Downward Dog, Upward Fog
10 best books like Downward Dog, Upward Fog (Meryl Davids Landau): Yoga Bitch: One Woman's Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment, Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life, Yoga and Vegetarianism: The Path to Greater Health and Happiness, Yoga for Depression: A Compassionate Guide to Relieve Suffering Through Yoga, Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude, The Yoga Teacher, The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America, Enlightenment for Idiots, Yoga School Dropout, Learning to Breathe: My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life
| Author | Suzanne Morrison |
| ISBN | 0307717445 |
What happens when a coffee-drinking, cigarette-smoking, steak-eating twenty-five-year-old atheist decides it is time to get in touch with her spiritual side? Not what you’d expect…
When Suzanne Morrison decides to travel to Bali for a two-month yoga retreat, she wants nothing...
| Author | Judith Hanson Lasater |
| ISBN | 0962713880 |
If you think that you have to escape to a cave in the Himalayas to find the enlightenment that yoga promises, think again. In Living Your Yoga, Judith Lasater stretches the meaning of yoga beyond its familiar poses and breathing techniques to include the events of daily life—all of them—as practice....
| Author | Sharon Gannon |
| ISBN | 1601090218 |
Drawing on both the author's extensive studies of Vedic traditions and her longtime interest in animal rights, Yoga and Vegetarianism shows how the physical and spiritual practice of yoga is historically and structurally tied to a vegetarian lifestyle. When they are used in tandem, she argues, they...
| Author | Amy Weintraub |
| ISBN | 0767914503 |
Take the natural path to mental wellness
More than 25 million Americans are treated with antidepressants each year, at a cost in excess of $50 billion. But the side effects of popular prescription drugs may seem nearly as depressing as the symptoms they’re meant to treat. Veteran yoga instructor...
| Author | Neal Pollack |
| ISBN | 0061727695 |
Neal Pollack calls himself a comic writer. Which sounds better than "fitfully amusing lightweight writer," although that's probably closer to the truth. There are hardly any chuckles here, and even few smiles, given the subject and its potential (whether you practice yoga or not, there IS something...
| Author | Alexandra Gray |
| ISBN | 0802170552 |
Dissatisfied with her job as a pharmaceutical rep and struggling with the decline of her long-term relationship, Grace, a well-heeled Londoner, uses yoga class to unwind, reflect, and momentarily transcend her earthly dilemmas. While pitching her company’s latest antidepressant to the disarming...
| Author | Stefanie Syman |
| ISBN | 0374236763 |
In The Subtle Body, Stefanie Syman tells the surprising story of yoga’s transformation from a centuries-old spiritual discipline to a multibillion-dollar American industry.
Yoga’s history in America is longer and richer than even its most devoted practitioners realize....
| Author | Anne Cushman |
| ISBN | 0307381641 |
A yoga teacher finds new life in India–just not the one she was expecting.
Nearing thirty, Amanda thought she’d be someone else by now. Instead, she’s an ex-nanny yogini-wannabe who cranks out “For Idiots” travel guides. True, she has a sexy photographer boyfriend, but he’s...
| Author | Lucy Edge |
| ISBN | 0091899222 |
This book is basically a romp through some of the quirkiest, craziest, blatantly exploitative "ashrams" India has to offer. The author goes out of her way to be irreverent and as quirky as everyone else she meets along the way and that would have been fine if she had only been consistant.
My compaint...
| Author | Priscilla Warner |
| ISBN | 1439181071 |
Priscilla Warner has had a great life: a supportive husband, a flourishing marriage, two loving sons, and a bestselling book, The Faith Club. Despite all her good fortune and success, she suffers from anxiety and panic attacks so debilitating that they leave her unable to breathe. She’s tried self-medicating—in...
| Author | Jessica Berger Gross |
| ISBN | 1602396396 |
Meet your new best yoga-and-healthy-eating friend in this smart, accessible, and funny memoir of dieting and discovery.
For years, Jessica struggled with fluctuating weight and bouts of
unhappiness. Like many of us, she found comfort in food and craved
cigarettes and...
| Author | Rain Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0452296919 |
A sparkling new series introducing five unforgettable women who flock to yoga at turning points in their lives and find the gift of lasting friendship.
The yoga studio is where daily cares are set aside, mats are unfurled, and physical exertion leads to well-being, renewal, and friendship....
| Author | Vanda Scaravelli |
| ISBN | 0062507923 |
Awakening the Spine is sort of an odd book. It looks like an easy read, there are a lot of pictures, but there are some points she makes about yoga and our bodies that I've never read about before. The most fascinating to me is the significance she places on the lower back, a point where the body extends upwards...
Alex thought she had married the man of her dreams: successful, gorgeous, and delighted by her small-town charm. When he walks out six months later, proclaiming to have 'found himself' (with the help of a stunning yoga teacher), she 'finds herself' alone in an unfamiliar city, vengefully drinking...
| Author | Megan Karasch |
| ISBN | 1456315404 |
"Tales from My Hard Drive" is a romantic comedy that follows Melissa, a forty-year-old writer who moves from the suburbs of Los Angeles to New York City after finding her husband doing naked yoga-type maneuvers with another woman. Trying to find her place in a city run by the young and hip, she takes the...
| Author | Zoe Fishman |
| ISBN | 0061711802 |
A poignant debut novel about the transformative powers of yoga and friendship for four women on the verge of realizing their dreams
With beauty, brains, and a high-paying Wall Street position, Charlie was a woman who seemed to have it all—until she turned thirty and took stock of her life,...
| Author | Chantel Simmons |
| ISBN | 1552638324 |
In this charming first novel, the dueling worlds of yoga and cosmetic enhancement, gourmet dinners and Frankenberry cereal, self-help books and too-helpful loved ones all conspire to nearly unravel 25-year-old Mara Brennan.
Dumped by her boyfriend, stuck in a job she hates, and living...
| Author | Diana Killian |
| ISBN | 0425227057 |
Still high on the excitement for Corpse Pose, I must've started on this one almost immediately after finishing the prequel. Eager to finally get some more explicit Jake and A.J. action, I was surprised to find an... Intro to Yoga for The Returning Beginner?
It was not... bad... per...
| Author | Fredrik Brouneus |
| ISBN | 9780473195 |
What happens when we die?
This has been the third question on mankind’s FAQ list since the dawn of time (numbers one and two being: Is this edible? and Excuse me, would you care to breed?).
I know what happens. Believe me, I’d rather not. But I do.
There is a lighthouse, and it guides...
Here is a personal tribute to “the father of modern yoga” Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888–1989), written by one of his longtime disciples. Krishnamacharya was a renowned Indian yoga master, Ayurvedic healer, and scholar who modernized yoga practice and whose students—including...
| Author | Stephen Cope |
| ISBN | 0345535685 |
From the Senior Scholar-in-residence and Ambassador for the famed Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health comes an incisive and inspiring meditation on living the life you were born to live.
In this fast-paced age, the often overwhelming realities of daily life may leave you feeling uncertain...
