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Poser : My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses by Claire Dederer is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Poser : My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses about?

The studio was decorated in the style of "Don't Be Afraid, We're Not a Cult." All was white and blond and clean, as though the room had been designed for surgery, or Swedish people. The only spot of color came from the Tibetan prayer flags strung over the doorway into the studio. In flagrant defiance of my longtime policy of never entering a structure adorned with Tibetan prayer flags, I removed my shoes, paid my ten bucks, and walked in . . . Ten years ago, Claire Dederer threw her back out breastfeeding her baby daughter. Told to try yoga by everyone from the woman behind the counter at the co-op to the homeless guy on the corner, she signed up for her first class. She fell madly in love. Over the next decade, she would tackle triangle, wheel, and the dreaded crow, becoming fast friends with some poses and developing long-standing feuds with others. At the same time, she found herself confronting the forces that shaped her generation. Daughters of women who ran away to find themselves and made a few messes along the way, Dederer and her peers grew up determined to be good, good, good—even if this meant feeling hemmed in by the smugness of their organic-buying, attachment-parentin

Who reads Poser : My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Claire Dederer
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published
2010
Language
EN
ISBN
9780374236441
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Fiction, Memoir, Biography
Rating
3.53 / 5 (4,449 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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