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Yoga for Life: A Journey to Inner Peace and Freedom
Colleen Saidman Yee, Susan K. Reed
3.98 AVERAGE
8 reviews for:
Yoga for Life: A Journey to Inner Peace and Freedom
Colleen Saidman Yee, Susan K. Reed
3.98 AVERAGE
Not sure what I was expecting. Parts of the memoir were engaging but I find that I cannot learn and remember yoga practices from books. I think these practices would be best presented in a video format. I think most people could identify with all of the emotional sections / chapters so the practices could be followed that way.
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. It is not what I expected - it is half yoga instruction and half memoir. All of it is open and raw and very well written.
emotional
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
I read this book while I was doing my 200 YTT with Colleen and Rodney. It's a wonderful book and I was as happy with the storytelling as I was with the sequences provided at the end of each chapter. I especially enjoyed the information provided to help people cope with trauma as well as the understanding that we truly are enough. The world is a hot mess right now and I have found yoga to be an amazing way to manage stress and connect with myself and others. Great book written by a lovely human!
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Yoga for Life: A Journey to Inner Peace and Freedom is one part autobiography and one part yoga instruction. Colleen Saidman Yee discusses her journey from Midwestern girl to drug abuser to model to yogi with complete candor and rawness.
Yoga for Life: A Journey to Inner Peace and Freedom is one part autobiography and one part yoga instruction. Colleen Saidman Yee discusses her journey from Midwestern girl to drug abuser to model to yogi with complete candor and rawness.
Nice set up...a short story from her life - and how she's peeling back the layers - coupled with a yogic teaching followed by a written outline, with photos, of a yoga practice linked to the teaching point or story.
Excellent photos, would be great to have links to videos of the routines
Perhaps too much celebrity covering "the gem in the heart of the lotus." Ego in ink with some humility about certain weaknesses Stubborn, controlling...Honesty, but how deep?
Typical, rigid, anti-science, alternative bs. Natural childbirth for ME (no matter the child). Yes to heroin, ecstatic yoga, juice cleanses, spirit guides, Marianne Williamson, no to anti-seizure medications, epidurals, sensible diets
Big yoga studio success. I was 40, not 37.
Excellent photos, would be great to have links to videos of the routines
Perhaps too much celebrity covering "the gem in the heart of the lotus." Ego in ink with some humility about certain weaknesses Stubborn, controlling...Honesty, but how deep?
Typical, rigid, anti-science, alternative bs. Natural childbirth for ME (no matter the child). Yes to heroin, ecstatic yoga, juice cleanses, spirit guides, Marianne Williamson, no to anti-seizure medications, epidurals, sensible diets
Big yoga studio success. I was 40, not 37.
I had a difficult time with this book. I started out really liking it. I was doing that fast nod thing at different parts, and I kept highlighting different pieces. There were two things, however, that shifted my view on it a little. This follows Colleen Saidman Yee’s life from childhood until now, and discusses not only her journey with yoga, but her journey with life. A lot of the really early stuff, before Saidman Yee discovered yoga, was very captivating. She had a lot of excellent points to make, and her discussion on living as a woman was excellent.
However, pretty much as soon as she discovered yoga, it became “this teacher said this” and “this practitioner said that”, and I felt like there were no longer any original opinions. I felt like I was being force fed beliefs from other people and that Saidman Yee had no real opinion on these matters other than they were right and that’s what we should believe. Her voice was very lacking toward the end of this, and I was discouraged by that. I also wasn’t into the yoga sequences. It’s always difficult to include yoga sequences in a book because, generally, the transitions aren’t included, and that’s what made it hard to enjoy this time. If I was a total beginner, I would just link the poses together and come out on the other side feeling totally confused and uneven.
Overall, a good read, but also a reminder why I’ve kind of stopped reading yoga books.
However, pretty much as soon as she discovered yoga, it became “this teacher said this” and “this practitioner said that”, and I felt like there were no longer any original opinions. I felt like I was being force fed beliefs from other people and that Saidman Yee had no real opinion on these matters other than they were right and that’s what we should believe. Her voice was very lacking toward the end of this, and I was discouraged by that. I also wasn’t into the yoga sequences. It’s always difficult to include yoga sequences in a book because, generally, the transitions aren’t included, and that’s what made it hard to enjoy this time. If I was a total beginner, I would just link the poses together and come out on the other side feeling totally confused and uneven.
Overall, a good read, but also a reminder why I’ve kind of stopped reading yoga books.
How should I classify this book? Yoga manual? Memoir? I’d expected a yoga manual, and it does have that aspect, but it is also very much a memoir. It works, nevertheless. I found the memoir fit perfectly into the why of yoga and the yoga manual fit perfectly into the memoir.