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Yoga Radicals

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Each interview in this book gives a refreshing look at yoga and the surrounding community. Personally, I enjoyed reading about how they found and joined the yoga community which shows the different backgrounds of each interviewee. Highly recommend

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I have finished reading the Yoga Radicals book. I love the book's design, and it is great to read many interviews in the book. It is good to know the experiences of each yoga teacher or professionals.

However, the context page seems to have a foreign language for each person, but I did not understand what it meant. The reader's guide page contains too much jargon and does not feel engaged with the readers. The language should be talking focused to the readers with simple plain English. The interview for each yoga person in each chapter does not contain the author's questions, demonstrating the yoga professionals' answers to look natural.

Overall, I think it is a great book that every person should have on their shelves.

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Yoga Radicals is a seminal work. It avoids the over-answered question of "Can yoga help me?' for the more important question "Can yoga help me serve?" The answer, of course, is yes. Yoga Radicals shows story after story of how a personal yoga practice leads individuals into broader care and connection. Yoga Radicals shines a light on how yoga - the practice of self awareness and self management - becomes a practice of creation for community and planetary wellbeing. Yoga Radicals is a preliminary step in the re-visioning of activism. We will bring about the world we want to live in not by fighting each other, but by becoming more fully who we are. I look forward to all that grows from here.

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I cannot recommend this book enough for yoga therapists, yogis, embodiment professionals, teachers, creatives and coaches. It is rare that I read a book where I see myself in the story, and in Yoga Radicals I saw myself in many of the stories shared. I laughed. I cried. I sat in contemplation of yoga radical stories that instantly felt like home and others that seemed just outside of my grasp, yet moved me to the depths of my being nonetheless. I pondered the many yogis of the future who will be as inspired by this book as I am, to reach farther from the "me" into the "we" by working for the collective good. To express the leadership potential that lives within all of us, working for a better world by beginning with "me."

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I struggled with this. It basically felt like a sales pitch for each yoga practitioner. Although some of their stories were interesting this book was personally a chore for me to get through and not quite what I expected.

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