Poser
My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses
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- $7.500
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- $7.500
Descripción editorial
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 tackled 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, Claire and
her peers grew up determined to be good, good, good. Yoga seemed to fit
right into this virtuous programme, but to her surprise the deeper
Claire went into the poses the more they tested her most basic ideas of
what goodness really means.
Poser
tells the story of how yoga helped Claire to discover that being joyful
is sometimes more important than being good. Witty and heartfelt, sharp
and irreverent, this is a book for anyone who has ever tried to stand on
their head while keeping both feet on the ground.
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"I have never been good at sports; I always feel like a spectator even in the middle of the game," writes freelance writer Dederer about her initial reluctance to attend a yoga class. But despite her misgivings and her "defiance of my longtime policy of never entering a structure adorned with Tibetan prayer flags," Dederer makes it through that first class to develop a strong commitment to yoga in addition to and sometimes despite raising two children, coping with a husband struggling with depression, finding time to write, along with a demanding extended family and a move from her native Seattle to Colorado. With lighthearted humor and a touch of irony, Dederer introduces her readers to the culture of motherhood in north Seattle during the late 1990s, a place populated by clog-wearing attachment-parenting women whom Dederer simultaneously disdained and embraced. Each chapter is titled after a different yoga pose as Dederer recounts the challenging births of her children and reflects upon her own emotionally difficult childhood and adolescence during the 1970s. Dederer's memoir, like a challenging yoga class, flows smoothly and shows by example that a full life is one that is constantly in motion.
