Yoga Bitch: One Woman's Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment
Aug 2011 · Sold by Crown
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What happens when a coffee-drinking, cigarette-smoking, steak-eating twenty-five-year-old atheist decides it is time to get in touch with her spiritual side? Not what you’d expect . . .
When Suzanne Morrison decides to travel to Bali for a two-month yoga retreat, she wants nothing more than to be transformed from a twenty-five-year-old with a crippling fear of death into her enchanting yoga teacher, Indra—a woman who seems to have found it all: love, self, and God.
But things don’t go quite as expected. Once in Bali, she finds that her beloved yoga teacher and all of her yogamates wake up every morning to drink a large, steaming mug . . . of their own urine. Sugar is a mortal sin. Spirits inhabit kitchen appliances. And the more she tries to find her higher self, the more she faces her cynical, egomaniacal, cigarette-, wine-, and chocolate-craving lower self.
Yoga Bitch chronicles Suzanne’s hilarious adventures and misadventures as an aspiring yogi who might be just a bit too skeptical to drink the Kool-Aid. But along the way she discovers that no spiritual effort is wasted; even if her yoga retreat doesn’t turn her into the gorgeously calm, wise believer she hopes it will, it does plant seeds that continue to blossom in surprising ways over the next decade of her life.
When Suzanne Morrison decides to travel to Bali for a two-month yoga retreat, she wants nothing more than to be transformed from a twenty-five-year-old with a crippling fear of death into her enchanting yoga teacher, Indra—a woman who seems to have found it all: love, self, and God.
But things don’t go quite as expected. Once in Bali, she finds that her beloved yoga teacher and all of her yogamates wake up every morning to drink a large, steaming mug . . . of their own urine. Sugar is a mortal sin. Spirits inhabit kitchen appliances. And the more she tries to find her higher self, the more she faces her cynical, egomaniacal, cigarette-, wine-, and chocolate-craving lower self.
Yoga Bitch chronicles Suzanne’s hilarious adventures and misadventures as an aspiring yogi who might be just a bit too skeptical to drink the Kool-Aid. But along the way she discovers that no spiritual effort is wasted; even if her yoga retreat doesn’t turn her into the gorgeously calm, wise believer she hopes it will, it does plant seeds that continue to blossom in surprising ways over the next decade of her life.
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4.6
14 reviews
Jillisa Doherty
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May 24, 2014
This was an amazing book. I felt like I was growing and changing with Suzanne. I laughed, cried and even felt enlightened at times. A must read for every 20 something woman reaching and growing into herself and her future.
Rebecca Henry
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September 22, 2015
I really enjoyed reading this book. I share many of Suzanne's thoughts regarding practicing yoga in the U.S. I also share some of her skepticism in general.
Sherisse Hume
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January 26, 2016
About where I am at in my life when I read this. Perhaps 10 years older. Fantastic read, I wish there was more.
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About the author
A writer and solo performer currently living in Seattle, Suzanne Morrison has a one-woman show, Yoga Bitch, which has been called “ambitious, ballsy, and hilarious” by Seattle Weekly and “New Age Nirvana” by Time Out London. The show has played to sold-out houses in New York City, Maui, Seattle, Memphis, London, and Oxford. Her work has been covered in the Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Weekly, and blogs such as Yoga Journal and Seattlest. You can find Suzanne at HuffPost and her personal blog, where she writes about absolutely everything she’s reading, writing, and rehearsing.
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