April 2007 | Art & Soul
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Picks from Conscious Enlightenment Publishing
Peter Sterios
Gravity and Grace
Yoga DVD
One of the things about former Yoga Journal contributing editor Peter Sterios is that he seems ageless for someone who’s been studying Hatha yoga for 30 years — is his practice the path to the fountain of youth? Well, one thing for certain is that the sky-high production values on this Hollywood-made five-part DVD casts an intense examining eye on yoga’s inner workings, reflected in the face and musculature of this master based in Santa Monica. Epic in the smallest possible way, this 186-minute DVD is inspiring, poetic and effective as a workout. $24.95. Visit yogamates.com/catalog
Eat Pray Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
By Elizabeth Gilbert
Memoir
With a lot of travel writing, people and cultures are made into the exotic, but bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert not only avoids idealizing her adventures, she has an unpretentious way to go about the travel narrative; analyzing herself and her individuality in the places that she travels to. This book is a striking description of all three destinations, where she writes more from the perspective of an insider because she does an immersion into the culture — staying at an ashram in India, going to language school in Italy, working with a medicine man in Indonesia. Gilbert is a vibrant, likable narrator and her voice is incredibly realistic and honest. It’s as if she were describing the events at a cocktail party. (Viking)
Keola Beamer
The Coming of the Snow
CD
Hawaiian slack key icon Keola Beamer takes his native instrument to a new, colder place on The Coming of the Snow. Making snow angels with such a tropical instrument on tracks like “Little Drummer Boy/Winter Aloha” and “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening,” and then further traveling from the islands to cover an Argentinean waltz and neo-classical compositions from the likes of Igor Stravinsky, this disc is mind expanding. In the nimble fingers of Beamer, it’s a novelty that works magically. Beamer says he only covered songs he felt would benefit from the ringing tone and glimmering timbre of the slack key guitar, and the result is an hour of unadorned music that gives new life to not only dusty, deserving, eclectic compositions, but the slack key guitar itself. (Dancing Cat)
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