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Meryl Davids Landau

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Award-winning writer Meryl Davids Landau is the author of three mindfulness/yoga women's novels, including the latest, Yoga Bind.

Booklife/Publishers Weekly says of Yoga Bind that "Landau makes this study on wading through emotions instead of bypassing them for convenience a breezy enjoyment."

Meryl's prior novel, Warrior Won, was a bronze medal winner in the prestigious Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards, and a gold medalist in the Living Now Book Awards. And Downward Dog, Upward Fog was named a fiction-book-of-the-year finalist by Foreword Reviews.

All of these mindfulness/yoga fiction beach reads can be read on their own.

Meryl is also an award-winning health and science journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Washin
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Meryl Davids Landau Thanks so much for letting me know about your book. While it does sound like a terrific topic, business books are not in my wheelhouse. Best of luck w…moreThanks so much for letting me know about your book. While it does sound like a terrific topic, business books are not in my wheelhouse. Best of luck with it!(less)
Meryl Davids Landau Hello Emilly:

My apologies for answering this question so long after you asked it. I never got an email notification from Goodreads.

To me, yoga wisdom …more
Hello Emilly:

My apologies for answering this question so long after you asked it. I never got an email notification from Goodreads.

To me, yoga wisdom is not about the yoga poses, although they can help facilitate wisdom. It is the philosophy the ancient yogis figured out, which is that becoming mindful of the moment you are in is the best way to experience life. Doing yoga poses in a way that keeps your attention inside your body--on where you're stretching, how your feet are pressing into the floor--and the like is one way to facilitate that, as is sitting or walking meditation. But it's really about bringing that mindset into your everyday life.

This can be challenging. And this challenge is the theme of my newest novel Warrior Won, which comes out mid-May. It's also the theme of my prior novel Downward Dog, Upward Fog; both novels feature the same woman, Lorna, trying to keep her inner peace despite difficult things going on in her life. Look for giveaways of the novel on Goodreads next month.

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Downward Dog, Upward Fog

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“There's something about yoga that makes it a spiritual experience, I'm realizing. It's opening me beyond myself. A good class seems like a dose of LSD--without the worry you'll find yourself jumping off a roof into a swimming pool.”
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Meryl Landau Ananda wrote: "Hey Meryl, thanks for the invite. Looking forward to chatting books with you and I sure hope I will read your book soon. And I see Eckhart Tolle as one of your fav authors..Great! He is one of my f..."

Tolle's work also plays a big role in my novel. Between that and the yoga, you are definitely destined to read it.

Looking forward to chatting with you about books. I especially love how Goodreads connects people across the world!


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Ana Hey Meryl, thanks for the invite. Looking forward to chatting books with you and I sure hope I will read your book soon. And I see Eckhart Tolle as one of your fav authors..Great! He is one of my fav too:)
Hope you're having a great day/evening..
Wishing you lots of success in your writing :)


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