{"product_id":"yoga","title":"Yoga","description":"\u003cb\u003eA powerful reckoning with mental illness and a search for truth and healing through the discipline of yoga, from one of the world's greatest living writers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is a book about yoga. Or at least, it was.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eJanuary 2015. High on literary success and familial bliss, Emmanuel Carr re embarks on a rigorous ten-day meditative retreat in rural France in search of clarity and material for his next book, which he thinks will be a subtle, upbeat introduction to yoga. But his trip is cut short, and he is brought down to earth with a thud as he returns to a Paris in turmoil in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFrom then on, Carr re's life begins to unravel, along with his novel-in-progress. He is diagnosed with Bipolar II Disorder and is sectioned to a psychiatric hospital for a four-month stint, where he is subject to electroshock therapy. His marriage crumbles, he is struck by grief at the death of a close friend and is haunted by a love affair with a mysterious woman who disappeared from his life. Pushed to the edge of sanity and forced to reckon with his identity as a man and a writer, Carr re sets out on a life of action instead of meditation. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis is a book that embraces the Yin and Yang of life: the pull between life and death, desire and despair, presence and absence, fight and flight. It is a book about a world and a man in tumult, and about how surprisingly far practising meditation - and writing about it - can take us in life. With raw honesty and humour, YOGA gives us the self-portrait of a man struggling to live with himself and others, by one of our greatest and most surprising international writers.","brand":"Emmanuel Carrère","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516632891453,"sku":null,"price":37.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781787333215.jpg?v=1787565066","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/yoga","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}