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Mind Your Breathing : The Yogi’s Handbook with 37 Pranayama Exercises

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Sundar Balasubramanian shows us that this ancient yoga practice is about more than relaxing—it can change us at the cellular level.
   -Discover Magazine
Top of the 18 most groundbreaking recent discoveries on yoga’s healing powers.
-Yoga Journal

Mind Your Breathing: The Yogi’s Handbook with 37 Pranayama Exercises is from the award-winning author Sundar Balasubramanian
In this work, Sundar compiles popular Pranayama techniques, their ingeniously modified variations, and some brand new exercises stemming from the ancient Siddha wisdom.
This book, which captures the essence of the wisdom of centuries along with the innovations resulting from the author’s ongoing research into the subject, is the best gift to your Yogi friend.

154 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 19, 2019

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February 22, 2023
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This book makes yogic breathing techniques clear and easy to understand. Each description is concise in how to do it and why to do it. You will find all the traditional pranayama from yoga, but also some new pranayama the author has come up with from his personal experience. As the chapters progress, the techniques get more into mantras and chakras and stick to a yogic philosophy viewpoint instead of Western science. There is little science mentioned regarding the benefits of pranayama, except for the occasional reference to some of the author's research on salivary enzymes. (He has a Ph.D. in Biochemistry.) This book in that sense is the opposite of Jesse Coomer's breathwork book that I recently reviewed, which discusses the effects of hyperoxic and hypoxic breathing on the body and never says things like "inhale through your crown chakra". This is still a very well-written book, but it being a good fit for you just depends on what perspective you are looking for.
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February 1, 2021
One of the Top 6 Pranayama Books.

Selected as one of the best 6 books.
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Sundar Balasubramanian has defined all of the methods superbly utilizing illustrations, how-to directions together with modifications and variations. It’s actually worthwhile to learn if you wish to transcend common pranayama methods.

The writer Sundar Balasubramanian is a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and a yoga researcher from the Medical College of South Carolina in Charleston, SC, USA. Other than respiratory methods, this e-book comprises the writer’s private expertise and poetic description at the beginning of every chapter..
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September 19, 2025
Breath work is as varied as the people doing it - and as long as you’re doing it, that’s what’s important. This book gave me some insights into directing breath and its physical manifestations once it’s directed.

I think this book would be a good match for those who aren’t seeking hard and fast rules to breath work. Have fun and play!
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January 4, 2024
Easy to understand

Best and easiest book on pranayama
Very well explained
I have read both the books on Kindle and now I am going to buy hard bound book as this need to kept as life time reference
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April 3, 2024
This is a handy reference book for those already with a solid breathwork practice in depth and breadth. It is not sufficient a text to use as a referenence for learning breathwork.
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