Yoga Bitch: One Woman's Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment
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When Suzanne Morrison decides to travel to Bali for a two-month yoga retreat, she wants nothing more than to be transformed from a twenty-five-year-old with a crippling fear of death into her enchanting yoga teacher, Indra—a woman who seems to have found it all: love, self, and God.
But things don’t go quite as expected. Once in Bali, she finds that her beloved yoga teacher and all of her yogamates wake up every morning to drink a large, steaming mug . . . of their own urine. Sugar is a mortal sin. Spirits inhabit kitchen appliances. And the more she tries to find her higher self, the more she faces her cynical, egomaniacal, cigarette-, wine-, and chocolate-craving lower self.
Yoga Bitch chronicles Suzanne’s hilarious adventures and misadventures as an aspiring yogi who might be just a bit too skeptical to drink the Kool-Aid. But along the way she discovers that no spiritual effort is wasted; even if her yoga retreat doesn’t turn her into the gorgeously calm, wise believer she hopes it will, it does plant seeds that continue to blossom in surprising ways over the next decade of her life.
Suzanne Morrison
Suzanne Morrison was brought up in the town of Ballymena, Northern Ireland, then moved to England in 1997 to read Natural Sciences at Cambridge University. After Cambridge, she moved, via a year in advertising, into the world of finance – she worked in the City for almost six years, first at Enron, then at a small trading house and latterly as a derivatives trader at Goldman Sachs. In 2007, wanting a change of pace, and to pursue her lifetime passion for fitness, she set up her own Personal Training business, FlameFitness. Her career change gave her the opportunity to produce MUTATION and the forthcoming novel DREAMT. Following in the footsteps of both her father and grandfather, Suzanne has always been an avid fan of both spy and crime thrillers. Mutation was inspired by the idea of how small changes and seemingly simple decisions can lead to huge change both in our character and in our circumstances. In addition, Suzanne studied viruses extensively as part of her degree and, like Amanda, is both awestruck and terrified by their diversity, durability and their ability to devastate. Suzanne’s next novel, DREAMT, will be coming out in 2013.
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Reviews for Yoga Bitch
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was better than I expected based on the cover and title. At times it's really funny, but there are sections that are thought provoking enough that they still come to mind often a few months later. It's a standout above most of the Life as Experiment memoir genre.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Some deep questions are posed (no pun intended), such as does God exist? What will death be like? How do I know when I have found the right partner in life? What are my goals for this life? Suzanne tries to answer all of these questions as a 25-year old by going on a 2-month yoga retreat to Bali just before she makes a big move from Seattle to New York City with her boyfriend, Jonah. "Whatever," as her "yoga mates" might say. As you can probably guess, things don't go quite the way she anticipates. Guru/god/yoga instructors turn into human beings with flaws and ego. The commercialization of yoga becomes an obstacle to trust and the desire for a milkshake is overwhelming. The book was humorous and entertaining while portraying what it's like when you try to find all the answers in yoga. I just think it went on a bit too long in the middle in order to really drive home the main points as thoroughly as possible.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Would have given it 3 stars but for the ending. Seriously?
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5This was 352 pages of whining with an occasional insight or funny quip thrown in. Another whining 30 something looking to fulfill the "hole in her heart". Atheism - too much / Christianity - too much / Yoga - not enough cigarettes and chocolate. Too many pages of a spiritual quest spent deciding whether or not to buy a pistachio green Prada handbag. She had a ridiculous crush her guru, only to completely turn on her in the end. God or the absence of God and people can't please this woman. She should stick to cigarettes and call it a day.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Suzanne is attempting enlightenment - so much so that she is traveling to Bali to become a yoga instructor and be at peace with the world. Her memoir takes you through the really funky (in my opinion) things that people do to achieve this. From drinking pee (no, I am not kidding) to discussing other bodily functions in full detail (again, seriously)...I was dying with laughter.
However, the book lost it's humor and zest about halfway through for me. It became more introspective, which may have been cathartic for the author, but given that I'm not a yoga-ish person, it didn't hit a chord with me. I WISH I were - it seems very cool, but I'm too bouncy. Could never focus for that long (although, neither does Suzanne for that matter)...
An enjoyable, short read - especially for those who have taken at least a few yoga classes that will get even more of the humorous aspect.