![]() ![]() But Dederer redeems herself and her vision throughout "Poser" because she never takes herself entirely too seriously. For my part, I feared another headache-inducing twist of chick lit, a self-absorbed yarn with the woe of the well-off middle-class American female who turns to the incensed magic of Indian spirituality. At first blush, "Poser" might put off the reader who misjudges the book as self-help. The Gray Lady wondered: "Who owns yoga?" Does the millennia-old regimen of mind and body belong to its root belief system, Hinduism? Or to master practitioners, who deliver the ancient tradition to self-selected adepts? Or does it belong to anyone curious to salute the sun? In her way, Seattle writer Claire Dederer presaged that exploration of the heritage and future of yoga with "Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses," a deeply personal, often hilarious memoir of her practice of yoga, and yoga's transformation of her heart. Not to long ago, The New York Times dished the details of a quarrel that has recently ignited over the placid, centered, opened-chakra plains of yoga. ![]()
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