Calling All Book Lovers… Introducing The CSY Book Club
Every Spring the CSY Community pulls together and enjoys a book donation/exchange for a couple of weeks at the studio. All of the used books collected are donated to the Oakville Literacy Council for their annual Used Book sale. Each year we are overwhelmed with donations and the enthusiasm for books in our yoga community. There are a lot of keen readers among our yoga students!
This gave us the idea of a CSY Book Club.
We are always looking at ways to create deeper layers of community at CSY. We hope that the book club will welcome new people into our community and also serve as a meeting place for our students who practice at CSY but attend different classes on different days. This club will be open to the students in our CSY community and we will also welcome their friends. No yoga experience is necessary!
We plan to have one Book Club meeting in the Winter and one in the Spring term, both hosted by one of our teachers, Cheryl Smith.
Staying true to the community, the book club will collect no fees but will gladly accept donations at each meeting for the local or global charity paired with the book selection. Minimum donations of $20 or "donate what you can" are suggested and accepted with gratitude.
The meetings will be informal; so please bring a mug and some baked goods if you wish to enjoy and share. We will supply warm tea and a place to gather.
We have put together a "short list" of 5 groups of pairs of books. Everyone will have the option to read one or both of the books selected for the upcoming meeting (Monday, February 24th). We ask that you have read at least one of the books in its entirety if you wish to attend the meeting.
Below is the list of 10 interesting books, organized into related pairs. Which books would you like to read? (If you have other book suggestions for the spring term, we’d also like to hear about those too).
Winter 2014 Book Selections
Choice #1:
And the Mountains Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini
Orphan Train, by Christina Baker Kline
Donations will support: Covenant House (Toronto)
Choice #2:
Poser, My Life in 23 Yoga Poses, by Claire Dederer
Hellbent, Obsession, Pain, and the Search for something like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga, by Benjamin Lorr
Donations will support: Off the Mat And Into The World
Choice #3:
Not Quite Nirvana, A Skeptic’s Journey to Mindfulness, by Rachel Neumann
Learning to Breathe: My Year Long Quest to Bring Calm to My Life, by Priscilla Warner
Donations will support: Healthy Minds Canada
Choice #4:
Small Wonders, by Barbara Kingsolver
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, A Year of Food Life, by Barbara Kingsolver
Donations to support: Food For Life (Halton)
Choice #5:
Lean In, Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, by Sheryl Sandberg
Daring Greatly, How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live , Love, Parent, and Lead, by Brene Brown
Donations will go to support: Because I am a Girl
Email robyn@creatingspaceyoga.ca or comment below, to vote for the book/charity pairings of your choice.
We will be accepting votes until Friday, November 29th. We will announce the book/charity choice on Monday, December 2nd!
The first CSY Book Club Gathering will be on Monday, February 24, 2014. We will meet from 7:30pm - 9:00pm. RSVP if you wish to attend.
