Jewels of the Forest: A Memoir

The forest is a metaphor for the third phase of life in ancient yoga tradition. As one who has practiced yoga for decades, Bonnie Raber Wickes chose this metaphor for her personal memoir, generally capturing her years from the age of fifty to seventy-five. At the beginning of her time as a forest dweller, she travelled to India to see the Dalai Lama at a millennium celebration in the Himalayas. In the years that followed, each of her parents passed away, a marker for many in this third phas...