Ancient yoga texts don’t have a whole lot to say about where to place your hands or your feet, but they do offer plenty of instruction on where to place your heart. The standards prescribed by Patanjali—and translated thousands of years later on countless Lululemon bags—are nothing if not seductive. Compassion. Truth. Discipline. Gratitude. Contentment. It’s what we all want to embody, is it not? 

Indeed—and what started as a way for seasoned yoga teacher Winifred Wilson to see the country-and to grow closer to the man she’d called her partner for a decade, Dave Mason, turned into the most unexpected trip of all. A profound voyage within, and the surrender of everything she once deemed true, necessary, and valuable. Downdogs for Roaddogs: Yoga for Rock-and-Roll Tours (And Other Cosmic Journeys of the Heart) is the result of her life-changing excursion joining Dave Mason on a rock n ‘roll tour life.