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In Tuesday's New York Times, there was an article on the Butekyo Technique. Many yoga instructors are not quite what to make of the technique as they were trained to instruct students to breathe deeply throughout practice.
The Butekyo Technique holds that for asthma sufferers shallow breathing is better. It appears that clinical trials in Britain and Australia have backed up this idea. The Times article goes a bit father than that, to suggest that this shallow breathing technique could have a positive benefit for everyone, asthma sufferer or not.
Where does millenia-old pranayama (breathing practices) fall in with this?
If, in fact, this technique is as successful as it sounds, it is a wonderful break-through for asthma sufferers, of which there are millions on the United States alone. It does, however, clash with some stated yoga practices, at least at face value. If one, however, considers that bringing the attention to the breath in a new way (much like yoga does) has a positive affect on the body, maybe the ideas don't clash as much as discussed.
Either way, it is an interesting development in breath-work techniques, which are always good to explore safetly.
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