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Breath for Health: A Mindful Way to Restore Your Natural Breathing Cycle Paperback – January 1, 2024

by Michael D Hutchinson (Author)
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'The results for health and well-being of following this deceptively-simple program can be life-changing.' Dr Timothy McCall, MD, author, Yoga as Medicine: The Yogic Prescription for Health and Healing

A concise handbook on how to improve your breathing. It's based on a centuries-old understanding of the breath-mind-body relationship, backed by current medical research. Your breath is both a friend and a force which can open you up to breathe in a better way. Starting as a complete beginner, you can, step-by-step, restore your natural breathing cycle, so easily lost due to health issues or to physical or emotional stresses. You can work through the exercises at your own pace, guided by advice, clear instructions, illustrations, encouragement and inspirational anecdotes. In time, you can enjoy a more open, upright posture, speak more confidently and have a deeper sense of well-being. You'll be ready to start traditional yoga breathwork (Pranayama) should you wish. This book, recommended by some of the world's most experienced yoga teachers, will also fill a longstanding gap if you're a teacher of yoga or mindfulness, a physiotherapist or a psychotherapist.

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    January 1, 2024
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    5.5 x 0.65 x 8.5 inches
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    1803414405
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1803414409
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In my travels around the yoga world investigating the teaching of different traditions, the breath work taught by students of Krishnamacharya in his later life was the most subtle and profound I encountered. Breath for Health presents a program based on these principles that allows even raw beginners to learn the basics of healthy breathing, and then step-by-step safely build up to more advanced practices. The results for health and well-being of following this deceptively-simple program can be life-changing. -- Dr Timothy McCall, MD, author, Yoga as Medicine: The Yogic Prescription for Health and Healing (Bantam), Co-Editor and Contributor, The Principles and Practice of Yoga in Health Care (Handspring)

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Pranayama (breathing exercises) is the fourth Añga (limb) of the Astañgayoga (the eight-limbed Yoga), which has a major role in achieving the goal of Yoga. Without Pranayama there is no Yoga, meaning practice of asana without breath co-ordination will simply make it a ‘physical exercise' and also one cannot look to graduate to Dhyanam (Meditation). Breathing being a natural activity, often practice of Pranayama is assumed to be an easy task. As one starts getting into it, the difficulty in achieving the basics of the right technique of breathing will sometime put off people to proceed further. Guidance has an important role in this task. In Hathayogapradipika Verse 1 of Chapter 2 Swami Svatmarama says “After practice of asana-s, one should start practice of Pranayama under the guidance of a teacher, having controlled the senses and following the right diet.” The book Breath for Health by Michael Hutchinson comes in handy here. It is next to impossible to teach Yoga, particularly Pranayama, through a book. A reading of the book makes it clear that Michael has taken all precautions to present the lessons in a very simple but accurate way. Interspersed with a lot of technical points and references to medical science, the step-by-step method adds value for lay practitioners. I congratulate Michael on his attempt to make the complex science of Pranayama simple, in which he has succeeded.

-- Yogacarya S Sridharan, Advisor, Senior Mentor, Yoga Therapist Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, Chennai

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O-Books (January 1, 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1803414405
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1803414409
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.47 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.65 x 8.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Michael D Hutchinson

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Michael Hutchinson is a yoga therapist who trained with TKV Desikachar’s student Paul Harvey in the 1980s when yoga therapy was just beginning to be recognised in the West. For the following 25 years, before retiring from a successful career in physics, Michael taught or helped clients, and taught classes and day seminars, progressing to tutoring on yoga foundation and teacher-training courses. At the same time, he kept up his own daily yoga practice and continuing training, studying with TKV Desikachar whenever he could, both in India and nearer to home. Retirement from science and teacher-training provided an opportunity to write ‘Breath for Health’, based on over 30 years of training and practice, added to which are the insights to be expected of a scientifically trained researcher. Michael has taught breathing several times at the annual World Yoga Festival and is well-respected for his sensitive approach to the needs of people who are hesitant about working with their breath. Michael is also Chair of British Council for Yoga Therapy.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for health and peace.
Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2024
Michael is very experienced in this field, and introduces techniques for exploring the masterful practice of breathing exercises that promote great health and peace in our human system. He offers step-by-step gentle guides to those practices which can benefit everyone, especially if practiced for long periods of time?
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book on using breathing for holistic healing
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2024
I just love this book by Michael Hutchinson. It is the best one I have seen that gives the solid basics of how to use breath work for holistic healing and functioning well in life. It is elegant, simple, deep and profound all at the same time. I think all would benefit from reading this book. And it is really well written too!
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