Unlikely positions (in unlikely places) : a yoga journey around Britain
Gowing, Elizabeth2019
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Elizabeth Gowing is not a likely yogini. She is too fond of chocolate and to-do lists, and sometimes falls over on her mat. But yoga has taken her on journeys both inside and out and now she follows yoga around Britain - from the village hall where a quivering triangle pose was interrupted by the council recycling collection to a sound gong bath in the country's noisiest city, from Cornwall to Scotland. She discovers prisoners finding solace in child's pose; children finding expression in dancer pose, and dancers sitting bendily in cobbler's pose. Her feet start to hurt and she realizes that yoga is a current of shared experience that runs quietly through British society, through Middle England to the nation's extremes.
Main title:
Unlikely positions (in unlikely places) : a yoga journey around Britain / Elizabeth Gowing.
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Imprint:
Chesham, Bucks : Bradt, 2019.
Collation:
xi, 225 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781784776404 (pbk)
Dewey class:
613.7'046613.7'046'092613.7046
Language:
English
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BRN:
2777825
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