Why read Bent?

Book cover of Bent: How Yoga Saved My Ass

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“It was nothing at first. Just a little twitch. My left ring finger was twitching, slowly, almost languidly, the way fishing line does when you’ve hooked something without any strength. Like a baby perch. I hadn’t even gotten out of bed yet.

My first thought: Stress?

(Nope, think again)”

And…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Bent as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Meryl Davids Landau

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This little memoir (some 200 postcard-size pages) packs so much yoga punch.

Clendenin goes through a lot of bad stuff—a lifelong drinking problem, the death of a relative, a life-altering medical diagnosis—but she relays it all in such a fun, girlfriendy way you can’t help but cheer her on.

Her saving grace is the yoga teacher training she begins as the book does, which carries her through the awful life events. My favorite is the way she summarizes and modernizes the four parts of the classic—and very obtuse—Yoga Sutras (e.g., one take: “don’t let that nasty ego tell you who…

From Meryl's list on conveying yoga’s deep teachings.