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Good Camel, Good Life: Finding Enlightenment One Drop of Sweat at a Time
GOOD CAMEL, GOOD LIFE is a tale of hot yoga survival. In this joyful story, a neophyte yoga practitioner finds enlightenment of body, mind, and soul over the course of a 60-day intensive yoga challenge, running concurrently with a major life challenge. This is an ambitious, funny, touching story to be enjoyed by all, particularly anyone facing a challenge of daunting proportions or looking to ahead to figure out "What's next?" GOOD CAMEL, GOOD LIFE will provide the inspiration to begin tackling your own next big challenge!
184 pages, Paperback
First published May 10, 2010
About the author
Scott Bischke
7 books40 followersA Writer's Life in Four Simple Bullets
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* I have lived with my wife through her recurrent cancer, and have shared with her the joy — post cancer — of walking 3,000 miles along the Continental Divide.
* I express myself best in writing, though friends will tell you that I am hard to shut up.
* I have special love of a special place, Montana.
* I have never experienced writer's block.
Writing Books that Matter
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I am a reader, as well as a writer. I have a limited time each day, indeed in life, and I want the things I read to matter. Likewise, I want what I write to matter, to have a reason for being, to engage the reader. I believe that a good story, crafted well, has the power to change the world. I have published a number of popular press books, as described in this website. Each of my books, in its own way, presents a topic I found critically important at the time I wrote it...and still do. The books and their reason for being follow:
* Bat Cave: A Fable of Epidemic Proportions (Critter Chronicles, #2) — epidemic disease, societal decision making, and immigration
* Fish Tank: A Fable for Our Times (Critter Chronicles, #1)— natural resources, societal decision making, and climate change
* Crossing Divides: A Couples' Story of Cancer, Hope, and Hiking Montana's Continental Divide — health, nature, wilderness, healing from cancer
* Good Camel, Good Life: Finding Enlightenment One Drop of Sweat at a Time — health, yoga, spirituality, philosophy
* TrumpelStiltskin: A Fairy Tale — the election of our 45th president, as seen through a re-imagined fairy tale
* Two Wheels Around New Zealand: A Bicycle Journey on Friendly Roads — travel, adventure, escape, wilderness
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* I have lived with my wife through her recurrent cancer, and have shared with her the joy — post cancer — of walking 3,000 miles along the Continental Divide.
* I express myself best in writing, though friends will tell you that I am hard to shut up.
* I have special love of a special place, Montana.
* I have never experienced writer's block.
Writing Books that Matter
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I am a reader, as well as a writer. I have a limited time each day, indeed in life, and I want the things I read to matter. Likewise, I want what I write to matter, to have a reason for being, to engage the reader. I believe that a good story, crafted well, has the power to change the world. I have published a number of popular press books, as described in this website. Each of my books, in its own way, presents a topic I found critically important at the time I wrote it...and still do. The books and their reason for being follow:
* Bat Cave: A Fable of Epidemic Proportions (Critter Chronicles, #2) — epidemic disease, societal decision making, and immigration
* Fish Tank: A Fable for Our Times (Critter Chronicles, #1)— natural resources, societal decision making, and climate change
* Crossing Divides: A Couples' Story of Cancer, Hope, and Hiking Montana's Continental Divide — health, nature, wilderness, healing from cancer
* Good Camel, Good Life: Finding Enlightenment One Drop of Sweat at a Time — health, yoga, spirituality, philosophy
* TrumpelStiltskin: A Fairy Tale — the election of our 45th president, as seen through a re-imagined fairy tale
* Two Wheels Around New Zealand: A Bicycle Journey on Friendly Roads — travel, adventure, escape, wilderness
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August 14, 2016
GOOD CAMEL, GOOD LIFE is a tale of hot yoga survival. In this joyful story, a neophyte yoga practitioner finds enlightenment of body, mind, and soul over the course of a 60-day intensive yoga challenge, running concurrently with a major life challenge. This is an ambitious, funny, touching story to be enjoyed by all, particularly anyone facing a challenge of daunting proportions or looking to ahead to figure out "What's next?" GOOD CAMEL, GOOD LIFE will provide the inspiration to begin tackling your own next big challenge!
July 26, 2012
Page turner for me! If you do or are curious about Bikram Yoga, this is for you. I had a pen handy, wrote & underlined this book to death!
