Pranayama: A Path to Healing and Freedom

by Allison Gemmel Laframboise, Yoganand Michael Carroll

From the Dean of the acclaimed Kripalu School of Yoga and founder of Pranakriya School of Yoga Healing Arts come the wisdom and tools to help you leverage your yoga practice as a vehicle for profound self-growth. Pranayama (yogic breathwork) is a journey of self-discovery that is, above all, about being authentic. It invites you to shed ideas of who you think you should be, in order to open to the person you really are. Yoga master Yoganand Michael Carroll and his longtime student Allison Gemmel Laframboise dive deep into the mystery and techniques of the ancient hatha yoga traditions to reclaim valuable teachings that have been lost to contemporary practitioners. What’s uncovered is pranayama as a system for increased healing, vibrancy, and liberation. If you want to get more from your yoga, A Path to Healing and Freedom is your guide to living from your truth, with complete acceptance and ultimate vitality.

304 pages, Paperback

Published December 10, 2015

Reviews

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Aliveness in certain parts of our bodies scares us." No truer words. Sometimes you tap into an area of the body that had been kind of dormant, unstretched, unused, and as you start to open that up, there is a sense panic and a desire for protection. This book talks about how recognize and grow from that place."If our energy gets too high, we become afraid and unstable. The yogi wants to raise the level of energy so it is a little unstable and stay there until that level of vitality is normalized." This is so much more precise than "find your edge". So much goodness like this. This is a more advanced yoga book and it was so nice to read. Also there is a good outline of how to do breath work and a detailed week by week list of how to increase your breath and meditation work. I've been doing yoga for more than 20 years and I learned quite a lot from this book.

[Taylor Brimhall · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was hard for me to finish only because it goes through in depth instructions on how to perform various pranayama techniques that I’m not yet ready (maybe never will be) to perform. However, I’m glad it got through it because A) there are some gems of wisdom in this book that have and will continue to bring me closer to myself and B) pranayama never interested me until I read this book and now I realize how crucial it is to life/yoga/happiness.

“Pranayama is intended to increase sensitivity so we can actually see how much pain we are in. Then we can choose to take responsibility for it and change it.”

[Stacey Domolewski · Rating 4 out of 5]

Recommended as part of my yoga teacher training. Was a very good overview of pranayama. It balanced yoga texts, personal experience as well as how to do these safely. I read from front to back but think it could also be used as a reference text to just look up the technique you’re looking for more info on.

[Kris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful resource. Full of information and extremely comprehensive. Easy to read. Best book on pranayama I’ve read in my 6 years of yoga books.