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Yoga-centricDelhiite Suneel Singh

Thanks to lifestyle diseases spreading their net far and wide, it is now not too difficult to find a pile of quick-fix books in the market to tackle such ills. Among many other ways offered to achieve health, there is the ready solution of practising yoga that holds one of the top slots in the list. So understandably, there are quite a few books on the subject vis-a-vis lifestyle at any given bookstore these days.

Yoga guru Suneel Singh too has come out with a book keeping in mind the masses’ increased interest in yoga. His book, first published in Hindi last year, has recently been translated into English too, “for those who would like to try out yoga for particular ailments.” Singh says, “It is handy, easy to pick, and comes at a nominal price keeping the masses in mind.” Brought out by Diamond Books, the book, “Healing Through Yoga”, states Singh, “is in the process of being translated into 12 regional languages.”

“That way, it is a record of some kind that a book on yoga is being translated into so many languages,” claims the Delhiite. Among other languages, it is being translated into Assamese, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, etc. and would be produced by Diamond Books. “Their network is good and also because I grew up reading their comics like Lot Pot,” he reasons whey he chose the publisher.

Singh keeps his promise of offering quick fix solutions in the book to quite a few ailments. There is a chapter each on kritis to stem the usual suspects in an urban setting like migraine, hypertension, diabetes, eyesight, snoring, back ache, asthma and heart attack.

“You can call it a practical manual that can be kept at home and consulted as and when required,” he offers. Forty-six-year-old Singh suggests practitioners to do yoga 30 to 35 minutes daily. “Though I do it for an hour thrice a week as I do certain kriyas being a yoga guru.”

A common face on television, Singh did shows on yoga for channels like Doordarshan, Aaj Tak, Headlines Today, Sahara, Star News and Zee News among others. Though his first lessons on yoga started at home under his grandfather in Varanasi, his formal training came from Dhirendra Brahmachari’s yoga institute in Jammu and Kashmir. “That was in 1985”. He has a gold medal from the institute to flaunt.

Next on his list of things to do “is a DVD on urban yoga in both English and Hindi”.

“It will be about 40 minutes and should be out in a month or two,” he adds.

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