Elizabeth Gowing isn’t a likely yogini. She is too fond of wedding cake and To-do lists, and occasionally falls over on her mat.

But yoga exercise has taken her on journeys both inside and away and today she follows yoga exercises around Britain – from your village hall where a quivering triangle present was interrupted with the council recycling collection to a audio gong shower in the country’s noisiest city, from Cornwall to Scotland. She discovers prisoners getting solace in child’s pose; children finding appearance in dancer about Improbable Positions in Improbable Areas: A Yoga Trip Around Britain present, and dancers sitting bendily in cobbler’s cause. Her feet begin to harm and she realizes that yoga exercises is a present-day of shared encounter that runs quietly through British society, through Middle England to the country’s extremes from Newcastle to Nottingham, East Anglia to Western world Kilbride, she untangles the Ashtanga in the Kundalini, the Sanskrit from the whimsical new-age, and finds the techniques yoga can be rebuilding areas and lives – and her very own wobbling body. Occasionally funny, sometimes coming in contact with, Gowing evokes the individuals and communities she matches along a remarkable journey in a special event of ancient knowledge solving modern-day problems and the exultation of finally learning the Crow.