Why We Fight: One Man's Search for Meaning Inside the Ring

by Josh Rosenblatt

Overview

Before he was one of the most well-known yoga teachers in North America and an international hip hop artist, MC YOGI was a juvenile delinquent who was kicked out of three schools, sent to live at a group home for at-risk youth, arrested for vandalism, and caught up in a world of drugs,chaos and carelessness.

At eighteen, fate brought him to his first yoga class. After discovering yoga, MC YOGI devoted himself to the practice. From traveling to India to study with gurus to living and learning with many American yoga masters, MC YOGI soaked in the knowledge that would revolutionize his entire life and put him on the path to healing, wholeness, and peace.

Through technicolor stories of graffiti and guns, mystics and musicians, love, loss, and finding his soul's purpose, MC YOGI's journey is saturated in spiritual wisdom, illuminating the potential for transformation within us all.  

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062570017
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	05/21/2024
Sold by:	OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	206
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

MC YOGI is a world-renowned yoga teacher and musician. He has performed and taught yoga everywhere, from headlining festivals and nightclubs to performing in the Forbidden City in China and even at the White House. When not on the road, MC YOGI and his wife, Amanda, teach at their home studio, Point Reyes Yoga, in Northern California.

Editorial Reviews

Fascinating . . . a highly lucid, very personal meditation on selfhood.” — NPR Books

“Glistens with illuminations about courage and aging. The aim was self-transformation. Win or lose, it was mission accomplished.” — Wall Street Journal

“A story of perilous becoming.” — Los Angeles Times

“A book worth reading not only for those who enjoy MMA and other forms of professional fighting, but for those who are baffled as to why such a bloody sport would ever be appealing. . . . Rosenblatt’s observations about being a Jewish athlete are also quite timely.” — Salon

“Rosenblatt offers much food for thought in this intellectual memoir blending sports and self-transformation.” — Library Journal

“A very entertaining and informative chronicle of a quixotic journey of self-examination.” — Booklist

“Over the last several years I’ve read quite a few books by thoughtful men and women about the lure of various forms of fighting. Josh Rosenblatt’s Why We Fight is much the best of this mini-genre.” — David Shields, author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead

“This is a terrific story—funny and scary and moving—as well as a thoughtful meditation on bravery, violence, pain, aging, and how getting hit in the face can change your life for the better.” — Paul Bloom, Yale University, author of Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

“‘But I was tired of myself, so I said yes.’ And thus begins Rosenblatt’s journey from chicken to beast. I loved this book mostly for its gorgeous restraint. It ain’t a macho brag but rather a piece of Old Testament prophecy. A clarion call advocating the importance of physicality.” — Chas Smith, author of Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell: A True Story of Violence, Corruption, and the Soul of Surfing

“Erudite.” — Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

Over the last several years I’ve read quite a few books by thoughtful men and women about the lure of various forms of fighting. Josh Rosenblatt’s Why We Fight is much the best of this mini-genre.

David Shields

Glistens with illuminations about courage and aging. The aim was self-transformation. Win or lose, it was mission accomplished.

Wall Street Journal

This is a terrific story—funny and scary and moving—as well as a thoughtful meditation on bravery, violence, pain, aging, and how getting hit in the face can change your life for the better.

Paul Bloom

A book worth reading not only for those who enjoy MMA and other forms of professional fighting, but for those who are baffled as to why such a bloody sport would ever be appealing. . . . Rosenblatt’s observations about being a Jewish athlete are also quite timely.

Salon

Fascinating . . . a highly lucid, very personal meditation on selfhood.

NPR Books

A story of perilous becoming.

|Los Angeles Times

‘But I was tired of myself, so I said yes.’ And thus begins Rosenblatt’s journey from chicken to beast. I loved this book mostly for its gorgeous restraint. It ain’t a macho brag but rather a piece of Old Testament prophecy. A clarion call advocating the importance of physicality.

Chas Smith

A very entertaining and informative chronicle of a quixotic journey of self-examination.

Booklist

A story of perilous becoming.

Los Angeles Times

A very entertaining and informative chronicle of a quixotic journey of self-examination.

Booklist

Glistens with illuminations about courage and aging. The aim was self-transformation. Win or lose, it was mission accomplished.

Wall Street Journal

Glistens with illuminations about courage and aging. The aim was self-transformation. Win or lose, it was mission accomplished.

Wall Street Journal

A book worth reading not only for those who enjoy MMA and other forms of professional fighting, but for those who are baffled as to why such a bloody sport would ever be appealing. . . . Rosenblatt’s observations about being a Jewish athlete are also quite timely.

Salon

A story of perilous becoming.

Los Angeles Times

A very entertaining and informative chronicle of a quixotic journey of self-examination.

Booklist

Fascinating . . . a highly lucid, very personal meditation on selfhood.

NPR Books