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The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West
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About The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life Of Indra
Product Description New York Times best-selling author Michelle Goldberg tells the globetrotting story of the incredible woman who brought yoga to the West. When Indra Devi was born in Russia in 1899, yoga was virtually unknown outside of India. By the time of her death, in 2002, it was being practiced around the world. Here Michelle Goldberg tells the globetrotting story of the incredible woman who helped usher in a craze that continues unabated to this day. A sweeping picture of the twentieth century that travels from the cabarets of Berlin to the Mysore Palace to Golden Age Hollywood and beyond, The Goddess Pose brings the Devi’s little known but extraordinary adventures vividly to life. Review “Elegant and richly drawn. . . . With a jeweler’s eye for detail, Goldberg presents a singular woman.” — The New York Times Book Review “Groundbreaking. . . . [Goldberg’s] clear prose illuminates the forces of war and social change and reveals the complex roots of our country’s yoga boom.” — San Francisco Chronicle “Fascinating. . . . [Devi’s] story and influence live on in this can’t-miss memoir.” — Yoga Journal “It’s hard to believe that the life of Indra Devi . . . hasn’t been made into a blockbuster film. . . . Without idolizing or condemning her, Goldberg evokes Devi’s complicated nature as deftly as she does the Russian Empire, Weimar Berlin, occupied Shanghai, and so many of the other places where Devi worked, loved, and proselytized.” — New York Magazine "Goldberg’s book is lots of fun. . . . Even if you don’t care enough about yoga to hold a pigeon pose for the length of time it takes to say [the] title, Indra Devi . . . remains no less a fascinating character." — Los Angeles Times "Engaging. . . offers fresh insights into commonly held assumptions, including the relatively new origins of many physical asanas. . . . Goldberg’s own discovery of yoga and Indra Devi forms a riveting prologue to an expansive book that underlines how truly global yoga has become after it was taken from Indian shores more than a century ago." — The Times of India "A celebration of female freedom and everything it can bring: an appetite for adventure, fearlessness in the face of challenge, and, most important, discovery and assertion of self." —Anna Holmes, founding editor, Jezebel "The story of how Devi came to embrace yoga and spread its gospel in America is as fascinating as it is unlikely. . . . [Goldberg’s] goal in writing The Goddess Pose seems to have been not just chronicling the life of one of the world’s great iconoclasts, but also providing a history for how hatha yoga went from an Indian spiritual tradition to an everyday part of western lives. She succeeds admirably on both counts." — The Guardian "Michelle Goldberg’s masterful engagement with her astonishing subject—and with the diverse political, spiritual, and physical worlds she inhabited—is evident on every page." —Rebecca Traister, author of Big Girls Don’t Cry "Goldberg’s account of Devi takes the reader through three chronicled, influential centuries of the yogi, actress, and fearless voyager’s life which will leave you with a better understanding of how westernized Yoga differs from its roots . . . and a major dose of inspiration to get you on the way to your next blissed-out savasana." — Nylon "[ The Goddess Pose] captures Devi’s Forrest Gump–like propensity to live parallel to some of the most important moments of the previous century." — New York Post "[Goldberg] expertly assembles the puzzle pieces of Devi’s life, pausing to provide context for the growing influence of spiritualism on modern American life." — The Globe and Mail (Toronto) "Whether you’re a student of yoga, a history buff, an armchair adventurer, or just a reader in search of an unputdownable story that happens to be true, you’ll love this fascinating biography of one of the twentieth century’s boldest, most influential women." —Katha Pollitt, author of Learning to Drive: And
