“This should be required reading and practice for all healthcare professionals, not just yoga therapists. Healthy breath is low, slow, and light - barely perceptible - not the big, noisy Ujjayi that many of us were taught in our early yoga education. Robin goes into the biochemistry and biomechanics of why this is so, and then puts it into practice, with full instruction where you can try it out for yourself and feel the effects.
With the practices in this book I have learned to reduce my breathing and improve my breath hold capacity so that I experience greater strength and fluidity in my movement, improved focus and a greater capacity for emotional stressors.” Janelle A.

“I see The Svadhyaya Breath Journal handbook as a perfect companion to Robin Rothenberg's Restoring Prana. This manual guides the reader step by step in transformation of intellectual information contained in Restoring Prana into experiential embodied wisdom. The book covers short explanations followed by many practices using asanas, mantras, mudras, chanting and breathing techniques. "AS yoga teaches we can change only what we are aware of" the guide focuses always on developing an understanding of our inner world and subtle body as we build awareness through recommended practices. It teaches breath/prana impact on every part of the body, emotions and mind through specific practice sequences. It is open-ended rather then prescriptive as it invites and guides one through experimentation and inner awareness. As we follow Svadhyaya Breath Journal it will make us better yoga teacher, yoga therapist and a human being". Lee Majewski, MA, DYEd, C-IAYT, Author and Yoga Therapist