Group Read for February?

[Nikiverse]

Would you guys be interested in a group read for a yoga book?

If you're interested, post a book you'd like to read and Meryl or myself can set up a poll in January!

I kinda want to read a Brene Brown book. Daring Greatly or the The Gifts of Imperfection. I know it's not specific to yoga but I have a broad interpretation of what is "yogic" ... :D

[Em]

I'm reading Alanna Zabel's "As I Am." It's well written and thought provoking. It's not a light read, but it's perfect reading for winter and a new year. Her background in education and psychology give the book depth that is often missing from some other yoga books I've read. It contains a 21-day plan to find one's dharma.

I've been in touch with the author via email, and she's really nice. She might even be willing to participate in an online discussion here about the book. Here's more information: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

[Helen]

I'd be interested in anything by Brene Brown. I've been hearing a lot about her lately but haven't read any of her books yet.

[Meryl]

I read Daring Greatly and think it's terrific. I'm not sure I interpret yoga quite that broadly, though unless the discussion links it somehow to more classic yogic teachings. (I know, all of life is yoga; but there are a million groups in Goodreads so there needs to be some distinctions.)

I don't have anything else to suggest at the moment, but I'll keep thinking.

[Nikiverse]

More suggestions
1. Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk
2. Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses

[Meryl]

We could try a well-regarded book for men, that I've heard that women like too? Could be nice to target the guys for a change. Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude

[Em]

Meryl wrote: "We could try a well-regarded book for men, that I've heard that women like too? Could be nice to target the guys for a change. Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude"

I read this last year. It's entertaining and interesting. However, there is definitely some 12-year-old boy humor. If you want to know more, see my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Monette]

Thanks for bringing up the idea of branching out in our reading. I think it would be great to include the male perspective, and I have been itching to read of the books that were published in the early 1900s by the Yogi Publication Society (almost exclusively male authors because of the time period). A reader brought a gorgeous 1904 edition of the Science of Breath to one of my readings last week, and I haven't stopped thinking about exploring some of those early voices of yoga in the United States. The author of that particular book is Yogi Ramacharaka—aka William Walter Atkinson, a Chicago attorney who left the legal profession for life as a yogi. He's written numerous yoga books himself, and there are others, I'm sure, by his contemporaries. Many of the books are available as free ebooks because their copyrights are past the 100-year mark. Here are a couple of links:

http://manybooks.net/authors/ramachar...
http://www.holybooks.com/the-science-...
http://www.globalgrey.co.uk/Pages/Boo...

I would love exploring our yogic roots via one of these classics with you all!

Namaste,

Monette
www.SophiaRisingYoga.com

[Magnus]

Wow Monette!!! Those links look amazing!! :-)

I'd never heard of Yogi Ramacharaka, but the books on those links look amazing! The books look fantastic, and it would be SO interesting to see an American perspective. So many of those early books are written by Indian Swamis, and I find them tough because they're written for the brahmins of the time.

[Robyn]

Did this ever happen -- are we doing a group read? Forgive me if I'm just having trouble navigating, but I couldn't find if there is an official selection for Feb. after all.

[Meryl]

Hi Robyn:

The Feb read got a bit delayed. Nikki is going to post a poll soon to see what book people want to read. Thanks for your interest.

[Meryl]

Sorry, typo on my part. Should have said Niki.

[Robyn]

Thanks!

Meryl wrote: "Hi Robyn:

The Feb read got a bit delayed. Nikki is going to post a poll soon to see what book people want to read. Thanks for your interest."

[Magnus]

Hi Everyone!!!

Did the poll happen, or are we skipping Feb, and looking for a book for March instead?

I just got back from a Vipassana, and spent the last day showing everyone some Yin-yoga to recover from all that sitting!!! haha. Anyway, so I missed the first 10 days of our Feb read...

As a newbie here, can someone let me know what style of yoga books this group is into? I'd love to read Richard Freeman's "Mirror of yoga" but if most people here would find it too deep and sanskrit-y, then that won't be much fun to discuss. Lighter books can be really enjoyable - I found "Hell-bent" by Benjamin Lorr hilarious with all its scandals and stories. What do you like?

[Nikiverse]

I want to read Hell Bent! I haven't read it yet. I was in the middle of a book my Stephen Cope but I just stopped reading it because I lost the book. Now that I found it, I'm finding it hard to get back into because it's in the middle of a "deep teaching" and I feel like I have to go back a few pages to get back into the flow of reading that book!

[Nikiverse]

And we let the book read for Feb slide because I wasn't sure how many people would participate!