This is a book about yoga.
Loving, humorous, harrowing, and profound, Yoga hurls us toward the outer edges of consciousness, where, finally, we can see things as they really are..
It is laced with doubt and animated by the dangerous interplay of fiction and reality.
This is a book about one man’s desire to get better, and to be better.
And still, he continues to live.
The story he has told about himself falls away.
He wavers between opposites―self-destruction and self-control, sanity and madness, elation and despair.
His marriage begins to unravel, as does his entanglement with another woman.
His work in progress falters.
His city is in turmoil.
Life is derailed.
Forced to leave the retreat early, he returns to a Paris in crisis.
Four days later, there’s a tap on the something has happened.
But he’s also gathering material for his next book, which he thinks will be a pleasant, useful introduction to yoga.
In this state of heightened awareness, he sets out for a ten-day silent retreat in the French heartland, leaving his phone, his books, and his daily life behind.
He practices meditation, striving to observe the world without evaluating it.
After decades of emotional upheaval, he has begun to live successfully―he is healthy; he works; he loves.
Emmanuel Carrère is a renowned writer.
Or at least it was.
This is a book about yoga
