Yoga Basic Knowledge: Exercises, Stories, Meditation and Enlightenment. Yoga for Beginners, Inner Peace and Happiness.

by Nils Horn

Yoga is a path of health, relaxation and happiness. We cleanse systematic our body and mind of the tensions (samskaras). This gives us inner happiness, healing and ongoing health. The body becomes healthy. The mind becomes positive. We get the properties of inner peace, inexhaustible energy, mental clarity, embracing love, joy and kindness. Yoga provides a variety of techniques. It has techniques for the body and the mind. We should practice each yoga exercise so that it works well for us. What hurts us, we omit. What is good, that we do. We can vary all yoga exercises creatively.

Genres: Nonfiction, Health

163 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 6, 2015

Reviews

[Píaras Cíonnaoíth · Rating 3 out of 5]

An okay guide for an absolute beginner but it has serious editing issues...

This book is basically a ‘lead magnet’ that invites the reader back to BookRix.com in order to evaluate it. Here you can discuss with other readers, discover more books and even become an author. It’s an interesting platform that’s probably best suited for novice writers. The book itself offers little in the way of information or insight that can’t easily be found freely doing a Google search.

There was some effort putting this guide together but it needs another round of proof-reading and editing. I understand the concept of lead magnets for building a business brand, and if it works for the author, good luck with that. I would only recommend the content in this book to an absolute beginner. I think a 3-star rating is more than generous.

[Nada Bedawy · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5
Not bad.

[Katjaaa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Overall interesting to get an overview of different yoga styles and exercises, meditation techniques, enlightened masters and more.

I am missing the read thread though: why choosing these particular styles, exercises, masters, stories etc.? Where is the connection between the different chapters? How / based on what did the author make this selection / accumulation of topics...?

Also, it seems the text is translated from German in a word-by-word approach...

[Jaideep Khanduja · Rating 5 out of 5]

Things like yoga need to be learned properly before putting your hands on it. that is what this book does. it's good not only for the basic knowledge on the subject but also creates sufficient interest to start practicing it in daily life.

[Charlotte Fay · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mixed Feelings

There was some good content in this book. However the English is very poor and made it difficult at time to read along. Also there where not thorough explanations given and so some parts are very confusing

[Sabrina Nyuki · Rating 3 out of 5]

Man darf sich nicht von der sportlichen Frau auf dem Cover verwirren lassen. Das Buch ist von Nils Horn geschrieben, ca Ende 50, weißbärtig und sehr spirituell unterwegs. Die Links im Buch verweisen auf seine Homevideos auf YouTube in mittelguter Qualität mit Nils in Shirt und Jogginghosen. Hintergrundwissen gibt es, aber bei dem Reinkarnationspart war es mir persönlich dann doch etwas zu viel.

[Fiorella Parodi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book which guides beginners and provides enough information to start practicing Yoga. I had some reservations as regards its editing, but that´s another story.

Pictures are very useful, positions are shown properly, and with the combination of video, and the picture, you can start Yoga safely.

The chapter on Computer Yoga is very useful. I recommend it.

[Von · Rating 5 out of 5]

A peaceful book taught us to slow down our steps

Thank you to the publisher to let us have the knowledge of yoga and knowledge about karma, hatha and all the Gurus stories. Appreciated.

[Joseph E. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Basic background of yoga

This is a good foundation of yoga, from basic routines for beginners to the philosophy behind the movements. There is also a section devoted to influential guru's.

[R · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was a free book, so I was out nothing, but I had to DNF this one.

Don't get me wrong, I think that the information presented in the book was probably well-researched, but the grammar was truly so bad that I could not get through it.

[Petrina Binney · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sadly, this was poorly edited and hard to read. Gave up at the 10% mark, which I suspect is the proof that I'm lacking in calmness and enlightenment.

[Elisa · Rating 2 out of 5]

The content of this book is not bad, but this is a draft that was far from ready to publish. The English translation is poor and the typos abundant. Also I think it should have been marketed as part memoir. You're not expecting to suddenly get to the author's personal experiences part way through the book when that has not be advertised at the outset. Also, it's kind of weird how he tells all his self-revelatory experiences in the third person. It's sort of like three little books in one. One on yoga basics, one on stories about Yogis, and one about his personal experience. I think developing three little books or more clearly demarcating the the three sections would be better. I learned some things from this book however, and did find the author's experiences interesting, too.

[Omar Taufik · Rating 3 out of 5]

Basically speaking, I don't believe this book was actually bad. It does target basic beginners in yoga which explains the simplicity in the book.
I would divide it into three main parts.
The first part is more of a basic introduction which is interesting and maybe inspiring for a beginner sharing basic principles in health and principles of yoga which he called positive thinking ethics.
The second part is where he actually moves into the exercise itself describing various exercises of yoga. Unfortunately this is where I began to feel lost. The information presented here maybe useful information but lacked proper arrangement and I believe had serious editing issues which resulted a reading experience of confusion.
The third part is where he shared some stories and biographies of various yogis. This part is similar to the first part, simple and maybe inspiring for a beginner.

While reading the book, I did feel the good intention of the author sharing his valuable experience with his readers. I do admit that I did experience various positive internal shifts while reading the book. But, I do believe the book would have benefited the beginner and reader better had it received proper editing and arrangement of information.

[Virginia · Rating 4 out of 5]

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I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.