The Science of Breath

The Western student is apt to be somewhat confused in his ideas regarding the Yogis and their philosophy and practice. Travelers to India have written great tales about the hordes of fakirs mendicants and mountebanks who infest the great roads of India and the streets of its cities and who impudently claim the title "Yogi." The Western student is scarcely to be blamed for thinking of the typical Yogi as an emaciated fanatical dirty ignorant Hindu who either sits in a fixed posture until his...