Works by
Michael McColly
(Journalist, Writer, Yoga Instructor)

• Narratives of Esl Students 2nd Edition (1997)

• The After-Death Room: Journey Into Spiritual Activism (2006) -- Winner 2006 Lambda Literary Award for Religion/Spirituality
  At the 13th International AIDS conference in Durban, Michael McColly, a journalist and yoga teacher living with AIDS, found himself confronted with the deeper issues and ethical dimensions of the epidemic. Seeing firsthand the destruction the disease was inflicting on South Africa and hearing the stories of activists from China to Nairobi challenged McColly to place his own problems within a global framework, forcing him to contemplate the lives of HIV positive people without access to treatment, health care, and a supportive community. Through interviews with Buddhist monks in a remote Thai monastery, male sex workers in India, African-American preachers in Chicago, and Senegalese mullahs, McColly comes to a fuller understanding of how cultural attitudes toward death and dying, sexuality and gender, and morality and spirituality affect the life chances of people living with HIV/AIDS. Part spiritual journey, part political transformation, The After-Death Room: Journey Into Spiritual Activism humanizes the often faceless struggles of people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide and at home.

See also:

• Inspired LivesThe Best of Real Life Yoga from Ascent Magazine (2005) by Clea Mcdougall
  Some books on Yoga will teach you a posture, how to hold a pose. Through compelling exposition, artful photography and enlivening illustrations, Inspired lives teaches how yoga and yogic principles become part of daily life. Inspired Lives presents dynamic stories in heartfelt prose that distills the essential teachings of yoga into the art of living life. The best of the first six years of ascent magazine, Inspired Lives features interviews with some of the foremost thinkers and writers about yoga and spirituality including Arundhati Roy, bell hooks, David Sylvian, Georg Feuerstein, Joan Halifax Roshi, Noah Levine, Swami Radhananda, Tenzin Palmo, and Yann Martel.  As well, Inspired Lives features regular ascent magazine contributors Lesley M. Neilson, Sarah E. Truman,  and Sikeena Karmali, among others. With a foreward by Kausthub Desikachar and an introduction by editor, Clea McDougall, Inspired Lives presents a 'real life' portrait of art, politics, suffering and happiness, as experienced through the lens of yoga.