7/26/2023 0 Comments Poser yoga![]() ![]() To simplify my praise: I absolutely loved this book.” - Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love Thank goodness, then, for Claire Dederer, who has written the book we all need: the long-awaited funny, smart, clear-headed, thoughtful, truthful, and inspiring yoga memoir. I'm sorry to say it, but yoga sometimes makes people talk like jerks. “Let me be honest about something: I love yoga, I live for yoga, and yoga has changed my life forever-but it is very difficult to find books about yoga that aren't incredibly annoying. Guess what? Your bad wallpaper made for a lovely book.” - Dani Shapiro, The New York Times Book Review ![]() In the hands of a gifted writer, the universal is embedded within the personal. Poser is a powerful, honest, ruefully funny memoir about one woman's openhearted reckoning with her demons. makes Poser work on a lot of levels is that first in line to ask searching questions and poke fun is the author herself. “ fine first memoir, and it's heartening to see a serious female writer take such a risky step into territory where writers of literary ambition fear to tread, lest they be dismissed as trivial. 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. Ten years ago, Claire Dederer put her back out while breastfeeding her baby daughter. ![]()
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