I Hate Yoga

And Why You'll Hate to Love it Too

Paul McQuillan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

180 Seiten

2014
Morgan James Publishing llc (Verlag)
978-1-63047-412-6 (ISBN)

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An honest and hilarious look at the world of yoga today and how you will gain valuable insight into the increasingly popular art form by taking a yoga journey that begins with disdain, and may just lead to love.

I Hate Yoga poses an intriguing question: How is it possible to become so disenchanted with an age-old activity that historically offers so much healing and serenity? Sadly, even yoga can fall prey to the dark influences of Western society.
Social media, a bad boy guru, religion, competitive yoga and “a multiplying spawn of self-righteous yoga knowers” are just a few of the culprits that are scrutinized in showing that yoga has lost its path. But it’s not too late to put it back on the Buddha-bus to paradise. How? With an exorcism that humorously and earnestly rids yoga of its imposed impurities.
Then, as author Paul McQuillan explains, “Once we have cathartically performed our ugly yoga striptease and thrown down each garment of bogus credibility and confusion, we will then focus on watching the Yoga-Phoenix rise from the ashes … this will take place only after the affectations surrounding yoga have been laid bare and exposed as nothing more than a societal red herring, distracting us from the beauty of a profoundly beneficial art form.”
Such a transformational journey doesn’t happen easily, but once it begins, you may just find that there is an unlikely and surprising beneficiary: You.

Paul McQuillan is the owner and director of BeHot Yoga Toronto, a thriving yoga studio in downtown Toronto. A yoga teacher for nine years and a professional singer and actor for thirty, Paul has performed on stages in over sixty cities across North America, including on Broadway, and appeared in the documentary Planet Yoga. His controversial but popular article in Canada’s national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, is the inspiration for I Hate Yoga.

CONTENTS:

FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION

PART 1: KILLING YOGA

CHAPTER 1: MY JOURNEY TO YOGA HATE
CHAPTER 2: BIKRAM YOGA AND THE GUY WITH THE SAME NAME
CHAPTER 3: ASS-ANAS AND POCKET CHANGE
CHAPTER 4: THE UNTAUGHT TEACHER
CHAPTER 5: GURU BE GONE
CHAPTER 6: DR. DOES-LITTLE
CHAPTER 7: GOOD GOD, YOGA
CHAPTER 8: SMOKE AND MIRRORS
CHAPTER 9: #YOGA—A FEAR OF “LIKES”
CHAPTER 10: BOURBON AND BACKBENDS
CHAPTER 11: NO COMPETITION
CHAPTER 12: MY YOGA

PART 2: YOGA-PHOENIX RISING

CHAPTER 13: BACK TO THE FUTURE
CHAPTER 14: I THINK, THEREFORE I’M DAMNED
CHAPTER 15: SEX AND THE PRETTY
CHAPTER 16: IT’S A QUIET THING
CHAPTER 17: A PINCH OF HEAVEN, A CUP OF HELL
CHAPTER 18: COLOR ME YOGA
CHAPTER 19: TAKE TWO AND CALL ME WITH A WARNING
CHAPTER 20: TWISTED TERROR
CHAPTER 21: FASHION A FEELING?
CHAPTER 22: YOGA’S NOT BORING, YOU ARE
CHAPTER 23: BALANCE, MODERATION AND OTHER EXTREMES
CHAPTER 24: I’M JUST NOT THAT INTUIT-IVE
CHAPTER 25: YOGA’S FUNNY AND SO ARE YOU
CHAPTER 26: IT’S THE YOGA, STUPID
CHAPTER 27: CONVICTED OF KILLING TIME
CHAPTER 28: TURNING A FEW TRICKS

CONCLUSION
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
RESOURCES
REFERENCES

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.11.2014
Vorwort	Pattie Lovett-Reid
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Fitness / Aerobic / Bodybuilding
ISBN-10	1-63047-412-6 / 1630474126
ISBN-13	978-1-63047-412-6 / 9781630474126
Zustand	Neuware