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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 studioโand 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 โhot yogaโ) when a run-in with a master and competitive yoga champion led him into an obsessive subcultureโa 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, itโs a nation-spanning tripโfrom 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.
 Media BuzzOn Point - December 12, 2012
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