书名：Light on Pranayama: The Definitive Guide to the Art of Breathing调息之光

作者：B.K.S. Iyengar
出版社名称：Harper Thorsons
出版时间：2013
语种：英文 
ISBN：9780007921287
商品尺寸：13 x 2.6 x 19.7 cm
包装：平装
页数：368

★本书是继艾扬格畅销书《瑜伽之光》之后的又一部瑜伽经典；
★190多张艾扬格亲自示范的体式照片，20多个调息法重要阶段练习总表，200周循序渐进的学习课程设置；
★详尽讲解14种瑜伽调息法，是适合所有瑜伽练习者的瑜伽呼吸之道！

本书Light on Pranayama: The Definitive Guide to the Art of Breathing《调息之光》是艾扬格大师的瑜伽经典作品，被誉为“瑜伽呼吸习练圣经”。全书翔实而透彻，是一部实用的、全面的、精准的瑜伽操作指南。

媒体评论：
1. B.K.S.艾扬格的《调息之光》是古老瑜伽科学在当代的崭新呈现。

2. 本书探讨了呼吸的微妙运作，各种吸气、屏息和呼气技法，以及使血液中的生命力在经络和脉轮之中畅行无碍的技巧。

3. 本书解释了如何激活五种形式的宇宙能量，厘清了调息练习法的谬误，对瑜伽调息练习者有极大的价值。

4. 对这部富有启发性的著作，瑜伽习练者们无疑会感兴趣，它是瑜伽苍穹中的一颗璀璨明珠。

                                 ——瑜伽宗师 克里希那玛查雅（T. Krsnamāchārya）

The definitive guide to yogic breathing from B.K.S. Iyengar, the world’s most respected yoga teacher.
B.K.S. Iyengar has devoted his life to the practice and study of yoga. It was B.K.S. Iyengar’s unique teaching style, bringing precision and clarity to the practice, as well as a mindset of ‘yoga for all’, which has made it into a worldwide phenomenon.
His seminal book, ‘Light on Yoga’, is widely called ‘the bible of yoga’ and has served as the source book for generations of yoga students around they world. In ‘Light on Pranayama’, he establishes the same definitive level of authority on the art of breathing.
For the serious yoga practitioner, the study of Pranayama is an essential. This work, from the most respected yoga teacher in the world, B.K.S. Iyengar, offers the most comprehensive and instructive work available in the world. With 190 photos of B.K.S. Iyengar himself, the book highlights a progressive 200-week practice, highlighting the best techniques and the common errors in them.

Review
‘The Michelangelo of yoga’ –BBC

Light on Pranayama: The Definitive Guide to the Art of Breathing《调息之光》从现代解剖学、古典瑜伽文献的角度讨论了瑜伽调息法的理论、艺术、功效，详细讲解了14种瑜伽调息的练习方法，同时给出了全面的瑜伽哲学背景知识，还讨论了经脉、收束法、脉轮和种子曼陀罗等。本书为习练者提供了200周循序渐进的学习课程，还特别指出了习练过程中可能遇到的困难及应规避的风险等。

B.K.S. Iyengar is the world's most revered living teacher of Yoga. He has been teaching and demonstrating yoga for more than 50 years. He has several million students and has established centres all over the world. He was the first person to bring Yoga to the West and his teaching has been hugely influential over the past three decades. Hedied at the age of 96.

What Is Yoga?

1. Nobody knows the timeless, primeval absolute One, nor when the world came into existence. God and nature existed before man appeared, but as man developed he cultivated himself and began to realise his own potential Through this came civilisation. Words were evolved with this, concepts of God (Purua) and nature (prakiti), religion (dharma) and Yoga developed.

2. Since it is so difficult to define these concepts, each man has to interpret them according to his understanding. When man was caught in the web of worldly joys, he found himself separated from God and nature. He became a prey to the polarities of pleasure and pain, good and evil, love and hatred, the permanent and the transient.

3. Caught in these opposites, man felt the need of a personal divinity (Purua), who was supreme. unaffected by afflictions, untouched by actions and reactions, and free from the experience of joy and sorrow.

4. This led man to seek the highest ideal embodied in the perfect Purua or God. Thus the Eternal Being, whom he calledIsvara, the Lord, the guru all gurus, became the focus of his attention, and of his concentration and meditation. In this fundamental quest of reaching Him, man devised a code of conduct whereby he could live in peace and harmony with nature, his fellow beings and himself.

5. He learnt to distinguish between good and evil, virtue and vice, and what was moral and immoral. Then arose a comprehensive concept of right action (dharma) or the science of duty. Dr S. Radhakrishnan wrote that ‘it is Dharma which upholds, sustains, supports’and guides mankind to live a higher life irrespective of race, caste, class or faith.