The Yoga Of Breath Richard Rosen

"Richard Rosen has written a beautiful and substantial work on pranayama. It is at once modern and classical. Brilliantly engaging and accessible, it is a guide for practice that can become a companion for life. I recommend it unequivocally to students and teachers alike." PATRICIA WALDEN, cofounder of the B. K. S. IyengarYoga Studio

"pranayama is a vitally important part of traditional Hatha-Yoga. Richard Rosen has rendered a most valuable yeoman service by making this widely neglected practice accessible to Western practitioners. I highly recommend this work." GEORG FEUERSTEIN, pH.D., author of The Shambhala Guide to Yoga

"Richard Rosen acts as our pranayama tour guide by honestly sharing his own travels, both inward and outward. And he has done it the way all great teachers do: He points to the map and then makes sure that we go on our own journey and don't just keep looking at his finger. The Yoga of Breath shows us how to find time, how to work with our mind, cultivate patience, experience more spaciousness, and be playful-all that by breathing in and breathing out. I'm inspired!" CYNDI LEE, director of the OmYoga Center

For several thousand years, yogis have drawn on the powerful practice of pranayama to maximize prana, or life energy; to rejuvenate the body; and as a means of self-study and self-transformation. In this user-friendly guide, Richard Rosen introduces us to the fundamentals of pranayama and shows us how to incorporate them into an existing yoga practice. Rosen's approach and realistic practice plan is easy to follow with step-by-step descriptions of breath and body awareness exercises accompanied by clear illustrations.

Richard Rosen is a graduate of the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco and has been teaching yoga since 1987. He is the deputy director of the Yoga Research and Education Center in Santa Rosa, California, and the senior editor of the center's International Journal of Yoga Therapy. He is a contributing editor at Yoga Journal. .