Breath: The Essence of Yoga - A Guide to Inner Stillness

Beautifully written and illustrated book which helped me enormously with regard to my going back to basics after some injuries which have prevented me from following my usual exercises. It seems so easy to breathe - but this book awakens your awareness of the power of the breath. Can't speak highly enough and well worth the money. Book to read and revisit when needed.

This book is an absolute gem. I have been practising yoga for many years, and have been delighted to find a book that can actually enhance my practice. It works on so may levels... You can read it as poetry, you can choose one or two pages to meditate on, it works as an inspiration to practice, and also as a clear and helpful instruction manual. The pictures are beautiful - the way it's been presented is appropriate, but it is the underlying spirit and simple yet profound insights that make this my desert island book!

Great book! Easy to follow exercises with amazing results! I can recommend this book to every body who wants to improve their health and peace of mind! For children and adults alike. The delivery was very efficient and on time. The packaging was perfect and I am very pleased with the seller.

I have been going to yoga classes for years and avoided texts as I wanted to learn through practice.This is one book I would recommend for its simplicity and beautiful illustrations -even of what a breath looks like.

I bought it because I loved it. I knew what I was buying.

I was recommended this book by a Yoga teacher. I was disappointed in the layout and content. Very skeletal

Book arrived in good time, this is a excellent work by an accomplished yogini, for anyone studying the healthy art of yoga. Its a wonderful guide to improving one's health .

This book is 'pretty', but totally lacking in substance.In fact, it is the only book I have ever returned for a refund.Instead of calming, I found it frustrating and irritating, because I was looking for the inspiration and guidance it promised, but I couldn't find it.The description promises to guide us through the process of learning how to breathe properly and then how to incorporate this with simple yoga positions. But it doesn't deliver.The book is laid out as a series of short 'poems' - super-short half-sentences and micro-paragraphs, with often fewer than 30 words per page, plus an occasional line drawing.If you were a complete beginner, you would really struggle to create any kind of pranayama / breathing awareness practice from this book. Its passages are more esoteric than instructional.The description says that "The book's main aim is to show that that if you learn how to reconnect with the breath you can experience enormous benefits such as renewed energy and a greater calmness." It may well be. But it forgets the 'how to learn' bit, whislt marketing itself to beginners.It is much more suited to experienced yogis and meditators, who could use its short abstract passages as inspiration for meditation and awareness - if they want to.It's not a bad book, if you're looking for. It's simply that it doesn't deliver the promise in the description and for me it felt contrived and lacking in substance. Sorry...

Fantastic book! A book you can reread many times

Un muy bien libro sobre pranayama

Very simple yet intelligent manual to the daily yoga. Love it! It covers the minimum amount of effort it takes to get the maximum benefit from the practice.

HiI read this just before continue hiking in the desert.I read this just before I sleep when there are things which need to be relatedThis book is like chocolate and cream for the mindful soulOne the 10 books I will take to a lonely island

Amazing for all those that entering yoga for the first time or experience yogi