Spinal Breathing Pranayama Journey to Inner Space
“Spinal Breathing Pranayama” is one of the most important practices in all of yoga, producing positive effects in our health, wellbeing, and every aspect of our daily living. Moreover, this simple daily practice purifies and opens us to our ecstatic inner realms, taking us on an exciting journey to Inner Space. The consequences of this journey are as practical as they are profound.
This book provides easy-to-read instructions for beginning and continuing with the practice of “Spinal Breathing Pranayama,” addressing in a surprising degree of detail the many experiences and questions that can come up.
Yogani is the author of two landmark books on the world’s most effective spiritual practices: “Advanced Yoga Practices - Easy Lessons for Ecstatic Living,” a comprehensive user-friendly textbook, and “The Secrets of Wilder,” a powerful spiritual novel.
The “AYP Enlightenment Series” makes these profound practices available for the first time in a series of concise instruction books. “Spinal Breathing Pranayama” is the second book in the series. The first is “Deep Meditation – Pathway to Personal Freedom.”
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Ignore the breathy reviews–it’s still a useful book
I was a bit suspicious of all the 5-star reviews by “people” who apparently read only this author, but I purchased the book anyway because I enjoy breathing. It’s one of the few things that all humans have in common, but the quality of our breathing varies tremendously, even in a given individual. I have no doubt that even slight changes in the quality of our breathing can have huge implications over the course of a lifetime, in terms of health, productivity, and even intellect.
This book teaches a simple method of breathing that nearly anyone can practice nearly anywhere. The author recommends doing the practice for five minutes, twice daily, but the beauty of it is that you will probably grow more attuned to your breathing and will want to breathe more deeply and efficiently even when not doing full-on spinal breathing. Incidentally, you do not need to know how to meditate or do yoga to enjoy spinal breathing.
I also found the book well written and edited, with sufficient detail but no longer than it needs to be.
3 Stars Nice simple presentation, but inaccurate information
While this book promotes a clear and simple cleansing of the spine, it is also loaded with misinformation and downright incorrect information.
The technique that is presented here, is simply a clearing of the Kundalini channel. It in fact gets the Kundalini moving, yet nowhere does it really allude to that. It also incorrectly states that Kundalini energy is sexual energy, and that is not true. It is easy to confuse the two energies, but they are completely different and have very different uses.
The author also has you run the Kundalini energy from the root chakra to the brow, and eventually he has it running forward through and out the front of the brow chakra, instead of up and out the crown chakra. Why? Because he doesn’t want you to have a “premature” enlightenment. Why is it that so many Eastern teachers want you to avoid enlightenment? Is it because they are falsely teaching that you need a guru (them) in order to experience it? I really don’t know why they do it, but clearing the crown chakra is just as important as clearing all the other chakras.
The author presents possible negative effects of this technique (jerking, twitching) and tells one to stop if it happens, instead of presenting information on how to gently control it.
There is a great deal of misinformation regarding Kundalini and how to run it already being taught, and this book adds to it.
I have been clearing my spine and my entire reality with Kundalini energy for more than 25 years and I would have given this book only one star, but the author does present pranayma in clear and simple terms, yet with the misinformation mentioned above.
5 Stars A simple and powerful tool
This guidebook is:
Time-friendly: This practice only takes 5 to 10 minutes, and deep meditation after spinal breathing only takes 10 to 20 minutes.
Simple and practical: The spinal breathing tool is made to be as simple as possible; stripped of unnecessary practices and mysticism.
Comprehensive: The book includes all the basics one will need to know about the how, when, and where of spinal breathing pranayama including answers for many of the common questions that a person may have.
Safe and Balanced: This is so important. The reader is taught about managing his or her practice of spinal breathing pranayama in addition to deep meditation in order to facilitate a smooth awakening process and to prevent heavy purification symptoms. A smooth process is significant because your daily life, duties, and responsibilities will not be interfered with.
The simplicity of the practice in this book should not be underestimated. Actually, it is the simplicity that makes the practice quite effective and powerful.
5 Stars The single most powerful practice I have come across
Yogani has a gift for bringing esoteric practices to be understood by the common man. In this book of the AYP series, he presents a breathing that is so very simple. But don’t let the simplicity fool you, this single practice has been responsible for catapulting my practice into hyperdrive and reach a deeper understanding of what is this state we call Yoga. Many thanks Yogani.
5 Stars Accelerate your meditation and spiritual progress with Spinal Breathing Pranayama!
Yogani’s Spinal Breathing Pranayama - Journey into Inner Space shows us a key component on the path to our spiritual and overall life transformation. It shows us how to open ourselves to our inner energies and expand them in ways I never knew were possible.
With the simple addition of “spinal breathing pranayama” to our regular meditation routine, we move ourselves faster and more powerfully along our spiritual path and towards our goals. This easy to understand and clearly written book gives us the step by step instructions on what to do and how to do it.
An essential tool along with Deep Meditation for any serious spiritual seeker, practice it daily and you won’t be disappointed!