poser my life in twenty three yoga poses

Claire Dederer manages to pack everything into this personal memoir: childbirth, money, schools, social class, career anxiety, parenting, sex, friendship, marriage, and yes, yoga. It's very funny about yoga culture and disarmingly honest about how complicated marriage and family life can be., This book is going to be big. It's clear from the start that she will be transformed and find a sensible, spiritual nonsappy way to become a devotee before Poser is over., Poser, which tells the story of Claire's attempt to become absolutely perfect at yoga-and, by extension, life-is knocking me out. This appealing writer's first book is long overdue.

Why did Claire Dederer take up yoga? Short answer: for the same kinds of reasons that Elizabeth Gilbert changed her life in Eat, Pray, Love, and to much the same funny, charming, self-deprecating, stealthily inspirational and (quite possibly) best-selling effect. 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. Poser is unlike any other book about yoga you will read-because it is actually a book about life.

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. 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. At the same time, she found herself confronting the forces that shaped her generation. 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. 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. National Bestseller Ten years ago, Claire Dederer put her back out while breastfeeding her baby daughter.

Poser my life in twenty three yoga poses