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Elizabeth Gowing is not a likely yogini. She is too fond of chocolate and To-do lists, and sometimes falls over on her mat.
But yoga has taken her on journeys both inside and out and now she follows yoga around Britain - from the village hall where a quivering triangle pose was interrupted by the council recycling collection to a sound gong bath in the country´s noisiest city, from Cornwall to Scotland. She discovers prisoners finding solace in child´s pose; children finding expression in dancer pose, and dancers sitting bendily in cobbler´s pose. Her feet start to hurt and she realizes that yoga is a current of shared experience that runs quietly through British society, through Middle England to the nation´s extremes. In schools and hospitals, from Newcastle to Nottingham, Wales to West Kilbride, she untangles the Ashtanga from the Kundalini, the Sanskrit from the whimsical new-age, and finds the ways that yoga is rebuilding communities and lives - and her own wobbling body.
Sometimes funny, sometimes touching, Gowing evokes the characters and communities she meets along a fascinating journey in a celebration of ancient wisdom solving modern-day problems and the exultation of finally mastering the Crow.

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Unlikely Positions - Holiday reads and travel literature following unlikely yogini Elizabeth Gowing on her yoga journey around Britain, from stand-up paddleboard yoga and Kundalini to Iyengar, doga and Brahma Kumaris, Cornwall and London to Yorkshire and Scotland: a humorous, compassionate, insightful narrative ultimately about community.

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