Yoga School Dropout

by Lucy Edge

Book Overview

A sharply funny travelogue from a fantastic travel writer. Lucy Edge tells the story of her personal quest for serenity and yogic flexibility through the ashrams and gurus of India. After over a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0091899222
• ISBN13: 9780091899226
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Ebury & Vermilion
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.5" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

love love love this book!

I just received Yoga School Dropout and I AM LOVIN' IT! I've read Holy Cow, Enlightenment for Idiots, The Yoga Teacher, Eat Pray Love, and I think Edge's book tops them all. Her depictions of yoga in India, the westerners who go to India for yoga, and India itself are all right-on. I should know because I've studied three times at one of the schools she wrote about it and she nailed it. Edge's book says it all about traveling to India to study yoga and falling in love with Ma India in the process.

so good

this book is funny, real, humble, and grand. as a 30 year old searching for her own place in the world after working in advertising as well, it wholly resonated.

Good Stuff!

I am currently reading this book, Yoga School Dropout, w/ eat pray love and the Bhavighad Gita (SP). I again, like the last reviewer, just happend to find this book, literally while traveling on the ground and it has brought me back to my practice. It is very funny and educational. No matter what your experience w/ Yoga, this book rocks.

Thanks Lucy!

Loved loved loved this hilarious book. There's a lot of wisdom in Lucy's comedic descriptions of the guru culture (and industry), and a great deal of humility in Lucy's quest as she faces up to her own foibles and human frailties. The yoga world could use a good laugh at itself, and this book is a healthy step in that direction.

More In-Lightening than any asana book

I have just finished reading this delightful book, `Yoga School Drop Out' by Lucy Edge. I happened upon it `accidentally' (we all know there is no such thing as an accident) at the library when I was looking for something entirely different. I did not manage to find what I was looking for; I did however find exactly what I needed! Lucy sets out on a Spiritual Quest to India determined to return home a Yoga Goddess. Things do not quite flow as Lucy anticipated and it looked as if she was destined never to return home as the Yoga Goddess she had envisioned. She did, however, gain more inner wisdom and insight than she could have imagined when she first set out. Along the way it was the "ordinary" people she met, not the yoga she did, or the gurus she listened to, that held the most lessons. Here are a few pearls that were shared along the way: On Asana: "Today asana has been made into a `photograph,' ... there is no difference between this and gymnastics ... But asana is not a performance, asana is what happens in the posture and afterwards" On Change: "Change occurs only when we become what we truly are, not when we are trying to be something we are not. Change can't happen when we are trying to escape our true nature" On Travel: "Unfortunately, when you travel, you take yourself with you" On Yoga: "... the reason I found them so inspiring was because their yoga practice stretched way beyond their mat. They saw yoga as a state of mind, an attitude to life, and the world as their school. Yoga was, for all of them, `a harmonious way of living', not a one-off physical goal - they knew all they had to do was look within" On Practice: "It was an unremarkable thing - Pranayama, meditation and perhaps a few simple sun salutations. It was practiced informally, not in a big class on the instructions of a big name teacher, but at home - quietly without fuss" On Enlightenment: "Enlightenment was not a trophy to be lifted high in one triumphant moment, it was about seeing clearly, and choosing wisely in daily life" All round just a great book! Thanks for the deLightful and inspiring read Lucy :-)