Title: Mama Sutra
Description: A heartfelt memoir of motherhood as a spiritual practice by a longtime yoga and dharma teacher. Sutra is the Sanskrit name for a short spiritual teaching, and it comes from the same root as the English word suture, or stitch. This story of motherhood as a path to awakening is, says yoga and meditation teacher Anne Cushman,  ́an homage to the long threads that run through all human lives, stitching up what&#x2019;s shredded in our hearts. ́ The Mama Sutra spans an eighteen-year journey through motherhood as a spiritual practice, chronicling Cushman&#x2019;s first pregnancy, her daughter's tragic stillbirth, the joyful birth of her son, the  ́home retreat ́ of early motherhood, the challenges of parenthood, the diagnosis and gifts of her son&#x2019;s developmental differences, the meltdown of her nuclear family and its reconfiguration into a new and joyful form, and more. This is a powerful story of the rawness and beauty of life.
Subjects: Motherhood, Loss (psychology), Buddhism, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement