She travels to the States to study during a 3 week intensive certification course at the renowned White Lotus center in California. The reader is immersed in yoga culture and treated to insights and observations on American culture as well. After Grace leaves the support network of her classmates we are treated to see how she is able to "live" her yoga and start her new career as freelance yoga instructor. We watch as each of her students ends up teaching her something new as she also discovers a kindred spirit in a altruistic young doctor.
I had been considering taking my own yoga practice to the next level and the descriptions in the book helped inspire me to take Yoga Teacher Training here in St. Louis - albeit the less intense 6 month version. Similar in theme to the Eat, Pray, Love genre of self-exploration the main character is much less self-obsessed and a lot more likable, with her focus on helping others help themselves.
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