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Poser, January 2011
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My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
January 2011
On Sale: December 21, 2010
352 pages ISBN: 0374236445 EAN: 9780374236441 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Self-Help
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 my longtime policy of never entering a structure
adorned with Tibetan prayer flags, I removed my shoes, paid
my ten bucks, and walked in . . .
Ten years ago,
Claire Dederer put her back out while breastfeeding her baby
daughter. Told to try yoga by everyone from the woman behind
the counter at the co-op to the homeless guy on the corner,
she signed up for her first class. She fell madly in
love.
Over the next decade, she would tackle
triangle, wheel, and the dreaded crow, becoming fast friends
with some poses and developing long-standing feuds with
others. At the same time, she found herself confronting the
forces that shaped her generation. Daughters of women who
ran away to find themselves and made a few messes along the
way, Dederer and her peers grew up determined to be good,
good, good—even if this meant feeling hemmed in by the
smugness of their organic-buying, attachment-parenting,
anxiously conscientious little world. Yoga seemed to fit
right into this virtuous program, but to her surprise,
Dederer found that the deeper she went into the poses, the
more they tested her most basic ideas of what makes a good
mother, daughter, friend, wife—and the more they made her
want something a little less tidy, a little more
improvisational. Less goodness, more joy.
Poser
is unlike any other book about yoga you will
read—because it is actually a book about life. Witty and
heartfelt, sharp and irreverent, Poser is for anyone
who has ever tried to stand on their head while keeping both
feet on the ground.
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