The well-known Bihar Yoga Bharti (BYB) of Munger would soon come out with "special yoga capsules" comprising concise 4-5 'asanas' on chronic diseses like diabetes, Asthma and Blood Pressure.
"The Munger Yoga School is working on these special yoga capsules with short and concise 4-5 asanas on prevalent diseases like diabetes, asthma and Blood Pressure among others to cure people stricken by the diseases and looking towards time-tested cure in yoga," its head Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati said.
"Some proponents of yoga claim there are 72,000 asanas while others say there are 7200 asanas...Its impossible for anybody to do this much of asanas everyday...Keeping this in mind we are working on special yoga capsules which could be easily included in daily routine," he said.
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Saraswati was addressing a special congregation organised by Bihar Power Holding Company Limited for its employees to keep them healthy.
Energy minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav and Chief Managing Director (CMD) of Bihar Power Holding Company Ltd Pratyaya Amrit were present on the occasion.
The Munger Yoga school chief said keeping in view paucity of time for people, the institution at present prescribes "perfect yoga capsule" of five asanas as general exercise for everybody to stay healthy.
The five asanas included tadaasan, tiryak asana, katichakra, surya namaskar and naari sodhan which is known by the popular name "Anulom-Vilom", he added.
Swami Satyananda Saraswati had established Bihar School of Yoga in Munger in 1963.
A total of 29 countries at present has adopted yoga propagated by Munger school, Niranjananda Saraswati said.
France government adopted yoga propagated by Munger school in 2013 and prescribed it in its schools and colleges.
Besides, Australian government has adopted Munger yoga exercise for its war veterans and preparing a documentary for its mass popularisation in that country, he said.
The Munger yoga school head said the health problem in citizens is die to three factors - of stress, bad diet habbit and sleep disorder - and yoga is the time-tested remedy to get rid of them.
He said excessive use of gadgets like android, tablet and cell phone are taking away sleep of citizens particularly youths and added a study has found that a youth faced 10 hours of sleep deprivation in a week.
