Spirituality Today has Reviewed The Yoga Lifestyle – Bottom line: Buy It!

Thank You Spirituality Today for the vote of confidence. Read their review if you have not bought the book yet. It is totally unsolicited and unbiased. Primarily, it will give you a good idea about the book. Secondly, I hope that it will inspire you to buy one for yourself and one for a friend.

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Review by Spirituality Today

Yoga today is often practiced in isolation of other Eastern disciplines. This is a pity. Physical exercise and fluid joint movement are essential aspects of a healthy life. However, there are many other disciplines that you can add to a regular yoga practice for even greater improvements. In addition, one important practice is maintaining a good diet. This is due to the fact that eating certain food types can affect the benefits that yoga brings us.

A Variable Diet

In his book The Yoga Lifestyle Doron Hanoch combines his skills as a teacher with his nutrition knowledge. In this regard he refers to what he calls the ‘Flexitarian Lifestyle’. It integrates yoga, Ayurveda, practicing breathing techniques, meditation, and nutrition. The primary approach to good health that Hanoch takes is simply to unify the practices with the natural state of your own being. As a result, he begins by helping the reader to identify their own body type. Later on these are tied to specific yogic poses and postures. He also draws upon the science of good breathing as a powerful tool.

Food and Diet

The book moves on to looking at the importance of good diet. It expands upon several different eating regimes and their effect in keeping a body in good condition. These include a raw-food diet, a macrobiotic diet, and the Ayurveda diet. He continues by making a clear distinction on eating habits. The need to eat to sustain life is compared to the desire to eat solely in order to cope with mental or emotional issues. He explores this mind and body connection in the final chapters of the book. The recommended technique for gaining a better quality of mind power is meditation. In the final part of the book, Hanoch offers a timetable which the reader can follow. It enables you to ensure that you can stick to a regime of good yoga and meditation practice.

Our Review of ‘The Yoga Lifestyle’ by Doron Hanoch

The Yoga Lifestyle unifies four main disciplines and merges them together in a workbook that is both practical and inspiring.

The illustrations of the various yoga poses are in themselves quite motivating. They are imaginatively drawn and fascinating to ponder on!

This is a book that does focus on yoga primarily and I felt that the chapters on food and diet needed fleshing out a bit. Nevertheless, I understand that these are clearly meant to support the Yoga work and not the other way around.

If you have an interest in working on your body and how it acts as a key to dealing with the stresses and strains of life then this is for you. It teaches without preaching and takes a common sense approach to the various Eastern disciplines.

All in all this is clearly a book penned by an practical expert in his field. In The Yoga Lifestyle, he has translated his ideas well into a printed format.

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