Revolution of the Soul: Awaken to Love Through Raw Truth, Radical Healing, and Conscious Action

Yoga instructor Corn’s spirited debut blends yoga practices and personal stories to help readers look beyond their “limited perceptions” in order to “get to the truth of your soul.” She begins with an affecting story of living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the 1980s. There, she worked at a gay bar and met Billy, a recovering addict and AIDS patient, who helped her reconsider her spirituality. Corn unflinchingly reveals her own traumas (including sexual abuse as a child) and recurring depression that led her to yoga. Through humor and a brutally forthright narrative, Corn dives deep into her experiences practicing yoga sutras and understanding yoga’s “layers” of the body, making complex topics clear with many highlighted boxes of definitions broken out from the normal narrative. In the book’s second half, she shares personal experiences of white privilege, racism, and the “shadow self” (one’s true self, deeper than the ego), and urges readers to use any self-assuredness gained from yoga for a greater good. Peppered with gems of wisdom and Corn’s generosity, this hopeful book will appeal to yoga practitioners, as well as readers looking for stories of connection. (Sept.)