Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses
10 best books like Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses (Claire Dederer): 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, Downward Dog, Upward Fog, Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude, Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga, Misadventures of a Garden State Yogi: My Humble Quest to Heal My Colitis, Calm My ADD, and Find the Key to Happiness, Living Yoga: Creating a Life Practice, The Yoga Teacher, The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America, The Secret Power of Yoga: A Woman's Guide to the Heart and Spirit of the Yoga Sutras
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 | 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 | 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...
In the spirit of Born to Run and Word Freak, an eye-opening look?at the world of extreme yoga and?a?tale of personal transformation ? Yoga is practiced by 20 million Americans and?has grown into a $6 billion industry. Tales abound of the benefits that come from stretching your limbs?and your sense of...
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 | Christy Turlington |
ISBN | 0786868066 |
ccording to a recent Time magazine cover story, 15 million Americans include some form of yoga in their fitness regimes-nearly twice as many as five years ago. This healing art balances the mind with the body, incorporating physical strength with mental fitness to reach a place of deep, lasting peace,...
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 | Nischala Joy Devi |
ISBN | 0307339696 |
Yoga is well known for its power to create a healthy body, but few realize the emotional and spiritual benefits. In The Secret Power of Yoga, world-renowned Yoga expert Nischala Joy Devi interprets Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, the principles at the basis of Yoga practice, from a heart-centered, intuitive,...
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 | 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 | Max Strom |
ISBN | 1602399808 |
We can do more with this life. We all know it, we all wish for it, but just how to do it—that eludes us. In his new book, A Life Worth Breathing, internationally renowned yoga teacher and spiritual philosopher Max Strom shows us the way. His groundbreaking book reaches past expected dogma in a language...
Author | Karen Maezen Miller |
ISBN | 1577319044 |
It’s easy to think that meaning, fulfillment, and bliss are “out there,” somewhere outside of our daily routine. But in this playful yet profound reflection on awareness, the compelling voice of a contemporary woman reveals the happiness at the bottom of the laundry basket, the love in the kitchen...
Author | Alanna Kaivalya |
ISBN | 1601090579 |
Practitioners around the world reap the physical benefits of yoga, assuming poses and frequently calling them by their Sanskrit names. While many know that hanumanasana is named for the deity Hanuman, few understand why this is the case. Behind each asana and its corresponding movements is an ancient...
Author | Rolf Gates |
ISBN | 0385721544 |
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As more and more people in the West pursue yoga in its various forms, whether at traditional centers, in the high-powered atmosphere of sports clubs, or on their own, they begin to realize that far from being just another exercise routine, yoga is a discipline of the...
Author | Donna Farhi |
ISBN | 1930485174 |
Drawing on decades of experience training yoga teachers and cowriting the California Yoga Teachers Association (CYTA) code of ethics, Donna Farhi offers the first book to set professional standards for teaching yoga. Teaching Yoga explores with depth and compassion a variety of topics both practical...
Author | Helen Garabedian |
ISBN | 0743243552 |
The ancient practice of yoga will help your baby sleep better, digest easier, be happier, and stay healthier. Start today.
If you've been searching for an excellent way to bond with your baby and improve his or her health, Itsy Bitsy Yoga is the solution you've been looking for. Helen Garabedian,...
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...