Enlightenment for Idiots
10 best books like Enlightenment for Idiots (Anne Cushman): What I Did On My Midlife Crisis Vacation, Yoga Bitch: One Woman's Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment, Downward Dog, Upward Fog, Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses, Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude, Misadventures of a Garden State Yogi: My Humble Quest to Heal My Colitis, Calm My ADD, and Find the Key to Happiness, The Yoga Teacher, Yoga School Dropout, The Wisdom of Yoga: A Seeker's Guide to Extraordinary Living, Yin Yoga: Outline of a Quiet Practice
What I Did On My Midlife Crisis Vacation
Are you curious about spoon-bending, energy healing, communication with dead people, and the Big Picture of life? You're certainly not alone. This humorous, sassy and oh-so-honest memoir brings you along on a string of compelling adventures, ideologies and introspective moments in hot pursuit...
| 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 | Meryl Davids Landau |
| ISBN | 1936586355 |
Lorna Crawford has a great boyfriend, longtime friends, and a well-paying job as special- events coordinator at a premium ice-cream manufacturer. But, out of sorts and filled with self-doubt, the 33 year old soon realizes that what she really wants is to stay on the spiritual path she keeps diving off...
| Author | Claire Dederer |
| ISBN | 0374236445 |
The studio was decorated in the style of Don’t Be Afraid, We’re Not a Cult. All was white and blond and clean, as though the room had been designed for surgery, or Swedish people. The only spot of color came from the Tibetan prayer flags strung over the doorway into the studio. In flagrant defiance of...
| 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...
As a college freshman business major suffering from a variety of anxiety-related maladies, Brian Leaf stumbled into an elective: yoga. It was 1989. All his classmates were female. And men did not yet generally “cry, hug, or do yoga.” But yoga soothed and calmed Leaf as nothing else had. As his hilarious...
| 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 | 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 | Stephen Cope |
| ISBN | 0553801112 |
For modern spiritual seekers and yoga students alike, here is an irreverent yet profound guide to the most sophisticated teachings of the yoga wisdom tradition–now brought to contemporary life by a celebrated author, psychotherapist, and leading American yoga instructor.
While many...
| Author | Paul Grilley |
| ISBN | 1883991439 |
Yin Yoga: Outline of a Quiet Practice brings together in a fresh way the ancient wisdom of acupuncture and Taoism with Hindu yoga practices. The Yin aspect of Yoga (using postures that stretch connective tissue) is virtually unknown but vital for a balanced approach to physical and mental health. Paul...
| Author | Ana T. Forrest |
| ISBN | 0061864242 |
In Fierce Medicine, Ana Forrest, charismatic teacher and founder of Forrest Yoga, combines physical practice, eastern wisdom, and profound Native American ceremony to help heal everything from addictive behaviors and eating disorders to chronic pain and injury.
Fierce Medicine is also...
| 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....
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 | 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 | 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...
| Author | B.K.S. Iyengar |
| ISBN | 0751321672 |
B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga: The Path to Holistic Health covers the complete teachings of BKS Iyengar for mind, body, and health, and is suitable for every level of yoga ability, age, and physical condition.
Fully illustrated throughout with unique 360-degree views of classic Iyengar asanas, B.K.S....
| Author | Chip Hartranft |
| ISBN | 1590300238 |
In just 196 short aphorisms, this classic work of Indian philosophy spells out succinctly how the mind works, and how it is possible to use the mind to attain liberation. Compiled in the second or third century CE, the Yoga-Sutra is a road map of human consciousness—and a particularly helpful guide...
| Author | Cyndi Lee |
| ISBN | 1594480249 |
In Yoga Body, Buddha Mind, the first book to give readers the best of both inextricably linked practices, Cyndi Lee -- author of the bestselling series OM Yoga in a Box -- shares her twenty years of experience as a practicing Tibetan Buddhist and one of the country's most famous yoga instructors....
What could a pathological TV sleuth's greatest wish be? Why one upping the real life police, of course. Surely, a pesky little murder accusation isn't going to stop her. On the contrary, what else could be better enticement?
In other words, Easy Mason's Easter holiday starts out with a metaphorical...
| Author | Melissa Carroll |
| ISBN | 1936740869 |
With candid, witty, and compelling experiences of yoga from renowned memoirists, including Cheryl Strayed (author of the number-one New York Times bestseller Wild), Claire Dederer (author of national bestseller Poser: My Life in 23 Yoga Poses), Dinty W. Moore (author of The Accidental Buddhist),...
There are some books that you read and you are never the same again. For me "Karma" is one such book. Being a spiritual person myself i always thought of karma as a cycle that always gives back to you what you put out to the universe. Doe Zantamanta taught me that Karma is much much more than that. I specially...
| Author | Gregg Braden |
| ISBN | 1889071099 |
If Awakening to Zero Point: The Collective Initiation had been about self awakening rather than world awakening, I would have given this book four stars instead of two. The information included about the mystery school initiations is top notch and presented in a way that I have not read before. I also...
| Author | Ulrich Emil Duprée |
| ISBN | 1844095975 |
Powerful yet concise, this revolutionary guide summarizes the Hawaiian ritual of forgiveness and offers methods for immediately creating positive effects in everyday life. Exploring the concept that everyone is deeply connected--despite feelings of singularity and separation--four tenets...
