![]() It opens the hips and lengthens the spine. Poser: My Life in 23 Yoga Posesby Claire Dederer (December, 2010: Farrar, Straus, Giroux)Praise for Poser:'Thank goodness, then for Claire. The term can also be used to diss a yoga poser on the sly. Easy Pose is among the simplest meditative postures and it is suitable for all beginners and advanced level practitioners. An individual who likes to appear as though they are whole in health. But Dederer, a seasoned freelance writer, has managed to present them in such a way that they can’t be “dismissed as trivial.” At times, her journalist’s need to provide evidence takes over, resulting in short treatises on feminism or the history of yoga that “seem hijacked from a scholarly essay.” But such passages, though out of place, are incapable of ruining this “powerful, honest, ruefully funny memoir.” Poser is a “lovely book”-every bit as cathartic as a 90-minute yoga class and far more fun to boot. It is a beginner level crossed-leg, sitting and restorative asana, that enhances your sitting posture and alignment of the body from head to toe. If your knees feel achy, support them with blankets or blocks. Topics like bills, breast-feeding, laundry, baby-sitters, and, yes, yoga tend to get an essayist dismissed as a lightweight. To make Easy pose easy, try sitting up on a cushion, folded blankets, or even a yoga block. The author deserves a lot of credit for venturing into territory where most “serious female writers fear to tread,” said Dani Shapiro in The New York Times. Her narrative achieves “a yoga-like balance between pain and humor.” Candid descriptions of her anxieties about becoming an overbearing mom or a less-than-perfect wife can come rushing in as she sits in yoga class with one foot tucked ridiculously behind her head. Yet with pitch-perfect self-deprecation, she also never lets you forget that she herself is part of the joke. Take padding (a folded blanket works well) under the right side of your hip as necessary to make the pose more comfortable. Using your hands for support, bring yourself back up into a sitting position. Use your bottom arm as a pillow while you rest in a fetal position 7 for a few breaths. Bring your knees into your chest and roll over to one side, keeping your eyes closed. ![]() ![]() Square your hips towards the front of your mat. Stretch your arms overhead for a full body stretch from hands to feet. Take a look backward and make sure that your left foot is pointing straight back. She hilariously “skewers the pretensions of her fellow moms,” all of them committed to attachment parenting, progressive schooling, and buying organic. Your left leg should be flat on the floor. Yoga is the pretext, but Dederer makes it a lens for exploring the experiences of legions of “hip, progressive, trying-really-hard-to-do-it-right” mothers. Dederer’s memoir “is going to be big,” said Buzzy Jackson in The Boston Globe.
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