"Yoga books? I gave all mine away. "Ouch," I thought as I dropped them off at the school where I used to teach. Heavy yoga teacher-training binder? I scanned some of its pages. Then I tossed it. And I felt lighter. My yoga sequences-the faintly penciled stick figures on dog-eared pages in notebooks with torn edges? These are irreplaceable and un-scannable. But I threw those away, too."
"It wasn't until I caught sight of the empty shelves in my yoga room that I found myself close to panic without the couple dozen essential books I'd amassed over the years: Light on Yoga; Hatha Yoga Pradipika; Bhagavad Gita; The Heart of Yoga; Yoga Mind, Body, and Spirit; The Woman's Book of Yoga and Health; The Yoga of Breath; Accessible Yoga; Chakra Yoga; Teaching Trauma-Sensitive Yoga; The Stories Behind the Poses; Yoga Anatomy."
The teacher gave away about thirty pounds of yoga books and notes while preparing an international move from Taos to London, keeping only a single suitcase. The binder from teacher-training was scanned and tossed; faintly penciled sequences in dog-eared notebooks were also discarded despite being irreplaceable. The purge produced a sense of lightness followed by panic when empty shelves revealed the absence of essential references such as Light on Yoga, Yoga Anatomy, and the Bhagavad Gita. Many titles had supported teacher-training, class sequencing, anatomical questions, and pose meanings. Libraries, digital copies, and repurchasing offered practical alternatives.
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