The Tenth Door: An Adventure Through the Jungles of Enlightenment
''Yoga lovers...will enjoy Michele Hebert's new memoir,The Tenth Door. As a 20-something seeker in the '70's Hebert left her Ohio home and washed up on the countercultural shores of San Francisco, where she soon found her spiritual family at the Baptiste Health & Fitness Center--the first yoga inspired studio in the city, headed by Walt and Magana Baptiste. Walt (1917-2001), a champion bodybuilder and long time student of Eastern philosophy, was one of the early American proponents of yoga. (Their children--Sherri, Baron and Devi Ananda--are all yoga teachers today). Hebert worked at their natural foods restaurant and studied intensively with Walt. A few years later, he asked her to manage a spiritual retreat that he and Magana were developing in El Salvador, shortly before that country erupted in civil war. She spent the next four years largely in silence and solitude, learning from her guru. Hebert's memoir is a colorful eyewitness account of a transformational time in American history and an up-close look at a seminal figure in the history of yoga in the West.'' --Yoga Journal''Hebert carries us from San Francisco to El Salvador on a real-life spiritual adventure... Too often spiritual books are dry and preachy. This one you can't put down. Yet while you're being entertained, you're also learning something important about yourself and what it takes to live as an authentically spiritual being.'' --Common Ground Magazine''This memoir encompasses an intimate setting and reflects the larger social milieu, showing yoga's roots as it became mainstream. Hebert has crafted a genuine page turner filled with wisdom and insights for yoga fans as well as readers treading the mind-body-spirit path.'' --ForeWord Review''Michele Hebert's story fascinates me. She found the courage to do something very different than anything she could have imagined, yet she conveys a powerful sense that the path she is traveling was 'meant' and could not be denied.'' --Linda Wertheimer (National Public Radio)''I believe this book is going to make a lot of people enthusiastic about their spiritual practice-the ones who've given up on their hatha yoga exercises or meditation because it didn't seem to deliver results fact enough. Here we see for ourselves what serious commitment to regular practice can produce. Hebert makes rigorous spiritual practice not only challenging but incredibly exciting. That's no minor accomplishment.'' --About.com