Yoga School Dropout: A hilarious, hapless and desperate quest for mystic Indians and Tantric bliss - Softcover

Edge, Lucy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 144992753X ISBN 13: 9781449927530

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010

Synopsis

Yoga School Dropout is a witty and sharply observed chronicle of Lucy Edge's quest for life's deeper meaning through the yoga schools, ashrams and villages of India. After over a decade spent working too hard and drinking too much in the world of advertising, Lucy decided she'd had enough of debating what song a sunflower should sing and went in search of a more meaningful way of life. She'd find a guru and strip away the ego, merging her Eternal Self with cosmic bliss. She'd return a Yoga Goddess - a magnetic babe attracting strong and sweaty yet emotionally vulnerable men with her pretzel-like body and compassionate grace. When she got there she found the relentless obsession with self-perfection rather shallower than expected. What began to seduce her was India itself. Did she come home looking like Christy Turlington? Or did something funnier and more interesting happen? Did she fall in love - with a place and its people? Yoga School Dropout is an emotional journey, a divine comedy on the Western obsession with life's deeper meaning, a yogic experiment and a love letter to India. 'In search of spiritual riches and the perfect headstand ...she's open minded, warm and funny; even - though she'd be the last person to claim this - rather wise.' The Independent on Sunday, Books of the Year

About this title

About the Author:

Lucy Edge worked in advertising as a strategist for nearly twenty years. Her campaigns for Marks & Spencer, Yellow Pages and Johnnie Walker were awarded the top prizes in the business and she built a reputation for creative solutions to her clients' business problems, a talent that was rewarded with board positions at three top ten agencies. One day she decided to give it all up in favour of a quest for life's deeper meaning in the five star ashrams, utopian villages and yoga schools of India. Yoga School Dropout (published by Ebury), her highly acclaimed account of this journey, records her encounters with Gucci clad gurus, hugging mothers and swoony swamis as she searches, ever more desperately, for mystic Indians, Tantric bliss and a boyfriend. Named by The Independent as one of their books of the year, and a consistent bestseller on Amazon's Yoga and Travel Writing rankings, Yoga School Dropout has become a traveller's classic - inspiring hundreds of disenchanted workers to follow her yoga trail around India in search of a more meaningful life. Lucy's second book picks up where Yoga School Dropout left off. She's met her man (after all that searching in India he turned out to live ten minutes walk from her London flat) and they decide to buy a Norfolk farmhouse and try for a family. The Handbag and Wellies Yoga Club is a moving, heart warming and witty story of her quest for love, babies and friendship in the lotus position. Lucy is working on her third book and contributes to a wide variety of newspapers, books and magazines including Yoga Journal, Tatler, The Daily Express, Body & Soul Escapes and BA's High Life magazine. Visit www.lucyedge.com for additional content including a glossary of terms, further reading, photos, useful contacts and a recipe for Apple Muffins.

Review:

"'A hilarious, hopeless and desperate quest' Chris Stewart, author of Driving Over Lemons"

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 144992753X
• ISBN 13: 9781449927530
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 338