{"product_id":"poems-before-and-after-yoga-lowell-uda-9781496078711","title":"Poems Before and After Yoga","description":"The poems arranged before the yoga poems are about staying in touch with language during a difficult period in my life. In these early poems I tried different voices in order to arrive at change in myself. In the end I learned that all I'd done was to hide from myself and others, even those closest to me, because of a fear of commitment. The self-irony I used, while revealing some truth about myself, became a self-protective shield that not only thwarted my attempts at self-recognition but also denied my deepest desire for wholeness. While practicing Yoga, I learned that the stretching exercises I did not only disciplined my body, mind and spirit, but also challenged my imagination to apprehend points of view far different than mine. I began to wonder what it was really like to stand like a stork, or drink like a cat in the wild, or be a fish looking up out of water, or rise like a cobra. My imaginings led me far into the past, my own and the world's, and taught me to experience compassion in a new way and to accept and fully appreciate the ordinary events of my life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lowell Uda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496078713\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496078711\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/02\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 54\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.11d","brand":"Lowell Uda","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44652362137855,"sku":"9781496078711","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fc96d873-def9-4965-a6bf-23c552d6a907.jpg?v=1704215730","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/poems-before-and-after-yoga-lowell-uda-9781496078711","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}