
Rating: 5 / 5
this book offers a very simplified explanation of Pranayama. If you are the one who never did Pranayama, is looking for not more than a one-hour-read and, wants to get a sense for what Pranayama is and kick start it, this book is for you. For anything else, there are plenty of other resources/books.
Rating: 4 / 5
If high-sounding concept can help sell a book, this Little Book certainly serves as a living proof. This DIY book basically teaches one how to expand and increase the capacity of one’s lungs so that one is able to breathe deeply and calmly. These are all good side-benefits of pranayama, but these are only remotely related to true pranayama.
To be fair, the practice of this book is certainly useful to promote good lungs, which benefits however can also be have simply by putting on your pair of Rockport (no commercial intended) and to do some fitness walking at your nearby mall. In comparison, if this DIY Little Book is a reference book for making toy-cars, then “Light on Pranayama” by guru B. K. S. Iyengar shall be an instruction book for making a Ferrari. In short, it depends on what you want to buy and study.
The author of this book wrongly consider pranayama to be simple deep breathing exercises, and prana as oxygen! Here we can do some solid comparisons to show their difference. True pranayama is to use outside-breathing (lung breathing) to drive inner-breathing (generation and movement of prana to serve certain objectives). Nose (nostril) blocking is an important technique of pranayama practice, a yogi will use different blocking techniques to facilitate his mind to drive the (inner) prana along defined channels (e.g. In surya bhedana pranayama all inhalations are done through the right nostril and all exhalations through the left. Prana energy in all inhalations is channelled through the pingala or surya nadi and in all exhalations throught the ida or chandra nadi, according to guru Iyengar ). In the Little Book in which prana is not activated, it will be quite futile to inhale or exhale through one nostril because all air goes through the same lungs irrespective of which nostril it comes from!
For those who are interested to study true pranayama, I suggest them to buy Light on Pranayama: The Yogic Art of Breathing . Otherwise an investment in a pair of Rockport walking shoes might actually be better.
Rating: 1 / 5