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a yoga bad boy, a bong-hitting carnivore with a taste for laughte. highly entertaining guide as he investigates the good, bad and ugly of the yoga spectru. oth sincere and subversive, Pollack will likely inspire more than one reader to commit to yoga. Ultimately, Pollack lampoons himself more than the culture, and this is perhaps the most compelling evidence of Pollack’s conversion: his inability to be snarky about yoga. San Francisco Chronicle).

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Neal Pollack is raising funds for Stretch: The Unlikely Making Of A Yoga Dude on Kickstarter! I've written a comic memoir about my adventures in American yoga culture. It comes out in August 2010. And now I want to train to be a yoga teacher. depending on availability), plus the entire Neal Pollack back catalog (minus Alternadad), and bonus books from the Harper Perennial library.

From Neal Pollack, acclaimed author of Alternadad and The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, comes Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude. There are hardly any chuckles here, and even few smiles, given the subject and its potential (whether you practice yoga or not, there IS something funny about contorting yourself into odd shapes in a warm, dark room with a bunch of strangers).

The author tells how he went from mocking yoga to becoming one of its most enthusiastic proponents. We’re dedicated to reader privacy so we never track you. We never accept ads.

In his comic memoir Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude, Neal Pollack combats his midlife crisis by setting out on a downward-dog-filled quest for meaning

In his comic memoir Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude, Neal Pollack combats his midlife crisis by setting out on a downward-dog-filled quest for meaning. Today, join him as he discusses contemporary yoga practices with author Stefanie Syman (The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America) and Mark Singleton (Yoga Body: The Origins of the Modern Practice). Posted: Thursday March 15 2012.

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17 people like this topic. Early one Monday afternoon in the fall of 2009, I balanced on my right foot in a yoga studio in the San Fernando Valley. I leaned my body forward, just barely touching down my right fingertips, opened my body toward the west wall, and lifted my other arm and leg to the sky.

Stretch: The Unlikely Making Of A Yoga Dude, a chronicle of Pollack's adventures in American yoga culture, appeared in.Forbes Magazine said of Jewball, "Pollack's book reflects the acumen of an accomplished storyteller.

Wrote Ann Pizer in About. com: "Those yogis who are not naturally athletic, were never a member of professional dance troupe, and were not raised in a yurt, in other words, ordinary yogis, have found our spokesmodel. From Neal Pollack, acclaimed author of Alternadad and The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, comes Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude.