First There is A Mountain by Elizabeth Kadetsky

First There is A Mountain by Elizabeth Kadetsky

First There Is A Mountain is a tale of spiritual longing that brought a young American woman to the yoga institute of the renowned B.K.S. lyengar, the man who introduced yoga to a Western audience. Once there, She became a wayward protegee of this mercurial and demanding teacher, piecing together his life's vision of the ancient Hindu practice and finding her place within yoga as a Western aspirant. In the damp, musty practice rooms as the institute, her exhausted body hanging from ropes or propped up by wooden blocks, she found a spiritual discipline unlike any other. Under lyengar's tutelage Kadetsky learns the "subtle wisdom" of the body, leaving behind a discordant childhood and starvation diets to discover a kind of peace.

The short story collection THE POISON THAT PURIFIES YOU (C&R Press, 2014), the memoir First There Is a Mountain (Little Brown), and the novella On the Island at the Core of the Earth (Nouvella Books) are among Elizabeth Kadetsky's works. Her personal essays have appeared in The New York Times, Guernica, Santa Monica Review, Antioch Review, Post Road, Agni, and other publications, including a Pushcart Award, Best New American Voices, and two Best American Short Stories notable mentions. She has been to Guatemala as a writer for the Village Voice reporting the underground adoption trade, to Southern Mexico for The Nation covering the Chiapas war, and to Malta as a creative writing fellow at the St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Camargo Foundation as a fellow in the arts, and the Fulbright Foundation in India. She is a fiction and nonfiction assistant professor at Penn State University.

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ISBN 13	9780316890960
ISBN 10	0316890960
Title	First There is A Mountain
Author	Elizabeth Kadetsky
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Little, Brown & Company
Year published	2004-01-02
Number of pages	288
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