Books
Barbarian Days Book Review + July Reading List
As promised – the Barbarian Days book review. I’ve finally finished Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan. I’d had my eye on the book for a while, and when it won a Pulitzer Prize for autobiography this spring, it suddenly made it’s way into my hands. Surfing. Chris calls it “the fever”. As in “he has the fever” – the only way to describe someone known to disappear at a surf buoy’s notice. In case you didn’t notice from the blog photos, Chris has the fever. Finnegan has lived with the fever and will take you, the willing reader, on that journey with him. William Finnegan’s prose makes surf culture…
The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up Book Review
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Organizing and Decluttering, by Marie Kondo, came highly recommended by so many friends and I have finally finished it! My boyfriend and I moved into a house together recently, and I started yoga teacher training almost immediately afterward. We unpacked all of the boxes right away, but it happened in such a rush that I still don’t know where many of my belongings are in the house. I have this dream of floating into this perfectly organized home, knowing where everything is, and just being creative in my space. I don’t know that life will ever actually be like that, but with Marie Kondo’s…
Big Magic Book Review
Big Magic is one of those books that sneaks up on you. Maybe, like me, you keep spying it out of the corner of your eye on Instagram, blogs, or reading lists. It makes its way on to your To Read list, but you don’t buy it right away. But the sheer volume of positive reviews escalate it from To Read to To Read Right Now. And then you are so glad that you did. The full title of the book is Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, and it is written by Elizabeth Gilbert. The very same Elizabeth Gilbert who wrote Eat, Pray Love, although this book is a different animal.…
Yoga Teacher Training Book Reviews
Yoga Teacher Training is well under way, and my book collection is steadily growing. I’m so excited to have finally started yoga teacher training. The majority of our training comes from the Joy Yoga University manual, but these books are my best friends for the five months of yoga teacher training. I have tons of other books on yoga to dig into and share, but these are the core books for me to really focus on for now. I respond well to learning from books. Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations & Techniques By Mark Stephens Teaching Yoga feels like the primary textbook for our yoga teacher training. There’s a chapter that…
Whole30 Book Review
The Whole30! Today I have officially completed the Whole30, and I actually wish that it weren’t over yet. I’m thinking about continuing this into a Whole60, and at the least integrating a paleo eating plan. I accomplished this with my yoga studio, Joy Yoga, which started a Whole30 clean eating challenge in March. It seemed like great timing to address my diet. I don’t eat too badly, but I do have a sweet tooth. And although I used to eat paleo, I had slowly given in to convenience over the past year or so. Joy had some great potlucks planned every Friday for participants to gather and share how their…