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Holiday Book Gift Guide

books_225_01.jpgBefore you buy another mug or pair of salad tongs, remember it’s not too late for a meaningful gift that someone could actually use. The right book can inspire, teach, or just add a little humor. Here’s a few ideas:

For the kid in your life:
Watch Me Do Yoga (Rodmell Press) by Bobby Clennell . A delightful children’s book written and illustrated by this seasoned Iyengar Yoga teacher.

For someone who could use a good laugh:
Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses (Farrar, Straus,and Giroux) by Claire Dederer. The best kind of yoga memoir: witty and inspirational.

For that person at a crossroads:
Meditation for the Love of It: Enjoying Your Own Deepest Experience (Sounds True) by Sally Kempton. With a forward by Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert, this riveting book explores practical ways to love yourself.kempton cover.jpg

We want to know: What will you read over the holidays?

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New Movie Features "Creepy Yoga Guy"

Vince-vaughn.jpgWhen it comes to comedy movies, yoga is often portrayed as either a weird, New Age activity or a prime opportunity for wildly inappropriate sexual innuendo. Based on the press surrounding Couples Retreat, a movie about couples who go on a retreat to save their troubled marriages, I’m guessing it falls into the second category.

Vince Vaughn, who stars in the film, told Parade.com that the yoga class scene came from an experience he had in real life. “I had a girlfriend in L.A. who took me to a yoga
class,” he said. “While it was going on I was saying to myself, ‘Is this really happening?’ It was like the
instructor was making all these moves and he was basically dry humping the girls. Nobody batted an
eye. I felt like I was in The Twilight Zone. So we had our class in the movie with a
creepy yoga guy.”