Living the Yoga life

Supple strength: Christy Turlington
Metro Reporter5 April 2012
The Weekender

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Reading at times like a personal diary that winds an earnest pilgrimage through Christy Turlington's Catholic upbringing and search for her own spiritual path, this is a tribute to the supermodel's lifelong love affair with yoga.

A general overview of yoga's history and philosophy is interspersed with sumptuous pictures of Turlington in India, her limbs contorted into asanas.

Turlington's prose is like that of a self-conscious graduate student, veering occasionally into an endearing naivety about the horrors of the modern world.

Going to Afghanistan with Unicef, she made herself known as an American and 'looked for signs of contempt but saw nothing but acknowledgment'. Despite its shortcomings, this is a candid, charming tome and, like Turlington on the catwalk, lavishly presented.

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