Unlikely Positions in Unlikely Places

. Established author with strong track record: this is her fifth travel book . Author appears regularly on Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent . National and local reviews and publicity expected; author talks scheduled around the country . Praise for Elizabeth Gowing's previous books: o 'The most delicious, delightful read of the summer' - The Times (on Edith and I) o 'Interesting and inspiring. lively and conversational' - Church Times (on The Rubbish-Picker's Wife) o 'With spirit and humour. this is unusual travel literature' - The Lady (on Edith and I) o 'A wonderful writer' - Matthew Parris

Unlikely Positions (in Unlikely Places) - 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 narrative ultimately about community.Elizabeth Gowing is not a likely yogini. She is too fond of cake 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 from Newcastle to Nottingham, East Anglia 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.