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10 best books like Yoga School Dropout (Lucy Edge): Yoga Bitch: One Woman's Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment, Bringing Yoga to Life: The Everyday Practice of Enlightened Living, 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, The Yoga Teacher, Enlightenment for Idiots, Yin Yoga: Outline of a Quiet Practice, Hip Tranquil Chick: A Guide to Life On and Off the Yoga Mat, The Spiritual Tourist: A Personal Odyssey Through the Outer Reaches of Belief

Yoga Bitch: One Woman's Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment
AuthorSuzanne Morrison
ISBN0307717445
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...
Bringing Yoga to Life: The Everyday Practice of Enlightened Living
AuthorDonna Farhi
ISBN0060750464
Internationally renowned and bestselling author Donna Farhi moves yoga practice beyond the mat into our everyday lives, restoring the tradition's intended function as a complete, practical philosophy for daily living.

Expanding upon the teachings of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, the core...
Downward Dog, Upward Fog
AuthorMeryl Davids Landau
ISBN1936586355
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...
Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude
AuthorNeal Pollack
ISBN0061727695
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...
Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga
AuthorBenjamin Lorr
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...
The Yoga Teacher
AuthorAlexandra Gray
ISBN0802170552
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...
Enlightenment for Idiots
AuthorAnne Cushman
ISBN0307381641
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...
Yin Yoga: Outline of a Quiet Practice
AuthorPaul Grilley
ISBN1883991439
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...
Hip Tranquil Chick: A Guide to Life On and Off the Yoga Mat
AuthorKimberly Wilson
ISBN1930722710
Hip Tranquil Chick addresses that huge but unacknowledged demographic of fashionistas equally at home at Bergdorf’s and the yoga studio. The book is divided into two major sections that cover all bases for the style-minded seeker. "On the Mat" shares seven must-have modern-girl yoga sequences,...
The Spiritual Tourist: A Personal Odyssey Through the Outer Reaches of Belief
AuthorMick Brown
On a pilgrimage to see the Dalai Lama in the foothills of the Himalayas; blissed out in Germany with a beautiful Indian girl, believed to be "the Divine Mother"; witnessing miracles in the ashram of Sai Baba; and searching for the Messiah in the back streets of London- the spiritual tourist is the Candide...
enLIGHTened: How I Lost 40 Pounds with a Yoga Mat, Fresh Pineapples, and a Beagle Pointer
AuthorJessica Berger Gross
ISBN1602396396
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...
Tales from the Yoga Studio
AuthorRain Mitchell
ISBN0452296919
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....
Healing Depression the Mind-Body Way: Creating Happiness Through Meditation, Yoga, and Ayurveda
AuthorNancy Liebler
ISBN0470286318
"If you have an interest in optimum mental health, this book belongs on your shelf!" --AMY WEINTRAUB, author of Yoga for Depression

"A must-read for anyone interested in overcoming depression and healing themselves naturally. A very important book that will elevate you in many ways. Everyone...
Yoga for Transformation: Ancient Teachings and Practices for Healing the Body, Mind, and Heart
AuthorGary Kraftsow
ISBN0140196293
Go beyond the physical exercise of yoga with the founder of the American Viniyoga Institute

While there is no denying yoga's popularity as a form of physical exercise, the other life-enhancing aspects of this tradition remain obscure to many Westerners. In Yoga for Transformation, Gary...
Fear and Yoga in New Jersey
AuthorDebra Galant
ISBN0312367252
Nina Gettleman-Summer, a New Jersey yoga teacher, should be calmly guiding her high powered students through their savasanas and their chakras. Instead she is worried about...everything: her new meditation fountain overflowed causing one of her more litigious students to slip and fall; her husband...
Shakti Mantras: Tapping into the Great Goddess Energy Within
AuthorThomas Ashley-Farrand
ISBN0345443047
SHAKTI MANTRAS
Tapping into the Great Goddess Energy Within

• Enhance your spiritual gifts
• Lighten your karmic burden
• Improve your health and increase prosperity
• Live in harmony with the universe

Now, with Shakti Mantras, we can all benefit from...
Yoga for Life: A Journey to Inner Peace and Freedom
AuthorColleen Saidman Yee
ISBN1476776784
From a rebellious young woman with a dangerous heroin habit to a globe-trotting fashion model to “First Lady of Yoga” (The New York Times), Colleen Saidman Yee tells the remarkable story of how she found herself through the healing power of yoga—and then inspired others to do the same.

I’ve...
An Introduction to Yoga
AuthorAnnie Besant
These lectures are intended to give an outline of Yoga, in order to prepare the student to take up, for practical purposes, the Yoga sutras of Patanjali, the chief treatise on Yoga. I have on hand, with my friend Bhagavan Das as collaborateur, a translation of these Sutras, with Vyasa's commentary, and...
Yoga Mala: The Seminal Treatise and Guide from the Living Master of Ashtanga Yoga
AuthorSri K. Pattabhi Jois
ISBN0865476624
The seminal treatise and guide to Ashtanga yoga by the master of this increasingly popular discipline

There is a yoga boom in America, and Sri K. Pattabhi Jois is at the heart of it. One of the great yoga figures of our time, Jois brought Ashtanga yoga to the West a quarter of a century ago and has...
Henna for the Broken Hearted
AuthorSharell Cook
ISBN1742610404
How far would you go to change your life?

Sharell Cook is 30 years old and living a privileged life in Melbourne’s wealthy suburbs. She has it all: the childhood-sweetheart husband, the high-powered job and plenty of cash to splash.

And it’s not destined to last. In a dramatic turn...
Shadows Bright as Glass: The Remarkable Story of One Man's Journey from Brain Trauma to Artistic Triumph
AuthorAmy Ellis Nutt
ISBN1439143102
On a sunny fall afternoon in 1988, Jon Sarkin was playing golf when, without a whisper of warning, his life changed forever. As he bent down to pick up his golf ball, something strange and massive happened inside his head; part of his brain seemed to unhinge, to split apart and float away. For an utterly...
Fibber in the Heat
AuthorMiles Jupp
ISBN0091943124
Fanatical about cricket since he was a boy, MILES JUPP would do anything to see his heroes play. But perhaps deciding to bluff his way into the press corps during England's Test series in India wasn't his best idea.

By claiming to be the cricket correspondent for BBC Scotland and getting a job...
All the Dogs of My Life
AuthorElizabeth von Arnim
ISBN1860491103
From Bijou, her very first dog, to Chunkie and Knobbie, her favourite, and last, canine companions, Elizabeth von Arnim takes us through the complex journey of her life. From her Pomeranian idyll (encapsulated in her first novel, Elizabeth and Her German Garden) to less happy days in London following...
On the Grand Trunk Road
AuthorSteve Coll
ISBN0517156148
This is a reprint of a book Coll published in the early 90s after several years covering the region (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka) for The Washington Post. The reprint includes an Epilogue that picks up with Bhutto's assassination in 2007.

The writing is...
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