The Head that Won't Stand: A Woman's Journey of Letting Go With Yoga

by Kavita Chandran

A bunch of smart, enterprising women from different corners of the globe.
What links them is a thirst for rediscovering themselves. What brings them together is a yoga shaala in Mysore run by a young, stringent and scrupulous guru.
The book unravels the endearing stories of transformation of the yoginis–in trying to get their heads around yoga and understanding its true worth as their past pains are restored, the present is embraced and the future no longer seems a blur. There is indeed a story on every mat!

200 pages, Paperback

Published September 15, 2018

Reviews

[Cherie · Rating 4 out of 5]

An Indian woman (who was living in America before this) finds yoga as a way to get a handle of her grief, stress, and anxiety, and ultimately heads to India to do a YTT in Mysore. You get to know about all of the women, what stress or trauma or situations they are handling in their lives that pushed them to go to India for a YTT, what changes they make after. It might sound a little cliche, but that's what a YTT program is really like for many. Lots of great memories of India.

[Prachi · Rating 5 out of 5]

It wasn’t just a book, it was an experience. By the end of the book it felt that I was also in Yoga India learning Yoga with Bharath, it made me want to learn Yoga.
I loved all the snippets and stories of the other women in the classes. The extreme detailing of yoga asanas was amazing.

[Dr Pia Tripathi · Rating 1 out of 5]

A very light weight book based on a promising premise.