Pranayam Khel Khel Mein

By Pramila Iyer

Seeking joy is inherent in humans.
Joy has different dimensions based on so many factors like our social status, availability of resources, our health, our age, our station in our life and many more...naturally joy has many variables.
Beneath these variables in just one factor life or breathing. Only a living person can experience joy or sorrow...and not a dead man.
Thus, our almost unconscious breathing is the only important factor which unfortunately is hardly recognized by us.
Many times we sigh and say : oh...to be a child again...
Why have we lost our childhood?
Is it because we have seen many sunsets and sun rises?..
May be not..
For our mind is either stuck in the past or tucked in the future...
Having fun with our life i.e. our breath brings back at least a few hours of our childhood..
especially if narrated in a story form..
that is what the book is all about ...
When action and story is combined , you are physically and emotionally involved. This beautiful combination transports you to the world of Pranayam khel khel mein >(English translation of the title is roughly like this.... playful pranayam or playful breathing exercise ).
Even if you are not a sportsperson or health care giver or a doctor, you still will appreciate how any action can give us health benefit in natural way...more so, when the action is synchronized with our incoming and outgoing breath - be it flying action of a bird, a dog barking in the road, or a lion roaring in the jungle .
Is it not real fun learning from the vast kingdom belonging to animals and birds?
Still not able to believe?...
Read it...
Do it!...
And most importantly, benefit by it!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Aug 12, 2015
• ISBN: 9781482855616

Pramila Iyer

“No pain no gain.” So goes the adage! Such a prophetic statement for me, for I became a yoga teacher because of my back ache! I attributed my back ache to my professional life (life of a couched-potato working as a stenographer) and I almost accepted the pain as a part of my life. The pain sometimes was so unbearable that I was put on pain-killers and ignorant that I was at that period of my life that I thought I was cured by those magic pills! I did not know then, that relief was not necessarily a cure. Slowly I got hooked on to the pain killers as I had two boisterous boys to look after. A day came when even painkillers were not giving me relief, and I was screaming with pain. I was barely thirty-three, and my doctor, to my great relief said that my bones were okay, but the muscles needed some toning-up and some exercise. I thank the doctor (and also the pain!) which took me to one of the best yoga teachers in Pune. To cut my story short, yoga changed my life totally! I started reading many books on yoga and its philosophy, and by the age of thirty-seven, I was teaching and preaching yoga left, right and centre. The yoga aphorisms seeped into my being so much that I knew I had started on a joyous new journey towards the Creator. Apart from the physical aspects (the postures), which is just a tip of the ice-berg, yoga, philosophy viz yama, niyama, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana and Samadhi—the eight limbs of yoga—brings about a totally different approach towards life itself. It is very unfortunate that people think of yoga as some postures and deep breathing exercises.

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CONTENTS

Lesson 1 Cycle Pump

Lesson 2 Dog Breathing

Lesson 3 Simha Mudra

Lesson 4 Tortoise Breathing

Lesson 5 Rabbit Breathing

Lesson 6 Bumble Bee Breathing (Bhramari)

Lesson 7 Chuk Chuk Gadi - The Good Old Steam Engines.

Lesson 8 Dhobi Ka Ghat (The Washermans’ Water-Hole)

Lesson 9 The Winged Wonders ..

Lesson 10 Pounding Rice/ Masala Etc

Lesson 11 Happy Birthday To All!

Lesson 12 Icecream Pranayama!

Lesson 13 Eat With Your Nose!

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