Pranayam Khel Khel Mein
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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 khelkhelmein >(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 . Humans train and teach animals and birds to do some tricks. The table is turned in this book....animals and birds become our silent teachers and this wordless wonderful class room is free for all! Is it not real fun learning from the vast kingdom belonging to animals and birds? We also learn from a humble washer-man/woman washing clothes or a simple villager pounding grain. Still not able to believe?... This book is just for you!. Bed time stories are enjoyed by the listener as well as narrator. Let not the narrator become an ‘orator’.....let him put some action into it! Thus, this book becomes a ‘day time’ story teller’s manual.! Grownups also enjoy comics...If you are one of them, you sure will enjoy reading this book though the purpose is to bring ‘more life into your breathing’. Can imitating a lion be comical? When a person puts his tongue out and roars like a lion, the onlookers also enjoy watching such grimaces and lo behold they also laugh! You get free medicine because it is said that ‘laughter is the best medicine”! A joyous person is the greatest gift to this world! Can a panting dog teach us something? Sure, they do...... Read it... Do it!... And most importantly, benefit by it! After learning from living beings, can we also learn from non-living things, for example an ice-cream which is a favourite with many? Can anybody have 365 birthdays?... Our immediate answer would be; ‘impossible’. We can celebrate birthday every day with blowing of a candle...yes ...we also learn from candles apart from ice-candies!. After a great party, relaxation is needed. When a person can play like a child, he can also sleep like a child.. ...carefree and peaceful and most importantly joyous! After playing all the roles... The grand finale.!.... The book ends with ‘sleep like a baby’ technique! .
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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!
About the Author
“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.