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Science Of Breath: A Complete Manual Of The Oriental Breathing Philosophy Of Physical, Mental, Psychic And Spiritual Development

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This book was a lucid and eloquent examination of healthful breathing techniques, and the benefits experienced from their use.

Very few authors are capable of expressing complex concepts in simple language, but this author does it well.

I originally found this author quoted at length in The Roots Of Consciousness by Jeffrey Mishlove, and decided to follow up. I am glad I did.

The book begins with reviewing the importance of breath to living things, and then on to the physiology of breathing. Then the different styles of breathing are examined, along with the benefits and detriments of each. The book then progresses to look at a much more healthful method of breathing, along with exercises making use of this new method. The benefits from the physiological to the mental, emotional, and finally spiritual realms are discussed.

It is a practical handbook, with a minimum symbolic expression, and a maximum of well thought out, simply expressed important information on an often underappreciated topic.

I picked up this book (1905 edition) as a martial artist hoping to help me with my KI breathing excerices. This book improved my breathing technique introduced me to yoga and eastern thought. "Science of Breath" provides a great balance between western theories and eastern ideas. This book would be a good aid to anyone in the martial arts or those who just study KI.

This book was recomended to me by another jazz vocalist whoindicated that it would give me more insight into how I breath whilesinging. I took her advice with a grain of salt, but after reading itall the way through, I came to the conclusion it should be mandatoryreading for all vocalists and all people for that matter...While mostvocalists are concerned with the two schools of western breathing,they are overlooking an entire approach that trancends both of thesemethods. This is not one of those new aged relics that glorifieseastern philosophy and religion. This is the real thing. You will notsee this book on Oprah, and it was not written by a Westerner. Checkit out..

I can think of no better training tool for the student of Meditation and especially the Science and Practice of Out of Body Experience (OOBE or sometimes called OBE) than this wonderful little book.

Written in 1904 originally, it contains careful, sound and easy to follow directions on quieting and controlling the mind and breath in ways that will greatly enhance self control, calm, metabolism and open the gateway to some incredible Cosmic Experiences, if one is patient and willing to apply these techniques over a reasonable period of time.

Essential for the Yogi Adepts in all of us!

I am in a Yoga-Teacher-Training-Course, this book, Science of Breath, was recommended by a friend. It teaches lots of good stuff about the breath and I am glad I read it, however, it was written in the early 1900s and there are some prejudices in there about human beings and that disappointed me somewhat. Hopefully a reader can focus on what the book is actually trying to teach, rather than get hung up on what science did not know in the early 1900s.

The book is excellent and a good introduction to the basis beginning of Yoga. The current offering of the book is a very bad copy of the original book and is marginal for reading. The original book was obviously copied on a copier and the pages inserted into a soft cover book. Do not buy this book.

This book is a potential life changer and will make you rethink the way you think about health. Breath as discussed by Rama and the others is revealed as THE center to all life, our life, Yoga, and to how "happy' we are in both body and mind (i.e., OM). What's great is getting a nice Western emprical discussion of the physiology of breath, and then getting Rama's discussion of breath in the context of Yoga. Another cool part is understanding how important the nose is to breathing and health. A very practical and fascinating book and a great beginning to Yoga.

This book will literally leave you breathless! I have always had a difficult time getting that whole breathing your way to enlightenment thing down...but this manual is an extensive blueprint on the how-to's of breath work. A tantalizing and inspired read.

As a yoga student I am keenly aware of the breath while practicing the art. This book however, gave me new insight into breath, and the actual human mechanism of breath. I found this book to be immensely helpful and have returned to it time and again as a reference. A great read!

The author of this text, Yogi Ramacharaka, is a mysterious individual but there is nothing mysterious about this practical and elegantly simple guide to pranayama, the art of yogic breathing. The beauty of this work is its blend of Western and Eastern theory. Historically, the author is thought to be a Western man, an English lawyer to be more exact, that traveled to America and wrote yogic and mystic texts under the name of a yogi he had met and studied with. Some however feel that the name Yogi Ramacharaka corresponds with a yogi of the Middle Ages who utilized the body and mind of the aforementioned lawyer and channeled the information into him to be written for the benefit of the Western world. There is ample evidence for both theories in that at multiple instances in the text, the plural first person form "we" is used to denote authorship and the fact that there is a growing number of yogis who feel that the great Yogi Ramacharaka has attempted or has successfully channeled information and teachings into them. After reading this compact staple of breathing manuals, you'll wish you could channel the mind of Yogi Ramacharaka too. The Western medical student will learn just as much as the die hard student of Eastern internal arts. The exercises outlined within the pages are potent; any athlete can benefit from them as well as anyone suffering from maladies of the upper respiratory system. Personally, I used to suffer from chronic upper respiratory problems such as sinusitus and bronchitis. After being introduced to yoga and pranayama with my understanding peaking since the completion of the studies of Yogi Ramacharaka's books, my condition has considerably lessened and my overall physical and mental vigor has doubled. Buy this book immediately. You will not be disappointed.