2024th BLOG POST
22nd Book of 2022
All of us want to
get into yoga and yogic lifestyle but none of us know how to start. We are
aware of its benefits but we aren’t aware of which yoga activity provides what
exact benefits. Our middle-class mindset doesn’t even allow us to spend on a Yoga
class, retreat and we don’t even trust every Yog guru we find around us. What is
it that can then help us understand the same? Can there be anything for which
Books can’t provide an answer? Definitely No! Here, I would like to talk about
Bijoylaxmi Hota’s latest book named “Yoga for super immunity” which is a short
book of around 140 pages which will help you as a beginner to start your
journey with the last answer to everything – Yoga.
Author has divided
the whole book into small chapters each concentrating on one subject problem
and tried to provide the yogic answers for all of them. I liked how author
explained us the concept of prana and how we need to maintain and increase it
within our system to improve our overall health – mentally, spiritually and
physically. I have read importance of prana with such conceptualization for the
first time in my reading experience. Author has very intelligently covered not
only yogasanas but explained many aspects and types of it. Similarly, she also
gives importance to eating healthy and right food. Author starts the book
mainly with the chapter which talks about cleansing our system something to
which all of us give the least priority. She provides multiple solutions such
as laghoo shankha prakshyalana, fasting, steaming, massage and also suggest
some special foods for the same.
In the chapter - how
we can increase our healing energies- we get to know that pranayama is not just
one thing but it has multiple subtypes and how we can perform each of them.
Then, author moves ahead and provide us simple all-round asanas which can be
performed specifically for the improvement of the nervous system, spine,
digestive system, intestine, heart, thyroid, adrenal gland, kidneys, pancreas
and later makes it further easier by providing particular asana which benefits
the overall health i.e. Surya Namaskar.
Bijoylaxmi also
explains many mudras and bandhas which people generally don’t know about. I am
glad that I did Sadhguru’s Inner Engineering which had already taught me
Sambhavi Mudra the benefits of which I have already enjoyed. I really got very cheerful
to find it’s mention in this book too. The book also covers the topics such as how
we can perform meditation and what we can do to beat insomniac issues. The
illustrations and images provided to explain every step involved in any
technique is commendable and appreciable as it makes this book a practical
guide to perform it without having any teacher around us. Author’s pure
intention to make our lives better can be sensed in every written word.
Overall, this book
is great if you are a beginner. I believe that the topics that author has covered
could have been elaborated further to make it a bit more explainable to the
readers. Similarly, I felt book quite basic in terms of the subjects covered in
it. Some real-life claims also sounded unbelievable to me. Anyway, I give the
book 3.5 stars out of 5 – extra 0.5 for its illustrations and images. Give it a
try if you have only heard the word “Yoga” but never had any experience of
doing it before.
Thanks!
WRITING BUDDHA
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