Blandine Calais-Germain
Everyone breathes, yet few of us understand how to consciously control breathing to improve our well-being and the quality of many daily activities. Anatomy of Breathing is a clear and helpful guide to both the theory and practice of breathing in its many variations. Hundreds of expert drawings along with easy-to-understand text help you explore just how breathing works. Once you’re acquainted with the principal organs, structures, and forces that affect breathing, you will learn how to control them to enhance the quality and variety of breathing in your own life. Along the way, you will also correct many common misconceptions about breathing. Anatomy of Breathing is filled with helpful practice pages. Here you will learn simple exercises to prepare your body for the benefits of different types of breathing. You will then be shown, step by step, how to practice some of the most common and useful breathing techniques on your own.
232pp, 10x7, illus. ... Paperback
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George Ellis
For 2,000 years ancient Indian and Chinese breathing techniques have ensured the good health of generations. Filled with photos that demonstrate over 20 yoga postures, 20 Qi Gong techniques and 12 pranayama exercises, this large format book includes a special section that recommends breathing techniques to alleviate a variety of health problems from asthma to insomnia.
192pp, 10x7, illus. ... Paperback
Published price £10.99 -- You save £2.20 ... 20%
Thich Nhat Hanh
In Breathe! You are Alive, Thich Nhat Hanh outlines the methods of conscious breathing presented in this sutra and offers exercises for practising them today. The author's commentary gives the reader access to the profound nourishment available when we slow down and get in touch with our breath along with each act of daily life.
70pp ... Paperback
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Gay Hendricks, Ph.D.
Presents a simple program for refining the body’s most essential life-force--breathing--into a vital tool for improving mental clarity and physical health. Also included are special techniques to help lower blood pressure, eliminate anxiety and depression, and enhance sexual response and athletic performance. "This is the best book on breathing I have seen..." - Andrew Weil."...a supreme example of gentle love and potent psychospiritual technique in action. This book is a living meditation..." - Jacquelyn Small
208pp, 7.5x9.5, illus. ... Paperback
Published price £11.99 -- You save £2.84 ... 24%
Scott Shaw
Pranayama, the practice of breath control, is detailed here in an easy-to-understand and even easier-to-practise format. Scott Shaw introduces 16 breathing exercises and shows you how to get the best benefit from each of the forms by training, refining and witnessing your breath. Try one of the calming breaths, Nadi Sudi or the Nerve Purifying Breath. Allow Ujayi or the Hissing Breath to destress you. Here you will learn how to breathe while moving, standing and leaning and how these variations can affect your breathing practice.
96pp, 7x5 ... Paperback
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Richard Rosen
For serious students of yoga Rosen offers a selection of traditional yogic techniques for those who wish to deepen their practice of pranayama and their understanding of the ancient wisdom of yoga. He skillfully puts forward an array of awareness disciplines, breathing practices, mudras, and seals, interspersed with anecdotes and quotes from ancient texts. The enclosed instructional CD by the author offers a variety of guided practices so that listeners can create their own pranayama series.
224pp, 9x6, illus. ... Paperback
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Bhagat Singh Thind
Breathing is the very root of your life. It is vital; it is important that you do it properly. No habit pays bigger dividends and pays them so promptly than breathing - maintaining strength and suppleness in all the sixteen vital organs of the body. It is the source of your health, your cheerful spirits, your feeling of youth, your energy and your relaxation.
Performed and demonstrated by Sat-Guru Bhagat Singh Thind. Features: Simple Breath; Vitalic Breath; Dynamic Breath; Lung-Strengthening Breath; Beauty Breath; Constipation Breath; Insomnia Breath; Solar-Walking Breath; Lunar-Walking Breath; Vibratory Breath; Pineal Gland Exercise; Vagus Nerve Exercise; Adrenal Gland Exercise; Parathyroid Gland Exercise; Adam's Apple Exercise; Dog Exercise.
DVD
The Yoga of Breath is a guide to learning the fundamentals of pranayama and incorporating them into an existing yoga practice. Rosen's approach is easy to follow with step-by-step descriptions of breath and body awareness exercises accompanied by clear illustrations. This book also covers the history and philosophy of pranayama, offers useful practice tips and teaches readers how to use props to enhance the exercises.
Published price £13.99 -- You save £4.00 ... 29%
