Synopses & Reviews
For serious students of yoga who have an established pranayama practice, this book is a follow-up to Rosens previous book,
The Yoga of Breath. Here he picks up where he left off, offering a selection of traditional yogic techniques for those who wish to deepen their practice of pranayama and their understanding of the ancient wisdom of yoga. Rosen skillfully puts forward an array of awareness disciplines, breathing practices, mudras, and seals, interspersed with anecdotes and quotes from ancient texts.
The enclosed instructional CD by the author offers a variety of guided practices so that listeners can create their own pranayama series, with guidance from the author in the appendix.
Synopsis
Some kind of pranayama exercise is a regular feature in most Yoga classes, and this book-and-CD set brings the serious practitioner to a more advanced level. Richard Rosen offers a variety of practices on the accompanying CD, so that the listener can create his or her own pranayama class.
About the Author
Richard Rosen is a graduate of the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco and has been teaching yoga since 1987. He is a contributing editor at Yoga Journal and director of the Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, California. He lives in Berkeley, California.