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The cd is easy to follow and gets you practising and feeling confident right away. Free downloadable audio files that can be used in conjunction with the book.
Excellent resource for teaching patients how to manage stress in their lives. Still learning to master this technique. Most importantly to me, it is good as a self-help resource or for practitioners.
Dr. Amy weintraub and dr. Heather mason are pioneers in the field of mind body practices and mental health. Mason says yoga helps her sleep and helps ptsd and depression sufferers. Mason also says yoga can help stressed out teens.
It is only in the synergy of these two capacities, breath and awareness, that we can breathe our way to health. This simple breath increases heart rate variability and balances the stress-response system. I find myself using the coherence breath frequ... Read More
Coherent breathing is an even inhalation and exhalation that slows the breathing rate to five breaths per minute. It is an ancient practice from china, which involves visualizing the breath moving through different parts of the body.
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Quality
The book and its accompanying cd are the next best thing to an actual experience with the teachers
There are audio demonstration practices you can download that come with the book
The quirk of not including the cds breathing exercises with the kindle edition is annoying and deceptive
In the cd included with the book
Packaging/appearance
I based my score of 4 stars on the books contents
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- This product had a total of 406 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 19 2023.
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I have found that if i don’t actually do the slow deep breathing it doesn
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T work any more and i lose the calm and peace in my life that i value so much
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There is not much new or exciting in this book but it is a good book to start with if you are interested in calming your mind with some breathing exercises
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I have asthma and can get very panicked from time to time
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Its okay that they have westernized the practice of ujjayi pranayama by renaming it resistance breathing perhaps because there is a slight constriction of the throat during exhale resulting in the ocean sounding vibration that results
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My patients in the psychiatric clinic that pranyama or breathing techniques are more valuable for them then the asanas meditation or chanting acquired during my classes
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It would have been nice if the cd content was available as digital download rather then cd to make it more convenient
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As some other reviewers note the book is wordy and could make the points more concisely
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