"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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