Meryl
Davids Landau
Novelist and
Journalist
How do you keep your inner peace no matter what's going on in your life?
It's the question underlying all my mindfulness/yoga women's novel--answered in a fun, beach-read style.
These books are especially enjoyable and relevant in today's chaotic times.
Coming June 9th!
My latest mindfulness/yoga
women's novel
Yoga Bind
"Landau makes this study on wading through emotions instead of bypassing them for convenience a breezy enjoyment."
--Booklife/Publishers Weekly
Janelle Logan has a wonderful life in her adopted New York City with a fantastic job, great friends, and treasured spiritual practices of yoga, mindfulness, and meditation.
But her life is upended when her beloved guru is accused of sexual assault. Janelle struggles with what that means for herself and her community of spiritually seeking girlfriends. When her cousin comes to visit for the summer, she’s also pressed to reassess her Jewish heritage.
Rather than run from her spirituality, Janelle doubles down, adding energy work, Jewish meditation, and even examining the nature of forgiveness itself. Will all this be enough to bring her the community and clarity she desperately desires?
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In addition to being an award-winning novelist, I'm also a long-time, award-winning health, science, and climate-change journalist. Click the images to check out some of my work!
Check out other novels in my award-winning
"Mindfulness/Yoga Fiction" Series
Downward Dog,
Upward Fog
Foreword Reviews Fiction-Book-of-the-Year Finalist and the novel that introduced Janelle and Lorna
Lorna Crawford has a great boyfriend, longtime friends, and a well-paying job as special-events coordinator at a premium ice-cream manufacturer. But, out of sorts and filled with self-doubt, the 33 year old soon realizes that what she really wants is to stay on the spiritual path she keeps diving off of.
Lorna jump-starts her efforts at a silent yoga retreat. But after returning from the mountain, she quickly loses her connection in the face of scheming coworkers, judgmental girlfriends, and, especially, her overly critical mother.
Lorna also wrestles over her future with her boyfriend, a hot guy who takes her to the hottest places, but who can’t discern a meditation cushion from a toad stool. Reading spiritual books, such as those by Eckhart Tolle and Jon Kabat-Zinn, and visiting a channeler and energy healer move Lorna forward, but her confusion remains.
Lorna’s seeking is put to the ultimate test when personal tragedy strikes. Will she come to truly understand that living spiritually has little to do with how you pretzel yourself on the yoga mat (although she gets plenty good at that), and everything to do with embracing the twists in everyday life?
Warrior Won
Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Award winner & Gold medal winner, Living Now Book Awards
Everything is going great in Lorna Crawford’s life. She is married to a fantastic guy, is mom to an adorable two-year-old with another child on the way, has a posse of girlfriends, and recently landed a new job. The spiritual practices she has made a centerpiece of her life—yoga, mindfulness, meditation—are becoming second nature.
Four months into her pregnancy, Lorna learns there may be something wrong with her unborn baby, a prospect that throws her life and her inner peace into turmoil.
Over the next few months as a diagnosis awaits, Lorna is helped along by breathwork, yoga, appreciation exercises, crystal-bowl relaxation, Ayurveda, chanting, spiritual reading, and more.
Will all this be enough to get Lorna through the months of not-knowing—and possibly a devastating diagnosis?
One of the strongest spiritual women's fiction pieces to appear in recent years"
--Midwest Book Review