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Book SynopsisI 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.
Table of ContentsCONTENTS: 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
