ABOUT THE BOOK
Yiddish Yoga™; Ruthie’s Adventures in Love, Loss and the Lotus Position
For this you got a Ph.D.? To stand on your head?
A poignant and funny tale written in the voice of Ruthie, a recently widowed New York City Jewish grandmother, who accepts her granddaughter’s gift of a year’s worth of yoga lessons with surprising results.
This small-format gift hardcover features Art Glazer original illustrations and glossaries of Yiddish and yoga terms.
A Jewish Bubby like Ruthie doesn’t necessarily come to yoga with the most open of minds. But when her granddaughter Stephanie gives Ruthie a year of yoga classes soon after she is widowed, she doesn’t want to risk offending her.
Ruthie is skeptical of yoga and its promise of renewal, healing and transformation. She can’t resist poking fun at some of the new words and rituals, often translating the foreign language of Yogic philosophy into the familiar idiom of her native Yiddish culture.
As her journey progresses from week to week, subtle transformations occur -- body, mind and spirit. In spite of herself, Ruthie forges new paths, new postures, and unexpected friendships, slowly overcoming her grief.
Yiddish Yoga™ is a poignant, witty and human story of love in its many expressions -- between granddaughter and grandmother, between an older woman and her younger yoga teacher, between a widow and her husband of fifty years.
Ruthie braids the ancient Yogic tradition with her Jewish heritage. As Ruthie learns to let go of the past without forgetting she shows us how to embrace the present with new vigor, strength and courage. Above all, Ruthie makes us laugh.
Yiddish Yoga™ may be a new genre: a hip grandmother’s Bildungsroman, complete with watermelon martinis, Fierce Warrior Bubby, estranged sisters, broken hips, and healed hearts.
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Available Now for Pre-Order At:
Newmarket Press
Hardcover $15.00, October 2009, ISBN: 978-1-55704-835-6
112 Pages, 5" x 7", 15 Illustrations
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