Living Yoga : Creating a Life Practice - Softcover

Christy Turlington

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141011084 ISBN 13: 9780141011080

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2005

Synopsis

Christy Turlington is a serious yoga practitioner who has been practicing for over 15 years. This is the only REAL yoga book you'll ever need. In this book she explores the eight tenets of yoga and discusses how to incorporate it into everyday life, no matter how busy you are. She also touches on how yoga has made her own life more peaceful through stressful times and events. Both revealing and instructional, beautiful and covetable, Living Yoga is suitable for people of all levels, from those who are trying yoga for the first time to more advanced practitioners.

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About the Author

Model, entrepreneur and advocate of yoga, Christy Turlington is a serious yoga practitioner. She is Editor-at-Large for Yoga Journal and has a BA in Philosophy and Comparative Religion from New York University. She heads two companies - Nuala a yoga lifestyle clothing range and Sundari, a line of skin-care products based on the principles of ayurveda.

From Publishers Weekly

Supermodel Turlington, whose angelic face has graced the pages of Vogue, Elle and other fashion glossies since the 1980s, has lately been lending her image to a more profound pursuit: yoga. The 33-year-old has been practicing yoga for 15 years, has her own yoga clothing line, is a Yoga Journal contributing editor, and-with the publication of this book-becomes the first mainstream celebrity to write a book about yoga and how it's affected her life. There's a lot to digest here, between the historical and technical explanations about yoga and Eastern philosophy and the anecdotal asides from Turlington's life, but the book's clean, Zen-like layout and simple prose help make it accessible. Turlington's aim is to help students who may be overwhelmed by the unlimited information available on yoga and to emphasize reasons to practice that go beyond getting a nice butt. She attempts to understand yoga's universal spiritual appeal, examining the basics of Hinduism (Turlington is a practicing Catholic), and draws parallels between chanting and saying the rosary. She shares a bit of personal information about her modeling career, her father's death from lung cancer and her relationship with her sisters, and includes the obligatory photographs of her scantily clad self doing salamba sirsasana (headstand) and bakasana (crow pose). The combination of serious yoga talk with memoir-like reminiscences make for an engrossing and inspiring overview of yoga.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141011084
• ISBN 13: 9780141011080
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288