Sarah Pierroz’s Heart Rooted in the Sky reveals the direct experience of the body, mind, and the natural world as vibrantly joyous. Readers are taken on an intense journey deep into the body and the mind, back and forth on an existential pendulum of fear and beauty. With both poetry and illustration, it makes us open our hearts like the sky to each other and all of life.

This book is one to sit with and come back to like a friend so that its insights sink in through words, imagery, and the imagination.” (Richard Freeman, Yoga Teacher, and Scholar)

This tender poetic text is garnished with intricate line drawings depicting the natural world, abstracted anatomy, and yoga postures. Heart Rooted in Sky is about letting life crack you open and finding new ways to be. At its essence, this is a story of yoga, for it is a story of transformation.

A woman stands at the trailhead of a dark woodland passage. It is a path that many avoid. On her journey she begins to take notice of the world around her and asks, “What is really here?” As the woman enquires into her environment, body, breath, and thoughts, she sheds her habitual behaviours, resentment, and stories of identity. By doing so, she transforms and opens to life as it unfolds. She learns to move from fear towards love.