THE BOOK
Luiz Fernando Brandão, once a young and earnest yoga student from the beachside of Rio de Janeiro, shares his compelling memoir of setting off to India in the 1970s to advance his studies.
Now a journalist, translator, and writer, he recalls crossing the ocean at age 23 towards the Middle East aboard a refrigerated freighter. His mission was to graduate from the world’s oldest-known organized center of Classical Yoga training, located in Mumbai, India, where he lived for six months.
The story also relates some picturesque — and at times almost fateful events — that marked the author’s overland passage from India to Europe and the brief time he spent there.
Drawing on a detailed travel diary, scribblings on a notepad, a photo album, and impressions engraved in his mind and heart, this coming-of-age story will be of interest to anyone who wants to learn more about yoga or escape the rigors of everyday life.
THE BOOK
Luiz Fernando Brandão, once a young and earnest yoga student from the beachside of Rio de Janeiro, shares his compelling memoir of setting off to India in the 1970s to advance his studies.
Now a journalist, translator, and writer, he recalls crossing the ocean at age 23 towards the Middle East aboard a refrigerated freighter. His mission was to graduate from the world’s oldest-known organized center of Classical Yoga training, located in Mumbai, India, where he lived for six months.
The story also relates some picturesque — and at times almost fateful events — that marked the author’s overland passage from India to Europe and the brief time he spent there.
Drawing on a detailed travel diary, scribblings on a notepad, a photo album, and impressions engraved in his mind and heart, this coming-of-age story will be of interest to anyone who wants to learn more about yoga or escape the rigors of everyday life.