How We Live Our Yoga

Searching, intimate essays about the meaning of yoga in contemporary lives HOW WE LIVE OUR YOGA collects fourteen frank, moving, and thoughtful personal essays by passionate yoga practitioners. Yoga teacher Alison West dissects two corpses in her search to understand the concept of paradox in yoga. Award-winning poet Stanley Plumly ponders the relationship between his Quaker upbringing, his writing, and his yoga practice. The philosopher and conceptual artist Adrian Piper comes out as a yogic celibate. Judith Lasater looks at the unexpected relationship between yoga and parenting. The well-known Sanskritist Vyaas Houston tells the story of his first guru and their difficult relationship. And Elizabeth Kadetsky writes about her experience studying yoga at the Iyengar Institute in Pune, India. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.