You’re looking for real person images showing pranayama techniques.You want to understand some specific pranayamas with an in-depth elaboration.You want an anatomical exploration of pranayama effects on the body & mind.You like to challenge yourself with new breathing exercises.You like to explore different approaches to doing pranayama.Apart from breathing techniques, this book contains the author’s personal experience and poetic description at the beginning of each chapter.
in Biochemistry and a yoga researcher from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC, USA. The author Sundar Balasubramanian is a Ph.D. It’s really worthwhile to read if you want to go beyond regular pranayama techniques. Sundar Balasubramanian has explained all the techniques beautifully using illustrations, how-to instructions along with modifications and variations. And, you aren’t interested in inner explorationĪs the name suggests, this book explains various yoga breathing techniques which are not just the classical ones but many other derived techniques.You are looking for a book that shows new approaches and tips to traditional pranayama practices.You prefer not to indulge much in ancient yogic terms.You want to understand and add new Sanskrit yoga words to your vocabulary.You want to understand how pranayama works with your different body parts.You want to learn to do pranayama in different states like while walking, during meditation, while in Savasana.You are looking to explore pranayama preparatory practices like Shatkarma, yogic diet, and asana as well.The book explain “Prana” in very detail and shows the different aspects of defining it as universal energy. The author Swami Sivananda who was a medical practitioner earlier is the founder of Sivananda style yoga which is based on the classical hatha yoga system.Īs the book named “The science of pranayama”, it delves the reader into an entirely different realm by connecting the concept of pranayama with energy and matter. In “The science of Pranayama” book you will see a glance of hatha yoga philosophy while going through various concepts of pranayama.