Matt McAvoy Book Review

However you feel about yoga, or your opinion of the whole spiritual energy concept generally, sometimes a good story is just a good story.  In this motivational life-help book, yoga teacher Christa presents both.  She is an experienced, inspirational professional, and also a creative writer with a flair for language which could appeal to adults, teens and even very young readers alike.  As well as encouraging the reader to learn more about the arts of breathing she refers to – and helpfully directs, at the end – she has for the most part put her message across in fictional anecdote, publishing no less than a genuine parable, with a very clear, metaphorical message.  If there were any doubts about this message (which there won’t be), she has also included a list of the very questions this book is intended to invoke in the reader. 

Will and Mysteria is a somewhat interactive book, and you do find yourself participating quite willingly – that is, you interact with your mind; it is not a yoga guide.  Sure, it isn’t the glossiest publication in the genre, and there is a real sense of reality in the photographs Christa has taken, but I quite like this about it – there is nothing I find less relatable than a self-help book coated with gloss, professional photography and an author photo which looks like a promo shoot for Dynasty.  This book isn’t any of that; it’s good and honest, littered with Christa’s personality and advice.  It isn’t a long read, by any means – less than 10,000 words – so well worth a look if you have a quiet afternoon and are keen to explore a spiritual angle to your life.  The characters she has developed to analogize our most influential energies are simple and understandable, though you could call them by whatever name you want.

I liked this book.  I won’t lie, looking at the amount of content I did find myself gulping a little at the hardback’s price tag, and I certainly wouldn’t recommend buying that version, to be sure, but if you can get hold of a paperback copy, it may be nice one to keep on the shelf, and show to friends.  Both inspiring and enjoyable to read; good fun.

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