December 31, 2013
Scott does a most excellent job of telling the story of a Bikram Challenge he undertakes during a time when his wife is facing serious illness. He holds lightly to the intertwining threads of his story, moving effortlessly between the day-to-day challenges of his life, and the day-to-day challenges of completing sixty Bikram classes in seventy days.
For those of us who may think that Bikram Yoga is all about the ego of the body, Scott shows how his practice has an impact on his experience of life in a way that deepens his connection to All That Is. You might call it spirituality even. All the while, he’s discerning about aspects of the practice, and the man, that don’t sit well with him.
It’s this straight-up style that makes Scott’s book so engaging – he’s no mindless minion trying to convince anybody of anything, but a thoughtful, insightful man sharing his experience in the hope that it will help someone else find their way, whether to Bikram, or another style of Hatha Yoga.
He also tosses in loads of background information that sheds some light on who Bikram is and how he operates.
There’s the story of how Richard Nixon gave him a green card after Bikram cured him of thrombophlebitis, the story of his yoga empire, and Bikram’s story of the history of yoga. It’s all fascinating, and for someone who may never have done yoga and is thinking of going along to class… it’s illuminating.
As is the way that Scott works in much of the Bikram class dialogue throughout each chapter, taking us from the first breathing exercise to the last, and hitting all 26 postures along the way. It’s a great technique for structuring the book, and gives awesome insight into the nitty-gritty of a Bikram class.
Especially if you’ve never ever done one before.
So if you’ve got a loved one you’re been trying to get along to a Bikram class for awhile now, maybe buy them a copy of Scott’s book for Christmas.
For those of us who may think that Bikram Yoga is all about the ego of the body, Scott shows how his practice has an impact on his experience of life in a way that deepens his connection to All That Is. You might call it spirituality even. All the while, he’s discerning about aspects of the practice, and the man, that don’t sit well with him.
It’s this straight-up style that makes Scott’s book so engaging – he’s no mindless minion trying to convince anybody of anything, but a thoughtful, insightful man sharing his experience in the hope that it will help someone else find their way, whether to Bikram, or another style of Hatha Yoga.
He also tosses in loads of background information that sheds some light on who Bikram is and how he operates.
There’s the story of how Richard Nixon gave him a green card after Bikram cured him of thrombophlebitis, the story of his yoga empire, and Bikram’s story of the history of yoga. It’s all fascinating, and for someone who may never have done yoga and is thinking of going along to class… it’s illuminating.
As is the way that Scott works in much of the Bikram class dialogue throughout each chapter, taking us from the first breathing exercise to the last, and hitting all 26 postures along the way. It’s a great technique for structuring the book, and gives awesome insight into the nitty-gritty of a Bikram class.
Especially if you’ve never ever done one before.
So if you’ve got a loved one you’re been trying to get along to a Bikram class for awhile now, maybe buy them a copy of Scott’s book for Christmas.
July 23, 2013
La importancia de una buena camel pose, que abre los chakras del corazón.
La verdad es que el libro es para quienes estén interesados en la práctica del bikram, da muy buenas explicaciones de cada pose, sus beneficios y cómo lo ayudó a superar las diferentes etapas difíciles que se presentaron a lo largo del reto de 60 días.
La verdad es que el libro es para quienes estén interesados en la práctica del bikram, da muy buenas explicaciones de cada pose, sus beneficios y cómo lo ayudó a superar las diferentes etapas difíciles que se presentaron a lo largo del reto de 60 días.
August 28, 2016
The author of this book drinks the Bikram Kool-Aid.
That said, the book was enjoyable enough. I do admit to my mind drifting off a few times when he went on and on about something to lead up to the point he was trying to make.
The book is about the author's 60-day Bikram challenge while also dealing with his wife's recurrent cancer.
I needed something to read that wasn't intellectually challenging but was still absorbing. This fit the fill.
As yoga memoirs go, there are better ones out there. However, this was the first one I've read from a Bikram practitioner, so it was interesting to get more insight into that mindset.
That said, the book was enjoyable enough. I do admit to my mind drifting off a few times when he went on and on about something to lead up to the point he was trying to make.
The book is about the author's 60-day Bikram challenge while also dealing with his wife's recurrent cancer.
I needed something to read that wasn't intellectually challenging but was still absorbing. This fit the fill.
As yoga memoirs go, there are better ones out there. However, this was the first one I've read from a Bikram practitioner, so it was interesting to get more insight into that mindset.
April 16, 2016
Book about his journey yogic life and daily life. Very appealing!
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