Yoga Bodies: Real People, Real Stories & the Power of Transformation

(Hardback)

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Yoga Bodies features more than 100 photographic portraitswith profound, humorous, and heartfelt stories from yogapractitioners (known and unknown) of all ages, skill levels,body types, and backgrounds. Each portrait presents the yogidemonstrating a yoga pose, with an accompanying personalstory of his or her experience of yoga. Story themes range fromanecdotes (such as how the yogi first came to discover yoga) tothe physical, emotional, or philosophical impacts yoga has hadon their life. Together, the portrait and story represent eachyogis personal expression of their yoga practice; collectively,the entries celebrate the joyful 'Yoga for everyone!' messagethats driving yogas rampant popularity.

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Unpretentious and delightful, this generously sized hardcover is a collection of first-person portraits of more than 80 people who practice and enjoy yoga. It's not a book only for yogis-it's a book for people. - RealSimple.com

Author Bio

Lauren Lipton is an award-winning journalist who covers style,beauty, wellness, and trends for the New York Times, WallStreet Journal, Allure, Self, Town & Country, and Conde NastTraveler, among other publications. She is based in New York,NY.