Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (726 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250002338 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Yoga lessons and life lessons learned together. BEW This book started out as a funny commentary on how much energy we put into looking like our friends and neighbors; to fitting in. Thus begins Claire's journey into Yoga. As Claire's understanding of yoga deepens, so does her understanding of her life. I could understand and empathize as she made sense of the life she had and was living. I found her honesty regarding her struggles refreshing. Thank you, Claire for demonstrating what makes a great memoir!. Kate emery said I love yoga, I bought this book for that reason. I love yoga, I bought this book for that reason. This is my first read of the New Year, I open to chapter one, Camel, the pose that I am trying to perfect. This book is beautiful and also life changing. I had several, to quote Oprah, ah ha moments while reading.. "Seldom has so little been written about so well" according to Amazonaholic. This book hooked me quickly, only to disappoint me more and more as it plodded forward. Dederer is an extremely skilled writer, but needs to find something more interesting and consequential to write about than her own obsessive need to keep up with the Joneses. Jeez, the trivial stuff she chooses to make important in her life makes it no mystery why she spends so much of her time unhappy.The yoga framework works in the early chapters, but is stretched far too thin in later chapters, and becomes an obvious structural gimmick. And while I was waiting
--Tom Nissley. Best Books of the Month, January 2011: Yoga, even as it furthers its storefront-by-storefront takeover of American leisure hours, remains a punchline, a shorthand summing-up of a certain way of life. And she's wisest, and most fascinating, when she's plotting the differences between her mother's generation, breaking out from the traditions of young marriage and motherhood in sloppy, self-invented ways, and her own, responding to the chaos of their parents' marriages and their own youth with the anxiously
At the same time, she found herself confronting the forces that shaped her generation. 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, wifeand the more they made her want something a little less tidy, a little more improvisational. 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.. 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. 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, goodeven if this meant feeling hemmed in by the smugness of their organic-buying, attachment-parenting, anxiously conscientious little world. Less goodness, more joy.Poser is unlike any other book about yoga you will readbecause it is actually a book about life. National Bestseller 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