Yoga Breath : Prāṇa and Prāṇāyāma in Early Modern Yoga

Yoga Breath : Prāṇa and Prāṇāyāma in Early Modern Yoga

Magdalena Kraler

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FörlagV&R Unipress
ISBN9783847017462

A central practice of both premodern and modern yoga, prāṇāyāma ("breath control") is practised in yoga classes worldwide. Like the notion of prāṇa ("breath", "vitality"), prāṇāyāma has a longstanding history in South Asia, constituting the fourth limb of Patanjali's yoga. Since roughly 1850, prāṇa