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

by Sundar Balasubramanian

Sundar Balasubramanian shows us that this ancient yoga practice is about more than relaxing—it can change us at the cellular level.
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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.

Genres: Health, Meditation

154 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 19, 2019

Reviews

[Audio Athena]

non-audiobook review:

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.

[Chris Jones]

Mind Your Breathing answers the question no one asked: “What if a simple inhale needed 300 pages of self-importance?” Every chapter somehow transforms the revolutionary act of not suffocating into an ancient secret that modern science has apparently overlooked for centuries. By the end, I wasn’t sure whether I was reading a breathing manual or auditioning for a TED Talk that should have been an email.

The author’s confidence is breathtaking—ironically, the most impressive breathing technique in the book is the ability to inhale ordinary observations and exhale profound-sounding conclusions. If verbosity burned calories, this would be the greatest fitness book ever written.

I came hoping to learn how to breathe better. Instead, I learned that it’s possible to spend an entire chapter explaining something my lungs mastered before I was born.

[SARAVANA KANNAN]

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..

[Greg Shim]

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!

[Pooja Kumari]

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

[Kishore Ramchandran]

i would have wished he spoke about contra-indications for each of the breathing practices..

[MarkD60]

There's lots of good breathing exercises in this book, there's lots that don't seem to be so good as well.

[Lisa]

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.