YOGA SCHOOL DROPOUT
Book ID/图书代码： 06580010B35995
English Summary/英文概要： A sharply funny travelogue from a fantastic new writer. Lucy Edge tells the story of her personal quest for serenity and yogic flexibility through the ashrams and gurus of India.
After over a decade spent working and drinking too much in the world of advertising, Lucy decided she had to leave town for an altogether more spiritual and, well, meaningful way of life - And whilst she was at it, she could acquire a newly lithe and supple body.
Would she come home looking like Christy Turlington and pick up some Buddhist serenity on the way? Or did something much funnier, interesting and complicated happen? Did she fall in love - with a place and its people?
A divine comedy of the Western obsession with life’s deeper meaning, a yogic experiment and a love letter to India, this is an entertaining book from a wonderful new travel writer.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 妳是否想要逃離一切，拋開工作，飛到他國追求身心靈提升，尋訪更有意義的生活？Lucy Edge的作品將滿足你的想像與渴望
如同《享受吧！ 一個人的旅行》(Eat, pray and love)，精采的旅程故事
Lucy Edge在廣告界混了十幾年，工作和飲酒過量基本上就是她這十幾年的生活內容。最後，她受夠了自己的人生總是耗費在辯論綠巨人的品牌涵義該如何如何的日子，她決定飛到印度學習正統瑜珈，追求「靈性」、更有意義的生活方式。
她以為只要到了印度靈修，就可以帶給她更靈活、更柔軟富足的身體與精神生活；不過，等她真的到了印度，卻發現靈修生活跟她想像的有落差，好像沒有她想像中的這麼「充滿靈性」。不只是因為她有喜歡追求完美的個性，她也發現印度靈修背後隱藏的商業模式。一開始她是來學習瑜珈，最後她深深的愛上印度這個國家和人民。(KC & Eva)
Awards/获奖情况：亞馬遜：http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0091899222/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books
版權銷售：波蘭、義大利(Newton Compton in Italy and Zysk i Ska Wydawnictwo SC in Poland)
更多書評介紹：
http://www.yogaschooldropout.com/pdf/reviews.pdf
http://www.yogaschooldropout.com/interviews.html
精華節錄：
On Asana: "Today asana has been made into a `photograph,’ ... there is no difference between this and gymnastics ... But asana is not a performance, asana is what happens in the posture and afterwards"
On Change: "Change occurs only when we become what we truly are, not when we are trying to be something we are not. Change can’t happen when we are trying to escape our true nature"
On Travel: "Unfortunately, when you travel, you take yourself with you"
On Yoga: "... the reason I found them so inspiring was because their yoga practice stretched way beyond their mat. They saw yoga as a state of mind, an attitude to life, and the world as their school. Yoga was, for all of them, `a harmonious way of living’, not a one-off physical goal - they knew all they had to do was look within"
On Practice: "It was an unremarkable thing - Pranayama, meditation and perhaps a few simple sun salutations. It was practiced informally, not in a big class on the instructions of a big name teacher, but at home - quietly without fuss"
On Enlightenment: "Enlightenment was not a trophy to be lifted high in one triumphant moment, it was about seeing clearly, and choosing wisely in daily life"
About the Author/作者介绍： Lucy Edge在廣告界待了15年，任職於知名廣告公司，為全球知名品牌包含蘇格蘭威雀威士忌(The Famous Grouse)、綠巨人(Green Giant)和英國瑪莎百貨(Marks & Spencer)製作的創意廣告曾讓她得到許多廣告獎項。目前她住在倫敦，工作繁忙之餘仍不忘花上許多時間練習瑜珈。
Format:TRADE PAPERBACK
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