Product Description

This is 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14785 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Review
"* 'An emotional journey' - Yoga Magazine * 'A quirky travelogue... Edge strikes a nicely satirical note and the characters she meets along the way make perfect fodder for gentle fun-poking' - Easy Living"

Independent on Sunday
"Neither boringly cynical or stupidly gullible, she's open-minded, warm and funny"

From the Publisher
'A hilarious, hopeless and desperate quest' Chris Stewart, author of Driving Over Lemons

Customer Reviews

Realistic, fantastic, funny!
This is the true story of one girls escape from the rat race to explore a variety of ways of deepening her interest in yoga.

She travels to India and goes from Ashram to Ashram, Guru to Guru, Yoga School to Yoga School. You read about the scams and the 'crazies' and also the deeply sincere people and spiritual places you could find yourself if you did the same. It's almost like an informal review of each place, which might prove useful if you were thinking of doing the same. It explains with humour and realism the difficulties of such a path, along with the joys and rewards too. Most interestingly you see Lucy's inner journey as she struggles with herself, much to the relief of the reader, as you see her own humanity.

This is a super book. I read it on holiday in Mauritius and the book and the surroundings together took me to a state of bliss. I absolutely LOVED it but as a result won't be travelling to India to pursue my love of yoga at any time soon! I am tempted though...

Lucy Edge - Yoga School Drop Out
I brought this on holidays and I found it so difficult to put down! It made me laugh, It made me want to give it all up and head to Kerala, it made me see beyond the veneer of mysticism that we create around yoga and most importantly, it made me remember to put it all into perspective.

I loved the book - so well written and such a fascinating read

Lucy - can't wait for your next book. Release it soon!!

Yoga School Dropout
Just a quick note to say how much I enjoyed Yoga School Drop Out. Been
thinking about going to India for a while - the book has inspired me to
do so in March - to the Sivananda ashram that Lucy went to.
Great book, really well written, made me laugh a lot and really think
about my yoga and where I want to go with it.
Thanks for the opportunity to read it before its release.