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Save Your Breath and Keep Your Sanity

By Joan Borysenko — 2008

Breathing is the only autonomic (meaning automatic--like heart rate, blood pressure, and body temperature) function over which we also have conscious control. While most people can't lower their heart rate or increase their body temperature at will unless they're trained in biofeedback, martial arts, or yoga, anyone can change their breathing. Breath is the link between body and mind, the royal road to calming down and returning your body to balance.

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Science of Breath

“Breath is life! Life is absolutely dependent upon the act of breathing.” Thus does Yogi Ramacharaka state, in positive, unambiguous language, the importance of breathing.

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Essential Pranayama: Breathing Techniques for Balance, Healing, and Peace

Increase energy, relieve stress, find balance―yogic breathing for every level Pranayama, translated as the extension of one’s life force, can help you improve focus, relieve stress, and deepen your yoga practice―simply through breathing.

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Science of Breath

Much of the Western world was completely unaware of the profound impact of the breath on the body and mind until the 1970's.

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Light on Prãnãyãma: The Yogic Art of Breathing

In this classic, a yoga master describes the techniques of breathing together with a comprehensive background of yoga philosophy in this authoritative, practical and indispensable guide.

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