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Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga
St. Martin's Press
November 2012
On Sale: October 30, 2012
320 pages
ISBN: 031267290X
EAN: 9780312672904
Kindle: B008VA716C
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Author Benjamin Lorr wandered into a yoga studio—and fell
down a rabbit hole Hell-Bent explores a fascinating, often surreal world at the
extremes of American yoga. Benjamin Lorr walked into his
first yoga studio on a whim, overweight and curious, and
quickly found the yoga reinventing his life. He was studying
Bikram Yoga (or “hot yoga”) when a run-in with a master and
competitive yoga champion led him into an obsessive
subculture—a group of yogis for whom eight hours of practice
a day in 110- degree heat was just the beginning. So begins a journey. Populated by athletic prodigies,
wide-eyed celebrities, legitimate medical miracles, and
predatory hucksters, it’s a nation-spanning trip—from the
jam-packed studios of New York to the athletic performance
labs of the University of Oregon to the stage at the
National Yoga Asana Championship, where Lorr competes for glory. The culmination of two years of research, and featuring
hundreds of interviews with yogis, scientists, doctors, and
scholars, Hell-Bent is a wild exploration. A look at the
science behind a controversial practice, a story of greed,
narcissism, and corruption, and a mind-bending tale of
personal transformation, it is a book that will not only
challenge your conception of yoga, but will change the way
you view the fragile, inspirational limits of the human body
itself.
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