The Yoga Teacher

Alexandra Gray

eBook - 2008

This novel of a British woman's decision to ditch her job and devote herself to yoga is "drolly funny...a winning depiction of a modern spiritual quest" (Kirkus Reviews).Grace is a pharmaceutical rep, making good money visiting doctors to pitch her company's latantidepressant, a job that's been getting sort of...depressing. So is her long-term relationship, which has been slowly fizzling out. The one thing that makes her feel better, that allows her to transcend her unsatisfying life, is yoga class.Then, inspired by a conversation with Dr. James, a physician interested in Eastern medicine, Grace decides to pursue a new path as a yoga teacher. After a trip to California to study at the White Lotus Foundation, she ret...urns to London to start her new life. But teacher training did not prepare her for the motley crew of students she encounters—the octogenarian industrialist desperate for distraction; the supermodel who indulges yogic aspirations when she tires... more