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The Plan: find a guru and return a yoga goddess - a magnetic babe attracting strong and sweaty yet emotionally vulnerable men with my pretzel like body and compassionate grace.
Needless to say things didn't work out quite as planned. Yoga School Dropout describes my journey from the ad agencies of London into the arms of the Hugging Mothers and Swoony Swamis of Kerala. I encountered the Gucci'd Guru of Pune, an enlightened waiter from Rishikesh and faked an orgasm for a Tantric washing machine repairman from Byron Bay.
Use this website to read the first chapter, look at some holiday snaps, get some ideas for your own trip to india, or find a yoga centre closer to home. You can pre-order the book using the Amazon click through, research yoga holidays, investigate teacher training, buy yoga goodies, or talk to me.
Essential yoga holiday reading, perfect for a trip to spiritual India, or if you just want a giggle on the tube on your way to work.
Independent on Sunday Books of the Year, 18 December 2005
In Yoga School Dropout (Ebury £10.99) Lucy Edge, a former London advertising executive, goes in search of spiritual riches (and the perfect headstand) in India. Neither boringly cynical nor stupidly gullible, she’s open minded, warm and funny; even – though she’d be the last person to claim this – rather wise Suzi Feay |